In this podcast Se Reed shares her experience with 5 for the future as being lead of the WordPress org marketing team. It doesn’t seem good.
What Is Happening With 5 for the Future?
Se Reed @ wpwatercooler.com • 1 year ago
Se Reed @ wpwatercooler.com • 1 year ago
In this podcast Se Reed shares her experience with 5 for the future as being lead of the WordPress org marketing team. It doesn’t seem good.
Sarah Gooding @ wptavern.com • 1 year ago
The block-based Ollie Theme, which has gotten a lot of interest, has run into problems getting accepted into the WordPress org theme directory.
Eric Karkovack @ speckyboy.com • 1 year ago
Eric Karkovack argues that, for the most part, the web has moved beyond “fast and cheap” websites. What I don’t see in this article is a consideration for a site generator like ZipWP. It brings to mind that tools like ZipWP need to make sure they generate accessible sites to avoid liability.
John Blackbourn @ x.com • 1 year ago
So it looks like Automattic has duplicated the WordPress org theme and plugin directories as well as the LearnWP resources. It is not clear why they did this, but it will cause more confusion as you now get two versions when searching. Matt Mullenweg was asked about it on X and he said that the dot org version appears first (?). Here is the thread of X discussing this.
Sarah Gooding @ wptavern.com • 1 year ago
It has been a year and still no replacement for the plugin data, and not even any further information on the topic.
Kali Hays and Alistair Barr @ businessinsider.com • 1 year ago
This article is in line with what I wrote several months ago, that there is no reason for me to publish free content on the web for AI bots to monetize for big tech.
Mike Epstein @ halfelf.org • 1 year ago
Mika Epstein, the former lead of the WordPress org plugins team, shares another story from the trenches. It is a good example of what not to do.
Matt Mullenweg @ youtube.com • 1 year ago
Matt Mullenweg on the Future of WordPress. His talk at WordCamp US 2023.
David McCan @ webtng.com • 1 year ago
The Kadence Theme is the 7th most popular theme and Kadence Blocks is the 3rd most popular block collection. Recently there has been some grumbling by Kadence users. Here is my take on it. Your opinions may be different.