WP Tavern is launching forums today. If you have ever sat up all night with a feverish infant, searching for answers on a mommy messaging board, hunted down solutions for obscure bugs, or wasted an entire afternoon on a subreddit, then you know that forums are not dead. Since the early days of BBSes (Wikipedia link for you young whippersnappers), …
Openverse Wins 2023 Open Education Award, Seeks Community Feedback for 2024 Roadmap
Openverse has landed an Open Education Award for Excellence in the Open Infrastructure category. Open Education Global (OEG) is a non-profit organization that supports the use of open education to expand education access and affordability. Its annual awards recognize outstanding contributions to the Open Education community and its network of resources. Openverse is one of 16 winners selected from more …
Developers Claim Damaged Trust Following Public Confrontations with WordPress Leadership
The WordPress community is ending two days of heated discussions that rapidly descended into a mire of unbridled emotional confrontations across multiple social channels, following a tweet from John Blackbourn that raised concerns about WordPress.com plugin listings outranking WordPress.org on Google Search. Developers expressed concerns about the SEO impact of the practice of cloning WordPress.org’s plugin directory for use on …
ActivityPub 1.0.0 Released, Introducing Blog-Wide Accounts and New Blocks
Version 1.0.0 of the ActivityPub plugin was released this week with major updates that make it possible to have a blog-wide account, instead of just individual author accounts, where followers receive updates from all authors. This new feature allows people to follow blogs on decentralized platforms like Mastodon (and many others) with replies automatically published back to the blog as …
#90 – Olga Gleckler on How Anyone Can Contribute to the WordPress Project
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how you can assist the WordPress project by contributing. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you …
WordPress Plugin Developers Renew Demands for Better Plugin Metrics
It has be nearly one year since WordPress silently turned off active install growth data for plugins hosted in the official plugin repository, a key metric that many developers rely on for accurate tracking and product decision-making. “Insufficient data obfuscation” was cited as the reason for the charts’ removal, but this opaque decision landed without any communication from those who …
10up Merges With Fueled, Backed by Insignia Capital
10up, a leading development agency and contributor to the WordPress project, has merged with Fueled, a technology consultancy that specializes in mobile and web application development. Together, the companies now employ more than 400 full time team members, forming a digital powerhouse with expanded market reach across mobile and publishing sectors. “Fueled has built stand out iOS and Android apps – several …
WP Includes Launches Women in WordPress Mentorship Program
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ACF’s 2023 Annual Survey Results Reinforce Plugin’s Focus on Improving the Block Building Experience
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins WP Engine acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022, has published the results if its first annual survey. Although ACF reports more than 4.5 million active users, including PRO site installs, the survey only gathered feedback from 2,031 respondents. These results are more representative of the plugin’s developer community, as 81% of respondents are developers …
ACF’s 2023 Annual Survey Results Reinforce Plugin’s Focus on Improving the Block Building Experience
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins WP Engine acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022, has published the results if its first annual survey. Although ACF reports more than 4.5 million active users, including PRO site installs, the survey only gathered feedback from 2,031 respondents. These results are more representative of the plugin’s developer community, as 81% of respondents are developers …