The WP Minute

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...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   State of the Word 2022 has just completed another hybrid presentation. A mix of livestream on the official WordPress YouTube channel and in-person attendees traveled to NYC to watch Matt Mullenweg and others update us on all things WordPress. We'll cover some of the highlights in...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   What’s a web hosting provider’s role in content moderation? WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg recently weighed in. Mullenweg was a guest on The Verge’s Decoder podcast and discussed the issue as it relates to WordPress VIP hosting. Specifically, he commented o...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   It’s a familiar refrain: the WordPress project needs contributors. But getting involved can be difficult for individuals who aren’t corporately sponsored. A new nonprofit organization is hoping to address this ongoing challenge. The WP Community Collective looks to offer community...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Could you run your entire WordPress product business from a single spreadsheet? Today's WP Product Talk covers what happens when your business starts to scale. From a few hundred dollars, to a few hundred-thousand dollars, this conversation is jam-packed with a wealth of. bean cou...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Welcome to a special edition of the WP Minute! Rather than our usual five minute roundup of WordPress news, we’ve recorded an expanded episode this week. Matt Medeiros and Eric Karkovack got together to discuss their picks for November’s most interesting and impactful stories. Her...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The annual State of the Word event has been scheduled for December 15, 2022 from 1:00 - 2:30pm EST. WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will take to the microphone to discuss the year that was and what lies ahead. The event will take place in New York City and will also be live st...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Lots has changed for the WordPress website building experience over the last 4 years and today's WP Product Talk has been on the frontlines of it. Richard Tabor joins the podcast to talk about the major changes in Gutenberg, Site Editing, and the future of WordPress. Looking for a...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Hiring is probably the hardest thing to do in any business. There's so much that needs to go into the interview process, onboarding, and we haven't even begun to think about the actual job description! Lucky for us, Kim Lipari joins WP Product talk to give us all the advice we nee...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The 6th episode of WP Product Talk featuring Zach Tirell of WP Events Calendar. Listen in to find out how to hire and manage contractors for your WordPress product (or agency!) business. If you're a WordPress freelancer, this is a fantastic episode to listen to and reverse enginee...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The idea of using WordPress to power a social networking site isn’t new. The BuddyPress plugin has offered this functionality since 2009 . But Elon Musk’s recent takeover of Twitter (and the ensuing chaos) has WordPress community members taking another look at what’s possible. Mik...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Feed drop time! Feed drop is when an entirely new podcast shows up in a podcast feed...just like this one!  I'm sharing my friend, Matthew Bliss' Dead Drop podcast with you. It's just like the WP Minute, short form news, but for the video game industry. From the casual gamer to th...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The advent of WordPress Full Site Editing (FSE) has sparked plenty of discussion within the community. But it’s not just the technical aspects that have received attention. Giving the feature a more user-friendly name has also been a hot topic. On November 4, 2022, WordPress proje...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   WordPress 6.1 , “Misha”, was released on November 1. The new version features more than 120 enhancements and fixes over 240 bugs.  Performance was a focus in this release, including increased efficiencies within WP_Query and the REST API. Query caching is said to provide a signifi...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The saga of WordPress.org active install data continues as more details trickle out. At WP Tavern, Sarah Gooding reported on an appearance by WordPress contributor Samuel Otto Wood on the WPwatercooler podcast . Wood says the decision to remove the data originated from a private S...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   In today's episode of WP Product Talk, we'll explore the methods organizations go through to level up entry-level WordPress developers on their team. This is a fantastic discussion with your weekly hosts Kim Colemen & Matt Cromwell. Today's guest is Courtney Robertson, Web Des...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Discussion rolls on within the WordPress community regarding the removal of active install growth data from the WordPress.org plugin repository - but still no firm resolution is in sight. As we reported last week, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg said that adding some form of s...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Have you started a WordPress theme or plugin that didn't quite succeed like you had hoped it would? It might be time to sunset your WordPress product. There's 2 major things to consider: your mental health & your existing customers/users. When I spun down my first go at WordPr...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The recent pushback regarding WordPress.org’s removal of active install growth data shouldn’t be too surprising. It’s not the first time that a decision made by WordPress leadership has ruffled some feathers. But perhaps the people most directly impacted by the move – plugin devel...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The conversation regarding the removal of WordPress plugin active install growth data has continued this week. The data chart was officially removed from the WordPress.org plugin repository back on September 29, 2022. Even as plugin authors and other community members have asked f...