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Post Status Cache Up With Bernard Meyer
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Transcript ↓ In this episode, Michelle Frechette chats with Bernard Mayer, the Senior Director of Communications and Creative at Omnisend. Bernard, based in Vilnius, Lithuania,…
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Post Status Happiness Hour Session Eighteen
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Transcript ↓ In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette interviews Ian Stewart, a seasoned WordPress enthusiast and lead at WordPress.com.…
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Business Roundup Week Ending January 17
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Is WordPress Crashing or Are We Debugging It? It’s been a busy week for what I’ve come to call The Recent Unpleasantness in WordPress. The…
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Developer Seeking to Intervene in WP Engine vs. Automattic Lawsuit, Citing Financial Ruin and Community Harm
From therepository.email Source: Read More A web developer who claims he has lost clients and struggled to pay his mortgage and employees since Matt Mullenewg and WP Engine’s feud went…
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Automattic Cuts Weekly Contributor Hours to WordPress.org by 99% – Community Members Fear ‘Beginning of the End’
Source: WPShout Last week, Automattic announced that they’d be cutting their weekly contributor hours to WordPress.org from roughly 4,000 to a mere 45. This is a massive shift in how…
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Fork or Fiction? WordPress Co-Founder Bans Governance Advocates in Latest Dispute
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has again taken to WordPress.org to falsely claim community members have forked WordPress, this time also deactivating the accounts of five…
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Joost/Karim Fork
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Making great software, great product that stands the test of time and not just survives but thrives through monumental technological shifts is incredibly hard. That…
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Post Status Happiness Hour Session Seventeen
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Transcript ↓ In this episode of the Post Status Happiness Hour, host Michelle Frechette interviews Mark Westguard from WS Form. Mark discusses the new styling…
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Business Roundup Week Ending January 10
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Automattic Reduces Contributions to the WordPress Project “The Automattic Team” has announced they will reduce their contribution to the WordPress project to match that of…
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Automattic Scales Back WordPress Contributions to Match WP Engine Amid Legal Battle
From therepository.email Source: Read More Automattic is significantly reducing its contributions to WordPress, announcing that it is matching its WP Engine’s 45 pledged hours to the open source project for…
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Mullenweg Shuts Down WordPress Sustainability Team, Igniting Backlash
From therepository.email Source: Read More Members of the fledgling WordPress Sustainability Team have been left reeling after WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg abruptly dissolved the team this week—an action prominent tech…
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The Rise of “GEO” – or How AI is Transforming Search Engine Optimization
Source: WPShout If you’ve used Google lately, you’ve probably noticed a change: instead of just getting a mix of links and snippets, you’re now seeing AI-generated responses that synthesize information…
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Patchstack rejected as WordCamp Europe 2025 sponsor, CEO calls it “insulting”
From therepository.email Source: Read More Oliver Sild has labeled the rejection of his security company’s sponsorship application for WordCamp Europe 2025 as “insulting” after it was revealed that WordCamp Central…
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Patchstack Rejected as WordCamp Europe 2025 Sponsor Due to Lack of ‘Significant’ WordPress Contributions
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Oliver Sild, CEO of Patchstack, shared on X an email he received from WordCamp Central explaining why Patchstack’s application to sponsor WordCamp Europe 2025 was…
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Joost de Valk’s Bold Plan for WordPress Leadership Faces Mullenweg’s Resistance
From therepository.email Source: Read More Three weeks after Joost de Valk pitched his vision for change in WordPress leadership, the Yoast founder has kept his promise to step back during…
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WordPress.com Launches Studio Sync
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com has introduced Studio Sync, a new feature for its local development app, Studio. Launched last year as a free, open-source tool for Mac and…
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Hosting and Themes Teams Announce Representatives for 2025
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Themes and Hosting teams has unveiled their representatives for 2025. Themes Team Reps In November, the Themes Team announced their search for community members…
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Call for “More Weirdness” in WordPress Theme Design Sparks Debate About Accessibility
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org has republished a blog post by a former Automattic employee advocating for “more weirdness” in WordPress theme design. Nick Hamze, who was Automattic’s Chief…
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Eleni Stergatou Named First Recipient of Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship to Attend WordCamp Europe
From therepository.email Source: Read More Eleni Stergatou has been named the first recipient of the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship to attend WordCamp Europe in June 2025. The scholarship, established in…
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WordPress.org Resumes Full Services After Unexpected Holiday Break
From therepository.email Source: Read More WordPress.org has resumed full services after owner Matt Mullenweg announced a surprising “holiday break” on December 20, ahead of Christmas. The partial shutdown — the…
