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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:69:"WPTavern: WordCamp Asia 2025 Announces Two Scholarships for Attendees";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=180542";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:80:"https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-asia-2025-announces-two-scholarships-for-attendees";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2168:"<p>WordCamp Asia 2025, in partnership with The WordPress Foundation and WordCamp Central, has announced <a href="https://asia.wordcamp.org/2025/announcing-scholarships/">two scholarship</a> opportunities for the upcoming event in Manila, Philippines. These scholarships aim to support community members by covering essential expenses such as flights, accommodation, and event tickets. A team of program managers from WordCamp Central and the WordPress Global Community Team will oversee the selection process.</p>



<p>The<strong> </strong><a href="https://wordcampcentral.survey.fm/wcasia-2025-kim-parsell-scholarship-application"><strong>Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship</strong></a> is being <a href="https://wptavern.com/wordcamp-asia-and-wordcamp-europe-added-to-kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship-program">extended to WordCamp Asia</a> for the very first time. Previously, this scholarship was exclusively available for WordCamp US attendees. It is designed to support women who are active contributors to the WordPress project, have never attended WordCamp Asia, and require financial assistance to participate in the 2025 event.</p>



<p>The <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScEV6LyCaNTAaTNKQvDZqv0XOPzrzWZXWEUaNeSWp7HbWO3IA/viewform"><strong>Diversity Fund Scholarship</strong></a> reflects WordCamp Asia&#8217;s commitment to inclusivity and accessibility. This scholarship supports active WordPress contributors who have never attended flagship WordCamps (Asia, US, or Europe) and require financial assistance. It prioritizes individuals from underrepresented demographics who are eager to use their WordCamp experience to strengthen their local WordPress communities in Asia.</p>



<p>Applications for both scholarships are now open and will remain so until <strong>December 6, 2024</strong>.  If you meet the criteria, don’t miss the chance to apply. All applicants will be notified of their selection status by December 20, 2024.</p>



<p> Also mark your calendars—the <a href="https://asia.wordcamp.org/2025/third-batch-of-ticket-drop-for-wordcamp-asia-2025/">third batch of tickets </a>will drop on November 28 and 29, 2024.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:58:06 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:1;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>Last month, WordPress.org took over WP Engine’s <a href="https://wptavern.com/acf-plugin-forked-to-secure-custom-fields-plugin">ACF plugin</a>, citing security issues, and renamed it Secure Custom Fields (<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-custom-fields/</a>)&nbsp;</p>



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<p>David McCan from WebTNG, has a detailed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHKSpfhrRE">video</a> analyzing the new plugin. He shares that the update check and license check functionality from ACF Pro has been removed. He remarked “This seems like a classic case of a null plugin which is now being hosted in the WordPress plug-in directory. So I&#8217;m wondering if this is even a legal Fork. I&#8217;m not an expert in software licensing law but my understanding is you need to preserve the original copyright notices when you fork a plugin. it&#8217;s one of the requirements.”</p>



<p>Prominent voices have weighed in on the controversy. Gergely Orosz of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter <a href="https://x.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1860965378123239921">tweeted</a>, “Automattic &#8211; the creator of WordPress, a company raising $950M in VC funding &#8211; took a paid WordPress plugin built and owned by another dev and re-published it, making it free. If you have a business selling a paid WP plugin: Automattic can null it, anytime. Another new low.”</p>



<p>Duane Storey <a href="https://x.com/DuaneStorey/status/1861069617294172572">shared</a> in X that ACF is now “an officially registered trademark of WP Engine.” He also <a href="https://x.com/DuaneStorey/status/1860443216367219060">said</a>, &#8220;Sounds like what&#8217;s being put into the WordPress repository is basically a nulled version of ACF Pro without some of the copyrights.&nbsp; It&#8217;s clear Matt&#8217;s no longer a champion of any of the things he once said he was.&nbsp; I left a review. “</p>



<p>Tim Brugman, a Full-Stack Developer, <a href="https://x.com/Brugman/status/1860672554966393291">pointed out</a>, “A8c&#8217;s _new_ SCF plugin deactivates Advanced Custom Fields PRO when it is activated. An action that is not allowed by the dot org Plugin Handbook.”</p>



<p>Automattician Brandon Kraft, who submitted the plugin, addressed the issue on <a href="https://religious.social/@kraft/113539565935870350">Mastodon</a>, “The decisions on forking ACF or ACF Pro, etc., are above my paygrade, so to speak, but I didn&#8217;t refuse to work on it because I wanted to try to do it right/better.” He also shared, “I wasn&#8217;t involved in the forking the Pro code, but I just don&#8217;t see a notice. One item on my list is create a proper LICENSE.md that includes the GPL and ack past copyright…acknowledging it is built on existing work. If I missed the copyright already in the code, that&#8217;s an oversight on my part and not intentional.”</p>



<p>The Repository <a href="https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-org-forks-acf-pro-in-unprecedented-move-against-wp-engine">reported</a> that a member of the WordPress Plugin Review Team, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that after Kraft submitted the ACF Pro fork, it was approved by another Automattic employee, bypassing the Plugin Review Team’s usual processes and checks.</p>



<p>The incident has sparked heated discussions on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1gy8bud/wordpressorg_has_apparently_released_secure/">Reddit</a> too. While the majority is against WordPress.org’s action, some <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1h05vfy/why_i_will_be_using_scf_instead_of_acf/">support</a> getting the pro features for free.</p>



<p>The preliminary injunction hearing for WP Engine vs Automattic is scheduled for later today. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:32:09 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:2;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p id="block-80a9aeaa-f502-4d3b-972e-0f6995994f31">14.3.1 fixes two bugs:</p>



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<li>WordPress 6.7 compatibility: WP 6.7 will throw notices for plugins that load their textdomain before &#8216;init&#8217; (see <a href="https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9247">#9247</a>).</li>



<li>BP Legacy Theme Pack: Make sure the <code>bp_heartbeat</code> property is included in the WP Heartbeat data object (see <a href="https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9248">#9248</a>).</li>
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<p id="block-d8121097-c1de-4e92-9710-1673a94d4c59">For complete details, visit the <a href="https://codex.buddypress.org/releases/version-14-3-1/">14.3.1 changelog</a>.</p>



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<p id="block-aa9a1610-e591-4dea-966f-0de3f7ded87c">You can get the latest version by clicking on the above button, downloading it from the&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/">WordPress.org plugin directory</a>&nbsp;or checking it out from our&nbsp;<a href="https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/14.0">Subversion repository.</a></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="block-8935e1e5-ef63-42ee-8c08-67fad827159a">Many thanks to our 14.3.1 contributors </h2>



<p id="block-a8b36bfc-7855-4e99-ba54-508a3776b715"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dreampixel">dreampixel</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/boonebgorges/">boonebgorges</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/emaralive">emaralive</a> &amp; <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/imath/">imath</a>.</p>



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<p><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-111-developer-hours-playground-and-collaborative-editing/#shownotes">Show Notes</a> / <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-111-developer-hours-playground-and-collaborative-editing/#transcript">Transcript</a></p>



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<li>Editor:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandy-reed/">Sandy Reed</a></li>



<li>Logo:&nbsp;<a href="https://markuraine.com/">Mark Uraine</a></li>



<li>Production:&nbsp;<a href="https://icodeforapurpose.com">Birgit Pauli-Haack</a></li>
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<p class="has-larger-font-size" id="shownotes"><strong>Show Notes</strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Announcements</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/21/wordpress-6-8-call-for-volunteers/">WordPress 6.8 Call for Volunteers</a></li>



<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/proposal-major-releases-for-2025/">Proposal: Major releases for 2025</a></li>



<li><a href="https://youtu.be/fs-aawt3eNc">Exploring the Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.7</a></li>



<li>December 3rd 16:00 UTC&nbsp; <a href="https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/304668126">Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools</a></li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Community Contributions</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/11/10/whats-new-for-developers-november-2024/">What’s new for developers? (November 2024)</a></li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/snippets/how-to-disable-heading-levels-in-the-editor/">Snippet: How to disable heading levels in the Editor</a> by Nick Diego</li>



<li><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/snippets/conditionally-unregister-patterns/">Snippet: Conditionally unregister patterns</a> by Justin Tadlock</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">WordPress 6.7 and 6.7.1</h2>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/11/rollins/">WordPress 6.7 “Rollins”</a></li>



<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/11/wordpress-6-7-1-maintenance-release/">WordPress 6.7.1 Maintenance Release</a></li>



<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/23/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">Field guide 6.7</a></li>



<li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/6-7-source-of-truth/">WordPress 6.7 Source of Truth</a></li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Gutenberg plugin releases</h2>



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<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-9-31-may-2-2/">What’s new in Gutenberg 19.6? (6 Nov)</a></li>



<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-19-7-20-november/">What’s new in Gutenberg 19.7? (20 November)</a></li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What&#8217;s discussed and in the works</h2>



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<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/21/update-on-phase-3-collaboration-efforts/">Update on Phase 3: Collaboration efforts</a></li>



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<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Hello, and welcome to our 111th episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast. In today&#8217;s episode we&#8217;ll talk about Gutenberg 19.6, 19.7, developer hours, playground and collaborative editing. I&#8217;m your host, Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and full-time core contributor for the WordPress Open Source project sponsored by Automattic. With me today is the brilliant Anne McCarthy, product manager for WordPress and author of the Source of Truth posts that she&#8217;s keeping for almost over a year. No, two years maybe. Forgot. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Might be almost.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Hi, Anne.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: It&#8217;s been a long time. Yeah. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. And also I feel like it&#8217;s like a lucky, I don&#8217;t know, 1, 1, 1, 1. I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m into that 111. That feels good.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. Yeah. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s over 100 episodes, yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>That&#8217;s amazing.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, it&#8217;s amazing. All the co-hosts that I had and special guests, it was really, it&#8217;s quite a trip. And I&#8217;m still excited and people are listening to it even more. And so, this is my shout-out for all the new listeners on the podcast. And if you want to, please, please leave a review, whatever you feel about the show, it definitely helps with the distributions. Anne, while 6.7 came out, you did a masterwork of Source of Truth. Can you pick up two features that you are most excited about from this release?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Oh, yeah, that&#8217;s tough. Yeah, two features. I am very biased by the things that improve the experience and the feedback that we heard back when I was running the FSC outreach program. That&#8217;s something that I&#8217;m always thinking about. And so for me, I would pull out, zoom out. I think zooming out and being able to build with patterns, one of the big issues that we used to have back in the day was that it was hard to find the discoverability of patterns and to work with pattern&#8217;s a lot easier.</p>



<p>And I think the potential of zoom out, I think there&#8217;s a lot of things that we need to figure out still. But I think the potential of zoom out and the ability to zoom out and focus on the sections of your site, to get out the granular details is a huge win and something that can be built upon and used contextually right at the moment when you need it. I think that&#8217;s the part that we need to start sorting through is do we now expose this when it comes to adding a new page or adding a new template? Because I know some folks really don&#8217;t like that pop up of starter patterns.</p>



<p>But I&#8217;m always fascinated by how we can make the pattern experience easier and make the site building experience for folks who need it a bit more approachable and more section by section. I&#8217;m really, really excited about it. I just built a site for someone recently, a podcast I really like. And that&#8217;s one of the things I was most excited to show her is like, &#8220;Hey, if you want to add future stuff, look, you can just, boom, sections. Add this in, you can just add these patterns.&#8221; And I think it makes the user experience a lot better.</p>



<p>The other one I&#8217;ll mention is more technical, but something that also has been a long-standing point of feedback back. Back when I was doing developer relations, developer advocacy, the template registration API, I remember early on so many plugin authors being like, &#8220;How do we adopt block templates? How does this work? How do we register things?&#8221;</p>



<p>And I would send very niche GitHub links to how other folks had done it. And this registration API just eases all of that. And I&#8217;m really excited for folks to increase the adoption of using block themes and block templates and embracing a block world. And I am thrilled that that has landed in 6.7. And I hope more and more folks can take advantage of it. Those are the two very different, but I would say those are the two that make me excited.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Announcements</h3>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. Excellent. Excellent. Yeah, we talked about 6.7 with other hosts here before because it&#8217;s an eight to nine weeks release cycle. In between we had our episodes and we looked at that. But we are looking to the future. We have right now on the Make Core blog, we have two posts. One is the release schedule proposal by Héctor Prieto for next year and I can&#8217;t believe we are going to have a 7.0 release in 2025.</p>



<p>6.8 is proposed to be scheduled for April 15th, 6.9 for August 5th and 7.0 for November 11. And it&#8217;s all around the flagship word camps, around some holidays and way before Black Friday the new version is out. Even those who experienced a lot of traffic for the last two months of the year, they can do it with a new version.</p>



<p>Also for WordPress 6.8, the call for volunteers is out, so if you want to contribute to a release, it is definitely a certain advanced level of contributing. But what you can do, even if you don&#8217;t have experience, you can shadow people that are on the release. To maybe do that and then start working in the release squad for 6.9. Definitely try and figure that out if you want to contribute.</p>



<p>Otherwise, there are multiple other ways to contribute to WordPress course. We all have done it. We all did some documentation changes, we did some reports on the Gutenberg and the track tickets we tested with that. And testing has become really fun now with Playground. Yeah, it&#8217;s really interesting to see how that sped up so much. Any thoughts about that?</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Playground</h3>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah, I am super&#8230; It&#8217;s so interesting when I had a call this week with some of the WordPress YouTubers, an AMA with Matías Ventura, the project architects of Gutenberg. And Playground is something I&#8217;m so fascinated by because it really does make it immediately accessible. You immediately can have your hands on it and it works well.</p>



<p>And Playground, one of the things I love about the Playground team, and this is something I think that&#8217;s really important when you&#8217;re using a new tech like that, they want to hear what would make your experience better, easier, if you run into a bug, all that sort of stuff. You&#8217;re getting&#8230; We report stuff all the time. I feel like that&#8217;s one of the things that I really love about these efforts right now in the WordPress project is there&#8217;s so much momentum and so much care and thought being put into those tools.</p>



<p>And so if you haven&#8217;t given it a try, please give it a try. If you&#8217;ve run into an issue, please, there&#8217;s a GitHub repo where you can open issues. But I&#8217;m really hoping we can get more educators and influencers using it to help bring WordPress to more people. If you haven&#8217;t been paying attention to WordPress Playground, I definitely encourage you to do so. And it&#8217;s a great way to test things early. As Birgit was saying, testing is a lot easier and more approachable thanks to a lot of the stuff that&#8217;s being done there.</p>



