This Week in WordPress #168

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 14th June 2021

Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…

• Not one but two new platforms launch to help you sell your WordPress business
• The WordPress ecosystem is worth more than half a trillion dollars!
• What should we do about pesky Admin notifications?
• and Automattic buys Day One, with a mission to promote private blogging…

There’s a whole lot more than this, as there is each and every week, and you can find all that by scrolling down and clicking on the links!

This Week in WordPress #168 – “Spuddling whilst singing Kumbaya”

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey, Robert Jacobi and Bob Dunn.

Recorded on Monday 21st June 2021.
If you ever want to join us live you can do that every Monday at 2pm UK time on the WP Builds LIVE page.

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#4 – Dan Maby on the Importance of the WordPress Community On the podcast today we have Dan Maby. Dan has been a user of WordPress for many years. As an agency owner he’s used it to build client websites, but, as is so often the case, he came for the software and got caught up in the community…

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#4 – Dan Maby on the Importance of the WordPress Community

On the podcast today we have Dan Maby. Dan has been a user of WordPress for many years. As an agency owner he’s used it to build client websites, but, as is so often the case, he came for the software and got caught up in the community…

WordPress Economy Drives More Than Half a Trillion in Revenue, New Global Study Shows To put the global WordPress economy in context, if WordPress were a country, its economy would rank 39th in the world according to an IMF list of countries by GDP…

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WordPress Economy Drives More Than Half a Trillion in Revenue, New Global Study Shows

To put the global WordPress economy in context, if WordPress were a country, its economy would rank 39th in the world according to an IMF list of countries by GDP…

WP Broker – The WordPress acquisition marketplace Buying and selling WordPress businesses with no lock-ins, fees or commissions..

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WP Broker – The WordPress acquisition marketplace

Buying and selling WordPress businesses with no lock-ins, fees or commissions..

Buy and Sell WordPress Businesses – FlipWP FlipWP is a private marketplace for buying and selling WordPress businesses. We deeply understand the WordPress ecosystem and bring you quality opportunities…

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Buy and Sell WordPress Businesses – FlipWP

FlipWP is a private marketplace for buying and selling WordPress businesses. We deeply understand the WordPress ecosystem and bring you quality opportunities…

Ask the Bartender: Is It OK To Provide WordPress Admin Credentials to Plugin Support Staff? No. Nada. Nah. Nope. That’s a negative. Under no circumstances. My mama didn’t raise no fool. Heck naw. Not on your life. And, the other thousands of ways to tell anyone asking for site credentials to bugger off…

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Ask the Bartender: Is It OK To Provide WordPress Admin Credentials to Plugin Support Staff?

No. Nada. Nah. Nope. That’s a negative. Under no circumstances. My mama didn’t raise no fool. Heck naw. Not on your life. And, the other thousands of ways to tell anyone asking for site credentials to bugger off…

Upstairs Community Report #1: learning the basics For those who are not familiar with the Upstairs Community project, here’s a summary—we created a community around real and authentic stories that can help us become better people…

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Upstairs Community Report #1: learning the basics

For those who are not familiar with the Upstairs Community project, here’s a summary—we created a community around real and authentic stories that can help us become better people…

Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications — Ben Gillbanks Plugin notifications have been a problem in WordPress for a long time now. Last week I saw a conversation on Slack where a developer said he thought they were getting out of hand…

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Take Control of WordPress Plugin and Theme Notifications — Ben Gillbanks

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Automattic Launches Mayland Blocks, Its Second FSE Theme on WordPress.org Automattic released its second block theme to the WordPress theme directory last week. Mayland Blocks is geared toward photographers and other users who want to showcase their projects…

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Automattic Launches Mayland Blocks, Its Second FSE Theme on WordPress.org

Automattic released its second block theme to the WordPress theme directory last week. Mayland Blocks is geared toward photographers and other users who want to showcase their projects…

Extendify Adopts EditorsKit, Increasing Its Block Plugin Collection Extendify has been scooping up some successful block-related plugins in recent months. It acquired the Redux Framework in November 2020 and followed it up with a purchase of Editor Plus and Gutenberg Hub in December. Its latest pickup? EditorsKit..

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Extendify Adopts EditorsKit, Increasing Its Block Plugin Collection

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Oxygen 3.8 Now Available – Oxygen In This Release: Advanced Queries for Easy Posts & Repeaters, Native Rank, Math Compatibility, Custom HTML Tags, Improved Drag & Drop, Selector Locking and 50+ Bug Fixes, Tweaks, and Enhancements…

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Oxygen 3.8 Now Available – Oxygen

In This Release: Advanced Queries for Easy Posts & Repeaters, Native Rank, Math Compatibility, Custom HTML Tags, Improved Drag & Drop, Selector Locking and 50+ Bug Fixes, Tweaks, and Enhancements…

A Progress Bar Block Plugin Done Right by the Tiles Team I have been on the hunt for a decent progress bar solution for a while now. Most of them are bundled in large block libraries, requiring me to install another 20 or 30 blocks in which I have no need…

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New in Stackable: Custom Attributes & Optimization – Stackable Stackable V2.16.2 is now available! This latest update includes a new feature that allows you to add custom attributes, and some bug fixes…

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