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Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute    Paul Lacey  |  Friday, 12 Nov 2021  |  Reading time:  34 mins  | Read online Listen to the episode This is content was sponsored by Connekt. They create handcrafted digital products, like WordPress plugins and themes. This was part of the WP Minute content bounty program where today’s author earned $200 to write and record this post. Thanks to Connekt for helping us create content like this. Today’s episode is bittersweet. It’s one man’s take on how Gutenberg has impacted the WordPress community deeply — down to the core. How the weight of control shifting in our space has shuttered him. The constant tug-of-war feeling that splits our community. And with all that, making this his final act for WordPress…for now. This man is former WP Minute Managing Editor, Paul Lacey. I’ve known Paul for a while, he’s a great person and genuinely cares about the people around him. He and I both hoped that the WP Minute project was different enough to re-energize his love for the space, but it only masked it temporarily. Ironically, it was through today’s essay/podcast, that reassured that stepping away from WordPress is the best thing for him. I wish him all the best, and I hope you do too. By the way, the content bounty program that Connekt supported, Paul wants me to donate the $200 to Big Orange Heart. Enjoy today’s episode, with Paul. Change In the 2015 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic gave the community a homework assignment – “Learn Javascript, deeply”, “because it’s what’s going to allow WordPress to thrive for the next 13 years”. It was a clear signal that something was coming, something new, and something big.  And that something, was change.  Change in industry can be a great thing, in fact with change more often than not comes great opportunities for those willing and eager to embrace.  But then there are others that don’t really have a great deal of control over their place within the system, they are forced to adapt and accept.  For those people, change can be bad.  Fishing Reels, 50 Pence Wedding Rings & The Printing Press Growing up in a working class family in the 80s, we weren’t poor, but money was tight, and work was always hard.  My Dad was a toolmaker in a precision engineering factory.  He and hundreds of his workmates worked long and hard hours – paid by the hour.  But something kept them together, with a sense of place – the community.  The individuals within the company’s community formed groups – fishing clubs, chess clubs, table tennis and football (soccer) tournaments, reading clubs, dance nights, live music, street parties for the whole families of the workers – all run by volunteers, and self funded by the community itself.   My Dad specifically was involved in the fishing clubs and competitions, he used his skills to make fishing spools and reels which he would sell to his friends at cost.  He even made his own wedding ring out of a melted down Fifty pence coin with the likeness of Her Majesty The Queen’s distorted image wrapped around his finger on the inside. Industrial progress, growth and maturity ultimately led to change.  The company was bought out by an American investor and was broken up. New teams from the States were brought in to modernise and capture new business opportunities.   The precision engineering part of the company was closed to be replaced by a printing press business.  After over 20 years, my Dad lost his job, as did all of his friends. The community broke up, fractured, people lost touch.  You can replace the jobs, but you can’t replace the community, once it’s gone, it’s gone.   This sense of community is something I’ve had within me for my whole life too.  I’ve always sought out a tribe of like minded people. I was always playing bands in local music scenes, and traveling the UK skateboarding – meeting new people and gaining new insights and experiences.   Photo by shawn henry on Unsplash Matt’s Memorial Around the time I finished University I broke my ankle. Slowly, I hobbled away from Skateboarding. But the feel of that community is always with me.  When one of my best friends from those days, Matt, died a few years ago I attended his funeral and over a hundred old friends from the Skateboarding community attended to pay respects, celebrate...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute It’s the WPMinute! I am Liam Dempsey with the following news and updates. This episode is brought to you by Easy Support Videos. Support your WordPress users by embedding videos and screencasts right inside the WordPress admin. Learn more at EasySupportVideos.com. You know how it goes, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. In The News Jetpack is acquiring WPScan. WPScan is being used across the WordPress ecosystem to identify vulnerabilities in WordPress core, themes, and plugins. Besides creating an outstanding security offering, Jetpack’s goal for this acquisition is to make malware data and APIs more open source. As part of the acquisition, two of the WPScan founders, Ryan Dewhurst and Erwan Le Rousseau, will be joining Automattic to continue their work improving security for the WordPress ecosystem. WPScan will continue to operate independently in the near term and may be integrated into Jetpack Scan in the future. There has been a lot of news around core updates on make.wordpress.org. There is a core editor improvement with a new view that lets folks have a space to focus specifically on editing a single template part (like the header or footer). You will be able to access this mode in a few ways once Gutenberg 11.9 is released. If all goes well, then in WordPress 5.9. Around the FSE program (Full Site Editing that is) the team went into round three of questioning that was gathered through the FSE outreach program. There were many questions around themes, the customizer and fonts. Keep your eyes open for a round four. Paul Lacey recently spoke with Vikas Singhal of Express Tech & InstaWP on the WPMinute about his company’s upcoming FSE (Full Site Editing) Theme Launch.  