<p>I always find it a great way to, whenever I&#8217;m doing the Source of Truth, I&#8217;m spinning up WordPress Playground constantly. I think there&#8217;s some stat where I think 700,000 people have used WordPress Playground. I&#8217;m probably 50,000 of those. Because I feel like I&#8217;m using it probably on a daily basis, so if that&#8217;s helpful insight for&#8230; I truly probably use it on a daily basis. If you aren&#8217;t, it&#8217;s definitely something to add to your list of tools.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Definitely. Yeah. If you want to learn more about Playground, we are planning some Hallway Hangouts. Hallway Hangouts are informal discussions with contributors on their new features and what they&#8217;re working on to give a little bit feedback but also to show off a few things to trigger some creativity.</p>



<p>And there&#8217;s Ajit Bohra who is a early adopter of Gutenberg as well as a Gutenberg contributor, has built a blueprint builder. Blueprints are the configuration files for Playground. And he made this into a block editor feature and had been working on it. And so next week, February&#8230; February, how did this come in? No, it&#8217;s Friday, not February, it&#8217;s Friday, November 29th at 14:00 UTC we are in a Playground Hallway Hangout with Ajit Bohra. And he shows off what he has done, what his vision is, what the team is going to think about. Adam Zielinski who was the sole developer for a year now has the whole team behind Playground will also be there.</p>



<p>And the second event is with Tammie Lister and discussing how agencies can use Playground for their product, in their client work and all that. That&#8217;s December 6th, also 14:00. These are save the date for you right now. We are publishing that on the Make Blog on Playground before with all the Zoom links, but that&#8217;s just to get it out before that happens. And you know about it.</p>



<p>There&#8217;s also a developer hour coming up on December 17th that&#8217;s also on Playground and watch the announcement on meetup.com. It is not quite clear what the topic is about, but it&#8217;s definitely on the roster. December 17th for 16:00 UTC. And this week was a developer hangout. No, next week, I&#8217;m sorry. I&#8217;m getting my weeks mixed up.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> So much is happening. I don&#8217;t blame you.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. December 3rd there is a 16:00 at 16:00 UTC. Ryan Welcher will talk about improving your workflows with WordPress development tools. It&#8217;s about extensions, it&#8217;s about create block, it&#8217;s about create block theme, it&#8217;s about webpack and all the different things that can make your life easier. That&#8217;s also sniffers for coding standards and all that. You will learn how to use them and how to make it easier for you to develop things.</p>



<p>This week what I wanted to say was the recording of the developer hours is available on Exploring the Block Bindings API from WordPress 6.7 with Justin Tadlock and Nick Diego. They just had the block bindings actually my favorite thing for 6.7 that it&#8217;s in the UI and you can connect your custom fields with the blocks and have an automatic display on the front end that&#8217;s just phenomenal and is really magic for me. But that&#8217;s what you can see in that recording.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Community Contributions<strong> </strong>and Developer Hours<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3>



<p>All right. Now the announcements. The developer blog has some new things there since we last talked about it. Of course, the What&#8217;s New for Developers comes out every 10th of the month. And that covers a lot of things from 6.7 but also from the 19.6 release that we are going to talk about today. And we have a new post format on the developer blog called Snippet, which is a small explanation of a problem solution for one task and then the code snippet with it.</p>



<p>There are two snippets there right now. One is how to disable heading levels in the editor. That&#8217;s about a feature that came with 6.7 as well is different heading levels and how you can control that. When you have your editors and they are not supposed to use H1s, you can disable that from the drop-down list. And you can also say, &#8220;Okay, we don&#8217;t do H5 and we don&#8217;t do H6,&#8221; and disable that. And the snippet shows you how to do that very easily with BHP.</p>



<p>The other one is to conditionally unregistered patterns. That&#8217;s important for theme developers who have patterns for plugins that might not be installed yet. You don&#8217;t want to show the pattern because it runs into a problem. Now you know how to conditionally unregister those patterns and both by Justin Tadlock. All right. That&#8217;s from the developer hours to developer news. And from the upcoming events, the Hallway Hangouts and developer hours.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> I love all the formats that are happening. There&#8217;s so many learning opportunities and I really liked the new snippet approach. I saw that coming up and I think that&#8217;s a really neat way for folks to get bite-size&#8230; The tutorials are so cool. I followed some of them to learn. And the snippets I think really round it out. Kudos all around. I think it&#8217;s just awesome how much&#8230; I&#8217;ve never&#8230; In my opinion years ago, I think this is the dream. If we had to be able to see how much stuff was going on, it&#8217;s just amazing how many resources there are and ways to either watch live or watch later and learn with other people. It&#8217;s really cool.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. And we will also bring the developer hours recordings into the developer blog.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Nice.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> That&#8217;s on my list for the last thing that I&#8217;m going to do this year is to create the custom post type and figure out how we lay it out and what additional information is going to be around the embedded videos. But yeah, it&#8217;s such a great tool. And we are all working towards the extenders who try to use the new APIs, be it interactivity API, the block bindings or even the block hooks that came out in 6.6 and 6.5. There&#8217;s always something&#8230; And especially also using block themes with the style variations. And so the developer blog is now a&#8230; It&#8217;s been around two years this month.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Wow.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> And we have about 50 posts. And this definitely enriches it because not everybody has time to read 3,000-word tutorials when they&#8217;re looking for something. Yeah. Yeah. And if you have any ideas, dear listeners, about what should be written about, you can always come in into the core-dev-blog channel in WP Slack and the Make Slack and figure out how that is. There&#8217;s on the website there&#8217;s also how to contribute, how you go from idea to post if you want to write for it. Yeah, definitely. You can also subscribe to it so you never miss a post again with <a href="http://developer.wordpress.org/news/subscribe">developer.wordpress.org/news/subscribe</a> and put in your email address and you get notification.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What’s Released &#8211; WordPress 6.7 and 6.7.1<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3>



<p>That brings us to what&#8217;s released. And we talked about WordPress 6.7. We have in the show notes for you the field guide 6.7 and also Anne McCarthy&#8217;s WordPress 6.7 Source of Truth published on the Gutenberg Times. But I mention it also because this week WordPress 6.7.1 was released and it fixed a few bugs that okay, those needed to be really done fast because there was a fatal error or the editor didn&#8217;t work right when you had uncategorized pattern browsing or there was a TypeScript error on the categories for theme patterns.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Was an auto-size issue with lazy loading and that was a big one that we saw. I saw a lot of reports of across many different areas. And so that will be fixed and yeah, I&#8217;m excited. I&#8217;m really kudos to everyone who worked on that. It&#8217;s a huge&#8230; It&#8217;s one thing you race to the finish line to get the big major release out and then to do another point release. It&#8217;s just really impressive and a lot of effort from a lot of folks in the community.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. And that&#8217;s just nine days after the release of 6.7, so that&#8217;s really kudos to the release leads. There was Jonathan Desrosiers and Carlos Bravo who pushed this all over the finish line with the contributors that actually fixed the bugs. But now some of them is in the upcoming Gutenberg releases we&#8217;re going to talk about.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Gutenberg 19.6</h3>



<p>Which brings us to Gutenberg 19.6. 194 PRs with 57 contributors, eight were first timers. Kudos to them getting their badges for core contributing there as well. It has 37 enhancement, 65 bug fixes was the one that was released right before release candidate to get all the bugs in. And the rest is always on documentation, tooling, code, quality and components. Let&#8217;s dive in. What&#8217;s first on the list?&nbsp;</p>



<p>Oh, yeah, there are two things that I want to talk about for the developers. The great block scaffolding tool has a new flag. It&#8217;s called Dash dash target dir, to allow the tool to also target where the scaffold should be placed.</p>



<p>There were some conventions that you had to call the command line outside the plugins in the plugins repo to get a next folder into the repo to where your blocks are created. And now you are in more control of where you can place the new block or a new series of blocks with a scaffolding tool. That was a major request from developers that that might be added.</p>



<p>And the other one is with wp-scripts, you can now also do a root folder argument for the plugin zip command, so you get your plugins packaged. And that&#8217;s in the right folder or from the right folder. That&#8217;s better there. I want to point that out for the developers on the show using the tools that are built into Gutenberg. Do you want to take the Block Libraries B list?</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Enhancements</h3>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Yeah, let&#8217;s run through that. I love block library updates because it&#8217;s amazing how just slowly chipping away at stuff, whenever I&#8217;m doing a Source of Truth, I always find there&#8217;s a beautiful set of things that have just big and small tools like 6.7 had shadow support for the group block, which folks really wanted. And it&#8217;s just amazing how the improvements continue to come.</p>



<p>We have a transformation from separator to spacer blocks. And that just allows whenever you&#8217;re using the transform menu to easily switch between things. I think that&#8217;s a great one. I think it makes a lot of sense. I actually am really&#8230; Whenever I was looking for the changelog for this, I was excited to see it. I ran into that maybe three weeks ago and so it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Oh, yeah, this is an obvious one to have.</p>



<p>But adding the lightbox option in the gallery block link control. I actually used this. When did I write a blog post? Three days ago? Whenever you add a gallery block before you had to individually select each image block within it to add that lightbox and the lightbox is when the image takes over the screen. And now there&#8217;s just a control at the top level. When you&#8217;re selecting the gallery block, go into the block toolbar, hit the link, and you can easily just have it applied to all the images. Which yes.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Such a relief.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Yes, it&#8217;s a relief that it&#8217;s perfect&#8230; Yeah, it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Oh, this makes perfect sense. Why didn&#8217;t we have this before? I love when that sort of stuff comes out.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah. Not everyone has just three pictures in the gallery. Some people have 20 pictures in the gallery. And then it&#8217;s really…</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> And it&#8217;s funny. Yeah, I was like, &#8220;When did we add this?&#8221; Because I literally&#8230; Yeah, that&#8217;s something I cannot tell you how many times I have gone through and manually added that. Or I&#8217;ll miss one image by accident and not realize it. This just makes it so much easier for the archives. There is now border block support, which is great for block theme authors. Border support is also added to comments. Just again, more styling options.</p>



<p>The cover block has image resolution options now, which is just again, more control to more having commonality between every image block. And this is something I think about a lot whenever you&#8217;re working with blocks that interact with media is like, how can we make it as similar as possible When you&#8217;re working with image things? Because that is an inconsistency that it wears on you when you&#8217;re using a block and it&#8217;s similar, you&#8217;re like, &#8220;I&#8217;m just using an image. Why is it different if I&#8217;m using the cover block or the image or the gallery block?&#8221; We should have a lot of congruence there.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Totally.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> And so it&#8217;s neat to see that.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, yeah. Love it.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> And then the HTML block forces the HTML preview when you&#8217;re in view mode, which I actually need to look at this and make sure I&#8217;m going to get this right.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> The view and design view, yeah, the edit view, that changes. I think there&#8217;s a writing, write mode coming that I have to dive into because the change was edit and view and now it&#8217;s write and design. And I need to figure out what the differences are.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Oh yeah, if you ever offline, want to talk about that, I can do a deep dive about write mode. I&#8217;ve been up in there opening a lot of issues around that.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Hallway hangout about it.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yes, I think that&#8217;d be really smart mode for any folks who have blocks bundled in their plugins, something to pay attention to. And there&#8217;s a great tutorial that I think Nick Diego just did around adopting your blocks to content only that you can find the developer blog. I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s live. I saw a draft and now I&#8217;m like, I&#8217;m pretty sure I saw it live.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: It&#8217;s live. It&#8217;s live on the developer blog.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Okay. Cool.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Oh. And I&#8217;ll share the link then in the show notes. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Cool.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> The next one is that we have a&#8230; Oh, your favorite feature. The zoom out note now has a keyboard shortcut to open up the editor of being available in the editor. You can zoom out per keyboard and you don&#8217;t have to look for that little icon there. And there&#8217;s an iterated zoom out shuffle into a more visual control. What does that entail?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> It&#8217;s cool. I can talk about that a little bit.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, please.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Before whenever you were zoomed out and looking at the patterns, there was this shuffle option. And while it was nice to just quickly switch through it, it shuffles through patterns of the same category. The issue is you&#8217;re not seeing visually what&#8217;s coming next and you can&#8217;t get at a glance, &#8220;I want to switch to this.&#8221; And so it changes it from this shuffle option to this change design option. You&#8217;re also a bit clearer on what it&#8217;s doing.</p>



<p>And it gives you this nice little preview of, okay, change design, and then look at a list of the patterns related to this. And then you can visually select what you want to change it to rather than just a full blown shuffle, like what&#8217;s going to happen when I click this? It allows a bit more control and predictability to the experience. I was really excited to see this.</p>



<p>I have noticed I need to test this more as part of the fun of things when I was working on a site yesterday, that there&#8217;s a little bit of lag. Definitely keep&#8230; This is one of those areas that when we talk about zoom out is a great initial feature. I&#8217;m really excited to keep iterating to make it more useful. No, feedback is very much welcome there.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> The data views is the way how you in the site editor, you can navigate all through all the templates and all the pages and patterns. And it&#8217;s also the predecessor for the new admin design. But that has now in the templates, it hides the media field in the list view, which makes it a little bit more dense and more streamlined. Yeah. The next one is, I really love that, the style book now has a color tab where you can see all the color variations. This additional stuff, we&#8217;re going to talk about it in 19.7. But the style book is coming really to its better use now that we have all the different features like the style variations, block variations and that. Do you want to do the next one?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah. Real time collaboration, this is relating to inline commenting specifically. There was a lot of work being done around inline commenting that I think we&#8217;ll get into later. But basically comments were disabled for published posts for now. You can imagine this is basically to narrow the scope.</p>



<p>While we&#8217;re trying to get this feature in place to have it be ready for future release and maybe a bit beta form, there&#8217;s some just hard decisions that be made to narrow the scope so we&#8217;re not just completely exploding the scope and then something doesn&#8217;t work super well. The decision was made for post after they&#8217;ve been published to not have the ability to add comments.</p>



<p>And we actually got great feedback from some folks in the enterprise space who there&#8217;s a channel for real time collaboration. I posted it about online commenting. And some of the enterprise folks are hanging out there and it was great. One of them actually chimed in on the main iteration issue for what&#8217;s coming next with online commenting and mentioned, &#8220;Hey, that thing you just disabled, we actually want that.&#8221; I think that&#8217;s part of the beauty of keeping folks up to date and having that tight feedback loop.</p>



<p>The second that was disabled, someone was like, &#8220;Can you revert that? I actually want that.&#8221; And it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Yes, yes, yes. Eventually we will revert. This is just for now narrowing scope.&#8221; That&#8217;s what you can get from that release. But that&#8217;s part of the beauty. I wanted to mention the feedback there because I think it&#8217;s really cool that folks are paying such close attention.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Behind the scenes stuff.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> I think I was one of the people who said, &#8220;I want this back.&#8221;</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yes. Yeah, yeah, you comment on it too. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. But the inline commenting when you get&#8230; It&#8217;s an experiment still in Gutenberg, so you need to enable it so you can see it. But then it&#8217;s really good to have the&#8230; Because you can comment on each block and you can have replies. And it&#8217;s a great way to collaborate on things and have one editor there and have everybody else comment on a picture or on a block or on a quote or on a design. If you use the design tools and to just have it right there.</p>



