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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……

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…

Credit card designs are now much more creative than they used to be. Thanks to talented designers, every bank now has its own unique credit and debit card designs with colorful and wild designs. If you’re a designer working on a brand new credit card design, you will also need the perfect mockup to showcase…

Strattic, a WordPress hosting company that creates static files managed via a headless install, has acquired WP2Static, an open source plugin for generating a static WordPress site. Leon Stafford, the plugin’s creator, has been working for the company for the past nine months and will continue to maintain WP2Static. In 2020, Stafford removed WP2Static from…

How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org’s plugin repository? What can we learn from the community response? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source? Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the letter `Z` has been used as a symbol by the Russian government as a pro-war propaganda…