For Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15), the team from Equalize Digital ran a contribution challenge. Lots of people contributed in all sorts of different ways. Here’s the recap.

WP-Cron is the WordPress method for managing scheduled tasks. It can be problematic for sites with few visits and also for high traffic sites. In this article Iain Poulson provides an overview of WP-Cron and options for managing automated task execution.

Figure your risk of an accessibility risk. A resource for US-based businesses.

Bricks 1.12.2 was released with some enhancements and fixes. There is a new query results summary element and results per page filter action, honeypot spam protection for forms, and component fixes, among the list. It was mentioned that early testing versions of Bricks 2.0 will start to be available next month.

Here is a WordPress fork from one of the former BuddyPress leads. I wonder if we will start seeing more of these personal forks.

Adam Lowe intelligently discusses alternatives to WordPress and shares a spreadsheet with this notes on them.

There is too much bad stuff going around about WordPress, but more keeps leaking out. Here is a thread on X that shows the data collected by WooCommerce … the extent of which is way over the top

SQLite is used in WordPress for the Playground feature. There have been requests for it to be an alternative to MySQL / MariaDB. It seems to me that it might be an option in the future for faux static sites. Here are some interesting facts about SQLite.

Google was found guilty of maintaining an illegal search and text advertising monopoly. Yesterday the US Department of Justice asked the court to require Google to divest of it Chrome browser. This will be decided in April.