<p>And when you open up a post, you see the comments there, you can open it up, you can even pin it to your sidebar. It&#8217;s a great feature to test out and comment on. And when you have a few minutes in the afternoon or something like that, I really enjoyed it. And to see what&#8217;s coming next in the experiments, there are a lot of experiments in Gutenberg.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah. I know we need to groom that list. I&#8217;m trying to wait for the right time to do a make test post asking for feedback. If you want to wait for more curated specific, &#8220;I can look at this post and follow these instructions and click on this link and I&#8217;ll open a WordPress Playground,&#8221; you can wait for that too. Because that is something&#8230; I just am trying to wait for us to fix some of the obvious stuff before asking people for their time. That&#8217;s something I&#8217;m always mindful of is the right time to bring folks in where it&#8217;s the most impactful for bringing feedback.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> I have to tell you, I love your test instructions. Every time something comes out, it&#8217;s such a great way to explore a new feature guided. But then all of a sudden, now that you know how it works, you can create an opinion and I always have an opinion. I travel with it, but then you also can pinpoint it to a certain instruction as well. It&#8217;s a guided testing instruction. And also exploring new features. You do fantastic work with that and I&#8217;m looking forward to some of the new ones that come out.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Thank you. Yeah, that&#8217;s helpful to hear. Because I want it to be that. I want it to be both exploration and feedback. We need to be veering people into what&#8217;s coming next so they can have that opinion that you just described. Yeah, that&#8217;s really cool to hear.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. The next one was on a backport that actually made it into 6.7. It was an improvement to get the post format in the query loop. And that is something that if your theme supports post formats, there is a way to do archive pages and all that. It&#8217;s not 100% seamless. There is some thinking through it from the developer part when you build a theme, but having that is definitely helpful so you don&#8217;t have to write the query yourself. There is a&#8230; I am a little bit&#8230; I don&#8217;t remember.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">New APIs</h3>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> I know this preview, I was like, &#8220;I can talk about this a little bit.&#8221; But yeah, basically, there&#8217;s, yeah, a new API is preview mode flag. And this is something that it looks like it&#8217;s been three years looking at the PR since this flag was there to basically allow, to indicate if a block is rendered as part of a blocks list, a block preview, a pattern preview, et cetera. And it&#8217;s a way, at this point we need to make it stable. And this came in again from feedback. What I really like to call out whenever this is influenced by feedback.</p>



<p>And this came up with in Jetpack where Riad was helping someone on the Jetpack team when they were asking questions. And he was like, &#8220;We should probably stabilize this. It&#8217;s been three years now. This isn&#8217;t actually unstable, but if we can render a placeholder for this, let&#8217;s do it.&#8221; And so this is really helpful and it&#8217;s just another signal. We do want to be careful about what we list is stabilized. And so this is one of those examples where it&#8217;s good to have just another tool in the toolbox to stabilize it for plugin authors.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Absolutely, because a lot of plugin authors are a little hesitant to use marked unstable or marked experimental flags features. And so adoption is really slow, although the things have been used in core or with other plugins quite a bit already and are stable, but they haven&#8217;t been made stable. And I know for the next release of 6.8, there&#8217;s a huge push on that for some of the design tools like the fonts and border controls and all that to make that what&#8217;s experimental to be stable and move that forward. It&#8217;s really cool.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Bug Fixes<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong></h3>



<p>I think we are through the enhancement on 19.6, but there are a few bug fixes I wanted to point out. The first one is the self-nesting and circular nesting block fix. Up until that fix, it was really possible to have a block that has inner blocks to make it an inner block of itself. It&#8217;s like an Inception, if you ever saw that movie. It really confused the block and what to do with it. And you could also nest blocks that are the same nesting in multiple times. It&#8217;s like the infinite mirror when you go in zoom and you share a screen and everybody can&#8230; You see yourself multiple times, but that is definitely fixed. Or well, if it&#8217;s not, please let us know.</p>



<p>And the other part that I wanted to shout out is that there is the link shortcut only to be triggered when there is a text selection. And that has to do with the two features that are triggered by the same shortcut. And depending on which context you are, it gives you the right tool. Control K opens up the command palette where you can then just look for a new open site editor or create a new page. You can do this in the command palette, but it also lets you add a link to the canvas if you&#8217;re in there.</p>



<p>And if you are having a text selected, you could trigger that, creating a link with control K, but you wouldn&#8217;t be able to trigger the command palette. And if nothing is selected, that&#8217;s what you probably wanted. There were a few people, there&#8217;s a whole discussion about it in that PR about maybe changing the shortcut, but it&#8217;s the internet and the software developers have used the same shortcut for multiple things.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s, yeah, exercise. People know about it, and here it comes together quite interestingly enough. But, well, I don&#8217;t know about you, but if I have a text selected, I don&#8217;t use Control K. And I just do copy-paste and have the link underneath my text selection. It doesn&#8217;t bother me, but it would&#8217;ve bothered me if Control K gives me the control panel, it doesn&#8217;t give me the command palette and rather opens the link feature there. I think it was a good decision. Riad made the pragmatic decision.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> I think it was a really good call because this is definitely, I have found it to be incredibly frustrating with the command pilot. And I think it has impacted the experience of using that and the likelihood of people using it in a way that it&#8217;s just not predictable. I think this will&#8230; I really hope it&#8217;s a meaningful improvement and it seems like it is based on&#8230; I actually helped test this at one point and just forgot to leave feedback. But yeah, I&#8217;m excited to see this in place and hope it helps.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, it definitely does.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> It&#8217;s a great call out. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. I wanted to let everybody know that command palette, control K is a shortcut to get to you fast. And I think that&#8217;s it. Yeah, that&#8217;s pretty much what I wanted to talk about in Gutenberg 19.6. And we go right into 19.7.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Let&#8217;s do it.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Gutenberg 19.7</h3>



<p>Birgit Pauli-Haack: Let&#8217;s do it. It&#8217;s 148 PR. Is not as much as 19.6, but that was with 46 contributors and six of them were first timers. The release had 26 enhancements and 49 bug fixes. Bug fixes are a big, big piece of every release. And of course, I have in the show notes both the release posts and we can go into the enhancement. Do you want to start us out?</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Enhancements</h3>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah, I would love to. Now in the preview dropdown, the device preview dropdown, there is an option to show template. And before this was available in the setting sidebar, but it wasn&#8217;t super discoverable. And so this is just adding it there as well. Whenever you want to actually see a template preview, this option is now there whenever you&#8217;re trying to review your content.</p>



<p>And I think this is one of those things that again, I am very curious to see how the feedback lands and how folks feel about it. If it ends up making sense to folks. We&#8217;ve added various things into that device preview dropdown. Including zoom out originally was thought of as being in the device preview and that was eventually moved. And I think this makes more sense conceptually. I was against zoom out being there, but I think having a template preview is a neat way to have a what you see is what you get. You may not need to go see the post in a new tab if you can just toggle this on and off to show or hide template.</p>



<p>And I don&#8217;t know, for me personally, whenever I&#8217;m writing or creating stuff, I often start with having the template gone. I don&#8217;t want to see it. It&#8217;s a distraction. And then whenever I&#8217;m ready to see, &#8220;Okay, how does this actually look in context?&#8221; You can toggle that on for show template. And I think it&#8217;s a great small enhancement that can help with usability and curious to see how people like it and use it.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Absolutely. Yeah, and I&#8217;m really curious what people are going to do with the&#8230; Because the preview dropdown has been opened. There&#8217;s an API now for plugin developers to put it in. And I saw people put in view this in your newsletter because they use the block editor for the newsletter. And I also have seen it in I think blog visibility, what&#8217;s it on the front end when you have&#8230; The plugin block visibility by Nick Diego has an option to see it what is it that I showed. Where you can show and hide things. And he was able to manage the canvas to actually show and hide things quite easily. Yeah. It was really interesting what plugin developers are going to do.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>Yeah, I agree. I think it&#8217;s the preview options API, I just was looking it up to make sure I had the name and was available in 6.7. I think it&#8217;s a pretty cool&#8230; The accessibility there feels pretty powerful.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Absolutely. Yeah. And this is, the next thing is more like a PSA so to speak, that the view external link that is in the toolbar on top is actually now at the end of the editor header controls. It got moved, so don&#8217;t be confused. It&#8217;s now on its final place for now until we move it again. But yeah, I think the zoom out button or link made us think a little bit more about what is the order of those things. And it would really help to get some feedback on it. What do you think about it? Yeah, just don&#8217;t miss it. It&#8217;s there. You just need to look a little left on it. And the next one is, can you talk about that?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Oh, yeah, I would love to. There&#8217;s situations where there&#8217;s a post, you&#8217;re writing a post, you have a number of images in the post. And let&#8217;s say you want a quicker way to just set a featured image. There&#8217;s now an option where if no featured image is set, you can set any image to be the featured image.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> That&#8217;s cool.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>Yeah, it&#8217;s really cool and it comes from this desire to make it easier for folks whenever they&#8217;re in the flow of writing things. And as we know, images are really powerful. If you switch themes and you don&#8217;t have a bunch of featured images set, it can be a pain. There&#8217;s a lot of broader thinking around this. This is just an initial iteration to make it really easy to make sure to just set an image as a featured image.</p>



<p>And so, I definitely plan on using this. Because I always am reusing&#8230; I&#8217;ll post a blog post, I have a gallery of images, I love taking photos. And then I have to go again and select the featured image and go through the media library and all sorts of stuff. And now instead I can just be like that one, I want that one as a featured image. Through that, set as featured image. And so it just uses the same set as featured image property as it&#8217;s used elsewhere in the system. It&#8217;s also really cool use case with that. I&#8217;m excited to see it.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>I have two questions about it. One is if I set it as a featured image, then I can take it out of the post because it&#8217;s a different storage? Yes. Okay.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> I think so. Yeah. I think it&#8217;s basically it&#8217;s an attribute that&#8217;s set. And so, if it doesn&#8217;t have a featured image, it&#8217;ll be set as a featured image of the post. And you can also, if you override that and set the featured image, I&#8217;m pretty sure then that will be the priority is whatever is set as a featured image in that flow.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Most of the time or sometimes the theme supports featured image in a blog post. Then if you take an image that&#8217;s in the canvas as a featured image and it still stays in the post, then all of a sudden you have a double in there. It depends on how the theme works or how you set up your templates for the single post. If that&#8217;s a trained method now for you, yeah, you probably want to switch off the display of the featured image on the single post.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>Yeah. Because that is such a&#8230; I right now have a theme that has&#8230; It does duplicate and I just decide to accept it. And I often, because block themes are so powerful, I&#8217;ll just go on a site editor and make sure that it looks good or looks separate and doesn&#8217;t feel too, I don&#8217;t know, annoying, where it&#8217;s like the images are just right after each other. And that&#8217;s one of the cool things with block themes is you can always just edit it or straight up remove it from your template if you want.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, it&#8217;s fascinating what you can do, what you couldn&#8217;t do before. Yeah, yeah. The next two are other ones of getting more support for blocks. That&#8217;s the post content. Block now has border support and spacing support. And the details block also got anchor support. You could have the header of the details block be an anchor so you can link to it, which is very powerful.&nbsp;</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Oh, this is a big one.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy</em>: Yeah. Can I talk about it? I&#8217;m obsessed with.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>Yeah, talk about it.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Okay. I&#8217;m going to tell the story of the background of this. When the site editor first was launched and people would drop into the editor, the site editor and start building, they would stumble on this style section. And a lot of folks thought that they were just styling their template. Whatever they were looking at, it was like, &#8220;Oh, cool, I&#8217;m styling just what I&#8217;m seeing.&#8221; And it&#8217;s actually styling everything.</p>



<p>The style section when you&#8217;re in the editor is styling everything, whether you can see it or not. And so this was almost like an information architecture problem, a UX problem. And to help start to alleviate this and to communicate the global nature, the same styles experience you get when you&#8217;re in the editor is being moved to the top level in that dark sidebar. Designers call that the frame. The frame of the experience or that dark sidebar before you get into the canvas and the editor.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s being moved to the top level. Whenever you first enter the site editor, you&#8217;ll see those same sections that you&#8217;re used to seeing. And when you hit styles, it&#8217;ll actually bring you in using data views. This great view of all your styles experience that you would expect whenever you&#8217;re actually in the editing experience. And the hope is that this will allow folks to understand that it&#8217;s like you&#8217;re editing everything. And in line with the other changes were done to allow you to toggle between the style book and previewing your site. And so, I think it&#8217;s a really exciting way to see when you first are landing there. I&#8217;m pretty sure it&#8217;s in 19.7. There&#8217;s basically a new landing section that&#8217;s added to the style book. I&#8217;m 99% sure I&#8217;ve tested this a ton.</p>



<p>And there&#8217;s also in line with this, there&#8217;s some upgrades to the style book. The style book is a bit better laid out. And then there&#8217;s also this landing section that basically pulls the most important information from your theme related to styles so that when you get there you get this sense of like, &#8220;Okay, this is the styling of my site, these are the colors, this is the typography.&#8221; And it just is meant to be a clear, easier to understand experience that you&#8217;re impacting the entire site.</p>



<p>And with that said, you will still have access to styles when you&#8217;re in the editor, so it duplicates it. And I am really curious to get feedback from folks because I think this is going to be confusing. I think folks are going to see the same thing and think, &#8220;What&#8217;s the difference? Is this the same? I&#8217;m not really sure. Is this for the entire site and this is for the template.&#8221; And so that&#8217;s one of the things that&#8217;s part of the beauty of iterating in Gutenberg before a major release is to get that feedback.</p>



<p>And part of the reason to keep it in the editor is for block themers who will want to be making changes while they&#8217;re editing templates and not just necessarily at the high level. There were a couple of different use cases to have to accommodate there. And part of the issue that we can figure out is what does the user experience look like between the two? How do we connect the two experiences?</p>



<p>Maybe when you open styles in the editor, it automatically brings you to that view. I&#8217;m not really sure, but there&#8217;s ways that design thinking can be applied to this. I&#8217;m really excited about this. This helps to solve, it starts to solve a long-standing issue around communicating styles as global styles, styles as impacting your entire site. And it just brings that sidebar at the top level to be a bit more useful. And so I&#8217;m obviously way too excited about this.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack: </em>No, no, no, no. I&#8217;m really glad that you explained it. Also, the whole genesis of it because I remember those feedback from the FSC program here that people are&#8230; And I always attributed to that there&#8217;s another level of abstraction and another level of design coming with the templates where users never had access to it so they didn&#8217;t have to learn that new concept. That stumbles them, but there is a way to actually alleviate that from the user experience. That&#8217;s brilliant. And I&#8217;m really happy that it also ties the style book of it.</p>



