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…
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 Gooding summarizes the link above Joe Casabona compares 5FTF to the Creator Economy Rob Howard…
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, there’s no better time than now to start! Enjoy Andrew’s — or it is Bertha’s?…
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 love WordPress, it’s not the easiest thing to explain to clients. The fact that it’s…
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 the debate in the following articles: Matt Medeiros’ take on What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look…
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. Still does, technically, but AMD and Apple are going after their lunch including the paper…
We have switched over to Slack from Discord. News There has been a lot of feedback for full site editing in the latest release of WordPress. The team over on make.wordpress.org is looking for people to sign up for usability testing by June 24th. This outreach program is going to try something new and pair…
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