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Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2022

Eric Karkovack got some nice brief reflections from WordPress product founders/owners Kathy Darling, Cameron Jones, Derek Ashauer, Jack Arturo, Gareth Harris, and Mark Westguard. You may be surprised at what they'd do differently if they were starting out now, knowing…

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2022

Notes

Nice to see Brian Coords getting involved with the WP Notifications feature plugin project — otherwise known as WP-Notify (Github). He's calling for testing and feedback on the proof-of-concept at this point. You can click this link and immediately spin…

Faster and Faster

Dan Knauss

July 25, 2022

HostingNotes

Kevin Ohashi has released another annual report for WordPress (and WooCommerce) Hosting Benchmarks. My takeaways: https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551672904852484096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1551672904852484096%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fpost_status2Fstatus2F1551672904852484096widget%3DTweet https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551674571366940672 https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551676428202102785

Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

BusinessNotes

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…

FSE Themes on the Rise

Dan Knauss

July 22, 2022

Notes

Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik…

WordPress VIP + SalesForce Marketing Cloud

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

NotesWordPress News

According to Elisa Brown at WordPress VIP, they’ve just announced a partnership and integration with SalesForce Marketing Cloud. It’s the only one of its kind and makes activating your content in WordPress to build email campaigns easier. Yes!

Contributing is Hard — and Easier Than You Think

Cory Miller

July 19, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Brian Coords makes some good points about the difficulty of contributing to WordPress, which is a mark of privilege, as Josepha Haden Chomphosy has noted. Estela Rueda has some wonderful suggestions for how you can contribute to WordPress core teams…

Counting Shadow Work: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 1)

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

Notes

Allie Nimmons wrote a really good take on this question in last week's issue of The Repository newsletter (scroll down), suggesting we should extend our idea of "what counts" as a 5FTF contribution, particularly for WordPress community-active people and volunteers…

Core Contributions by the Numbers

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

Notes

I didn't have a chance to dig into Daniele Scasciafratte's report and analysis regarding WordPress core contributions when he shared it in April. It's a simple assessment that gives you a good, albeit frustrating, picture of how difficult it is…

The scariest thing I’ve seen in a long time

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

NotesSecurity

Thomas Nachbar of the University of Virginia School of Law writes in "Why We Can’t Disconnect Russia From the Internet" how he would really like to do so — and more: In the heady early days of the internet, the…

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Notes

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local upon the acquisition of Flywheel in June 2019, has discontinued its own local development tool, DevKit, and incorporated its features into Local. Additionally, all of Local’s tools and features are free now —…

I’m always amazed what can be…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

Notes

I'm always amazed what can be done with CSS and when I think i've seen everything, I see something that I think is cool. This time it's this one that shows filtering content using only CSS. There are drawbacks, but…

Matt Cromwell shows us how to…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

Notes

Matt Cromwell shows us how to enqueue scripts only when a widget or shortcode is present. Useful if you don't want something like a stylesheet to be enqueued EVERYWHERE regardless of whether it's being used on the page or not.

“Don’t Use Carousels” is a mantra…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

DesignNotes

"Don't Use Carousels" is a mantra that's been going around the design community for years, but i found Chris Coyier's article at MediaTemple's blog to take a sensible approach in explaining why that absolute is a bit overboard. If you…

Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

Notes

Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what lessons we can learn from WordPress WP-Login malware in a recent post. If your site is ever hacked, always remember that hackers can take over existing legit admin accounts - so Denis recommends not…

A small team from Mozilla has…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

Notes

A small team from Mozilla has created FlyWheel which - as this post explains - is "an API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers". This is interesting because these browser…

Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

Faster and Faster

FSE Themes on the Rise

WordPress VIP + SalesForce Marketing Cloud

Contributing is Hard — and Easier Than You Think

Counting Shadow Work: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 1)

Core Contributions by the Numbers

The scariest thing I’ve seen in a long time

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…

I’m always amazed what can be…

Matt Cromwell shows us how to…

“Don’t Use Carousels” is a mantra…

Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what…

A small team from Mozilla has…

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