<p>What I saw was if you go through the styles in the middle section and you change the color palette in the style book, then in the right hand side, you can then see how that affects every single block or every single&#8230; Yeah. You can actually really make decisions about if you wanted that or do you need to do some additional adjustments there. The style book gives you a whole good overview. And it was always a little bit off site if you&#8230; It was hard to discover and now it&#8217;s right there for you to see. Yeah, so I&#8217;m really happy about that.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> I&#8217;ll share a little sneak peek. I was talking with some of the developers yesterday about this. But some of the work also to bring this to the top level, have it be like that is to then expose it for classic themes. Can you imagine a style book for classic themes and this landing section for classic themes?</p>



<p>The benefit, and this again goes back to phase two and gradual adoption and how important it is that we have these on ramps and ways of bringing some of these new features to everyone who&#8217;s using WordPress. And so that&#8217;s a PR in progress expected on a future Gutenberg Times episode. And all block themers out there and all themers in general out there, this is a great area to give feedback and to see how it works with your theme.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. Yeah, the style book. When I was implementing some Gutenberg sites in the early days, 2018, I would create a post with all the blocks in there so we could, together with a client, look at how everything&#8217;s going to look from the theme point of view and where adjustments need to be made. But that was a major effort to put all the blocks in there. The style book is such a great tool. And bringing that to the classic theme is definitely a great way to foster adoption. Also to make the life of a classic theme developer a little bit easier doing that.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah. We got a lot of good feedback from folks being like, &#8220;I want this. Why can&#8217;t I use this yet? How can I use this?&#8221;</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> It&#8217;s the best thing that comes with Gutenberg and, &#8220;I need it.&#8221; I can totally.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> And I love that feedback loop. And then one of the things, the next thing to think about is what does that look like to expose it in the appearance menu? We have patterns, do we have a style? And then what about the font library? Where&#8217;s the order of things? These are things that are on my mind. It&#8217;s like, &#8220;Okay, do we have them all separate? When do we bring them together? What does that experience look like for exposing these things?&#8221;</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, the holistic approach to design is so important. Yeah. But that&#8217;s the whole story about Gutenberg. You need to first do the small things so you can do it in context with the big things. And it&#8217;s really a little slow to go from the small things to the big things when you do something new. The iteration and the feedback loop is really, really important.</p>



<p>Yeah. Here&#8217;s your landing section for the style book is the next one. Next item on the style book tab. Then the next one is something that surprised me a bit, that we have now an exposed filter in the drop down for the individual image on select or upload media that says, &#8220;Okay, filter the medium about uploaded in this post or unattached pictures or to show me just my pictures.&#8221; Yeah. It&#8217;s filtering down to something that we were never exposed to before and it&#8217;s really an enhancement of the media library for this Gutenberg section. Yeah.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yeah. And I&#8217;ll note that this actually really nicely ties into phase three. I know it doesn&#8217;t seem like it at first, but one of the things that whenever I talk to enterprise folks, imagine you are writing 50 articles a day. And you have photographers, you have media teams, you have all this sort of stuff. And you&#8217;re trying to add content, you&#8217;re trying to add media to a post.</p>



<p>One of the biggest things is, is this file in the doc already and is it attached to this post in any way? They need quick ways to identify very fast, is this already in here? If not, can I add it in? And because it helps prevent people from uploading the same image five times. This is something that starts down that path of thinking about media library improvements, the workflow related to it. And whenever you&#8217;re creating content in mass with lots of different people, how can you make it clearer and easier to quickly filter?</p>



<p>I&#8217;m so glad you called this out. I actually totally missed this. It seems like a smaller thing, but it actually directly ties into feedback that&#8217;s come into the project. I think it&#8217;s a cool quality of life improvement.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah, I can see that. Then especially the net has become so much more visible, visual that you need the pictures or the videos or the audio a little bit more sorted so that&#8217;s wonderful. Yeah, so I think we&#8217;re through the enhancements and I haven&#8217;t seen…</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Oh, I can point out one thing that I think could be good.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yes, please.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> We were talking about this write mode, and this relates to this. This is like a bug fix. Write mode is exposed currently. And the plugin, it&#8217;s actually as of&#8230; I just checked the issue today that I opened. Between user testing and feedback, it&#8217;s pretty clear that it needs to be behind an experiment.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s actually going to be moved behind an experiment, but that will happen in 19.8. I&#8217;m pretty sure not 19.7. But in the meantime, to help reduce some of the confusion that we saw some folks running into, it basically makes it so that the tool selector between write and design is not exposed in the post editor. You&#8217;re only in design mode. And design mode, it shows all the tools. You can see everything, which is what you&#8217;re used to. Write mode offers that content only experience. It really just focuses on the content. It really&#8230; There&#8217;s a lot to figure out there, but I think of it as it contains the experience just to the purity of writing. It just is focused on the words. You can&#8217;t add a block, you can&#8217;t remove a block. It&#8217;s a very simplified editing experience.</p>



<p>And so, this basically has it so it&#8217;s only available in this write mode whenever you&#8217;re in the site editor. Which makes sense where you get that overwhelm and that&#8217;s where someone might just want to focus on the content of their template. But in the post editor, it doesn&#8217;t make as much sense. If you&#8217;re writing content, you don&#8217;t necessarily need to have these two different options. For 19.7, this is with landing. And then in the future, this will be put behind an experiment.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Okay. Yeah, I think we should do a separate podcast episode about all the 15 experiments in Gutenberg.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yes, that would actually be a really cool episode. I would love that. I would be game for that. For sure.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> We definitely would need to do this on video because we&#8217;re going to demo things and all that. Yeah. Yeah. I will keep it in the back of my mind for next year.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Do it.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> And we can do that. Yeah. Because we have until April until the new version comes out so there&#8217;s a lot of experiments that come up. yeah. The listeners, this was 16. 16. Yeah. 6.7 or 19.7. It&#8217;s 16.7. Yeah. Right?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Yes. When you said it, it made perfect sense to me. I&#8217;m not going to lie. I was like, &#8220;Yep, that&#8217;s right. That&#8217;s true.&#8221;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What’s in Active Development or Discussed</h3>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: This was Gutenberg 19.7. And so we are at the section of what&#8217;s in active development or discussed. And we mentioned it before, there is these inline commenting that actually was almost entirely done by a group of contributors from a sponsored company called Multidots. And Pooja Bhimani, I hope I pronounced that right, is the lead on that. And they released the first and experimental version of inline commenting for the block editor. I think you were involved in that a little bit more heavily. Do you want to talk about this a bit more?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>Yeah, I would love to talk about it. I think it&#8217;s a great example of a wonderful contribution story for a really big feature. And the team over at Multidots reached out and they built a number of collaboration tools within their plugin and naturally wanted to help Core. And so this was where they decided to jump in. And right now they have shipped an initial version of 19.5, I think is what it got into, for inline comments.</p>



<p>And what it does is block level inline comments. You can comment on an entire block and you cannot comment on a sentence within that block. It&#8217;s an initial prototype to get some of the kinks out. And Ella, one of them, EllaTrips I think is her GitHub username.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Yeah, long, long, long time WordPress contributor and Core contributor has been really helping there as well as Riad and Joen and design. There&#8217;s just been a lot of beautiful coming together to move this feature forward. And it&#8217;s basically in a state where they&#8217;re both starting to chip away at some of the minor bugs, like, &#8220;Okay, these are obvious things to fix.&#8221; And then they&#8217;re going to work on implementing a new design.</p>



<p>And so there&#8217;s some really cool designs on there, both for the short term and thinking really long term. I actually have a post I&#8217;m hoping to share today, sharing an update about all these different phase three areas. And this is just one of those big areas to keep in mind and to follow. There&#8217;s a lot of momentum and there&#8217;s a lot of work being done there. And Multidots has done a great job.</p>



<p>This is a huge thing to jump into as a first contribution. And so huge kudos to them. This is not an easy task. I think they&#8217;ve been working on this since April of this last year. It&#8217;s been a huge effort to come together. And it&#8217;s been really fun to work with them and to watch them develop directly in the Gutenberg plugin and land something and iterate.</p>



<p>And that&#8217;s part of the cool thing with the Gutenberg plugin and with the&#8230; It&#8217;s an experiment right now, so you have to turn it on under Gutenberg experiments. But expect to see more to come there and test, a call for testing from yours truly eventually. I&#8217;m hoping next week. That&#8217;s one of my top priorities for next week and this week is to get that announced update post out about the different areas of phase three.</p>



<p>But yeah, I&#8217;m really excited about it. I think it&#8217;s a cool thing if you&#8217;re a small editorial team to try it out. If you&#8217;re a plugin author, think about how you might want to extend it. All that workflow collaboration head space, this is one of the first meteor things, or probably the second meteor thing that&#8217;s land other than data use, which is a huge thing. I just completely&#8230; Data views is the first, this is the second. And so, I&#8217;m really excited to see some of these phase three features that are really tangible begin to get out into the open.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Yeah. Well, I&#8217;m glad you bring this all to us. And I think we are all&#8230; Yeah, test it all out. Did you say you want to post it today or tomorrow?</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> The update for phase three will be today. I want it out today.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> I will bring it into the show notes.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy: </em>Perfect.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> &#8230; because we are not going to publish that until Sunday. Today is Thursday, so it&#8217;s really good. I&#8217;m going to share it in the show notes. I think that&#8217;s an update on the real collaboration on commenting and interviews. I&#8217;m very much looking forward to reading that as a whole.&nbsp;</p>



<p>All right. This is, we are at the end of the show today, although with two plugins and Anne here, we have a great show. And next show would be in two weeks with Sarah Norris and it will be the last of 2024. And then I&#8217;ll go on vacation. Yes.</p>



<p><em>Anne McCarthy:</em> Good. Good. Love to hear it. You got to rest. Congrats on over 100. I cannot believe you have over a hundred episodes of this. That&#8217;s really incredible. I keep thinking about that at the beginning of the show. I think that&#8217;s so cool.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack:</em> Well, thank you. Yeah. I couldn&#8217;t have done it without you and all the other guests that are here that bring their brilliance to here. Because I only see one side of things and having other aspects of it makes it so much richer. Dear listeners, as always, the show notes will be published on <a href="http://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast">gutenbergtimes.com/podcast</a>. This is episode 111.</p>



<p>And if you have questions or suggestions or news you want us to include, send them to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. That&#8217;s <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. And I want to thank you, Anne, for taking the time tonight to be with me and walk me through things and share your insights with everybody. Thank you all for listening. Goodbye.</p>



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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:122:"Gutenberg Times: WordPress 6.7 Release video, inline comments, Woo Talks about Themes, and more —   Weekend Edition #311";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/?p=30871";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:123:"https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:23268:"<p>Phew! That was a long break! And a lot happened. It might take two editions to get us up to speed again.</p>



<p>And it doesn&#8217;t stop, the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/proposal-major-releases-for-2025/">preliminary schedule for WordPress releases in 2025</a> came out and the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/21/wordpress-6-8-call-for-volunteers/">call for volunteers is open for WordPress 6.8</a> release cycle. </p>



<p>With Thanksgiving ante portas (= at the gate. Yes, I was in Rome) I hope you have a calmer week ahead of you, be it because many contacts take time off and the noise level is reduced, or you  connect with family and friends on Turkey day, off-screen. </p>



<p>I am always grateful to you, dear subscriber. Your support and keen curiosity keeps me sharing the news around the block editor and beyond with you. It also makes me a listener beyond the noise.</p>





<p>Have a splendid weekend ahead! </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br /><em>Birgit</em></p>



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<ol><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a><ol><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#gutenberg-plugin-releases">Gutenberg plugin releases</a></li></ol></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor</a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/wordpress-6-7-release-video-inline-comments-woo-talks-about-themes-and-more-weekend-edition-311/#this-week-in-playground">This week in Playground</a></li></ol>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/11/wordpress-6-7-1-maintenance-release/">WordPress 6.7.1 </a>was released to quickly fix bugs that appeared late in the release cycle. Check the release post for details. If you just now consider upgrading to WordPress 6.7, you can consult the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/23/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">Field Guide</a> and the <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/6-7-source-of-truth/">Source of Truth</a> to find out about all the new features and APIs.</p>


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<p><strong>Rich Tabor</strong> recorded the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6JKHMAkH8">The Official WordPress 6.7 release video</a>. Adam Preiser commented:  &#8220;This is the best &#8220;official&#8221; WordPress release video you guys have ever uploaded. Great job!.&#8221;</p>


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<p><strong>Joen Asmussen</strong> posted an update on the Design teams work in his <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2024/11/18/design-share-68-nov-4-nov-15/"><strong>Design Share #68 (Nov 4-Nov 15)</strong></a>. You can get a glimpse at the following projects or tasks:</p>



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<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/download/releases/6-7/">WordPress 6.7 release site</a></li>



<li>Menu navigation editing</li>



<li>Page preview in global styles browsing</li>
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<p>Earlier this month, Asmussen published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2024/11/01/design-share-67-oct-21-nov-1/"><strong>Design Share #67 (Oct 21-Nov 1)</strong></a> and highlighted these projects, some were already implemented in the latest Gutenberg release.</p>



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<li>“Show template” option</li>



<li>A dedicated Styles screen</li>



<li>Editor Comments</li>



<li>Ambiguating Write/Design tools</li>



<li>Photo Directory</li>



<li>Make’s homepage</li>



<li>DataViews: Density preference</li>



<li>Advancing the Pages data view</li>



<li>Global styles iA exploration</li>



<li>Updating active menu item styling in the site editor</li>



<li>Badge component</li>



<li>Updated Figma Library</li>
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<p><strong>Nick Diego</strong> published this month&#8217;s roundup post on <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/11/10/whats-new-for-developers-november-2024/"><strong>What’s new for developers? (November 2024)</strong></a>.  Catch up on last-minute additions in WordPress 6.7 and see what’s coming next for Core, Gutenberg, and WordPress Playground.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="gutenberg-plugin-releases">Gutenberg plugin releases</h3>



<p><strong>Gutenberg 19.6</strong> was released on November 6th. It entailed 194 Pull Requests (PRs) by 57 contributors, eight were first time contributors.&nbsp;</p>



<p>37 enhancements and 65 Bug fixes. The rest are documentation, tooling, and code quality updates. Release lead <strong>Carlos Bravo</strong> highlighted in his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-9-31-may-2-2/"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 19.6? (6 Nov)</strong></a> the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-15-9-31-may-2-2/#experimental-inline-comments">experimental inline comments</a>, and improvements to the overall site editing experience. </p>



