News
There is a call for WordPress users to help with the upcoming release of WordPress 6.0. This release is scheduled for May 24, 2022. There have been over 400 updates and 500 bug fixes since the last release and they could really use everybody’s help to test. Jump over to make.wordpress.org to join the core slack channel and get involved.
WooCommerce
The WooCommerce blocks roadmap has been released. There are a lot of cool things happening over at WooCommerce with most of the work taking place right now in the WooCommerce Blocks repository with store editing. Take a look at the ways you can contribute. The plan is to release quarterly updates.
From Our Contributors and Producers
If you missed it, go check out the latest eCommerce minute, on the WPMinute with Dave Rodenbaugh. He provides additional news and perspective on the owner of FAST, the one-click checkout provider.
Jodie Fiorenza wrote a great article on Omnichannel marketing over at WebDevStudios. With an omnichannel strategy, the customer becomes the focus of the campaign. Take a minute to read Jody’s article and see if you can consult with a customer using multi-channel marketing in your business.
The Admin Bar community created an anonymous WordPress Agency survey for all of their community members to ask them questions about their revenue, and various focuses (including accessibility, SEO, hosting, etc.). The results were very interesting and worth checking out.
The first issue of Tiny Press went out this week by our contributor Daniel Schutzsmith. The article covers 3 WordPress design and development links.
There is also a great interview of Chris Coyier from css-tricks.com by Nathan Wrigley on the WPTavern podcast about his sale of CSS Tricks to Digital Ocean. This is a great podcast to learn about Chris’ journey.
Friend of the show Scott Bolinger is seeking a buyer for his pop-up plugin Holler Box.
New Members:
We would like to thank Courtney Robertson for buying a coffee this week and joining as a monthly member.
Next up:
Simplified Business Minute with Sam Muñoz
Transcript
Hello there! This is Sam Munoz co-host of the Making Website Magic podcast with your Simplified Business Minute. If you’ve ever found yourself sending out multiple invoices for less than $50 thinking, “how am I going to reach my financial goals this way?”, this tip is for you!
Consider creating a MINIMUM invoice. What that means is – never send an invoice out for a client project for less than $X (maybe it’s $500, $1,000, $3,000 – you get to decide). A few things happen when you do this:
1. You will more reliably hit your financial goals. If you have a goal to make $2,000 a month – you will need to send out no more than 4 invoices per month at $500. It’s just math.
2. This will honor your time. Admin work should be compensated, it takes time to create an invoice, send the email – so sending a $5 invoice isn’t worth your time.
3. Larger projects mean you can support your clients with more than simple bandaid fixes and provide broader value – instead of “optimize these 3 images” it may be “improve the overall site speed through various improvements”. So, now I ask you – what is YOUR minimum invoice going to be?
“Block Editor Dev Minute” by Aurooba Ahmed
Transcript
Hi, I’m Aurooba, and this is your Block Editor Dev Minute. If you’ve tried your hand at developing custom blocks, you’ve probably used wp-scripts, a Core supported tooling setup that takes care of the complicated things for you so you can get back to building things. Did you know the script now supports multiple blocks? Now instead of pointing the editor and style scripts in block.json to the build folder, you simply point them relative to block.json. Because now wp-scripts can detect multiple block.json files, and it duplicates everything right into the build folder. So if you have two blocks, Block A and Block B, the build folder will have a Block A folder with everything you need including the block.json definition file. The same goes for Block B. This makes things a lot simpler, no more fiddling around with webpack anymore than you need to.
Learn more in the Block Editor Handbook on wordpress.org. Thanks for listening!
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- Lisa Sabin-Wilson
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- Dave Rodenbaugh
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That’s it for today’s episode, if you enjoyed please share it on your social media, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. Don’t forget to share share share this episode with others and jump on the mailing list 👇
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