Community Spotlight: James Huff (MacManX)
Providing support on the WordPress.org forums is one of the easiest ways to contribute to WordPress and those who do are some of the unsung heroes of the project. One of those heroes is James Huff...
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Meetup Group Organizers Can Now Earn A WordPress.org User Profile Badge
The WordPress Community team has unveiled a new tool called Meetup Tracker. This tool replaces the Meetup Status Document and will enable Global Community Team members to more easily track all...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 330 – WPShout, Community, and Burnout
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Fred Meyer, David Hayes, and Alex Denning of WPShout to learn about WPShout’s Pro Community. This community aims to bring people together to learn...
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Miami WordPresser Todrick Moore Passes Away
Todrick Moore Courtesy of David Bisset Fellow WordPresser Todrick Moore, a member of the Miami WordPress community and volunteer organizer of WordCamp Miami 2015 and 2016 passed away last week of...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 344 – Introduction to the WordPress Governance Project
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Morten Rand-Hendriksen and Rachel Cherry to discuss the WordPress Governance project. We discover why it was created, its goals, and how it aims...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 346 – Cancer Sucks
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I reflect on Alex Mill’s latest blog post where he announced that he’s ending his battle with Leukemia. We highlight some of the impacts he’s had on people’s...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 350 – Don’t Touch My Plugin Search Results
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss a controversial feature in Jetpack 7.1 that adds feature suggestions to plugin search results. We also talk about extension suggestions that are coming...
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In Case You Missed It – Issue 26
photo credit: Night Moves – (license) There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to...
View ArticleNew mycamp.rocks Newsletter Launches with Tips for Conference Organizers,...
David Bisset launched mycamp.rocks today, a newsletter targeted at conference organizers, speakers, and attendees. The WordPress newsletter landscape is currently dominated by general industry and...
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php Central Europe Conference Canceled Due to Lack of Speaker Diversity
phpCE, a central European PHP conference that was previously scheduled for October 4-6, has been cancelled due to a public fiasco resulting from a lack of gender diversity in the speaker lineup. The...
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Adam Jacob Advocates for Building Healthy OSS Communities in “The War for the...
Chef co-founder and former CTO Adam Jacob gave a short presentation at O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference (OSCON) 2019 titled “The War for the Soul of Open Source.” In his search for meaning in...
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24 WordPress Snippets ’til Christmas, Submissions Open for 2019
After a multi-year hiatus, Elliott Richmond has relaunched his WordPress advent calendar and is looking for volunteers. The WP Snippets ’til Christmas site will host 24 days of WordPress code snippets...
View ArticleWordPress Community Team Discusses Return to In-Person Events
Although the promise of effective COVID-19 vaccines is shining a light at the end of a long tunnel, the world remains firmly in the virus’ grip until distribution can ramp up to cover at-risk groups...
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WordPress Green Lights In-Person Meetup Events for Vaccinated Attendees
After considerable discussion, the WordPress Community Team is lifting the requirements of the in-person meetup safety checklist for meetups that gather fully-vaccinated attendees. The checklist is...
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WordCamp US Online Set for October 1, 2021, as Community Team Weighs Proposal...
WordCamp US will be held online this year on October 1, 2021. Organizers are planning a free, one-day event that will feature networking opportunities, speaker sessions, and workshops. Michelle...
View Article#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape
About this episode. So on the podcast today we have Cory Miller. Cory is likely well known to many of you, he’s been a big part of the WordPress community for many years. He founded, grew and sold...
View ArticleWPWeekly Episode 190 – Women in WordPress Roundtable
This week’s episode of WordPress Weekly features Rebbeca Gill, Jennifer Bourn, and Carrie Dils to casually discuss women in WordPress, women in tech, and a variety of other topics. The guests share...
View ArticleIt’s Not a WordPress Problem, It’s a People Problem
Tom McFarlin published a thoughtful piece on what he perceives to be the sad state of the WordPress community. Too many people are participating in behavior that is embarrassing from the outside...
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WordPress Community Summit Set for December 2-3, 2015
The WordPress community summit will take place on December 2-3, 2015, in Philadelphia, PA two days before WordCamp US. The summit will be held at Impact Hub Philadelphia, a co-working space where...
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The Impacts HeroPress Is Having on WordPress Communities in India
Topher DeRosia, who recently attended WordCamp Pune, India, published a post on the HeroPress blog that describes the subtle impacts the project is having on people. Saurabh Shukla, lead organizer for...
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