It was interesting to see a practical implementation of FSE design. The theme is called Guten and launches in December. You can check this out on the WPMinute to get a review of the FSE Theme implementation and design. Spencer Forman also at the WPMinute spends time talking about how many more theme years are we going to see? Are we ready for a default theme that flexes Gutenberg’s block-based approach over a designed theme like Twenty Twenty? Go listen to Spencer’s take on the release of styled themes with major WordPress releases. Justin Tadlock, at the WPTavern, wrote a great blog post on the third-party plugin WooCommerce and asked the question Where are the Block Themes for WooCommerce? WooCommerce is a third-party plugin and is unrelated to the core WordPress and Gutenberg projects. But as we know, WooCommerce is owned by Automattic. So, one can assume that there is some crossover among developers. For a deeper look at what is ahead, read Peek into the WooCommerce Blocks Roadmap, which is developer-specific. You may come to the realization that the size and scope of WooCommerce Block integration is not simple and far off for FSE. SEO Google has announced that it’s renaming Google My Business to Google Business Profile. Google has explained that the existing Google My Business web experience will eventually transition to primarily supporting large multi-location businesses. Local SEO experts have been quick to react to the update. If SEO is included in your WordPress space go check out the changes that are coming. In other SEO news….RankMath, with over a million installs annonces Content AI to take the hassle out of writing. That is a great idea for many who are writing that specific content for organic SEO. RankMath will hold your hand while you write content to see if it is worthy of Search Engine Rankings. Events Wordfest Live is back in March 2022. The deadline for the call for speaker submissions is December 6, 2021, at midnight UTC. The organizers will start to notify speakers from December 16, 2021, onward. Wordfest is seeking proposals on a wide variety of topics. Go check out the details on their site if you are interested. WooCommerce BobWP announced his first Do the Woo partnership with PostStatus. Bob has been friends with Cory Miller for a long time and it made sense at this time to partner with somebody he mentions a lot in the WordPress space on his podcasts. Congratulations Bob and Cory! From Our Contributors and Producers We have been reporting for weeks how different it is for developers and writers coming into the WordPress space with the changes to core and the addition of Gutenberg. Tom McFarlin shares his perspective about both on his blog. Tom is an experienced WordPress developer and you may have followed his writing over the years. He writes that although WordPress is a different set of technologies now, it’s not very different for somebody getting started in programming in any discipline. Developers need to learn different technologies and make them work. He shares several points in his post and it is definitely worth it to take the time to read. Speaking of WordPress development, Aaron Jorbin shared his development toolchain while he was building the Post Format Block. Aaron covers three tools (wp-scripts being his favorite) in his post that can improve the quality of your code and allow you to focus on things that matter instead of the repeatable tasks that happen in the world of development. Over on the WPTavern, Nathan Wrigley interviewed Tara King. Tara has recently started working for Automattic in a developer relations role. Tara will lead a newly formed team who will get out and try to understand the pain points that people are having with the new Block Editor and Full Site Editing. She is encouraging developers toward a Gutenberg future and wants to hear from you. The WebDevStudios team was over on PostStatus discussing the Legend of the Headless WordPress site. They answer t...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute Today’s episode is a special report by WP Minute correspondent, Spencer Forman. How many more theme years are we going to see? The Twenty Nineteen, Twenty Twenty, Twenty Twenty One and so on — seem like a strange naming convention bordering a simple novelty tradition. With Gutenberg squarely aimed to take on page builders, especially with Full Site Editing right around the corner, we’d be mindful to note that plugins like Elementor ship with only one theme — every year. Are we ready for a default theme that simple flexes Gutenberg’s block-based approach over an opinionated design? Spencer has a few words to share with you about that today. If you enjoy today’s episode, please share it with others. Join our mailing list to never miss an episode and consider becoming a member to support free WordPress media like this. That’s it for today’s episode, if you enjoyed please share it on your social media, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. Don’t forget to share share share this episode with others and jump on the mailing list Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/supportGet the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe ★ Support this podcast ★

