
The Month in WordPress: August 2021
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This year Post Status is celebrating a decade of serving WordPress professionals with its member-supported community. The site was founded by Brian Krogsgard in 2013, and now runs an active Slack community with 2,083 members, a weekly newsletter with 4,300 subscribers, and a job board. As a testament to the community’s continued growth, Post Status…
Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and services company, has added a new frontend highlighting feature to its free accessibility checker plugin, which is used to perform audits on self-hosted sites. The feature was funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), through Equalize Digital’s consulting work on the new NASA websites. NASA recently…
WordCamp organizers are responding to community concerns this week, as the more highly transmissible Omicron variant surges in many locations around the world. With WordCamp Birmingham less than a month away, the event’s COVID precautions came under greater scrutiny this week, as organizers work to adapt to the changing pandemic landscape. Yesterday, the event’s masking…
WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can be resolved before major regressions are committed to core. “Similar to our unit test suite, automated performance testing would help protect core from introducing large performance regressions by catching problems immediately and…
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life. This week’s special guests is Brian Gardner, a Principal Developer Advocate at WP Engine and the founder of StudioPress. Our co-host is Carrie Dils, a freelance coach and Wordress developer. In this episode we talk about how Full Site Editing will…
Starting an online business is no walk in the park — it requires diligent planning, understanding your market and competition, and basic knowledge of standard business practices. Ecommerce is growing at an exponential rate, and there’s no sign of it slowing down. Some startups and nascent businesses believe that operating online means there’s no need…