Speed it up please
News A new WordPress homepage and download page is live but was it done quickly enough? Mullenweg’s perception of how long a layout should take started a lot of discussion about the timing of the release, the number of volunteers…
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Sponsor Underrepresented & Minority WordCamp Speakers
This week we bring you a guest post by Winstina Hughes. Read on as she shares about a very important movement. The WordPress community has expressed tremendous support for the call to action to sponsor underrepresented/minority WordCamp speakers by removing…
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Dog days of WordPress summer
Gutenberg News Last week there was a bunch of new stuff with Gutenberg 13.8.0. Birgit Pauli-Haack discusses all the new features with Grzegorz Ziolkowski over on the changelog podcast. You can hear about Fluid Typography, updates to Block APIs, and WordPress…
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WordPress Block Themes: Who Will Lead the Way?
It took time, but the WordPress theme repository now boasts 100+ block themes. These themes are among the very first to support Full Site Editing (FSE), which was released experimentally in 2020 and officially included as part of WordPress 5.9…
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Are You On A WordPress Free Ride?
The talk around the WordPress open source and the free rider problem has been discussed by the community since May with strong opinions on both sides of the contributing fence. Josepha Haden Chomphosy wrote an article over on make.wordpress.org about…
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Selling WP Conference Schedule
Guest host, Amber Hinds is sharing with us her POV on Equalize Digital’s first “exit.” “This post tells the story of how WP Conference Schedule came to be and why we ultimately ended up selling it before even launching the…
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WordPress and AT&T have the same market share
Leading off this week is Joost de Valk’s semi-annual CMS market share analysis. WordPress maintains a 43% share, the equivalent of AT&T’s wireless market share, within the CMS space. Shopify, WordPress’ closest competitor on the chart chimes in at 4.2%…
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WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn from WebDevStudios
WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios. Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support companies…
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I took WordPress for granted.
It was the end of 2017, and I was working remotely as a software developer at a consulting company. I saw the writing on the wall; my position was about to become more or less extinct. If there was ever…
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Is it time for Core to Perform?
Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently…