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute Josh Pollock, a co-founder of Caldera forms, shared how he was able to have a career in development because of WordPress. He writes about all the extra work needed to build a plugin now and how that is impacting the learning curve in WordPress. Josh is working on a new product called Plugin Machine. He has always been interested in helping developers and this looks like an exciting opportunity for new developers coming into the WordPress space. Go check out what is planned for Plugin Machine and sign up for early access. Sarah Gooding at the WP Tavern shared the latest on the antitrust lawsuit against Google. The Lawsuit claimed AMP was created for the purpose of pushing publishers away from “header bidding.”  The full text of the newly unredacted complaint, which was unsealed by a federal judge last week, references research from internal Google documents. It states that internal Google communications identified header bidding as an “existential threat.”  We will keep an eye on Sarah’s reporting as this concern should continue to be a priority for the WordPress Community. Jetpack is finally formalizing its approach to agency licensing with a new portal launched this week. The program is aimed at streamlining product setup and account billing records for agencies and professionals who use Jetpack on client projects. Sarah was very busy writing about this as well this week. Birgit Pauli-Haack shared this blog post from lead architect of the Gutenberg project  Matías Ventura, reviewing theme.json and what’s on the horizon for it. Theme.json allows themes to control various aspects of the block editor, from presets to settings to the appearance of blocks, and was introduced in WordPress 5.8. Matias covers the cool things that can be done with it already and what will be unlocked in the future. As we have been reporting, WordPress 5.9 is full steam ahead towards the December 14, 2021 release date. The make.wordpress.org website is still showing the raised hand emoji where contributors and volunteers are needed. Also over on make.wordpress.org there is a redesign of the Gutenberg page. You can review the proposed updates and if you want to get involved, volunteers are welcome. Search Engine Journal reported that WordPress took a bit of a beating by sharing the Core Web Vitals Technology Report that combines two usage datasets to compare the CMS technologies.   Events Sara Gooding, over at the WPTavern, wrote this week about WordCamp US seeking a new host city for 2022. Unlike previous years, community leadership plans to conduct its own city search using a professional events management team. Buddy is hosting a webinar on How to update WordPress plugins with Git Updater on November 17th.  You can learn how to seamlessly release your in-house plugins without the need of using the official plugin repository. WooCommerce BobWP did a total rebrand over at Doo the Woo with WebDevStudios. If you keep up with the WooCommerce news this site is a beautiful redesign that has great navigation to find the all the things you are looking for. Congratulations Bob! Pagebuilder News Elegant themes announced on their blog that they have released Full Site Front-End editing for Divi. Now You Can Edit Your Theme Builder Templates And Post Content At The Same Time From Within The Visual Builder. Check out their video for more information. Security Wordfence covered a very disturbing remote work scam and presented it as a PSA to the community because it is impacting a lot of folks. An attacker will post a job advertisement on a job board for a position and after you reach out, the scammers pose as people in a company doing the hiring. You may go out and purchase equipment for the job which you were just offered (from a fake company) and then you are left hanging for the costs of the equipment after you have provided personal information. There are several recommendations in the article to protect yourself, but do not apply for jobs through a job board and make sure that the company has a legitimate job posting on their website.  We had some great finds this week from Contributors and Producers Stencil joins Namecheap, the second-largest domain registrar in the world. It is only going to get better as Namecheap shares many of the core values as Stencil. Amber Hinds Tweeted that an accessibility @a11y test engineer, Joyce Oshita has offered to test (free audit) and provide feedback for a #WordPress plugin or theme.  In the latest ReadME Podcast, lead @WordPress developer

