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WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP has reached its v1.0.0 release. These are tools used “to facilitate the development and testing of WordPress themes and plugins,” which XWP has made available to the public.
If you are interested in usability testing for Gutenberg, several tests have been conducted already, and the results are available. Mark Uraine presented the highlights from the testing done in June, with videos included. There are usability test results from WordCamp Europe as well: parts one and two. 📝
News from WP.org for the week of September 27, 2021.
Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a deep analysis of its 2018 data that goes well beyond simple load testing at many WordPress hosts. The goal of this new analysis was to determine whether paying a higher price for hosting buys you better performance. Spoiler alert: there does appear to be a positive correlation. There’s a…
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren’t just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about Pantheon for the first time last year, when it was a Drupal-only platform. When Pantheon…
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
Derek Herman, a longtime Envato employee and WordPress specialist, tells his tale of learning how to contribute to WordPress core. I like Derek’s post because it’s personal, and not just technical; and he gives advice for how and where to start, not to mention things he learned along the way. There’s certainly been bumps along…
