As I reflect on 2022, I think back over a year of mixed blessings, and I’m so grateful for the WordPress Community who supported me through family loss, new ventures, and the things I’m always doing both in and outside of WordPress. This year I: I completed my first year on the Post Status team!… Continue reading New Year, Same Me
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Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23
The WordPress Community is a Wonderful Place to Be The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective aims to address some of these ongoing challenges by creating community-funded Fellowships to financially support individual contributions to the WordPress project and community. “We hope that the WP Community Collective can help bridge the gap between the passion… Continue reading Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23
More WordPress People Doing Good Things
WordPress Gives a Hand For the third year in a row, a bunch of WordPress community members will join together at the holiday time for the charity campaign “WordPress Gives A Hand” #wpgivesahand. During the holiday season, instead of giving out discounts to customers, participating WordPress community members will donate a percentage of their revenue… Continue reading More WordPress People Doing Good Things
All the Things This Week
State of the Word For the second year, State of the Word (SOTW) will be a small in-person event at the Tumblr offices in New York City on the afternoon of December 15 (1pm local time). Matt Mullenweg will deliver the annual address to a small in-person crowd, and the event will be live streamed… Continue reading All the Things This Week
WordPress is People (Weekly Community Update)
Yes, of course WordPress is software. It’s code. It’s several different programming languages. It’s blocks. It’s the editor. Yes, it’s all of the technology. But it’s people. It’s created by people. It’s used by people. It relies on people to move it forward, to modify it, to moderate it, and to build community around it.… Continue reading WordPress is People (Weekly Community Update)
WordPress Community Roundup
A New Home for the WordPress Community? It sounds like a tall order, but there it is: over at Ollie, Mike McAlister has proposed “a thought experiment and design concept” called OpenPress: What would it look like to start connecting millions of websites, users, and content that power half of the web in a more… Continue reading WordPress Community Roundup
Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers
Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it’s still relevant and worth reading. Some other things I’ve enjoyed but haven’t slipped into a post yet: Joanne Limburg discusses the agonizing… Continue reading Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers
The Sky is Falling! Nope, Just a Little Blue Bird
Where (and how) do we connect? Twitter is fast becoming a dumpster fire. Every time I look at my account, the settings, access, and options change. Sometimes overnight. Sometimes seemingly every fifteen minutes. There is a lot that happens on Twitter in the WordPress community. So it begs the question, where will you go if… Continue reading The Sky is Falling! Nope, Just a Little Blue Bird
What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.
The Good: This week a team of people from around the world released WordPress 6.1, Misha. The number of people who contributed to this release is HUGE. Folks, WordPress takes more than a village, it takes a small city to keep the momentum moving forward, keep the technology on the cutting edge, and keep the… Continue reading What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.
Make WordPress Sustainable
By Hannah Smith • November 2, 2022 What does sustainability mean for WordPress? In a few weeks’ time, world leaders will be gathering for COP27, the largest annual gathering on climate action. This annual conference is a good focal point for everyone to think more about sustainability, including the WordPress community. We’ve recently published a… Continue reading Make WordPress Sustainable