The WP Minute

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Adobe set to acquire Figma If you’re a designer or UI specialist in the WordPress world, chances are you already know about the Adobe/Figma deal. A $20 Billion dollar deal in cash and stock – 40 times Figma revenue – shocked us and launched more memes, probably using Photoshop, th...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Today's episode is a recording from the official WCUS 2022 livestream found in this video . We've extracted the Matt Mullenweg session which includes some of his outlook on WordPress 6.1, community, and a Q&A session from the audience. If you had a chance to attend WCUS, send...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Our episode is recorded this week by Michelle Frechette. News  Sarah Gooding over at the WP Tavern posted an article asking Gutenberg Contributors to test block-based templates in WordPress Classic Themes. During Matt Mullenweg’s Q&A session at WordCamp last week, there was a...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Editor's note: How I imagine the background music to WordCamp US 2022 News The new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three, will be a stripped-down base theme with many style variations built by the WordPress design community. This theme is being released to make theme development exci...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Dave Rodenbaugh , founder of Recapture.io, shares a fascinating anecdote with Angela Bowman , WordPress Meetup organizer and podcaster (Women in WP), about a relatively new WordPress user (Dave’s daughter) who had built a WordPress site with Dave’s help last year but struggled to...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   You'd be hard pressed to find a business, both online and brick-and-mortar, that didn't invest in their website over the last three years. With WordPress marketshare showing only a sliver of marketshare decline since pandemic heights, it's still a force to be reckoned with. Puttin...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   News  WordPress continues to work on core template changes to refine the creation experience. Many more options will be released with WordPress 6.1 that will continue to improve website building. You can explore the enhancements now in the Gutenberg plugin.   Sarah Gooding over at...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   News  WordPress 6.0.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing. Testing is so important with this release so please go over to make.wordpress.org to help. There are also a lot of exciting things happening with the block editor. Birgit Pauli-Haack shared that there is a n...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   News  A new WordPress homepage and download page is live but was it done quickly enough? Mullenweg’s perception of how long a layout should take started a lot of discussion about the timing of the release, the number of volunteers on the project…to well…you name it. The comments t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   This week we bring you a guest post by Winstina Hughes . Read on as she shares about a very important movement. The WordPress community has expressed tremendous support for the call to action to sponsor underrepresented/minority WordCamp speakers by removing the financial burden o...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Gutenberg News Last week there was a bunch of new stuff with Gutenberg 13.8.0 . Birgit Pauli-Haack discusses all the new features with Grzegorz Ziolkowski over on the changelog podcast . You can hear about Fluid Typography, updates to Block APIs, and WordPress 6.1 Planning. The Gu...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   The talk around the WordPress open source and the free rider problem has been discussed by the community since May with strong opinions on both sides of the contributing fence. Josepha Haden Chomphosy wrote an article over on make.wordpress.org about the issue with Open Source (th...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Daniel Schutzsmith and Matt Medeiros return for a new WP Minute Rewind! Daniel and Matt will choose 3 of their favorite WordPress news headlines from the previous month to share and expand upon. Join us as they go deeper in this longer format show. If you love WordPress news, like...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Guest host, Amber Hinds is sharing with us her POV on Equalize Digital's first "exit." "This post tells the story of how WP Conference Schedule came to be and why we ultimately ended up selling it before even launching the paid version of the plugin." Amber Hinds Links Amber Hinds...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Leading off this week is Joost de Valk’s semi-annual CMS market share analysis . WordPress maintains a 43% share, the equivalent of AT&T’s wireless market share , within the CMS space. Shopify, WordPress’ closest competitor on the chart chimes in at 4.2% Shopify also shocked t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios. Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support companies look like. The land...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently one of the items that the P...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject:  Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden Chomphosy Sarah Gooding summarizes the lin...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration. His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you've been on the fence about collaborating with others, there's no better time than now to st...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter.  In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of the debate in the following articles:...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Whoever thought that Apache web server would be de-throned in it’s prime? Hello NGINX. We see you Cloudflare. Red Hat and Fedora linux showed up, but then the world went faster together with Ubuntu. Intel dominated the chip space forever. Still does, technically, but AMD and Apple...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   We have switched over to Slack from Discord. News There has been a lot of feedback for full site editing in the latest release of WordPress. The team over on make.wordpress.org is looking for people to sign up for usability testing by June 24th. This outreach program is going to t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   In this episode, Andrew Palmer of Bertha.ai reflects on his time at WordCamp Europe . If you were stuck at home to watch from afar like me, your FOMO was probably running at 110%. Unlike Andrew, I missed out on the awesome talks, after parties, and the ever important hallway track...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Strattic was acquired by Elementor. Miriam Schwab, co-founder of Strattic writes:  “Life is interesting – sometimes outcomes are obvious, and sometimes what ends up happening kind of blows our minds. When we set out to build Strattic, we expected to follow the usual path: raise Pr...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute   Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a creative way to find new WordPress customers that may just surprise you! Find an existing community of non technical people that have websites (like bookkeepers or copywriters) Then look at any of these three things... 1. Above the Fold: Do th...