WebP is pretty green! In most cases, it will really save on bandwidth, but when it's using lossless compression, it's often not the most efficient in terms of power consumption. Here are some interesting tests Olivier Philippot of Greenspector ran…
Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)
Dan Knauss
NotesWordPress News
Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…
Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP
Dan Knauss
NotesWordPress News
Check out Jon Christopher's OrganizeWP which is still in Beta but won't be for long. Clean out your Admin interface and make it work for you! The Admin Menu has become a battleground for attention, especially with content types. OrganizeWP…
Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know
Dan Knauss
Notes
I haven't seen anything from Richard Best in a while, but he recently shared "17 practical legal steps to help you create great course content, protect yourself, and keep your money." One of the 17 is "Know how to find…
Omnichannel or Multichannel?
Dan Knauss
NotesWooCommerce
Here's a detailed post from Bradley Taylor for GoDaddy's WooCommerce Wednesdays — all about multichannel selling. I was curious to see why that's being billed as the future of e-commerce. I've read more about "omnichannel" as the buzzword of the…
Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce
Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and advice…
Roll Your Own Fonts
Dan Knauss
Notes
I'm not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don't…
New Home and Download Pages for WP.org
Dan Knauss
Notes
WordPress.org is getting new Home and Download pages. The current mockups look very nice! Leave your feedback in the comments.
How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes
Dan Knauss
Notes
Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…
Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?
Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…
Nulled Themes and Plugins
Dan Knauss
NotesSecurity
My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…
Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022
Dan Knauss
NotesWooCommerce
Congrats to Rodolfo Melogli of Business Bloomer and David Mainayar at PeachPay for reaching issue #400 of WooWeekly back in July. To celebrate this milestone, Rodolfo asked a lot of people (including me) to explain what one thing they'd change…
Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…
Plugin Checker
Dan Knauss
Make WordPressNotes
On July 5, Felix Arntz proposed creating and adopting a plugin checking tool for the Plugin Review Team similar to the theme checker. The Performance Team would take the lead, but contributors from other teams would be needed as well.…
A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Here's an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic's mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack:…
WP Campus 2023
Dan Knauss
Notes
The WPCampus conference won't happen in 2022. The post-COVID reboot has been delayed until July 12-14, 2023, so save those dates. Until then, keep up with the leadership transition and consider pitching in. WPCampus is a community network and conference…
