In this episode of Press This, we talk with Rogier Lankhorst, the Lead Developer of Really Simple Plugins, about what WordPress users need to know about SSL.
Rogier discusses what inspired him to make the Really Simple SSL plugin and what it’s like maintaining the 9th most popular plugin in the WordPress plugin repository.
This is a great episode for anyone who wants to learn more about SSL certificates.
The country’s biggest WordCamp is back and bigger than ever! WordPressers from all over the world will descend on National Harbor, Maryland for WordCamp US 2023. You can expect informative talks, interesting networking, and killer after parties. Since 2015, WCUS has been a staple of the WordPress community providing a place to come to together to celebrate WordPress, meet new people, and catch up with old friends. This year’s conference will be held at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. Contributor Day is on August 24 with the conference occurring August 25 and 26. Organizers are expecting over 1,700 […]
In this episode of PressThis, we cover the latest updates from WordPress core and the WordPress community. Listen now to hear about the big updates in WP 6.3, plus news about ACF, AI, and upcoming events like WordCamp US.
Our special guests for this episode are Damon Cook, a Developer Advocate at WP Engine, and Mike Davey, the Senior Editor at Delicious Brains.
Just ahead of WordCamp US, an exciting WordPress update was released, WordPress 6.3 named for Lionel Hampton. Hampton was a jazz vibraphonist, pianist, and percussionist who worked with the likes of Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus. In 2021, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Image source: make.wordpress Enjoy some of Hampton’s fast fingers in “Hot Mallets” as we go through the exciting updates to WordPress. WordPress “Lionel” 6.3, makes creating beautiful and powerful sites easier than ever before. There are updates for non-coders creating their first website and ones for long-time developers looking to optimize theirs. We […]
We’re just a few short weeks away from the release of WordPress 6.3—a significant milestone for the WordPress community as this release officially wraps up Gutenberg Phase 2. To find out more about some of the new features coming to the site editor, Gutenberg, and beyond, we asked Justin Tadlock, WordPress Developer Advocate sponsored by Automattic, to join us for this episode of Press This and tell us everything we need to know ahead of WordPress 6.3.
If you are familiar with WordPress as a project, you probably know that it is divided into teams for different areas. There is the Core team, the Design team, and the Polyglots team, which we have talked about before. In this post, we want take a look at the newest addition to the roster: the WordPress Sustainability team. The topic of sustainability first came up during a Q&A session with Matt and Josepha at WordCamp Europe 2022. This also resulted in the establishment of a #sustainability channel in the official WordPress Slack chat to give members of the community a […]
Marketers and web developers often go with their gut feelings, but Viola Gruner, Head of Marketing at Inpsyde, believes in the power of testing over guessing. In this episode, Viola discusses the importance of data-driven decision-making and shares her insights on how to test and confirm ideas instead of relying on assumptions. She highlights surprising results she encountered during experiments, recommends testing tools like Google Optimize and HubSpot, and emphasizes the significance of documenting and celebrating test results. Join us as Viola shares her growth hacking strategies and encourages marketers to embrace testing and learning from each experiment.
Today we’re gonna talk to Bud Kraus, the Chief Education Officer at Joy of WP. He’s also been a Contributor at TorqueMag.io. Bud recently gave a talk at WordCamp Europe titled “Using Low Vision As My Tool To Help Me Teach WordPress.” And in his talk, Bud demonstrated the tools, methods he uses to surf the web, but he also talks about how his experience has made him a better WordPress educator.
We’re thrilled to have Hari Shanker, an open source program manager at Automattic and a key contributor to the WordPress ecosystem. Hari is currently focusing on improving the experience for WordPress contributors and Hari has been instrumental in developing the Contributor Working Group and the Mentorship Program.
Today we have a very special guest who is an expert in virtual reality, augmented reality, XR, metaverse, Anthony Burchell. Anthony is a software engineer on ACF and he’s the brilliant mind behind the innovative Three Object Viewer plugin for WordPress.
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