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<p>This week, <strong>Hector Prieto</strong> pushed <strong>Gutenberg 19.7</strong> release over the finish line. It included 148 PRs by 46 contributors, 6 of them first timers. The release contains 26 Enhancements and 49 bug fixes. Prieto emphasized in his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-19-7-20-november/"><strong>What’s new in Gutenberg 19.7? (20 November)</strong></a></p>



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<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-19-7-20-november/#swifter-hiding-showing-the-template">Swifter hiding &amp; showing the template</a></li>



<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/20/whats-new-in-gutenberg-19-7-20-november/#set-image-blocks-as-featured-image">Set image blocks as featured image</a></li>
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<p>For the <strong>111th Gutenberg Changelog</strong>, I invited the brilliant <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> to go over these two Gutenberg plugin releases and also discuss in more depth the inline commenting and the updates in general. </p>



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<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/21/update-on-phase-3-collaboration-efforts/"><strong>Update on Phase 3: Collaboration efforts</strong></a> which discusses improvements in WordPress’s collaboration tools, including Dataviews, real-time collaboration, and inline commenting. The goal is to make teamwork easier during content creation. The post highlights important updates and invites the community to provide feedback for a better user experience.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>



<p><strong>Jeremy Holcombe</strong> found for you the <a href="https://kinsta.com/blog/wordpress-block-themes/"><strong>12 best WordPress block themes</strong></a> and  most of them are free!. He also explains briefly what block themes are and how they differ from classic themes. </p>



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<p>In his latest video on WordPressTV, <strong>Wes Theron</strong> answers the question: <strong><a href="https://wordpress.tv/2024/11/20/why-design-in-the-site-editor-and-use-it-for-prototyping/">Why design in the Site Editor and use it for prototyping?</a> </strong>You&#8217;ll learn how to use the Site Editor to design and prototype websites with blocks, customize layouts, and apply basic design principles. </p>



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<p><strong>Devin Walker</strong>, co-founder of GiveWP, published a new plugin in the repo: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/blocks-for-github/"><strong>Blocks for GitHub</strong></a>. Once installed, it enables a site owner to share a specific repo or the GitHub profile with their readers. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</h2>



<p><strong>Stephanie Pi</strong> from WooCommerce Developer Experience team invites you to <strong><a href="https://developer.woocommerce.com/2024/11/19/lets-talk-themes-with-ellen-bauer/">talk about Themes</a></strong> with <strong>Ellen Bauer</strong> on <strong>December 2, 2024, from 16:00 UTC</strong>. Pi wrote &#8220;You don’t have to be an expert on themes to join. This event will serve as an informal opportunity for you to share your initial thoughts, feedback, and questions about Woo Block Themes. It’s our way of starting the conversation early and getting input directly from the community as we shape the future of this space.&#8221; <strong>Ellen Bauer</strong> is a long-standing community member, theme builder, and now Product Lead at Woo, and occasional co-host on the Gutenberg Changelog. </p>



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<p><strong>Bud Kraus</strong> posted about <a href="https://kinsta.com/blog/theme-json-properties-key-value-pairs/"><strong>Working with properties and key-value pairs in theme.json</strong></a> on the Kinsta Blog site. &#8220;Whether you’re building a theme from scratch, customizing an existing one, developing a style variation, or working on a child theme, grasping how to work with&nbsp;<code>theme.json</code>&nbsp;is essential.&#8221; he wrote.</p>



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<p>In episode 146 of the WP Tavern podcast <a href="https://wptavern.com/podcast/146-frank-klein-on-redesigning-wordpress-the-shift-to-block-based-systems"><strong>Fränk Klein on Redesigning WordPress: The Shift to Block-Based Systems</strong></a>, <strong>Nathan Wrigley</strong> and <strong>Frank Klein</strong> discuss how block patterns improve user experience and highlight the need for adaptable design, cooperation among developers, and the ability to create more dynamic content with these new systems.</p>



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<p><strong>Brian Coords</strong> has <strong>Mike McAlister</strong> on his show and discussed with him <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkXJrHSdLsA"><strong>Full Site Editing and Ollie</strong></a>. Mike talks about his extensive journey in the WordPress ecosystem, from a designer to a product builder with Ollie WP. They cover the importance of design in WordPress themes, the shift towards full site editing, the value of patterns and pattern libraries, responsive design controls, and more.</p>



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<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2024&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2024 on. Updated by yours truly. The previous years are also available: <strong><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">2020</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2021/">2021</a></strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2022/">2022</a></strong></strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/gutenberg-index-2023">2023</a></strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor</h2>



<p>The upcoming Developer Hours will happen on December 3rd, 2025 at 16:00 UTC. <strong>Ryan Welcher</strong> and <strong>Nick Diego</strong> will discuss and demonstrate how to <strong><a href="https://www.meetup.com/learn-wordpress-online-workshops/events/304668126/">Improve your workflows with WordPress development tools</a></strong>. They&#8217;ll take a deep dive into the advanced usage of tools like create-block and wp-scripts, along with a few others. They will also focus on solving common challenges and showcasing techniques that go beyond the basics, even for developers already familiar with these tools.</p>



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<p>In this week&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs-aawt3eNc"><strong>Developer Hours: Exploring the Block Bindings API in WordPress 6.7</strong></a>, <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> gave an overview of the Block Bindings API and how it works, including major changes in the API since WordPress 6.5. He demonstrated how to use the new Editor UI for binding attributes and work with the new JavaScript API. Whether you are new to Block Bindings or have already started using them in their projects, the session offered valuable insights for everyone.</p>



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<p>In his latest article, <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/11/05/how-to-add-content-only-editing-support-to-a-block/"><strong>How to add content-only editing support to a block</strong></a>, <strong>Nick Diego</strong> shows how this feature lets users edit the content in a block without changing the block&#8217;s settings, improving user experience during content creation. He includes clear code examples to demonstrate how to implement it.</p>



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<p>In his post, <a href="https://deryckoe.com/wordpress-block-development-complete-guide-to-multiple-blocks-interactivity-api/"><strong>WordPress Block Development: Complete Guide to Multiple Blocks &amp; Interactivity API</strong></a>, <strong><a href="https://x.com/DeryckOE">Deryck Oñate</a></strong> tailored his tutorial to developers who want to streamline their WordPress build setup, making it both efficient and flexible. You&#8217;ll dive into optimizing webpack configurations, using the interactivity API, and building multiple blocks—all while keeping the codebase clean.</p>



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<p>In his latest Livestream, <strong>Ryan Welcher</strong> explored <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aaghy90L39o"><strong>Creating an advanced UI for plugins</strong></a>, and used as example building the UI for managing taxonomy controls for his <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-query-loop/">Advanced Query Loop</a> plugin.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="this-week-in-playground">This week in Playground</h2>



<p>The Playground app now offers the Pull Request (PR) testers for WordPress Core and Gutenberg in the interface. Thanks to the contributions by <strong>Agata Dobrowolska</strong> and <strong>Brandon Payton</strong>, the feature is now reachable through the 3-dot menu in the left sidebar. If you are part of the outreach channel on Make Slack you might appreciate the easier way to test contributor work before it&#8217;ll be merged into the next release. </p>



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<p>Don&#8217;t miss the upcoming Playground Hallway Hangouts: </p>



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<li><strong>November 29, 2024, at 14:00 UTC</strong> &#8211; Playground Hallway Hangout with <strong>Ajit Bohra</strong> and <strong>Adam Zieliński </strong>&#8211; Ajit Bohra developed a <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/pull/2008">block-based blueprint builder</a> and will give us a walk-through and answer questions. </li>



<li><strong>December 6, 2024, at 14:00 UTC</strong> Playground Hallway Hangout with <strong>Tammie Lister</strong> and <strong>Adam Zieliński</strong>, as informal discussion on how agencies can use Playground for client and product demos and brainstorm ideas on how to improve it for this use case. </li>
</ul>



<p>Details will follow in Make Slack channel #playground and the Make Blog. </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. </p>



<p>Now also available via <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/playnightly.json">WordPress Playground</a>. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? <a href="mailto:pauli@gutenbergtimes.com">Email me </a>with your experience</p>



<p><img alt="GitHub all releases" src="https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/bph/gutenberg/total?style=for-the-badge" /></p>



<p class="has-text-align-center has-small-font-size"><em>Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? </em><br /><em>Don&#8217;t hesitate to send <a href="mailto:pauli@gutenbergtimes.com">them via email</a> or</em><br /><em> send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph</em>.</p>



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<li>WordPress 6.8 – Beta 1 on March 4, stable release on April 15</li>



<li>WordPress 6.9 – Beta 1 on June 24, stable release on August 5</li>



<li>WordPress 7.0 – Beta 1 on September 30, stable release on November 11</li>
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<p>The Core team has considered year-end festivities and key events like WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe when setting these dates. Héctor mentioned, “Although the 6.8 dates aren’t final yet, they are close to final enough to let contributors know their availability around that time.”</p>



<p>The community can share their feedback on the release schedule either in the comments below the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/proposal-major-releases-for-2025/">post </a>or via a Slack DM by November 29, 2024.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">WordPress 6.8 Call for Volunteers</h3>



<p>Héctor Prieto has shared the tentative timeline for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/21/wordpress-6-8-call-for-volunteers/">WordPress 6.8</a>, which will include up to Gutenberg 20.4 with a maximum of 11 releases. The general release  will be on April 15, 2024. </p>



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<p>The 6.8 release is looking for volunteers in the following roles:</p>



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<li>Release Coordinator(s)</li>



<li>Core Tech Lead(s)</li>



<li>Editor Tech Lead(s)</li>



<li>Core Triage Lead(s)</li>



<li>Editor Triage Lead(s)</li>



<li>Documentation Lead(s)</li>



<li>Test Lead(s)</li>



<li>Design Lead(s)</li>



<li>Performance Lead(s)</li>
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<p>As there is no new default theme for WordPress 6.8, there will be no default theme lead role. As usual, the Release Lead role will be filled by project leadership. WordPress 6.7 did not have a dedicated Marketing Lead, but depending on feedback from the previous release, the 6.8 squad may reinstate this role or add other missing positions.</p>



<p>Despite recent events, including several contributors being blocked from WordPress Slack channels and others stepping back from contributions, the post has already attracted a number of volunteers.</p>



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<p>Harper, <a href="https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/naming_harper">named</a> after novelist Harper Lee, is an open source alternative to Grammarly. Potter had created it &#8220;after years of dealing with the shortcomings of the competition.&#8221; According to Potter, <a href="https://writewithharper.com/">Harper </a>is the &#8220;grammar checker that fits my needs. Not only does it take milliseconds to lint a document, take less than 1/50th of LanguageTool&#8217;s memory footprint, but it is also completely private.&#8221;</p>



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<p> Welcoming Harper <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/11/welcoming-harper/">Matt Mullenweg said</a>, “The technology is nascent, but I’m very excited to embed this throughout all of Automattic’s products, and then expanding it to other languages, all in an open source way that can be embedded everywhere. I’m a huge fan of Grammarly and use it every day, but I think we’re doing too much in the cloud right now and there is so much compute and potential at the edge, and I’m excited to drive that forward with projects like <a href="https://writewithharper.com/">Harper</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/">Gutenberg</a>, and <a href="https://wordpress.org/playground/">Playground</a>.”</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:05:26 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:8;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Key Reasons Behind the Decision</h3>



<p>He shared that several factors contributed to this move like learning recently that WordPress.org is not owned by the WordPress Foundation, as many assume, but is instead a private website managed by Matt Mullenweg. This, combined with unsettling actions by WordPress.org, such as banning developers, disabling plugin updates for client sites, and even taking over an entire plugin, led to a loss of trust. He noted, <em>“</em>We have thus lost our trust in the WordPress.org platform, the WordPress Foundation itself, and most importantly the man who seems to wield the ultimate power in the entire ecosystem.”</p>



<p>PeepSo was also suspended without a warning for issues that were already fixed. He explained,“There were a few cases where security researchers pentested our demo site, and found some minor issues. WP.org jumped on these and suspended our plugin, even though the issues were in our paid addons, or even third party software &#8211; NOT in the plugin hosted on WP.org. They have since apologized, but the issue of having our plugin suspended without warning stands &#8211; it affects our release cycle and our customers.”</p>



<a href="https://www.peepso.com/community/?status/156601-156601-1727260854"><img width="1756" height="1800" src="https://wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image-2.png" alt="" class="wp-image-180266" /></a>



<p>“All that combined with the WPEngine drama led us to the decision to finally pull out of WordPress.org &#8211; WP.org hijacking a plugin from under the original devs was the final straw. That was the day we decided too pull the trigger and focused on removing the WP.org dependency from our business.”, he continued.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Moving Forward</h3>



<p>Existing users of PeepSo will need to manually update the base plugin to version 7.0.0.0, after which all updates will be delivered directly from PeepSo’s servers. </p>



<p>Jaworski also hinted at potential changes to improve code organization and performance. “The Plugin Guidelines prevented us from putting premium code in the base plugin (paywalled) so we were forced to encapsulate paid features into separate plugins. There is an idea bouncing around of merging some premium code into the base plugin, and only enabling it based on the license type (free vs paid). This should lead to better code organization and performance improvements, but it&#8217;s just a general idea, likely not to be touched any time soon.”, he said.</p>



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<p>This minor release features 16 bug fixes <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?resolution=fixed&milestone=6.7.1&group=component&col=id&col=summary&col=milestone&col=owner&col=type&col=status&col=priority&order=priority">throughout Core</a> and <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/7851">the Block Editor</a>.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.7.1 is a fast-follow release with a strict focus on bugs introduced in WordPress 6.7. The next major release will be <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-8/">version 6.8</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/proposal-major-releases-for-2025/">planned for April 2025</a>.</p>



<p>If you have sites that support automatic background updates, the update process will begin automatically.</p>



<p>You can <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.7.1.zip">download WordPress 6.7.1 from WordPress.org</a>, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”.</p>



<p>For more information on this release, please <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-6-7-1">visit the HelpHub site</a>. You can find a summary of the maintenance updates in this release in the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/?p=116365">Release Candidate announcement</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Thank you to these WordPress contributors</h2>



<p class="is-style-default">This release was led by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/">Jonathan Desrosiers</a> and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbravobernal/">Carlos Bravo</a>.</p>



<p class="is-style-default">WordPress 6.7.1 would not have been possible without the contributions of the following people. Their asynchronous coordination to deliver maintenance fixes into a stable release is a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.</p>



<p><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abcsun/">abcsun</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/">Adam Silverstein</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahsankhan316/">Ahsan Khan</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/">Aki Hamano</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/albigdd/">Alexander Bigga</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/">Andrew Ozz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankitkumarshah/">Ankit Kumar Shah</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ant1busted/">Antoine</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/bluantinoo/">bluantinoo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbravobernal/">Carlos Bravo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/charleslf/">charleslf</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/apermo/">Christoph Daum</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhewercorus/">dhewercorus</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhruvang21/">Dhruvang21</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilipbheda/">Dilip Bheda</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dooperweb/">dooperweb</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/im3dabasia1/">Eshaan Dabasiya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/">Felix Arntz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/finntown/">finntown</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/firoz2456/">Firoz Sabaliya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George Mamadashvili</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/glynnquelch/">glynnquelch</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gziolo/">Greg Ziółkowski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abcd95/">Himanshu Pathak</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jagirbahesh/">jagirbahesh</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jsnajdr/">Jarda Snajdr</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/audrasjb/">Jb Audras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jeffpaul/">Jeffrey Paul</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/">Joe Dolson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joemcgill/">Joe McGill</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/johnbillion/">John Blackbourn</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/desrosj/">Jonathan Desrosiers</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jonsurrell/">Jon Surrell</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/juliemoynat/">Julie Moynat</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/juliobox/">Julio Potier</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/laurelfulford/">laurelfulford</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/leecollings/">Lee Collings</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/0mirka00/">Lena Morita</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/luisherranz/">luisherranz</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mmaattiiaass/">Matias Benedetto</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mayanktripathi32/">Mayank Tripathi</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/czapla/">Michal Czaplinski</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mcsf/">Miguel Fonseca</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/369work/">miroku</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/">Mukesh Panchal</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/narenin/">Narendra Sishodiya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ntsekouras/">Nik Tsekouras</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/domainsupport/">Oliver Campion</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/swissspidy/">Pascal Birchler</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/">Peter Wilson</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ramonopoly/">ramonopoly</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ravigadhiyawp/">Ravi Gadhiya</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rcreators/">Rishi Mehta</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/room34/">room34</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/roytanck/">Roy Tanck</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/looswebstudio/">Ryo</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sailpete/">sailpete</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sainathpoojary/">Sainath Poojary</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sarthaknagoshe2002/">Sarthak Nagoshe</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sergeybiryukov/">Sergey Biryukov</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sirlouen/">SirLouen</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sppramodh/">S P Pramodh</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/">Stephen Bernhardt</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/stimul/">stimul</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sukhendu2002/">Sukhendu Sekhar Guria</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tigriweb/">TigriWeb</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/timwhitlock/">Tim W</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/tobifjellner/">tobifjellner (Tor-Bjorn &#8220;Tobi&#8221; Fjellner)</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/twvania/">Vania</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/yogeshbhutkar/">Yogesh Bhutkar</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/yowangdu/">YoWangdu</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/zargarov/">Zargarov</a>, and <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/zeelthakkar/">zeelthakkar</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How to contribute</h2>



<p>To get involved in WordPress core development, head over to Trac, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/report/6">pick a ticket</a>, and join the conversation in the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBWTW">#core</a> and <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C080HLPP2Q6">#6-8-release-leads</a> channels. Need help? Check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/">Core Contributor Handbook</a>.</p>



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<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast, which is dedicated to all things, WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the shift to block by systems in all parts of WordPress.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice. Or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcasts players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Fränk Klein. Fränk is a principal engineer at Human Made and brings a wealth of experience from his extensive history with WordPress, having started with the platform in 2011. He previously worked at Automattic, and now directs his expertise towards WP Development Courses, where he teaches block theme and custom block development.</p>



<p>Fränk talks about the modernization of PHP within WordPress, a topic that often gets overshadowed by the hype around Javascript. We get into Human Made&#8217;s work and enterprise focused WordPress agency renowned for serving high profile clients, such as the Harvard Gazette and TechCrunch. Fränk explains the intricate custom backend development needed to meet the complex requirements of enterprise clients, like sophisticated editorial workflows for clients like banks.</p>



<p>Fränk provides a comprehensive breakdown of the Gutenberg projects four phases, content editing, site customization, collaborative editing, and multi-lingual capabilities. We explore how FSE is transforming WordPress by integrating new editing tools, and modernizing the admin interface. Moving the platform from its classic roots to a more dynamic block-based editing environment.</p>



<p>Fränk shares his unique perspectives on the challenges and rewards of engineering and teaching within the WordPress ecosystem. He stresses the importance of understanding client needs and the necessity for developers to engage in continuous learning.</p>



<p>We also talk about using traditional WordPress solutions and third party page builders, like Bricks, Beaver Builder and Elementor. Fränk argues for the streamlined, block-based systems, offered by WordPress core, citing both financial and technical benefits.</p>



<p>Our conversation continues into the broader implications of WordPress&#8217;s ongoing evolution, the significant admin interface redesigns, and its impact on users and agencies. Fränk discusses, the challenges users face with these changes, and the importance of improving communications within the WordPress community to facilitate smoother transitions.</p>



<p>Towards the end, Fränk talks about his experiences with course creation and content maintenance, particularly given the fast paced changes in WordPress features. He emphasizes the need for a solid grasp of foundational web development concepts to fully leverage the platforms evolving tools.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re keen on understanding how full site editing and other WordPress innovations can enhance your projects, and wish to gain insights into the evolving WordPress landscape, this episode is for you.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes, many added by Fränk, by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Fränk Klein.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Fränk Klein. How are you doing Fränk?</p>



<p>[00:04:10] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> I&#8217;m doing great. Thank you for having me.</p>



<p>[00:04:12] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Really nice to have you on the podcast today. We&#8217;re going to talk a lot about full site editing. I&#8217;m not entirely sure where the conversation is going to go. But before we do that, Fränk, just over to you really for a brief moment on your bio. Just tell us about your history with WordPress, perhaps where you work, maybe some interesting projects that you&#8217;ve worked on. Anything you like really, but just tell us a little bit about you and WordPress.</p>



<p>[00:04:35] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Yeah, so I started in WordPress in 2011, software engineer. I worked at a small agency in Luxembourg, and then from then I went to Automattic, wordpress.com, then VIP. And now I&#8217;m at Human Made, where I&#8217;m now principal engineer, which is great. I get to work on a lot of interesting projects.</p>



<p>And kind of out of that activity comes my WP Development Courses business. So where I do sell courses to WordPress developers. So obviously block theme development is one of the focuses of that.</p>



<p>The thing is, because I am self-taught, it kind of simplifies with the people that don&#8217;t have any formal background in programming, and I try to help this out as much as possible.</p>



<p>[00:05:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> For your courses, do you focus entirely on blocks, and full site editing, and the new, in air quotes, way of doing WordPress? Is that your thing, Gutenberg a hundred percent?</p>



<p>[00:05:22] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> It used to be that, but now, so there is one on block theme development, there&#8217;s one on custom block development. But now I&#8217;m also going back to a course that I previously, which is about WordPress unit testing, so PHP unit testing.</p>



<p>So the title I like to use right now is more modern PHP, so what&#8217;s happening in the PHP world. Because I think that we have been moving a lot, we have been talking a lot about JavaScript and everything like that, but that has kind of slowed down.</p>



<p>But the PHP has picked up quite a lot, because PHP is modernising quite rapidly in terms of how the language works. And PHP is still a big part of WordPress, even though it doesn&#8217;t get maybe the love that we need to give it to. But yeah, there&#8217;s lots of interesting things happening there.</p>



<p>[00:05:59] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s certainly not getting the attention that it once did. In fact, almost to the point where it never gets mentioned really. But like you said, quite a lot of exciting developments.</p>



<p>Again, just very, very briefly, the Human Made side of things, if you haven&#8217;t come across Human Made, Human Made are a, I&#8217;m going to call it enterprise agency. Do you just want to give us some insight into the kind of work that you and the team do over there? What kind of projects you&#8217;re involved in.</p>



<p>You may or may not be able to elucidate on that, but just interested to know at that kind of level, what kind of projects you might be involved in.</p>



<p>[00:06:29] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Yes, Human Made, we call it an enterprise WordPress agency. Now, enterprise can be a very wide word, what fits in there? But Human Made works with everything from publishing companies, to banks, to universities. One of the more recent projects that my colleagues in the US did was the Harvard Gazette, a really great project also block based.</p>



<p>Then we have worked in the past with TechCrunch, the million dollar website as Jamie called it. So that was the previous iteration.</p>



<p>And so generally, when it comes to enterprise, what distinguishes it from the rest of WordPress is maybe not, so the budget definitely is, because the budgets tend to be higher, but enterprises, they have very specific needs. So there&#8217;s a lot of custom development, and they have a lot of demand, especially for backend customisations.</p>



<p>So when you build a website, there&#8217;s always going to be the front end, the design, everything like that. But that&#8217;s the same across every project. But when you go to the enterprise, depending on the type of business that you run, for example, a bank, what we have developed is a system where instead of just when you hit publish, the blog post goes live, or the content. There is a system where it goes to approval, and then they can say that the change isn&#8217;t approved. So all of those publishing customisations there&#8217;s a little part of it. It&#8217;s the workflow and also the interface. So that&#8217;s a big part of what we do is actually customising the editing experience in WordPress.</p>



<p>[00:07:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Really interesting. You can go and check those websites out. Just by the way, anything that we mention in the podcast today, you can get the show notes over at wptavern.com/podcast. Go and search over there, and anything that we mention, if we don&#8217;t read out the URL, you&#8217;ll be able to find it, including links to Human Made, and Fränk&#8217;s courses as well.</p>



<p>But turning to the main focus of the podcast today, we&#8217;re going to try and get into the weeds of FSE, full site editing.</p>



<p>Now, if you are fairly new to WordPress, you may be unfamiliar that there was ever any change. But if you&#8217;ve been in WordPress for anything longer than a couple of years, you&#8217;ll know that what has changed over the last several years has been pretty profound.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s kind of all wrapped up inside the Gutenberg project, if you like, which has come in four phases. We&#8217;re currently on the third of those four phases, collaborative editing. I have to say, the collaborative editing piece seems to have stopped becoming the center of all attention at the moment. I haven&#8217;t seen a great deal of coverage of that, but hopefully that will pick up and we&#8217;ll get something akin to Google Docs, or something like that inside our WordPress installs.</p>



<p>But the first of those phases, content editing, was followed by site customisation and then, like I said, we&#8217;re in collaborative editing at the moment. And then finally ending up with multilingual, so the ability to natively turn your site into a multilingual website.</p>



<p>Where does full site editing fit into all of this jigsaw puzzle, Fränk? And also what promise does it bring? How will it change a WordPress install from a couple of years ago to something in the more, air quotes, modern WordPress?</p>



<p>[00:09:25] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> That&#8217;s a big question, but it goes back to when we talk about full site editing. So what we now say is full site editing, essentially site editor. That is what we call the tool that is in the admin.</p>



<p>And then the other part of it is the block theme. And those together then form what we now call full site editing. And that is the second phase actually of the Gutenberg roadmap.</p>



<p>And the thing is, at this moment, if you go to WordPress install at this time, and you click on the admin, it looks like it has always looked, right? The admin hasn&#8217;t changed, but when you go to the post editor, you get the block editor. When you go to the appearance, so let&#8217;s go to the theme editor, what comes up is the site editor.</p>



<p>And so right now we having these weird experiences where you click on the post edit and it becomes full screen, and the admin UI is gone, inside it is kind of the same. And so we need to understand those four phases, not as being four different things that are going to be delivered, but really it&#8217;s just pieces of one big admin redesign.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s, I think, what was in the beginning. And so Matt, Matt Mullenweg published a blog post, I think it was in 2017. I think we called it Gutenberg For a Reason, that was the title. And it really laid out everything that they want to change, all of the people that this concerns, which is everybody that uses WordPress.</p>



<p>And once that kind of groundwork was laid, they didn&#8217;t go into it much afterwards. So that is why, when we talk about full site editing, we have these two pieces. What it changes right now, and just the specific concerns that we have with it. But also the groundwork that is laid for the phase three, which is right now is called still collaboration, but I think it&#8217;s more content editing reimagined.</p>



<p>Because right now, if you&#8217;re on the site editor, sure, you have functionalities like, I can change my templates, I can change the header, the footer, or the patterns, all that is built in. But you also now have, for example, pages available in the site editor, and you can go into content editing mode, you can go into template editing mode. So already we are mixing everything together.</p>



<p>And so that is the part where, when we go to phase two, the original name was customisation. So it wasn&#8217;t theme building, it wasn&#8217;t theme adaptation, it was really customisation because the idea was that, with a site editor, we&#8217;re going to reimagine the way that you interact with your WordPress website. And so the phases two and three are just going extend on that admin concept.</p>



<p>And so WordPress under the hood, as part of this, is building out all of the pieces that are going to be put in place to complete admin redesign. Then actually, if you look at WooCommerce, which is of course one of the biggest, if not, I think the biggest plugin out there in WordPress, they&#8217;re are doing the same thing while they are modernising their admin experience. They&#8217;re both aligning to give that new interface feel to WordPress.</p>



<p>And I think that&#8217;s something which is not a lot talked about in the wider community, that for sure we have the theme building, we have that very practical aspects, but it&#8217;s also the bigger perspective in that we are going to need to get rid of that admin that we know right now, which has been by now as old as WordPress, close to being as old as WordPress. So it&#8217;s a complete redoing of the experience.</p>



<p>[00:12:27] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Coming from an agency which is dealing with big ticket items, you know, websites that presumably have some sort of fairly large user base, and certainly I would imagine fairly deep pockets for their development, bespoke development at that. But also having a set of courses which are trying to teach aspects of all this, how do you think the whole phases approach has been handled, but particularly the redesign?</p>



<p>And rather than calling it full site editing, let&#8217;s call it what I think you called it, something along the lines of the admin redesign, or something like that. How do you think that&#8217;s gone?</p>



<p>And what my question really is asking is, if you could rewind the clock, let&#8217;s say four years, to a period in which the admin had not been redesigned in any way, shape, or form, you could create content with the block editor inside posts, and pages, and so on, but outside of that, everything was as it was.</p>



<p>How do you feel that it&#8217;s been managed, the transition slowly over time into this reimagined admin area, full site editing and what have you?</p>



<p>My impression, because I&#8217;m in it all the time, and I see the tiny little changes, and I notice it happening, it doesn&#8217;t really jar with me all that much, but I have the intuition that people who are, I don&#8217;t know, casual users of WordPress, perhaps they&#8217;re just logging into achieve a thing on their Monday morning that they need to do on the website, and then they want to log out and never look at the website again for the rest of the week.</p>