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WordPress.org Services Resume After Holiday Break
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattician Alex Shiels of the Meta team has announced the resumption of WordPress.org services after the holiday break of two weeks. Users can now register…
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Nick Hamze’s Call to Make WordPress Themes Weird and Exciting Sparks Accessibility Discussion
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Nick Hamze has called for making WordPress themes exciting and the web weird again. “WordPress desperately needs your creativity, your weird ideas, your willingness to…
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WordPress Themes Need More Weird: A Call for Creative Digital Homes
From wordpress.org Source: Read More The modern web has gradually shifted from a vibrant tapestry of personal expression to a landscape of identical designs, where millions of websites share not…
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India to Host Three WordCamps in January 2025
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Indian WordPress community is set for an exciting start to 2025, with three WordCamps scheduled for January, as per WordCamp Central. India has a…
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Community Team Proposes Women-Centric WordPress Events for International Women’s Day
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress Community Team has proposed hosting women-centric events on International Women’s Day through local WordPress communities to celebrate, empower, and inspire women. These events…
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Plugins Team Unveils Roadmap for Phase 2 of Plugin Check
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Chris Christoff of the Plugins Team has published the roadmap of Phase 2 of the Plugin Check plugin. According to the statistics shared at this…
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WordCamp Europe 2025: Tickets and Diversity Scholarship Now Available
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Europe has released tickets for the 2025 edition of the event scheduled for June 5-7 in Basel, Switzerland. There are two types of tickets:…
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How the Holidays Are Shaping Web Traffic Trends (and Why You Should Care)
Source: WPShout Happy almost-2025, everyone! While you’re finishing up your year-end to-do’s (or wishing you had started them earlier), I’ve been diving into some fresh data published by Cloudflare. This…
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Best Donation Plugins for WordPress Compared and Tested (2025-Ready)
Source: WPShout Fundraising is hard. Accepting payments shouldn’t be. I tested popular WordPress donation plugins to determine how well they can help you meet your online fundraising goals. From wpshout.com…
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Business Roundup Week Ending December 27
From poststatus.com Source: Read More The Call for Change is Getting Louder Following the holiday shutdown of WordPress.org, some interesting conversations have been happening among leaders in the WordPress world.…
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WordPress Training Team Launches New Course for Designers: Beginner WordPress Designer
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Training Team has launched a new course on Learn WordPress specifically for designers: Beginner WordPress Designer. This learning pathway is crafted to help designers…
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Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More On Christmas Eve, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg took to Reddit, causing quite a stir by asking what kind of drama he should create in 2025.…
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I Tried OpenAI’s Sora Video Generator…It’s Mostly Unusable
Source: WPShout If you haven’t tried Sora yet (or are in a region where it’s not currently available) and you’re curious about it, then keep reading. I will begin with…
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Joost de Valk Calls for Breaking the WordPress Status Quo, Community Reacts
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Joost de Valk, co-founder of the Yoast SEO plugin has called for Breaking the Status Quo of the WordPress world. This comes in the wake…
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Matt Mullenweg Declares Holiday Break for WordPress.org Services
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More For the first time, Matt Mullenweg has announced a holiday break for WordPress.org services. In his blog post, he said, “In order to give myself…
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Joost de Valk Calls for End to Matt Mullenweg’s BDFL Leadership of WordPress
From therepository.email Source: Read More Joost de Valk, a long-time figure in the WordPress community, has called for radical change to WordPress leadership, today publishing his vision for a new…
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Lena (Eleni) Stergatou Receives Inaugural WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Lena (Eleni) Stergatou has been awarded the first-ever WordCamp Europe Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, previously exclusive to WordCamp US, was recently extended…
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Business Roundup Week Ending December 20
From poststatus.com Source: Read More WordPress Goes 503: Out for the Holidays Matt Mullenweg announced on the WordPress.org blog on Friday morning that several free services are being paused “to…
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Matt Mullenweg Announces Unexpected Holiday Break for WordPress.org Services
From therepository.email Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg announced today that WordPress.org is taking a holiday break effectively immediately, shutting down several services, including new plugin and theme submissions, until “sometime…
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ACF Returns to WP Engine After Court Ruling Amid Ongoing Legal Dispute
From therepository.email Source: Read More Advanced Custom Fields has been returned to WP Engine after a preliminary injunction last week ordered WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company, Automattic, to…