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  It’s the WP Minute! This episode is brought to you by FooGallery, check out their latest WooCommerce integration to start selling images right through WooCommerce, head on over to Foo.Gallery for more information! You know how it goes, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. In The News Robert Anderson provides the latest update for WordPress 5.9 on make.WordPress.org. Gutenberg 11.9 will be cut on November 3rd. The merge to Core for this release may be tricky and if you have time to help, they are looking for volunteers for this release. Sara Gooding over at WPTavern wrote a great article about how Jetpack is splitting out its commercial Backup feature into a standalone plugin that can be used without installing the core Jetpack plugin. The product was built with WooCommerce in mind so that you can restore a site to any past state while keeping orders and products in place. Just a reminder that this is a paid plugin and the backup feature is part of the long-term plan to make Jetpack more modular and less confusing.  Gutenberg still continues to be at the top of the discussion Carlo Daniele, over at Kinsta wrote a detailed development tutorial on Building Custom Gutenberg Blocks.  If you find yourself lost in the huge amount of information that the WordPress Block Editor Handbook provides then this is a great tutorial for you to review. It helps you set up a development environment for Gutenberg Blocks. Just note you may still struggle with JavaScript, Node.js, React, and Redux and as a developer, you should have a good understanding of these. Another cool tutorial written by Joshua Dailey over at  Web3WP covers an experiment with Wapuu. The information is over on GitHub. Joshua covers how the first experiment includes four distinct web apps that work together for minting the generative NFT Wapuu collectibles. So if you’re a developer interested in NFTs, you can start to build your own art NFT project by starting here. Justin Ferriman wrote a great post called Matt’s Page Builder, where he talks about the block editor trying to be two things: a place to write, and a page builder. It seemed when Gutenberg was first released it would act more like a front-end page builder – but it was not that at all. Is Gutenberg the great editor replacement? This article led to several discussions about how the editor is “ok” for writing but seems like it’s a little forced as a tool that needs to be adopted for building and writing. Joe Casabona followed up with a blog post on how the Gutenberg editor has never really been the best place to write. At the risk of rubbing a lot of people the wrong way, he also falls into using the editor for quick posts which seems “good enough”. He presents several reasons why you should write somewhere else then send it to WordPress. You can customize your work, have local backups, write your piece once and publish everywhere. When Gutenberg matures as an editor it may make sense to use it for your own writing. I remember at one point Google Docs was supposed to copy/paste seamlessly into Gutenberg and it still doesn’t work. Reach out to Matt Medeiros if you know a way to make Google docs work. There was a lot of activity with PageBuilders this week… Beaver Builder announced the release of Assistant Pro which they had been working on for some time. Assistant Pro lets you export, import, and save page builder templates and other design assets to the cloud and works with many of the most popular page builders. Matt Medeiros reviewed Assistant Pro several years ago in March of 2019 on his PlugInTut channel over on YouTube. Congratulations to Beaver Builder for the hard work around the release. Ferdy Korpershoek reviews how you can save all your templates to the cloud using the Page Builder Cloud. Let’s not forget Layouts Cloud that is the cloud plugin for Divi. Events WordCamp EU for 2022 – WCEU is opening the Call for Organizers for WCEU 2022. Even with the uncertainty in the world with COVID-19, optimism is there around Porto (Portugal) 2022. The planning team is looking for people to join the planning team. From Our Contributors and Producers A public GitHub repository for WPCloudDeploy was announced marking a new era in the open-source journey for WPCD. Previously, the code was only available for folks who purchased a license. Now it is available for anyone. Birgit Pauli-Haack tweeted a thank you to Johnny Harris for his dedication and passion for WordPress by becoming a maintainer of the REST API in WordPress Core.  We welcome Paul Lacey to the WPMinute as the new Managing Editor. Paul is familiar in the WordPress Community and some of you may know him from his previous role on the WP Builds podcast, co-hosting with Nathan Wrigley. Paul devoted a large portion of his professional life to WordPress as an advocate, business owner, and content creator.  If you would like to get to know Paul a little better, go listen to his interview this week on the WPMinute. The interview focuses on the idea of journalism where folks in the WordPress community can get their short-form content in front of the world. They even discuss the content bounty. By the way, we just put $400 back into the hands of two members, Paul Lacey and Michelle Frechette. Matt Cromwell and Jeff Chandler had some fun reminiscing through Twitter about Bob Dunn’s article updating a couple of WordPress sites where he had over 100 plugins. This got Bob hunting through the archives for the article and was able to find the video in his dusty archives. It is a good reminder that updating WordPress is often seamless. Enjoy this walk-through through time updating WordPress 4.0. Thanks to all of the members who shared these links today:  Paul LaceyBirgit Pauli-HaackJeff ChandlerDavinder Singh Kainth<...

