The hot topic this week was diversity. More specifically, how it relates to the upcoming WordCamp Europe speaker lineup. After the event announced its fifth round of speakers, StellarWP’s Michelle Frechette took to Twitter with the following observation: “So far only 25% of the speakers announced for #WCEU are women (by name/photo), and only three […]

It’s Episode 600 and we have plugins for Yearly Archiving, Searching AI… and WordPress News. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Results from the WordPress 2022 Annual Survey have been released. WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy notes that this was a slimmed down version of the survey. It featured 29 questions – as opposed to nearly 100 in past editions. This led to a 26% increase in completion rate. However, there was also a 56% […]

On May 27, 2023, WordPress will celebrate its 20th birthday. It’s hard to fathom that the software has been around for so long. Yet some of us may struggle to remember what the web was like without it. Just think of the designers, developers, and users that have come along during these past two decades. […]

It’s Episode 599 and we have plugins for Customizing Logins, Creating with ChatGPT… and WordPress News. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

It looks like the days of automatically sharing WordPress.com content to Twitter are over. Automattic announced that customers will no longer be able to auto-publish to Twitter via the Jetpack Social plugin. You may recall that WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API was suddenly suspended in April. While it eventually came back online, changes to […]

It’s Episode 598 and we have plugins for Web Directory Creation, Finding New Plugins… and WordPress News. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

Managed WooCommerce hosting is a growing segment within the WordPress ecosystem. And it has a new entrant: WooCommerce. The Automattic-owned eCommerce provider recently launched WooExpress. The service is hosted by WordPress.com. It aims to be a one-stop shop for building and maintaining an online store. Packages start at $40 per month with discounts for paying […]

It’s Episode 597 and we have plugins for Poets of the Mail, Duplicating… and WordPress News. It’s all coming up on WordPress Plugins A-Z!

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