<p>I feel it must have been quite a difficult thing to keep track of. New things this week, which are removed next week, and then another thing replaces it, and then, oh, if I click here, oh look, now it looks nothing like it did five minutes ago and for the last 20 years. So how well do you think it&#8217;s been handled? How easy has it been for people to cope with? I know that&#8217;s a lot.</p>



<p>[00:14:09] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Yeah, I think that we can always look back and say, I would&#8217;ve done this and that in the other, knowing in hindsight. That&#8217;s always the luxury that we have. But, it kind of depends on how you want to develop your product. And I think that WordPress, what we shouldn&#8217;t forget is that a lot of people now look at WordPress and say, well, a lot is changing and some things are unstable.</p>



<p>But actually if we go back in time, it kind of always has been like that. It&#8217;s just that most people do not see the changes that were done because they are just dealing with the admin, they&#8217;re doing content editing stuff which was very stable.</p>



<p>But I remember when the customiser was introduced. I mean, it wasn&#8217;t like this was the smoothest launch ever. And so I still remember because then I was, I think I was already at Automattic, or maybe not. But the situation was that every theme had their custom admin pages with a bunch of fields, they had their own frameworks. Everybody was sad, everybody was happy. And so then WordPress comes and says, oh, we are now going to do customiser. Huge drama, nobody wants to change it.</p>



<p>And then years later everybody uses a customiser, and now the next thing comes along, it&#8217;s like, oh, now we&#8217;re going to use the site editor. Huge drama. So it&#8217;s just a repeating cycle. But where it is difficult is, yeah, just these changes being introduced. The patterns, for example, it started out with having reusable blocks. I think that was the first feature that there was. So saving a block into the database, you can add it to other pages. And then if you change one instance, everything updates, great.</p>



<p>And then comes a pattern, which is more a theme developer thing back then, because you could only do it in themes previously. So you have these two concepts, and then suddenly they say, well, this is kind of the same thing because what we want to do now is you should be able to change the patterns also in the editor. So why don&#8217;t we just merge the two because they are similar.</p>



<p>So those get merged in and then that&#8217;s, I think it was at 6.2, or 6.3. Then it&#8217;s me standing there, hey, in 6.2 we used reusable blocks, but now it&#8217;s called a pattern, now it works this way. So obviously there&#8217;ve been a lot of changes and I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s going to stop because they&#8217;re just trying things and getting feedback.</p>



<p>But generally it&#8217;s also the case that if you look at your clients in the agency world, they&#8217;re using very few features actually of the whole thing. So what we see as developers, all of the changes, for them it doesn&#8217;t really matter to be honest, in most cases, doesn&#8217;t matter. If you tell them, hey, what used to be a reusable block now is a pattern, they&#8217;re going to say, okay, yeah, I get it.</p>



<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of hard how this thing has been rolled out. But definitely what I do criticise is that we all remember the famous learn JavaScript deeply speech, and it was good advice, but also bad advice. The advice was good because the direction was, everybody&#8217;s using JavaScript, so we as WordPress are also going to go more into JavaScript because they need it to build those interactive experiences. But learn JavaScript deeply is not a great path to follow.</p>



<p>And so if you talk to me and tell me I&#8217;m in this situation, I will need to learn this, I&#8217;m going to say, you do this, you that, you do the other, right? It&#8217;s a roadmap, and you can just follow it and it&#8217;ll work out fine.</p>



<p>So in the beginning there wasn&#8217;t really a lot of direction, what you should learn, how you should learn it. And also all of the things that we have now, where we have a dedicated developer blog, where we have people like Jamie, there is Justin, there is Nick Diego, there&#8217;s Rich. So all these people that we know like, in quotes. There are two community outreach, developer outreach, things like that, wasn&#8217;t there.</p>



<p>So I think if you would have that right from the beginning, all these people, it would&#8217;ve been a lot smoother because you still need somebody to, it&#8217;s one thing to have a change log that says, WordPress is now adding this feature, but that is not of the what.</p>



<p>And so then they also show the how, but you are not understanding the why. And so the why is the big piece where we need somebody that comes in and says, okay, we have this feature, it works this way. But you can use it in this fashion, in that fashion. And so that kind of basic layer of just the big why things are there, I think that is missing just in the free content that is out there.</p>



<p>[00:18:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;ve got a couple of things to add to that. So the first thing is I think the customiser bit that you said, was similar in magnitude, you know, and confusion. I guess the thing about the customiser is at least there was just one single purpose for being there. If you went into the customiser, it was basically to change the way things looked. Colors, or padding, or the number of posts in an archive, or whatever it may be.</p>



<p>You were looking at the way the front end looked in the customiser, and you could understand that. I guess the difference here with the admin overhaul, again, there&#8217;s no perfect word for it, but that&#8217;ll do, is that it encapsulates so many things, and that it&#8217;s a completely rolling program. So, it&#8217;ll be this one week, and then a few weeks later it&#8217;ll be something slightly different.</p>



<p>And like you said, the naming of things gets changed. And then you get things like synced patterns and all of that, that we just have to rename things over time. But in the end, it&#8217;ll settle.</p>



<p>And I also think that there is definitely more boots on the ground. The appointment of Jamie Marsland, you&#8217;ve said Jamie&#8217;s name a couple of times, I&#8217;m assuming that you mean Jamie Marsland, being put out as a, not really the developer advocate, but when things have been developed, his task now is to corral people himself and other people in the community to put out content to show how that works.</p>



<p>I think that was a real missing piece. And then you&#8217;ve obviously got learn.wordpress.org, developer.wordpress.org, and all of these different resources. And I think more work is going in right now than ever has before on the education piece afterwards. Whether or not people are seeing them, I don&#8217;t know. But it definitely seems like there is more effort going into explain how things are done, almost at the same time that they&#8217;re getting released, if you know what I mean. So content on YouTube within weeks of a new feature dropping, that&#8217;s new to me, and it&#8217;s really helpful when I see those.</p>



<p>[00:19:53] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Right. I think the problem that WordPress has is that you have so many different profiles, and it&#8217;s hard to do content which fits everybody because there is the user aspect. So that is more on the WordPress Learn side. So that&#8217;s more end user, I would call it.</p>



<p>Jamie is also, I guess, in that space, and then you have the developer blog is very much more developer stuff. But one of the challenges is when we look at what I teach, so I do teach the features for sure, but it&#8217;s all down to a specific angle. And so the challenge that we have, I think in WordPress, and that we need to recognise is that when I learned WordPress, I didn&#8217;t just open WordPress and then started typing stuff. I knew that it used PHP. So I first learned PHP, I was actually quite decent in PHP before I got to the WordPress, which is lucky for me.</p>



<p>But the thing is that, yes, there is a lot of content that is being released, but it&#8217;s all very piecemeal. And so the challenge is that you need to take a step back, that&#8217;s how I organise my learning materials, that we need to understand the big picture, the concepts that are there, and then once you understand those, then you&#8217;re going to be able to understand all of the rest.</p>



<p>Because it&#8217;s the same thing when you go from, for example, so I knew PHP, that is the language that I definitely learned from books and everything like that. And then JavaScript, I knew somewhat, I mean, jQuery really, let&#8217;s be honest. But then when I had to learn it for real, my knowledge of PHP helped me a lot because I understood all of the concepts.</p>



<p>For me, it&#8217;s not just code. I know what a variable is, what the function is, how it works, what scope is. All of these more foundational stuff that you learn when you have a computer sciences background, or something like that, formal education, you&#8217;ll learn it. But when you&#8217;re self-taught you&#8217;ll not necessarily learn that.</p>



<p>And so that is something missing because, for example, Jamie has those speed builds, right? And I find them cool, they&#8217;re a cool demo. And we kind of had this little disagreement of where I said, the speed build is cool, but it&#8217;s that, it&#8217;s cool. You don&#8217;t really build websites for clients this way, where you go in and choose just will nilly change stuff.</p>



<p>You need to really go into the design and say, okay, what are the font, the sizes, the colors, the spacings. So really create that design system, then you enter that. And once you have that foundation, where all of those design system values are created, then you start building out the designs. And then we&#8217;ll see that most of the stuff that you drop in, it already looks like it should look. It has the right font, it has the right size.</p>



<p>And so it&#8217;s more, because when you write CSS it&#8217;s the same thing. You don&#8217;t just look at the red button and make a red button class. No, you have a certain color system, you have a certain foundational values for the HTML tag. So everything that way that you would build out your CSS in layers, that go from the least specific to the most specific, with full site editing is quite the same.</p>



<p>And so the challenge that we have as a developer community is to realise that with the tooling is changing, and we are now building things visually, but all of the, let&#8217;s say the tech part underneath it, it&#8217;s still the same. It&#8217;s HTML, it&#8217;s CSS, it&#8217;s PHP, right? So that&#8217;s what the front end runs on. And we just need to take those concepts and apply them in the site editor. And then the transition is going to be a lot easier.</p>



<p>But definitely some developers have a problem with, instead of just saying, I want to write code, I&#8217;ve decided that you&#8217;re not really writing a lot of code, and that is unfortunately or fortunately where the direction is going. That depends on how you&#8217;re looking at it.</p>



<p>But I think with the whole perspective that we need to have on this is that you may look at the site editor and say, it&#8217;s weird that it tries to do this page builder like approach with content editing built in. Because a lot of developers say, I want it to distinguish from each other.</p>



<p>But it&#8217;s more that the people that now start building websites with any of the tools that are out there, that is the experience that they get, it&#8217;s a visual builder. And so in the same way as, my daughter is six years old, she doesn&#8217;t know what the landline phone is. She saw one at my grandparents and she says, what&#8217;s that? Well, that&#8217;s a phone.</p>



<p>And so, yeah, for them, the children that grow up now, obviously everything is a smartphone, everything has a touch interface. They don&#8217;t know what we knew with actual buttons, and blackberries, and all that stuff. And so that&#8217;s the perspective that we need to take. There was a very interesting podcast with Josh Hall, who has a podcast, and Mark Szymanski I think, I hope I&#8217;m not butchering his name. I think the title was even, is WordPress for old people?</p>



<p>And so, yeah, I mean, I&#8217;m 40. I&#8217;m not really old, but I&#8217;m not spring chicken. And that&#8217;s a perspective that we need to have. We are in the middle of this transition and we know the old, and the new, and for us, while we&#8217;re in the middle of that transition, it&#8217;s going to be hard.</p>



<p>But every day there are new people coming onto the web, and WordPress needs to be the thing that they expect, needs to be a visual builder. And they don&#8217;t know about the customiser/ they for sure don&#8217;t know about settings, pages that we used in the past. For them it&#8217;s all, it&#8217;s as much history as a landline phone. And so that&#8217;s a perspective which we need to have when we look at this project.</p>



<p>[00:24:39] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s kind of interesting, when you play with SaaS products, when they want to radically change their UI UX, they&#8217;ll typically be some sort of upgrade path. There&#8217;ll be a button in the UI saying, do you want to try out the new interface? And you click the button, and there you go, and you have a period of time.</p>



<p>But typically, the companies presumably dog fooded at that UI UX and figured out, okay, this is the end result, this is basically what we want to offer, and we&#8217;re at the point now where we just want a little bit of guidance, where we&#8217;ve gone wrong on a few minor points. And then some people opt into it, and stay with it, other people say, actually, do you know what? I&#8217;m just going to stay with the old interface for a little while.</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve got that kind of in WordPress, you know, if you use a block-based theme then those options become available, but if you use a, in air quotes, classic theme, you&#8217;re still with how it always was. But I do think that we&#8217;re presented with a different problem in that it&#8217;s so very different, and so in a state of flux. And there&#8217;s so much that has changed, and so much that will change. I feel it&#8217;s quite, I&#8217;m going to use the word discombobulating. It&#8217;s just tricky to make the decision to flip over.</p>



<p>And when I frequent, I don&#8217;t know, things like social networks, X, or Facebook groups and what have you, there&#8217;s also this whole other thing of third party page builders, where people have just opted and sort of said, look, I don&#8217;t want anything to do with any of that, I want to just go with Bricks, or Beaver Builder, or Elementor, and I&#8217;m just going to handle it all that way, which makes it even more difficult to coalesce on what&#8217;s the correct path.</p>



<p>So we&#8217;re definitely living in interesting times. Like you said, we&#8217;re in the middle of it at the moment. I&#8217;m kind of hoping that at some point it settles down, and we get some sort of muscle memory on where everything is, and how everything works, and that it stabilises and nothing much changes. And I feel we&#8217;re getting there at the moment.</p>



<p>But it sounds from everything that you&#8217;ve said that you are putting all of your bets on full site editing, block-based everything, as opposed to, well, any other way of doing it. Classic themes, or third party page builders, or what have you.</p>



<p>Why are you so bullish? Why do you think that this is the correct path? Why will WordPress and it&#8217;s core offerings succeed, do you think?</p>



<p>[00:26:45] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> I think we already had that lined last time we saw each other, I&#8217;m fully in on that. So I built a production website at Human Made with the block editor that was still in Gutenberg. So we launched a couple of months, I think two or three before it officially was merging WordPress 5.0. And that was just because block-based editors were a thing before WordPress introduced it.</p>



<p>Notion, for example, which is very popular, it&#8217;s a block editor. And I was very aware of the limitations of the classic editor. Yeah, so for me it made total sense, just from the content editing perspective. And this is where it&#8217;s kind of hard to distinguish when you don&#8217;t know what to choose, and you see two people posting on X, or on Facebook, and one says, oh yeah, this is great, editors love it. Another person says, no, they hate it.</p>



<p>So I can say that very comfortably that editors love it, because I work with a lot of big publishing brands. They have a lot of people that write content, and they all love the block editor.</p>



<p>So the other person maybe has talked to one person once that didn&#8217;t like it, and now that&#8217;s opinion. So that&#8217;s the hard part, is that when you listen to somebody&#8217;s opinion, you should look at, okay, what are they doing? What is their background? Why do they have that opinion? And that goes in both ways.</p>



<p>When you are a user of a specific page builder, you need to look at, okay, what is this person doing? Why do they like this? But the problem that we have in WordPress is that if you Google on YouTube how to build a website, or how to build the WordPress website, there&#8217;s going to be a gazillion videos that use some kind of third party solution. And that is just influencers that want to make money through affiliates.</p>



<p>And so that is, I think, changing because when we look at the economic incentives for you to build using Core WordPress, it&#8217;s zero, it&#8217;s free. I can just take it, it&#8217;s all there for me, versus having a product that I recommend, and again, 30% of whatever the price is. That skews the debate a little bit unfortunately.</p>



<p>Because when you, for example, let&#8217;s say you don&#8217;t know how to build a website at all. You Google it, you find a video that explains to you, oh, we use this product here, this product like that. You think that this is what WordPress is.</p>



