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…
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WordCamp Europe was the surge the WordPress community needed.
Last June, I represented The WP Minute in Porto, Portugal for the highly anticipated, long-overdue regional event. WordCamp Europe. Postponed not once, twice, but thrice times. I had low expectations. I mean, for me. I’m a wide-eyed, the glass is…
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Is What’s Good for Gutenberg Also Good for WordPress?
When it comes to WordPress core, many of the updates we’ve seen in the past few years have been directly related to the Gutenberg block editor. To some members of the community, those developments have come at the expense of…
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WPLift.com sells for $160k (Sold for $205k in 2016)
You’ve heard me ranting about the WordPress media landscape for a while now. I’ve been producing content like WordPress news, tutorials, and commentary for a decade. I’ve avoided the most common ways of monetizing by signing a pact with the…
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Five for everyone, sometimes
Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject: Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden Chomphosy Sarah…
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Collaborating between WordPress companies
Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration. His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you’ve been on the fence about collaborating with others,…
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How to Explain WordPress to Your Clients
If you use WordPress to power your website projects, it’s a safe bet that you like one or more aspects of it. The content management system (CMS) has its flaws – but plenty of benefits, too. Still, even if you…
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Shaken, not stirred
You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter. In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of…
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What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look like?
Whoever thought that Apache web server would be de-throned in it’s prime? Hello NGINX. We see you Cloudflare. Red Hat and Fedora linux showed up, but then the world went faster together with Ubuntu. Intel dominated the chip space forever….
