WooSesh 2023, the virtual conference for WooCommerce store builders, will be broadcast live on October 10-12. This year’s theme is “Next Generation Commerce.” Registration is not yet open, but the speaker lineup and broadcast schedule have just been published. Over the course of three days, WooSesh will feature 31 speakers across 23 sessions. The event… Continue reading WooSesh 2023 Publishes Speaker Lineup, Launches Seshies Awards
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ActivityPub 1.0.0 Released, Introducing Blog-Wide Accounts and New Blocks
Version 1.0.0 of the ActivityPub plugin was released this week with major updates that make it possible to have a blog-wide account, instead of just individual author accounts, where followers receive updates from all authors. This new feature allows people to follow blogs on decentralized platforms like Mastodon (and many others) with replies automatically published… Continue reading ActivityPub 1.0.0 Released, Introducing Blog-Wide Accounts and New Blocks
Developers Raise Concerns About WordPress.com Plugin Listings Outranking WordPress.org on Google Search
WordPress core developer John Blackbourn sparked a heated discussion yesterday when he posted an image of his WordPress User Switching plugin ranking higher for the WordPress.com listing than the page on WordPress.org. Why has @wordpressdotcom replicated the entire https://t.co/oTA9NDVkFk plugin directory on its .com domain name? Searching for some plugin names now results in the… Continue reading Developers Raise Concerns About WordPress.com Plugin Listings Outranking WordPress.org on Google Search
WordPress Plugin Developers Renew Demands for Better Plugin Metrics
It has be nearly one year since WordPress silently turned off active install growth data for plugins hosted in the official plugin repository, a key metric that many developers rely on for accurate tracking and product decision-making. “Insufficient data obfuscation” was cited as the reason for the charts’ removal, but this opaque decision landed without… Continue reading WordPress Plugin Developers Renew Demands for Better Plugin Metrics
WordPress Training Team Seeks Community Feedback on Learning Pathways
Earlier this year, the WordPress Training Team published the results from the Individual Learner Survey completed in 2022. The goal of the survey was to identify the most useful and high-impact resources and content for Learn.WordPress.org and guide the future development of this community learning tool. One of the main takeaways of this survey was… Continue reading WordPress Training Team Seeks Community Feedback on Learning Pathways
10up Merges With Fueled, Backed by Insignia Capital
10up, a leading development agency and contributor to the WordPress project, has merged with Fueled, a technology consultancy that specializes in mobile and web application development. Together, the companies now employ more than 400 full time team members, forming a digital powerhouse with expanded market reach across mobile and publishing sectors. “Fueled has built stand out… Continue reading 10up Merges With Fueled, Backed by Insignia Capital
WP Includes Launches Women in WordPress Mentorship Program
photo credit: Brodie Vissers WP Includes is a new initiative that launched this week with the goal of improving equal representation of women at global WordPress companies. It was founded by Human Made COO Siobhan McKeown and XWP Director of Engineering Francesco Marano. “I’ve been in WordPress a long time and I’ve met a lot of talented women but not enough… Continue reading WP Includes Launches Women in WordPress Mentorship Program
ACF’s 2023 Annual Survey Results Reinforce Plugin’s Focus on Improving the Block Building Experience
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins WP Engine acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022, has published the results if its first annual survey. Although ACF reports more than 4.5 million active users, including PRO site installs, the survey only gathered feedback from 2,031 respondents. These results are more representative of the plugin’s developer community, as… Continue reading ACF’s 2023 Annual Survey Results Reinforce Plugin’s Focus on Improving the Block Building Experience
Gutenberg 16.6 Introduces Block Hooks, Improvements to Toolbars on Nested Blocks
Gutenberg 16.6 is available with progress on a feature that was formerly called auto-inserting blocks but has now been renamed to block hooks. In a previous release (16.4), Gutenberg introduced auto-inserting blocks as an experimental feature that allows plugin developers to specify a location in which the block will be automatically inserted, such as before… Continue reading Gutenberg 16.6 Introduces Block Hooks, Improvements to Toolbars on Nested Blocks
GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand
Media Temple (MT) is closing its doors after 24 years in the hosting industry, with the brand now retired and customers fully migrated to GoDaddy. In 2013, GoDaddy acquired MT “to win the hearts and minds of developers,” as then-CEO Blake Irving told VentureBeat at the time. When it was purchased, the highly regarded brand… Continue reading GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand