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Weekly Huddle #1: Welcome to the Jungle
Reading time: 2 minutes//: Weekly.Huddle.1 Welcome to the Jungle Welcome to the first edition of the “Weekly Huddle” – a chance for me to share some of the fun things I’ve found over the last week. These emails will be chock full of knowledge, tutorials, resources, and other things to help you be a better WordPress user and…
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How to Add Rainbow Text To WordPress
Reading time: 1 minuteI’ve been tinkering with the theme on this website, and I’m been very happy with how things have come out. I have a soft spot for gradients, especially with the ‘punk’ color scheme I’ve been using on my branding. One question I get, consistently: “How can I achieve the rainbow gradient text effect”? It’s actually…
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Fight for the User
Reading time: 3 minutesEvery year, 30,000 new products hit the marketplace. Products that have been properly researched, documented, engineered, and marketing. Products that every CEO and product manager will swear up and down is “the big one”. 95% of those products, by statistic, are destined to fail. It’s scary, as a product manager, to know that you are…
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WordPress: A Future of Many Flavors?
Reading time: 6 minutesIf you’ve been following along in the WordPress space lately, you’ll know that there’s a lot of discussion around WordPress – not of code, nor of content, but of how the software itself is managed. To put it simply, there are three parties involved: Matt Mullenweg, who the founder of both the WordPress Foundation and…
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How to Update WordPress Themes and Plugins on WPEngine (Without the Repository)
Reading time: 5 minutesSkip to the Tutorial My head is full and my heart is sad tonight. Thousands of WordPress users are left in a strange scenario today as Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and founder, pulled access to the WordPress Repository for thousands of users on WPEngine. WPEngine is officially cut off from all updates – plugins, themes,…
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Governance in WordPress – and Open Source Software
Reading time: 4 minutesWordPress has had a hell of a week. The roller-coaster high of WordCampUS 2024 ended with Matt Mullenweg’s bizarre and seemingly out-of-left-field rant against WPEngine – which finally culminated in legal actions. The weekend’s activity has left the WordPress ecosystem with seemingly more questions unanswered than answered. A quick search of Twitter or other similar…
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Your Next Block Theme: WDS-BT
Reading time: 1 minuteOne of the things I love about working at WebDevStudios is that we don’t hoard our knowledge like dragons. If we find a great way of doing something in WordPress, we do the best we can to find a way to get it in the hands of other developers, users, and even other agencies that…
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Be a Uniter, Not a Divider
Reading time: 2 minutes*I work in WordPress for my day job, but a reminder that my posts and thoughts are my own.* A word of advice to anyone in management – whether it’s a C-suite, mid-level manager, or even someone who just has people under them that see them as a mentor. Be someone who unites, not someone…
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State of the Word 2023 Recap
Reading time: 2 minutesThe WordPress community was abuzz with excitement as Matt Mullenweg, WordPress’ illustrious co-founder, took to the international stage to deliver the first non-North-American “State of the Word”, live from Spain. While there was some retrospection, the theme of the event was definitively looking forward as Matt (and Matias ventura, WordPress’ lead architect) teased new features…
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Making The Most Out of a 1:1
Reading time: 4 minutesOne of the most meaningful things that a manager can do with their direct reports is a one-on-one (typically written as 1:1). These meetings provide a valuable opportunity to establish open lines of communication, build trust, and address concerns or issues before they become bigger problems. But there are a lot of misconceptions about what…
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