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute Paul Lacey doesn’t need much of an introduction. You’ve watched him for the last few years on the WP Builds podcast, co-hosting with Nathan Wrigley. He’s devoted a large portion of his professional life to WordPress as an advocate, business owner, and content creator. He has a deep understanding on how the WordPress economy operates with a deeper connection to the WordPress community. I’m excited to have him join us to help build this new experience of WordPress news. Join the WP Minute membership and get involved in the WordPress news. We also have a new Content Bounty available that sponsors one of our members to create a new piece of content. Support our work at https://thewpminute.com/supportGet the newsletter at https://thewpminute.com/subscribe ★ Support this podcast ★

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute It’s the WP Minute! This episode is brought to you by FooGallery, check out their latest WooCommerce integration to start selling images right through WooCommerce, head on over to Foo.Gallery for more information! You know what it is, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. The News Sarah Gooding at the WPTavern covered the go/no-go deadline for features in WordPress 5.9. The date was set for October 12th but got pushed back. Josepha Hayden from the core leadership team published the modified schedule and emphasized that many of the features are still in progress. The core team shared the recording of the go/no-go deadline and the new dates around the WordPress 5.9 release. Volunteers are still needed in the capacity of Triage Leads and Release Coordination. Head on over to make.Wordpress.org if you can help.  Rank Math hit a 1+ million (or is it 1 million + ) installs in the WordPress Plugin Repository. Rank Math is another SEO tool to attract traffic to a website. Obviously, many people are using this on their sites and this plugin grabbed the best SEO designation in the plugin repository for SEO. TechCrunch has an interesting set of articles this week in the rebranded TC-1 about Automattic and how they are still in the media game as an open-source company. There have been four articles that show how Automattic will be effective in the long run. You’ll need to set aside a good 30 minutes to enjoy these articles, but it is worth your time to understand the long game…and the last 18 years of it thus far. WooCommerce Aaron Douglas tweeted about his team over @WooCommerce. The team released the in-person credit card payments. You can start accepting payments in person for orders placed online – perfect for products with curbside or local pickup options.  Events The  Page Builder Summit is still happening this week. It has been a great lineup of speakers so far. There is still time to catch a presentation if you would like to participate. From Our Contributors and Producers Kirki 4,  a plugin to customize WordPress, is now in beta. You can install the plugin and test it with your Theme. During this month, the team will work closely together with the community on GitHub. Ronnie Burt tweeted that he is moving to @automattic to help grow Sensei LMS. His last days with Edublogs have passed and he is looking forward to working with a new team. Aaron Jorbin wrote about his return from Headless WordPress to a traditional WordPress website. His feeling was that it was an interesting experience moving to the Headless WordPress setup but it was a mistake. His article shares the experience and may save you from making some of the same mistakes he did. Well worth the read. Rebekah Kohlhepp shares an article on why she moved her blog from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. Her site went through a natural growth with followers and her article addresses the confusion and frustrations that new users of WordPress experience.  The proposal to rename “reusable blocks” to “synched blocks” in Gutenberg on Github got a lively discussion going in our membership group. Be sure to sync up with that Github issue to learn more. Thanks to all of the members who shared these links today:  Paul LaceyKathy ZantDaniel SchutzsmithJeff Chandler Speaking of members, we welcome new members this week Nigel Bahadur and Spencer Forman who will offer a hand in sharing the news in the WordPress space.  One Minute Segment – All About Gutenberg Birgit Pauli-Haack, cohost on the Gutenberg Times Changelog Podcast shares the one-minute segment. If you want to know more about how to build block themes, there are now over 20 block themes in the WordPress.org repository which you can use to get up with the latest Gutenberg plugin to test the new way to edit a website called Full Site Editing. You can level up your knowledge by listening to theme builders and Anders Norwin, Ellen Bauer, and Caroline Nymark discuss how they went from building classic themes to building block themes on the recent Gutenberg Times live Q&A. Lot’s of resources are available on Gutenberg Times. For more details on current development subscribe to the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. Thank you to all of the members who have supported The WPMinute project by going to buymeacoffee.com/mattreport. Join the Private Discord and share in the WordPress news every week.   shetlerp  |  Wednesday, 20 Oct 2021  |  Reading time:  6 mins  | Read online

