Cory and Jeff are holding a Business Value Crash Course on Wednesday, April 7 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM (CST). This intense workshop is designed to help entrepreneurs take their next steps in building a great business. How will you make your next big strategic move?
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We'll work together so you walk away with your first steps toward increasing your company's value. You'll exit this workshop with the direction, numbers, and clarity you need for your next big move.
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Jetpack is ten years old. 🎂 There's a birthday celebration site you can check out for "an interactive exploration of how Jetpack has helped WordPress sites over the last 10 years."
Héctor Prieto confirms there is a majority agreement to move forward with dropping support for IE11 from WordPress core. It is still to be decided if this will happen in WordPress 5.8 or 5.9. 😌
An upcoming core editor improvement in WordPress will show block directory results even when installed blocks are found.
WordPress Slack was down for a brief period of time on Tuesday morning. Here's the conversation that emerged about this in Post Status Slack, and a Trac ticket opened by Tor-Bjorn Fjellner. 🎫
What happened? Nothing too exciting — not a security event or a malicious act. Josepha Haden Chomphosy explained, "the final step on a profile deletion request went unattended." She also outlined the steps being taken to prevent this from happening again in the future.
I'm actually impressed that Slack uptime for WordPress (and in general) has been as good as it has been over the years. 👍
Here's a helpful tutorial from Beatriz Fialho — how to make block patterns in the WordPress editor.
For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, WP Engine hosted an employee-led panel focused on women in technology. You can watch some of the presentations on the company blog.
Search Engine Journal reported on a Facebook for WordPress Plugin vulnerability potentially affecting over half a million sites.
Wordfence has a breakdown of the problems, which they disclosed to Facebook, and how the plugin has been patched.
⛵ Larry Hudson demonstrates how to build simple static websites with WordPress, WPGraphQL, Eleventy, and Netlify. Mileage will vary depending on the host you use, but it's likely to be very efficient. Larry used AWS Lightsail:
"[I]t only took a few clicks to have a managed WordPress instance running and it only costs US$3.50 per month for a site with low traffic."
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