Richard Stallman, free software movement activist and originator of the “copyleft” concept, has resigned from his position as director of the board and president of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), which he established in 1985. This resignation comes on the heels of his resignation from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) after remarks he made regarding a 17-year …
Let’s Make it Official… Introducing WPMU DEV Hosting!
After two years of development, a solid year of testing, and 6 months of perfect performance behind the scenes we are delighted to finally, officially, launch WPMU DEV hosting. What makes WPMU DEV Hosting different? Yep, there isn’t exactly a shortage of WordPress hosting options out there, so why, you might ask, are we launching another one? Well, when we …
New Attock WordPress Meetup Empowers Pakistani Women Freelancers and Business Owners
WordCamp Lahore is getting rebooted on November 30 – December 1, at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences. The first edition of the event was planned for 2016 but was derailed by local disagreements and ultimately canceled. For the past three years organizers have worked to strengthen their local meetup groups and follow suggestions from the WordPress Foundation …
Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the Soul of Open Source”
Chef co-founder and former CTO Adam Jacob gave a short presentation at O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) 2019 titled “The War for the Soul of Open Source.” In his search for meaning in open source software today, Jacob confronts the notion of open source business models. “We often talk about open source business models,” he said. “There isn’t an …
WPHindi Plugin Instantly Converts Text from English to Hindi in the Block Editor
Hindi is one of the world’s top languages, with more than 520 million native and non-native speakers, and is the fastest growing language in India. In a region where English is also commonly spoken, many Hindi publishers have the unique requirement of being able to switch back and forth between the two languages when writing articles. WPHindi is a new …
This Entrepreneur Had to Welcome Failure When He Switched Lanes
Scott Allan shares how he uses his engineering education to inform the way he helps to grow his company’s brand. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Richard Best Releases Free Audio and Ebook: “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL”
If you’re itching to go deeper into the legal aspects of navigating WordPress’ relationship to the GPL license, Richard Best has recently made his ebook (and the audio version) called “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL” available for free. Best, a technology and public lawyer based in New Zealand, had previously sold the book with other products as …
Fall, Or Matt in Hell
Is WordPress, and the internet as we know it, going to be cast out to the firmament at the expense of closed, network enabled, Facebookland? Are the early gods on the way out? Note to regular readers: Let’s bring back some opinion to this blog 🙂 Not #wpdrama (honestly, I mean that!) but a weekly opportunity to really get into the …
Kioken Blocks: The New Street Fighter-Inspired Block Collection that Is Taking Aim at Page Builders
With the proliferation of block collection plugins over the past year, Kioken Blocks is a relatively unknown newcomer that you may have missed. Compared to competitors with thousands of users like CoBlocks (30K+), Atomic Blocks (20K+), Stackable (10K+), and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg (100K+), Kioken is a small fish in a big pond of page builder utilities. You might have …
How to Install WordPress on AWS
Cloud computing has taken the world by storm. It’s the most cost-efficient, secure, and reliable way to host any online project. And Amazon Web Services (AWS) sits right at the top, showering us with its amazing and powerful cloud infrastructure. Amazon is known for its online shopping portal, but if you dig deeper, you’ll realize that they’re way bigger than …