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute It’s the WP Minute! I’m Helen Hou-Sandi, filling in for Matt. This episode is brought to you by FooGallery, check out their latest WooCommerce integration to start selling images right through WooCommerce, head on over to Foo.Gallery for more information! You know what it is, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. Let’s get into the News Video Press announced that they have a new refreshed player that offers creators an intuitive design that puts their content in the spotlight. Video Press is fully integrated into WordPress so neither you nor your audience need to be redirected to external apps.  You may already be familiar with VideoPress which is included in the Premium, Business, and eCommerce plans on WordPress.com and powers WordPress.tv. If you are a self-hosted site, you can get VideoPress through Jetpack, now available as a standalone product. The brand new default theme Twenty Twenty-Two is targeted to be released with WordPress 5.9 in December. This flexible default theme for WordPress takes advantage of the Full Site Editing and Global styles features, which we have seen recently. Kjell Reigstad, the lead designer covers the customizations nicely over on make WordPress.org where they are looking for community involvement. Head over to get involved and weigh in on the future of default themes.  Joost de Valk tweeted this week that he is excited about the news of a proposal also over on make WordPress.org from Ari Stathopoulos proposing the creation of a team focused on the performance and speed of WordPress. It seems that in comparison to some other platforms, WordPress is falling behind. A team will bring more organization and visibility to this effort. Check out the proposal and get involved if this is your area of expertise. Davinder Singh Kainth over at the WPWeekly is running the WP Awards 2021 event. You can vote for your favorite WordPress Plugins, Themes, Tools, and Services at the WP Awards 2021 event. Nominations are open now. Voting begins November 1st with results in December. Be sure to send over your nominations or become a sponsor. WPMainline wrote an interesting piece about being honest with users and hidden fees. The article covers a tweet from Mark Zahra mentioning that he had been contacted by someone in the WordPress community who was working on a post that would list some of the best plugins to use. What set this email exchange apart from others is that the author told him that in order to be included in the post, he would need to pay a fee. Yes, pay-to-play. Jeff’s article is a good review about transparency when money is being exchanged. This is a good reminder when working in the WordPress community. How about WooCommerce? WooCommerce continues to be one of the world’s most popular e-commerce solutions, processing billions of dollars in transactions. However, integrating and managing in-person sales with a WooCommerce online store hasn’t always been seamless and can be time-consuming and difficult for website developers and business owners alike.  Back in September, GoDaddy launched GoDaddy Payments’ new point of sale (POS) hardware with industry-low credit card transaction fees, which rounds out their commerce solutions. And now GoDaddy Payments’ POS is fully integrated with the WooCommerce online store to make in-person payments quick and simple. This is a great addition to manage in-person and online transactions in the Payments hub of the WooCommerce dashboard. Congratulations on the new launch! And now, from the grab bag! Heropress launched its multi-project portal. Topher and Cate DeRosia created the hub to display the newest items from the HeroPress network as well as other news from the community. This portal combines all of their work in a single space and has a beautiful new design. Jill Binder tweeted that the first 2 #WordPress #WPDiversity programs of 2021-2022 are well underway, and now the focus is on the 3rd program. Jill leads the program for speaker diversity and let’s support her in this effort. And there is another effort for you to support centered around plugins. It’s Matt Cromwell’s ticket on WordPress.org for dynamic sharing images. Finally, if you enjoyed my talk at WordCamp US a couple of weeks ago, I’ll be showing off way more of the actual editorial experience of the White House in a couple of weeks at Clarity, the premier design systems conference. It’s entirely online and you can still grab a ticket, although fair warning, it’s a conference with conference pricing, not a camp. We have a new segment this week by Bob Dunn and DoTheWoo and your one-minute Woo experience. One-click solutions are coming out to address the perfect checkout process. You can listen to the check-out processes on the Do The Woo roundtable. This was another exciting week for new members joining the community. We welcome WPMainline, Brad Williams, Justin Ferriman and Seth Goldstein who will offer a hand in sharing the news in the WordPress space.  If you want your hand in the weekly news, head to buymeacoffee.com/mattreport. You can buy Matt a coffee to support the show or join as a member for $79 for the year to get access to the private Discord server. That’s it for today’s episode, if you enjoyed please share it on your social media, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Podchaser. Don’t forget to tell your friends how cool this episode was with me was and jump on the mailing list at thewpminute.com.

