On Wednesday, Anne McCarthy announced Round #12 of the FSE Outreach Program. As always, everyone is free to join by testing features and providing direct feedback on problem areas with the design tools in WordPress. Anyone interested should respond by March 16. For this round, volunteers are tasked with testing some oldies but goodies. Early…
Data visualization plays a big role in delivering more convincing and effective presentations. If you look at any of the slideshows on Slideshare, you’ll notice that they all have at least one or two infographic slides showing stats and data about the subject matter. That’s because presenting data is the best way to prove and…
I thought it’d be fun to try something new here. As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I’ll dive more into that later. I’ll still do some long-ish form link posts, but I won’t be able to link all the things……
In this series, we share some of the inspiring stories of how WordPress and its global network of contributors can change people’s lives for the better. This month we feature a website developer and project manager from Argentina, who found in the software a way to live his life in the way he dreamed. WordPress…
Looking to knock your next presentation out of the park? Start with one of these design trends for 2022 that will help you create a PowerPoint presentation with a lot of impact. Here are some trending examples of current trends and techniques for delivering a modern presentation. From big, bold colour, to photo stories and…
WPExperts, a Pakistan and Egypt-based WordPress development agency with more than 120 employees, has acquired the Post SMTP plugin from its former developer, Yehuda Hassine. This is the agency’s second acquisition this year, after picking up Rich Tabor’s Login Designer plugin in January. The Post SMTP plugin is a fork of the Postman SMTP plugin,…
“Embrace Progress Over Perfection” — Roshanda Pratt In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David meets Roshanda Pratt and welcomes her to the WordPress community. Soon, Roshanda will be speaking at the upcoming WP Career Summit on “Secrets to Being on Camera in Live Video.” Roshanda has been a television producer for a number of…
Sometimes a logo just doesn’t work. It happens to everyone from startups to major brands. (You’ll definitely know when you see these logos.) Maybe it’s too complex. Maybe it’s too generic and similar to other logos. Or maybe it’s just not dating in a timeless way. So, we collected five logos from established brands that…
Rob Howard rocked the boat last week in calling for the deprecation of WordPress multisite in the latest MasterWP newsletter. He argued that “the brave and noble add-on is no longer necessary or valuable to developers.” The responses via Twitter were swift and in disagreement. Before WordPress 3.0, multisite was an entirely separate system called…
In a widely circulated article this week, Gerald Benischke is making the open-source community take a hard look at the possible consequences of weaponized code. He’s right to be concerned that everything “open source has achieved over the last 30 years … [is] now at risk of becom[ing] collateral damage.” Why? It’s not about sitting…
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