WordPress
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Commercial and Community Categorization Is Live on WordPress.org Theme and Plugin Directories
One of Matt Mullenweg’s announcements at the 2022 State of the Word was the addition of new taxonomies for the theme and plugin directories that will help users more quickly understand the purpose of the extensions they are considering. With nearly 60,000 free plugins and more than 10,000 free themes available, it’s not always immediately evident which…
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State of the Word 2022: A Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source
WordPress belongs to all of us, but really we’re taking care of it for the next generation.” Matt Mullenweg A small audience of WordPress contributors, developers, and extenders gathered on December 15 for the annual State of the Word keynote from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Those who could not join in person joined via livestream, of…
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Blessings and curses of turning your hobby into a career
The following is an essay written by Anders Norén. This essay can be found both in english below and at the link in the caption in the above image and in the writer’s native language of Swedish. My Similar Story This essay caught my eye from the similarities of my journey in discovering web development.…
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The WP Community Collective Launches Nonprofit to Fund Individual Contributors and Community-Based Initiatives
I have to give credit to the WP Community Collective (WPCC) who officially launched December 2nd, 2022 as a new nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives. It was founded by Sé Reed, Katie Adams Farrell, and Courtney Robertson. As a person that has been using WordPress for a while now I have…
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Dig into the Open Web
As the American Thanksgiving holiday is coming up Thursday, I am so grateful for people who make WordPress – 800 of them in the most recent 6.1 release with 35 percent of them being new contributors to the project. This community has made remarkable progress this year, while navigating changes and uncertain times. Committed contributors continue to…
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WordPress Launches Developer Blog in Beta
WordPress.org will soon launch their blog for developers. The blog went into beta at the end of last week and resides on a subdomain of the main site curently. It is sporting a design similar to what WordPress is using in their general News blog. One of the big picture goals that WordPress’ Executive Director Josepha Haden-Chomphosy identified…
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Plug-in Recommendations
Now that I’ve been working with WordPress for 8 years I figured it was time I talked about the plugins that I use. I will be reviewing and talking about the plugins that I have found useful in my journey. I will continue to update this post as I discover and use new plugins with…
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WordPress to Explore Using GitHub Codespaces for Improving Contributor Experience
WordPress lead developer Helen Hou-Sandí has in the past proposed using GitHub Codespaces to improve the contributor experience especially for new developers just getting into contributing. GitHub, a few days ago, announced the availability of GitHub Codespaces, its a quick launch cloud-based developer environment, for all users, with 60 hours free per month for Free users and 90 hours…
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2022 Web Almanac Performance Data Shows WordPress Sites May Be Overusing Lazy-Loading
The last two chapters of the 2022 Web Almanac were released this week, they were Structured Data and Performance, completing the 729-page ebook of the report. The WordPress-specific chapter was published earlier this month with metrics that indicate adoption is continuing it’s trend of growing year over year. The Performance chapter was written by Etsy performance engineer Melissa…
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Openverse Audio Catalog Passes 800,000 Files, Audio Support Now Out of Beta
Openverse, which was formerly known as Creative Commons Search before it joined the WordPress project, has passed an important milestone with its newly added support for audio files. The catalog has now indexed more than 800,000 audio files from across the internet and its development team has now taken audio support out of the beta phase. Visitors to…