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute It’s the WP Minute!  This episode is brought to you by FooGallery, check out their latest WooCommerce integration to start selling images right through WooCommerce, head on over to Foo.Gallery for more information! You know the drill, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. News This week Project Huddle has joined the Brainstorm Force family. Project Huddle is a very popular tool that lets you use sticky note-style feedback on your web project and it is platform-independent working with Drupal, Joomla, and Shopify. Sujay Pawar,  of Brainstorm Force, covers the acquisition in his video. If you are selling WordPress products, you may want to take a look at how Appsero has integrated with Gumroad for providing seamless connection while selling your product in Gumroad. You can track selling data of plugins or themes on Gumroad through the Appsero dashboard.  Felix Arntz over on WordPress.org writes an update on his results of why jQuery is the most common JavaScript-based performance problem in themes. Felix ran an analysis using the PageSpeed Insights API, gathering performance reports for the most popular 100 WordPress themes according to the WordPress.org Themes API.  To read all the analysis jump over to his review. But the short story is that if you are a theme developer relying on jQuery, start looking into migrating away from jQuery in your themes. It will be a great step forward to make your themes more performant along with enhancing user experience for all the sites that use your themes. The WPMinute often covers news that comes from the WPTavern. Many of our community members look to WPTavern for fair coverage of news in WordPress. We interviewed Sarah Gooding this week on the WPMinute on WordPress journalism and on where she gathers her information and decides how to cover a story. You can always tell your newsworthy story to the WPTavern with their help to get it ready for publication. Justin Ferriman’s name had been circulating over the past couple of weeks with the acquisition of Learn Dash. Justin covers his personal decision on why he sold in his recent blog post. Go check it out for his take on why it was time for him to make a change.  From the grab bag! Paul Lacey shared this redesign of Castos. The refreshed website has a clean look with a beautiful user interface. ps: built on Generate Press with Generate Blocks. It’s a fantastic fast loading website. Check it out. Justin Tadlock wrote an interesting article over on the WPTavern this week about how the Next Web published a hit piece titled Developers hate WordPress — and so should marketers. The claim was that, despite its current 40% market share, folks should start looking at alternatives for a better experience. The Next Web article seemed to be sponsored by Storyblok and you can read it to see if it changes your mind about WordPress. Many of us know Tammie Lister and she tweeted that she has started a new position at @XWP.  She is producing a block pattern a day during the month of October as well. It has been something fun to follow so far. You can see the daily code posted at patternsnspiration. Birgit Pauli-Haack shared the Women in WordPress list on Twitter. It is a great group to follow and exciting to see all these women in WordPress. Thanks Birgit! Matt Prichett is looking to sell his WordPress Plugin. You can reach out to him through Twitter if you are interested in learning more. That’s it for today’s news. Don’t forget to join our private Discord server and be part of the WPMinute news community. We are really excited to welcome the new folks that joined the community this week. A warm welcome to Akshat Choudhary, Joe Howard, John Locke, David Mainayer, and Andrew Palmer.  We look forward to working with you as you share the news in the WordPress space. If you want to get your hand in the weekly WordPress news head over to buymeacoffee.com/mattreport. You can buy me a coffee to support the show or join the membership for $79 a year.   shetlerp  |  Wednesday, 6 Oct 2021  |  Reading time:  6 mins  | Read online

