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 in January 2022. With a stated goal of having 500 such themes in the repository…
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 the issue with Open Source (the Tragedy of the Commons) and the Free Riders. Could…
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 paid version of the plugin.” Amber Hinds Links Amber Hinds Equalize Digital Sells WP Conference…
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% Shopify also shocked the industry by laying off 1,000 employees via email, penned by the…
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 look like. The landscape of monthly WordPress support companies has certainly changed since these two…
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 a time to start my own venture, it was now. So that’s what I did….
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 one of the items that the Performance team contributors have identified for WordPress 6.2 as…
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 always FULL kind of girl (you read that right). So, to protect me from extreme…
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 letting other areas of the software languish. For example, the dashboard is long overdue for…
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 affiliate Devil. I burned out on producing consumer-grade WordPress tutorials and making “stupid face” YouTube…
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