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Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The hot topic this week was diversity. More specifically, how it relates to the upcoming WordCamp Europe speaker lineup. After the event announced its fifth round of speakers, StellarWP’s Michelle Frechette took to Twitter with the following observation : “So far only 25% of the s...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Results from the WordPress 2022 Annual Survey have been released. WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy notes that this was a slimmed down version of the survey. It featured 29 questions - as opposed to nearly 100 in past editions. This led to a 26% increase in comp...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   On May 27, 2023, WordPress will celebrate its 20th birthday. It’s hard to fathom that the software has been around for so long. Yet some of us may struggle to remember what the web was like without it. Just think of the designers, developers, and users that have come along during...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   It looks like the days of automatically sharing WordPress.com content to Twitter are over. Automattic announced that customers will no longer be able to auto-publish to Twitter via the Jetpack Social plugin. You may recall that WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API was suddenl...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Managed WooCommerce hosting is a growing segment within the WordPress ecosystem. And it has a new entrant: WooCommerce. The Automattic-owned eCommerce provider recently launched WooExpress . The service is hosted by WordPress.com. It aims to be a one-stop shop for building and mai...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   It’s the WP Minute!   Support independent WordPress news like this, join the Slack membership, or purchase a classified listing in the weekly newsletter at thewpminute.com/support    And now a word from our sponsor.   You know how it goes, everything I mention here will be linked...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Do you remember what made WordPress 5.6 so historic? It was the first version of the software produced by an all-woman and non-binary release squad. And it looks like history is about to repeat itself. WordPress 6.3 is scheduled to be released in July and will once again feature a...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   After a time formatting bug caused a 24-hour delay, WordPress 6.2, code-named “Dolphy”, was released on March 29th. According to core contributor Jean-Baptiste Audras, 607 people from at least 50 countries were part of the release squad. Perhaps the biggest development in 6.2 is t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   March 28th was supposed to mark the release of WordPress 6.2. But a date formatting bug has delayed release for a day. The new target is Wednesday, March 29 at 1pm EST. The issue could potentially impact core features like date-based permalinks. But it might also negatively affect...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   In this episode Matt shares his opinion on the recent Awesome Motive irritation witnessed within the vocal minority of the WordPress community. Click here for the full article. Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/support Get the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscr...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   well-represented. Over at WP Tavern, Sarah Gooding reports that a Hackathon event has led to some innovative WordPress projects. For instance, there’s an in-browser development environment that uses the VS Code editor and allows developers to see changes in real-time. Meanwhile, t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Blocks are now a key part of the WordPress experience. But what if they were platform-agnostic? That’s the idea behind the Block Protocol . Founded in 2022, the organization recently released a WordPress plugin. In its initial release, the Block Protocol plugin adds over a dozen n...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   If you’re a WordPress professional, it can be hard to know where you fit into the bigger picture. Online community The Admin Bar aims to provide a glimpse into the market with its annual WordPress Professional Survey . Web designer Kyle Van Deusen interviewed 667 professionals and...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   WordPress 6.2 is slated for release on March 28. Among its most impactful new features will be the integration of the Openverse media search. This will allow users to add images, audio, and video that are available via a Creative Commons license. While Openverse integration adds a...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   It’s the WP Minute! Support independent WordPress news like this, join the Slack membership, or purchase a classified listing in the weekly newsletter at thewpminute.com/support    And now a word from our sponsor.   You know how it goes, everything I mention here will be linked up...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   It’s no secret that tools boasting Artificial Intelligence are popping up all over the place. That most certainly includes WordPress. And now Auttomattic’s WordPress.com is running an experiment to see how the technology might benefit users. As reported by blogger JenT at WPcomMav...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   WordPress 6.2 is scheduled for release on March 28, 2023. But it’s never too early to start preparations. Therefore, you may want to check out the first beta release , which is now available for testing. The first major release of 2023 brings a plethora of enhancements to the Site...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Should WordPress move away from Slack and towards the fediverse for project communication? Automattic-sponsored Meta team contributor Alex Kirk thinks so. Kirk has proposed a project to explore switching to the free Matrix open-source federated chat system. The potential benefits...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   In today's episode, Matt is talking about the new WP Minute+ podcast and why he started it.  The WP Minute, which is a five-minute weekly podcast on WordPress news, continues to be produced with the intention of providing busy WordPress professionals with short-form content. The W...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   What’s on tap for WordPress core in 2023? Project executive director Josepha Haden Chomphosy recently outlined some big picture goals . By design, the post is light on detail. Haden Chomphosy says the list represents a view from “10,000 feet”. Perhaps the biggest item mentioned is...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The lines between the open-source WordPress.org and its commercial counterpart WordPress.com (owned by Automattic) have long been blurred and confusing. So much that commercial offerings from Automattic’s suite of tools were integrated into the official WordPress mobile app. That’...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   When it comes to adding features to a WordPress plugin, how many are too many? That’s the question facing the WordPress Performance Team with regard to the Performance Lab plugin. Recent additions of SQLite and WebP image conversion functionality have resulted in some constructive...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   During the 2022 State of the Word event, Matt Mullenweg announced that the WordPress.org theme and plugin repositories would allow authors to categorize their entries as “Commercial” or “Community” products. Not long after, the feature became active. As Sarah Gooding reports for W...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Attn: Creators and small brands Buy a domain. Get some hosting. Install WordPress . Don’t bemoan about bloated software, legacy code, or that WordPress is too complicated. Start learning the software all over again. Invest time into it. Play with it in the browser before you do an...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Matt Mullenweg held court at the annual State of the Word event on December 15. Several topics were touched, including the use of Gutenberg outside of WordPress, the return of in-person Meetups and WordCamps, and the announcement of a Community Summit set to take place in 2023. Mu...