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“There is no decision that we can make that doesn’t come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.” — Simon Sinek |
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Hello <<First Name>>— I wrote a piece this week on finding WordPress/Life balance — and a lot of people have read it and agree (or mostly agree) with it. I've been thinking even more about it. Recently my father passed away. Outside of the country. And things have been insane in my life ever since. In times of crisis, balance is almost unachievable. Unless, of course, the people in your life — work and personal — have your back, care for your needs, and check in on you often. My workplaces (StellarWP and Post Status) have been amazing. My friends and family have been amazing. And the WordPress community has comforted me in so many ways. The thing about balance is it isn't static. It's not a sidewalk set with cement and immovable. It's a circus performer with a plank stacked on several coffee cans, a giant ball, and a tightrope. It's two kids on a seesaw exchanging the balance of power and lifting each other up in turn. Balance is a moving target. And it's not achievable on your own. My hope is that each of you reading this has a community around you (or several) who help you with the ups and downs, help you find success, and bring you soup and tissues when times are tough. We all deserve that. – Michelle Frechette |
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| WordPress/Life Balance
When work is WordPress, it's hard to figure out where the balance part is. Sure, I pack up each day and go home, but my interaction with the WordPress community doesn't end with my workday. Read More › |
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| Shadow Work & Résumé “Gaps”
I spent the better part of ten to fifteen years as the at-home parent for my daughters. My "employer" from that period has appeared on my LinkedIn profile at times as the "Four Sisters Anarchist Collective." Read More › |
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| Member Spotlight: Kimberly Coleman Kim leads a team of fourteen people building Paid Memberships Pro. She values being able to work together in the Wordpress community “even when you may be working alongside your ‘competitor.’” Read More ›
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Support underrepresented people participating in WordCamps WordCamp US is encouraging companies who want to help make WCUS a more inclusive conference to serve as a “connecting point” between WCUS and underrepresented speakers or attendees. This is being done in the spirit of Winstina Hughes’ post earlier this month. As she mentioned in Post Status Slack yesterday: “My desire is to see this become a part of WCUS for us here, and that this expands beyond our borders. Underrepresented groups exist in every country… It's beyond ethnicity, color, gender identity, perceived divergent physical characteristics and abilities here in the US. But we have to start somewhere.” Following this announcement, MasterWP has announced its own sponsorship program. 👏 |
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Drupal does this well — Can we get a simple dev environment for core contributors? On Twitter this week, Taco Verdo started a great thread about the difficulty of getting a WordPress dev environment working for someone who wants to contribute to WordPress Core. Taco ended up choosing Wordpress Develop. GitPod was brought up, too. (It’s what Drupal uses for DrupalPod.) There are a few “spin up” dev solutions maturing, but a simple universal setup and onboarding tool for contributors (especially at WordCamps) has always been a challenge. |
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| Learn to open locks, as well as your mind in this one-hour workshop on May 5th, 2022. Patchstack's Security Advocate, Robert Rowley, will explain the basics of lock picking before going deeper and sharing a few life lessons. GET YOUR PICKS! |
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In this episode, David Bisset talks with someone who has moved the WordPress theme needle a long way: Rich Tabor. Rich believes the arrival of the Full Site Editing experience in WordPress 5.9 is the biggest innovation since themes emerged. Learn how Full Site Editing will change WordPress's identity. Listen Now › |
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Atarim Web Agency Summit 2022
April 26 @ 8AM - April 29 @ 5PM CDT Join Post Status at the Atarim digital agency summit! We’ll be hosting the networking lounge where you’ll get to meet some fun people from the agency space. Let’s hang out together, shall we? Save your spot!
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🗒️ POST STATUS NOTES #494
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WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing. You are encouraged to help test it and give feedback. In WordPress 6.0 we will be able to register blocks with block.json from a theme. Milana Cap wonders “how long will it be before theme authors find this out and try to use it.” Hint hint. Anne McCarthy highlights some of the ways accessibility will be improved and further addressed in WordPress 6.0, including areas such as the Navigation Block, list view, login/registration screens, and media enhancements. Daniele Scasciafratte shares some results of his data analysis of WordPress Core Trac Tickets. While the data is not complete, Daniele estimates tickets take an average of 2-3 years to be closed when a first patch becomes available. Daniele also concludes core development has stalled since the arrival of Gutenberg, and it “is not possible with the actual numbers of advanced contributors [to] keep up with the amount of tickets and patch[es] made every day.” The first stable version 1.0.0 of the Performance Lab plugin has been released. It covers WebP uploads and support, a Persistent Object Cache Health Check, experimental enqueued asset audit features, and experimental autoloaded options. Mika Epstein notes a significant change for plugin owners at the WordPress.org repository: you will no longer be able to add or remove committers or change ownership on beta or featured plugins in the repo. …and here’s the wordpress.org weekly roundup. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. |
😷 Updated COVID-9 guidelines have been released for WordPress events. Organizers and attendees are still highly encouraged to wear masks and follow local guidelines. Organizers will receive masks and be able to request supplies like stickers to indicate to others to please wear a mask. WordCamp Europe and WordCamp US will be requiring masks indoors and planning for outdoor lunches. |
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| By Bob Dunn • Here’s what’s new in WooCommerce and Woo Blocks, plus some tips for increasing ROI and extending your network with public speaking. |
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| By Rodolfo Melogli • Variable products are always difficult to deal with. Manipulating them with code snippets or custom plugins is even tougher. But get_variation_prices can make it easy. |
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Learning TogetherMike Davey shows how Sam Kent used Advanced Custom Fields Pro to build a customized Gutenberg block. If you want to learn and work with the terminal, Josh Comeau has a new blog post that covers the key fundamentals, tips, and tricks. Shiny New Thingshttpstat.us is a super simple service for generating different HTTP codes. If you like using Lorem Ipsum text but get tired of explaining it to clients, Kyle Van Deusen has come up with Website Ipsum. Since it's in readable English, it's a more realistic mix of how common words will be distributed and flow through your layout. This simple, lightweight icon separator block by Phi Phan is really outstanding. Good IdeasThe Brave browser has announced they will “De-AMP” and bypass Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) so that users will be prevented from visiting AMP pages altogether. Richard Rutter says there are five “levels of pace” in the changing requirements of any profession over time. Thinking about career development through pace layers “forms a framework to help people judge where they are in their career, and where they should or could get to.” It's a useful tool for HR folks and anyone assessing their own career path. New MovesChris Lema is changing gears a bit. He is leaving Nexcess and WordPress in his day-to-day work. What's next for Chris? He'll be leading teams that are building mobile and SaaS apps for churches and religious ministries. Best of luck to Chris on his new path. We also send our best wishes to Jonathan Bossenger, who is joining Automattic, and Remkus de Vries on stepping down at Servebot to focus on his agency. |
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Talk about #MentalHealth! 🧡 @DanMaby on Destigmatization and @aBigOrangeHeart 👴 Freelancing after Fifty 🔌 @aurooba on building plugins. 🎙️ Podcast Picks📺 Video Pick |
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