Is WordPress Pushing Freelancers Away?
I’ve been in web design since 1996. And for the first 14 years of my career, my focus was primarily on writing HTML and (eventually) CSS. It was an enjoyable time, but I started to feel very limited with just…
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Stop, drop, and FSE?
News There have been a lot of people working with the latest 5.9 WordPress release and reporting their successes and failures. Tammie Lister wrote a post about the features in the editor and would like people to quit using the…
WordPress community still struggles with diversity & inclusion
News Matt Mullenweg, founder and CEO of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, made the news again (this time with the Wall Street Journal). He talks about ‘asynchronous work’ and why he thinks hybrid models will die out. Automattic employees are…
The future of the WordPress stack
Spencer Forman of WPLaunchify is back to explore the future of the WP stack and how it might impact you as an agency owner or WordPress freelancer. It wasn’t too long ago that HTML/CSS and some PHP knowledge was all…
OMG 6.0 already?!
News Matt Mullenweg recently announced that he would be personally running Tumblr for a while. Tumblr lost their CEO and Matt is making this his top priority within Automattic for the immediate future. Keep an eye open for improvements in…
WP Minute Live: Learning WordPress
We hosted our first WP Minute Live Twitter Space covering learning WordPress. It was Bring Your Own Link (BYOL) style where our guest panelists brought a link to share with the audience. Here were the guests that appeared on the…
Jazz hands
News WordPress 5.9 – Joséphine was released this week. There is a lot of good stuff to check out on blocks and themes. If you would like an understanding of how this major release with Full Site Editing (FSE) will…
What does WordPress Full Site Editing mean for freelancers?
The release of WordPress 5.9 marks the dawn of a new era. One that will change the way websites are designed, built, and maintained. We’re talking about Full Site Editing (FSE). When coupled with a compatible theme, this new feature…
Not yet Y’all
In the News WordPress 5.9 (RC3) is here. 5.9 is slated for next week and you still have time to help with testing. Go over to make.wordpress.org to see how you can still help with this important release. WooCommerce The…
So much to learn
In the News The release of WordPress 5.9 is coming this month. There are many performance enhancements that will be part of this release. In addition to editor and front-end performance enhancements, lazy loading images changed, resulting in a 30%…
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