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like...nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute It’s the WP Minute!  This episode is brought to you by FooGallery, check out their latest WooCommerce integration to start selling images right through WooCommerce, head on over to Foo.Gallery for more information! You know the drill, everything I mention here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out thewpminute.com for the links. News It was a blast keeping up with the breaking news last week and things are still shaking.  Alex Denning writes an interesting post about Awesome Motive’s marketing machine powering millions of dollars in revenue. He explores how it all works as separate products in a decentralized network. Go check out his take on Awesome Motive’s value of products under one umbrella. The Matt Report also has a great interview with Syed Balkhi, to recap his point of view on the acquisition of Sandhills development. All the acquisitions… It was announced that WPLandingKit is joining Themeisle. WPLandingKit is a popular plugin that lets you map domain names to individual WordPress pages within your site. Themeisle will look to incorporate this plugin with their Neve and Otter products to provide a solution for managing landing pages for WordPress. Keep your eyes peeled for new offers coming from them. Keanan Koppenhaver announced on Twitter that he acquired @WP_Pusher and @thisisbranch. In his blog, he talks about why this acquisition is so thrilling to him. WP Pusher is solid, supporting a multitude of workflows. It allows one to deploy to every WordPress host in existence.  Keenan states: As a fellow developer, I’m overjoyed at the idea of helping WordPress developers deploy their code more easily, no matter where they’re hosted and without having to resort to FTP. All this acquisition talk seems to be causing angst (or not) in the WordPress Community.  Mark Zahra covers a lot of what WordPress Entrepreneurs may be feeling in his recent blog post about there being a future for small WordPress businesses. WordPress feels like it is fragmented and it is a good time for larger companies to be buying the smaller ones. Can anyone continue to compete in this situation?  Then we get Chris Wiegman’s view about what keeps people working in WordPress. It often isn’t for the technical power of the product but the communities that keep us connected. Check out his article on the four communities of WordPress and how that ties small business owners together. IF you want to get out there in the WordPress scene you may want the world to know about it. WPMainline has a recent blog post about how the small fry can get the exposure they need by using the website WPHunts. This site, an idea of Ben Townsend, is in the early stages and it will be interesting to see the discussion and support from the community as it gains traction. Events It looks like October is shaping up to be a busy month. WordCamp US is online this Friday, October 1st. The WPMinute is a media sponsor and we can’t wait to see you there! Woosesh the 4-day virtual conference is scheduled for October 12th – October 15th. This conference is full of sessions for WooCommerce store builders. Each event is highly curated to provide you with the absolute best possible experience. The PageBuilder Summit returns and is back October 18th – 22nd as well. Many people that have been highlighted in the news here at the WPMinute are scheduled to speak. So jump over to get on the waiting list so that you don’t miss this one. WooCommerce News WooCommerce celebrates year 1 – 0. The big 10. Go check out this blog post by Paul Maiorana for a trip down memory lane… WooCommerce released a security patch last week to address a server configuration setup used by some hosts, which under the right conditions may make some analytics reports publicly available. You should update your store right away if you do not have auto-updates turned on for your site do it now! From the grab bag! Paul Lacey shares this YouTube video by Jamie Marsland on how to build a WordPress Gutenberg Full Site Editing Starter Theme in just 10 minutes with no coding. There are just 8 steps to create your full site editor starter theme. He based the tutorial on a great article by Alfredo Navas from WebDevStudios.  Anne McCarthy also shares a great YouTube Video on exploring the Query Loop block in WordPress. Check out these Videos. It is a great way to spend 10 minutes of your day. Gravity Forms did a beautiful redesign of their Website. If you use their product you will like the flow and look of the site. That closes out the week in the WPMinute. We have lots of folks to thank this week for joining the membership at buymeacoffee.com/mattreport becoming producers and getting involved with the weekly WordPress news. First up, @schutzsmith on Twitter. Always loved the podcast. Thanks for keeping us informed with the best info and interviews in WordPress and no code. Tony Cosentino says: Excited to join the gang and be part of more conversations with the amazing people that are part of this membership. Thank you, Tony. Paul Lacey says The beard is looking strong. Paul? Thanks for joining the membership. Last but certainly not least is Liam Dempsey. Thanks for your hard work to keep folks informed about the comings and goings in the WordPress Community. Keep fighting for the digital blue collar worker. That I will my friend. Liam? Thanks for joining the membership. If you want to be a member and take part in the weekly news WordPress news go to buymeacof...