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The State of the WordPress Ecosystem: Summer Update
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English - September 02, 2019 18:42 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsHow To Education Business jason tucker bridget willard wordpress marketing web development wpwatercooler wp water cooler water cooler watercooler mailchimp Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Jason and Bridget take a small break in their format to chat about developments this week in the WordPress ecosystem. How will these changes affect how plug-in businesses and freelancers market if at all? Tune in.
Thank you to our sponsors!The WPwatercooler network is sponsored by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer. Be sure to check them out at https://www.serverpress.com as well as Kinsta.
If you’re interested in sponsoring the 40-minute mark of this show, check out the details on our sponsor page. We offer episode by episode spoken ads, rather than large contracts. A show by you for you.
Jeff Chandler Leaves WPTavernBridget thinks his editorial voice will be sorely missed.
Journalism tries to get both sides whereas editorial content should have opinion.
Jason was more intrigued by the use of service accounts for connected services on multi user websites.
Both Bridget and Jason wonder who will now provide timely, non-biased WordPress news. “Hot takes on WPwatercooler.com” is still valid news. And, honestly, most of us who comment on WordPress are also Inside Baseball. So, we’re commenting with our own source material.
Thanks, Jeff for being awesome for ten years!
Bridget’s Trip to MontréalBridget loved WordCamp Montréal. It was extra special because she got to see Breann McDede’s first presentation.
Also, it was really neat to see how the WordPress community in Montréal embraces bilingualism. As Michel Bluma says, “#BonjourHi.”
I decided to sit in Q&A part of a presentation in French. It's funny to hear words I know: "A-C-F," "Gutenberg," "Custom Post Types."
Can't get much more Montreal than that. #BonjourHi
From PHP Storm.
“P++ – The controversy and accusations in PHP Internals over the removal of short tags , explicit call-site send-by-ref syntax, and other discussions eventually resulted in an unexpected proposal from Zeev Suraski – create a new PHP dialect. The working name P++ is not accidental here, as Zeev suggests creating a “sister” language, like C++ for C. PHP and P++ are supposed to be developed side by side within a single runtime. In the new P++ it will be possible to implement a lot of revolutionary improvements, to deprecate legacy, and clear things up without thinking about backward compatibility. Since the language would have new branding, it would not have this bad reputation. A “classic” PHP would get all the performance and other non-syntax features but maintain backward compatibility.” Roman PronskiyHow does this affect WordPress?
WordPress 5.0 created an unintentional fork, Bridget says, because plugin and theme developers have three choices:
Support 5.0 Support 4.9.x Support BothAll of those choices are business resource decisions.
Some people say PHP’s decision to possibly abandon backward compatibility won’t affect WordPress. (Click the heading for the PHP storm article.)
“1) Shortcodes ≠ short tags 2) PHP 7.4 is already in beta and will be released later this year 3) This proposal is not suggesting abandoning the main binary. It’s more like a different interpretation mode that would be included with PHP. Everything could still work the same” William Earnhardt Caldera Joins Ninja Forms“That is one partnership that I feel warm in my soul about,” Bridget says. Caldera will continue to be developer-focused and Ninja Forms will stay customer-facing.
This isn’t a case where a company is being sold for parts like a WordPress junkyard.
“Josh Pollock, who co-founded CalderaWP in 2015 with Christie Chirinos, will be joining Saturday Drive as VP of Engineer Experience, along with three other employees from the company, bringing Saturday Drive’s total crew number to 25. Chirinos began working as a product manager at Liquid Webearlier this year.” Sarah Gooding Automattic Buys TumblrBridget thinks Automattic is buying users so they can sell out. She is hoping after the sale of Automattic, Matt Mullenweg will focus on the WordPress Project. This eliminates the c. Maybe Automattic needed the carried loss for their taxes. But she isn’t a tax lawyer and doesn’t play one on TV.
“There’s a way to make sure [the WordPress.com] userbase goes up.” Jason Tucker How about the articles saying “WordPress Owner?“This was a bit controversial. And it’s a real issue with who owns the trademark versus who owns the software.
What about the “adult content” on WordPress? Also, what is porn? Did the LBGTQ community need this space from a psychological standpoint? WordPress is a culture of inclusion. This might be super good.
“When you’re talking about sexuality, some people consider that porn.” Bridget Willard Will Gutenberg end up on Tumblr?According to my friend “Ben” (whose name is actually Daniel Olsen) who spoke about JAM Stack at WCMTL, Gutenberg is a layer that you can put on any CMS.
“Gutenberg on Tumblr would kill Medium. So this is like a win-win-win for Automattic.” Bridget Willard Short Codes and Block EditorsDealing with short codes in a block editor world when using a page builder.
Ben Meredith with Better Click to Tweet talked about some of his frustrations on Twitter.
“Apply security updates to the latest 6 versions, and auto-update insecure sites to the oldest secure version.” Ian Dunn
WordPress - Live Sites 4.6 to 3.7 Complied by Bridget Willard 8/10/19
Update since airing:
Bridget attended the Core chat about this subject that was held 19 Aug 19. She compiled data from BuiltWith.com to show that over two million sites would be affected or about 8% of WordPress sites.
As an aside, WPBuffs responded to Bridget’s Instagram Post offering 10% of their services.
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In this episode, Jason and Bridget take a small break in their format to chat about developments this week in the WordPress ecosystem. How will these changes affect how plug-in businesses and freelancers market if at all? Tune in.
Thank you to our sponsors!The WPwatercooler network is sponsored by ServerPress makers of DesktopServer. Be sure to check them out at https://www.serverpress.com as well as Kinsta.
If you’re interested in sponsoring the 40-minute mark of this show, check out the details on our sponsor page. We offer episode by episode spoken ads, rather than large contracts. A show by you for you.
Jeff Chandler Leaves WPTavernBridget thinks his editorial voice will be sorely missed.
Journalism tries to get both sides whereas editorial content should have opinion.
Jason was more intrigued by the use of service accounts for connected services on multi user websites.
Both Bridget and Jason wonder who will now provide timely, non-biased WordPress news. “Hot takes on WPwatercooler.com” is still valid news. And, honestly, most of us who comment on WordPress are also Inside Baseball. So, we’re commenting with our own source material.
Thanks, Jeff for being awesome for ten years!
Bridget’s Trip to MontréalBridget loved WordCamp Montréal. It was extra special because she got to see Breann McDede’s first presentation.
Also, it was really neat to see how the WordPress community in Montréal embraces bilingualism. As Michel Bluma says, “#BonjourHi.”
I decided to sit in Q&A part of a presentation in French. It's funny to hear words I know: "A-C-F," "Gutenberg," "Custom Post Types."
Can't get much more Montreal than that. #BonjourHi
PHP 7.5 — P++ Ending Backwards CompatibilityFrom PHP Storm.
“P++ – The controversy and accusations in PHP Internals over the removal of short tags