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WordPress Global Sponsorship Program Raises Costs for 2024 to Support Expanding In-Person Events
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Community team has proposed a draft for the 2024 Global Community Sponsorship Program, with fees increased to cover the costs of the rapidly expanding number of in-person events. The program supports the volunteer-organized local events so that they can provide free or low-cost access for attendees. It helps companies…
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WP Briefing: Episode 63: A WordPress 6.4 Sneak Peek
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Join WordPress Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy, as she offers an exclusive preview of the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release, accompanied by special guest Sarah Norris, one of the Editor Tech leads for this release. Don’t miss this opportunity for an insider’s look! Have a question you’d like answered? You can…
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Next Steps to Elevating the Business of WordPress
From poststatus.com Source: Read More It’s time to elevate the Business of WordPress collective at Post Status beyond a Slack community. The biggest next step is an Annual Summit. A time and space each year to gather together and talk about the issues and challenges we’re seeing and facing. And the Open Web. And then see how…
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Gutenberg 16.7 Introduces Font Management
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 16.7 was released this week, packed with several features that are headlining the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release. This will be the last plugin release that will be rolled into the next version of WordPress. Font management with the new font library is now available for testing in the plugin.…
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Community Roundup Week Ending September 29
From poststatus.com Source: Read More The Challenges Facing WordCamp Organizers I don’t know if it’s economy-based, apathy-based, or something-else-based, but this year seems to have proven much harder to plan and run a successful regional/local WordCamp. As a WordCamp mentor, I see the struggles that both larger and smaller camps have. As a WordCamp Organizer…
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Jobs & Career Roundup Week Ending September 29
From poststatus.com Source: Read More In the Spotlight Post Status professional member Nyasha Green is in the spotlight this week. Nyasha is a Software Developer, mentor, writer, instructor, and DEIB in tech & WordPress advocate. The Job Board UpdraftPlus Freelance SEO Copywriter UpdraftPlus PHP WordPress Developer (Junior/mid-level) XWP Senior Project Manager (Remote,
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Member Spotlight: Nyasha Green
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Nyasha is a Software Developer, mentor, writer, and instructor. When she’s not working she enjoys traveling, cooking, reading, and writing short stories. Nyasha has a Linkedin Learning Course on Block building coming out, co-runs WP Foodies, and is a co-organizer of the Columbia, South Carolina WordPress meetup group. You can…
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Business Roundup Week Ending September 29
From poststatus.com Source: Read More WordPress.com Plugin Pages Now Have Download Links for Self-hosted Users This week, WordPress.com added WordPress.org plugin download links to its plugin listings, but still omits attribution links likely to encourage paid upgrades. This follows last week’s concerns expressed by developers over .com listings outranking .org. Some developers want direct links…
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Ollie Theme Faces Pushback from WordPress Theme Review Team
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Mike McAlister, creator of the free Ollie theme, has been working towards getting his theme approved for hosting on WordPress.org. Ollie went into public beta in April 2023 and gained momentum over the next few months when McAlister previewed the theme’s new onboarding wizard. WordPress users have been slow to adopt the…
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WordPress 6.4 • Annual Survey • Stats & Dashboards • Global Sponsorship
From poststatus.com Source: Read More This Week at WordPress.org (September 18, 2023) β WordPress 6.4 Beta 1 is out now︎ Take the annual WordPress survey Data about the WordPress Project Global Sponsorhip Program News Help Influence the Future of WordPress by Taking the 2023 Annual Survey Today <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2023/09/wordpress-6-4-bet