The annual State of the Word event has been scheduled for December 15, 2022 from 1:00 – 2:30pm EST. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will take to the microphone to discuss the year that was and what lies ahead. The event will take place in New York City and will also be live streamed. If you’d…
As 2022 winds down, I’ve started thinking about what 2023 will bring for the WordPress community. Sure, we’ll see version 6.2 at some point, along with a few subsequent major and minor releases. And we’ll undoubtedly get a more refined experience in both the block and site editors. I always look forward to new features…
With all of the work that’s being done on the Block Editor and Site Editor, it’s easy – and interesting – to focus on the new features that are going into WordPress. But one of the things something like this does is also allow divert our attention to some of the features that are already…
Lots has changed for the WordPress website building experience over the last 4 years and today’s WP Product Talk has been on the frontlines of it. Richard Tabor joins the podcast to talk about the major changes in Gutenberg, Site Editing, and the future of WordPress. Looking for a healthy dose of what’s under the…
Hiring is probably the hardest thing to do in any business. There’s so much that needs to go into the interview process, onboarding, and we haven’t even begun to think about the actual job description! Lucky for us, Kim Lipari joins WP Product talk to give us all the advice we need to become better…
The 6th episode of WP Product Talk featuring Zach Tirell of WP Events Calendar. Listen in to find out how to hire and manage contractors for your WordPress product (or agency!) business. If you’re a WordPress freelancer, this is a fantastic episode to listen to and reverse engineer to better position yourself with employers. If…
The idea of using WordPress to power a social networking site isn’t new. The BuddyPress plugin has offered this functionality since 2009. But Elon Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter (and the ensuing chaos) has WordPress community members taking another look at what’s possible. Mike McAlister recently shared a concept for OpenPress, a plugin that would…
Hosting options for WordPress have evolved quite a bit. The old days of the famous “five-minute” install have been replaced with tools that will spin up an instance with a single click. And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. As the content management system (CMS) has grown in popularity, hosts have taken notice. These…
The advent of WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) has sparked plenty of discussion within the community. But it’s not just the technical aspects that have received attention. Giving the feature a more user-friendly name has also been a hot topic. On November 4, 2022, WordPress project Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced that the feature…
The beauty of WordPress is that anyone with the skill and desire can extend the content management system (CMS) to suit their needs. And it’s possible to make a pretty good living doing so. The software provides an open door to entrepreneurs of all stripes. Much of what happens within the theme and plugin ecosystem…
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