<p>And so when we talk about page builders, for me it&#8217;s always, you do what you do, and if it works for you, then I&#8217;m fine with it, right? I have my position on it, but if you have a different position, that&#8217;s great. But it&#8217;s different than, if you built your website using this page builder and it&#8217;s your own website, then you took the decision and you own it fully. When you are an agency and you build a website for a client using a specific product, and then this client wants to move off of the page builder, and they come to a different agency. Then you say, oh, I have this website, I have this man, this content, how do I get it off whatever thing?</p>



<p>And then you&#8217;re saying, yeah, we can do some automated migration, but really you have to rebuild a lot, and then you are totally falling out of the sky. It&#8217;s like, why, it&#8217;s WordPress? Why can&#8217;t you just take WordPress and put a new theme on it, and then it&#8217;s going to be great?</p>



<p>And then we get into, well, you need to understand that, yada yada. So it&#8217;s going to be a lot of technical mumbo jumbo, they have zero interest in it. And unfortunately it&#8217;s also going to be very pricey. If you have a lot of content to take from some kind of solution, which doesn&#8217;t store the content in the format that is native that WordPress can understand, it&#8217;s going to be a lot of hard work to get it right.</p>



<p>So there is the data liberation project, which is going to help with that hopefully. But it&#8217;s also the case that certain page builders, just due to the way that they are built, it&#8217;s very hard to make sense of it. You have page builders that give you a total freedom that you build, so it&#8217;s essentially just blobs of HTML and so, how do you make sense of blobs of HTML? It&#8217;s very hard.</p>



<p>So the whole deal with blocks is, what is not understood is, that theme building in WordPress was fine, it was a solved problem. But the problem was that WordPress has zero clue what you have in your templates. Some PHP, some HTML, some JavaScript, and you cannot go through that in a programmatic way and say, this is the title, this is the content.</p>



<p>So what blocks give you is that every block is self-contained, and you know exactly what it is. This is a title, this is a paragraph, this is a header block. And so to have that freedom of customising your designs, you need to give structure to it. And so blocks solve that problem that we now can break up a design to different pieces, and customise them individually.</p>



<p>But also it solves the long standing problem of who wins out. Because it&#8217;s like this, you build a website, you take a theme, you take a plugin. Put your stuff on the page using a short code back in the day, and it looks like nothing, right? And then the plugin says, oh, it&#8217;s the theme&#8217;s fault, and the theme says, no, it&#8217;s the plugin&#8217;s fault. And you&#8217;re just, okay, let&#8217;s just forget about it.</p>



<p>And then when you are a developer, you can fix it. But when you&#8217;re not a developer, it&#8217;s terribly frustrating because maybe you bought the theme, and maybe you bought a plugin, and everybody&#8217;s just saying it&#8217;s the other person&#8217;s fault. And that&#8217;s just not the great situation.</p>



<p>And so if it is a block, it can integrate into this existing design system. Hopefully it gives you a few options to customize stuff. But generally, if you drop a block into Twenty Twenty Two, and then Twenty Twenty Five, and the block is quite unopinionated, it&#8217;s going to look somewhat like the theme. It&#8217;s never going to be close, especially if you have very complicated blocks like the obvious slider, you know, people love sliders, so that&#8217;s more difficult to handle.</p>



<p>But there are a lot of very basic blocks, like in an LMS, a course list, course title, that kind of stuff, where we can have a lot of compatibility with themes just out of the box. And you always need to understand the problems of the past to understand the solutions to take right now. And WordPress still is, even with block themes, can be very hard to use, right?</p>



<p>Because this doesn&#8217;t work with this, this doesn&#8217;t work with that. So we need to really simplify and agree on the common set of interfaces, a common set of programming interfaces, a common set of just ways that we build things, and blocks help with that.</p>



<p>But the difficulty in that is that WordPress, for a long time, the philosophy was more, there&#8217;s zero in it, right? So if you install WordPress 4.9, there&#8217;s nothing in it. And WordPress was just, hey, I&#8217;m going to give you these programming interfaces, and then you do whatever you want.</p>



<p>So the customiser was like that. So you take the customiser and then you build your controls that you want. But then you have the problem that different themes have different controls. When you switch themes, it breaks.</p>



<p>And so now WordPress is taking the exact opposite way, where it&#8217;s saying, no, we are going to agree on this set of tools. It&#8217;s going to be handled this way. It&#8217;s very opinionated. And more than the technical issues, it&#8217;s just this opinionated version of how the WordPress admin should look that is causing problems.</p>



<p>And the thing is with the SaaS, when you subscribe to some platform and you do change the interface, well, you like it or you don&#8217;t like it, it&#8217;s not our problem. If you don&#8217;t like it, then leave. That&#8217;s essentially their solution to solving that problem, because when they change interfaces, their bet is that more people going to like it than people are going to dislike it, so they&#8217;re going to be fine. But still the opinion is that, hey, if you don&#8217;t like it then leave, we don&#8217;t care.</p>



<p>And so we in WordPress have the problem that we do want people to stay around for a long time. We need to give people those tools where they don&#8217;t need third party tools to do very basic things. And it&#8217;s the same for WordPress, also same for WooCommerce, right? It&#8217;s both having a lot of other platforms competing with them. And we need to give people the tools that they need to really have a site that stays around for a very long time.</p>



<p>[00:33:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I guess there&#8217;s a few problems, isn&#8217;t there? Firstly that the SaaS platforms have complete control over the architecture of all the things. So they know everything that&#8217;s going on with every one of their clients. Whereas WordPress, who knows what&#8217;s going on with any one of the millions of websites? What the dependencies are, what hosting it&#8217;s on, what range of plugins it&#8217;s got going on in there. So it has to be much more slowly, slowly, gently. Just try to make sure that everything is backwards compatible.</p>



<p>But also when you kind of muddle up the way a site looks with the content, so the design and the content is put into the same interface, there&#8217;s potential for everything to go wrong there as well.</p>



<p>Certainly at the moment, I really do like the endeavors of locking things within blocks, so that the designers, if they&#8217;ve got the technical capacity to get in there and figure out how to lock different aspects, they can hand over, kind of like boilerplate templates for pages if you like, drop things in. You can change the text here, but you can&#8217;t change the background. The colors are fixed, but the font, that&#8217;s okay, you can change that. All of that seems to be adding to a much more complete solution as well.</p>



<p>Whereas in the more recent past, if you hand over something to a client, they&#8217;ve basically been able to destroy everything just by clicking around in the interface. Whereas now, hopefully in the near future, more of those locking things will be possible so that, like I said, you can make it so that they can&#8217;t change this thing, or the other thing as well.</p>



<p>[00:35:14] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Right. I think we can talk a lot about the tech, and the tech is important, but the tech is just that. And the technology never comes first. It&#8217;s always the demand for the technology that precedes it.</p>



<p>And when we look at the agency world, you kind of have the two extremes. On the one hand, you have agencies that say, I&#8217;m going to build your website, if you need to change anything, call me, send me an email, and we&#8217;re going to change it for you.</p>



<p>And that&#8217;s certainly a model that works up to a certain point, because if you do request a lot of changes on the website, then it becomes pricey from a certain point. But what we now see in the larger companies is that from a certain point on, the marketing&#8217;s not going to be done by an agency, the market is going to be done in house. And those people in the marketing world, they are used to things like HubSpot Pages, all these tools that are out there to ClickFunnels for example, and they take that for granted.</p>



<p>And they might even not know WordPress depending on where they&#8217;ve been, or what the age is even. And so they come into WordPress and then they say, I want to build this landing page for this campaign, and then their boss says, yeah, I&#8217;m going to call up our agency and then say, yeah, give me a design. Then we&#8217;re going to hand code it, it&#8217;s going to take us a week. Then I say, okay, no, it&#8217;s not going to take a week for me there to build a campaign because I need to build a lot of landing pages.</p>



<p>And so that is the thing that&#8217;s changed that with marketers taking a liking to WordPress, and also being more involved with that, we need to give them the tools that they need. So the challenge that WordPress has is that it needs to correspond to that really use case where you have people that know how to use this tool, that want to build landing pages, want nearly complete control over the website, and that don&#8217;t want to pay an agency to do it, and they want to be fast and quick.</p>



<p>And then the, I guess, path in the middle where you have maybe end users, or people that are updating the website like a restaurant, classic scenario, do you need to update their menu of the week? Where we need to offer them an interface that is easy to understand, but locked down so that they can go in and, on Monday this is the menu of the day, so that they can change those few things quite easily while keeping the design intact.</p>



<p>But it&#8217;s also more, you have the tools and WordPress can give you that content locking, that design locking, all of those tools are built in. But the other part is also that every agency needs to kind of customise WordPress a bit. For example, what you can do is, when you log into WP admin, you have the possibility to register a custom widget there. So you register a widget and then you say, hey, change the menu, and it leads you directly to that page where you can edit that.</p>



<p>So it&#8217;s little things like that end user experience where you can make it a lot simpler. And the challenge is that if you&#8217;re used to WordPress makes total sense because use it every day. But we really need to take a step back and think about the people that don&#8217;t use it every day, and say, okay, what can I customise in here to make this a lot smoother?</p>



<p>So the challenges right now is, for sure the tech is a challenge, but tech is very solvable, right? I can teach anybody to do anything technically. But that user experience aspect, that&#8217;s really hard to do. Teaching somebody to design effective user interfaces, that&#8217;s a totally different skill to just being technical, and we need to have both at this time.</p>



<p>[00:38:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> We know that you are very technical, you&#8217;re working for an enterprise agency, and you are teaching this content. So we could have the conversation about what we would hope the project, WordPress itself, would do differently. But remove that, we are where we are.</p>



<p>But personally, looking back over the last five, six years of what you have done, have you gone down any blind alleys? Have you made any missteps that you think with hindsight, oh, I would&#8217;ve done that differently?</p>



<p>I don&#8217;t know, with your courses, just released content which then got completely upended by something that Core did. Or perhaps, I don&#8217;t know, advocate for something that was a blind alley and never got taken on. So it&#8217;s more a question of not what Core did, but what you did, and how that worked out.</p>



<p>[00:38:53] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Yeah, so there&#8217;s two angles to it. So for the course it&#8217;s definitely. So I thought, well, this is a feature I like it. Full Site Editing is really great, because I published it in 2021. That was when they started work in just the plugin for a while. That wasn&#8217;t the plugin, so obviously it changed a lot. Then it landed in Core, and then we had a theme.</p>



<p>So I did a release for 5.8, which was just the underlying APIs without the site editor. That was on theme json version one, okay. So great. 5.9 hits, a V2 comes out, which as somebody who&#8217;s using it, the difference is zero. But as somebody who shows it, I cannot have a video where it says at the top, oh, this is V1, right? So I need to re record that.</p>



<p>And then now we are on V3. So yeah, I had to redo the course. I mean there have been three complete redos, and then every time that the new release comes out, pretty much have replaced between 20 to 40% of the lessons. And it&#8217;s not interface updates, but it&#8217;s more, now it&#8217;s not reusable blocks, now it&#8217;s patterns, sync patterns, partially synced patterns. Block bindings, now there&#8217;s a UI.</p>



<p>So that&#8217;s just the technical part, but the other part is more that you can use it for this, you can use it for that. It&#8217;s all of those tricks that I find out, I put in there. So really it&#8217;s more like a recipe. For example, when the content only editing comes in, then it&#8217;s when I go, this is what it does, and this is what I would recommend that to use.</p>



<p>So yeah, courses are not passive income by any means. But it has given me a lot in terms of just interacting with the people, seeing what they&#8217;re doing. I&#8217;ve learned a lot just from the people that I talk to. Because it&#8217;s not that I come up with this stuff all on my own. For sure, certain things I do my own research, and I know that from all projects, but a lot of stuff just comes from the people that are in the course.</p>



<p>It&#8217;s more the other part, did I do anything wrong where I would say afterwards, would&#8217;ve done it this way? Sure, but there wasn&#8217;t anything terribly off. But it&#8217;s also my personality is that if you do teach things, obviously you like learning things, because you need to learn something to teach it. Yeah, I just have a high barrier for frustration. But that&#8217;s just me because as a principal engineer, those are the highest paid engineers in the organisation. And so if you want that kind of money, you need to bring something to the table.</p>



<p>And so stuff is always difficult, whether it&#8217;s Full Site Editing, some kind of architecture stuff. So the whole thing is always just hard. So if that&#8217;s your day to day, it&#8217;s different than to somebody who, for a long time has just been building with the same stuff, and there weren&#8217;t many challenges. And now this is all changing and they&#8217;re like, oh wow, what&#8217;s going on? You know, this is all very difficult.</p>



<p>But that&#8217;s why there are stuff like course and tutorials, right? Somebody does the hard work for you and just follow along. So that&#8217;s a thing.</p>



<p>But what would actually, the biggest growth that I&#8217;ve seen is that when we talk about just what we do every day, you have to understand your clients in order to build a solution for them that is great. Because you have two types of developers. One developer just sits there and the client says, do this, and they do it, and that&#8217;s it.</p>



<p>The other develop is more, the client says, do this, and then they&#8217;re saying like, why do you want this? Should it be this way? Should it be that way? Because a client cannot know as much about workers as you do. So obviously your opinion usually is better than theirs because they don&#8217;t have the technical background.</p>



<p>But you also need to understand their needs. You need to understand their need without accepting their solution of it. And that&#8217;s really where I&#8217;ve done a lot of learning just also because of my course. You know, I have to do email marketing. How does email marketing work? I have zero clue. Just the tech of it. What do you write? What do people want to read? I have to look at analytics. I have to build sales pages. What goes on the sales page? And so all of that, now I have a lot more respect for marketing people because it&#8217;s a very, very hard job.</p>



<p>And so that has been the biggest growth for me. Also writers, you know I write a lot. Previously when I did projects back in 2015, I used WordPress, but I didn&#8217;t write. So anything that they say to me was, I use it this way, and I didn&#8217;t have an idea of what they meant, because I wasn&#8217;t creating a lot of content in WordPress. I was just writing code.</p>



<p>Now that I do create content I understand, okay. This is hard, that is hard. This is difficult. So it&#8217;s more that being closer to your clients and their needs that has allowed me to have that bigger growth. And also the challenge when it comes to building custom blocks, people get hung up, oh, it&#8217;s JavaScript. Yes, but so what? I mean, JavaScript is very learnable. It&#8217;s the most popular language out there. React is super popular. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people that are doing React.</p>



<p>But the hard part is that, how do I build that block? What should it look like? What is the dialogue? What is the state when I put it in? Should it be in the sidebar? Should it be here? Just a slider. A slider on the front end, everybody knows what it looks like. But how do you represent six slides in the backend? You put them one below the other. Should there be a toggle? Should you be able to drag things? Is it all just one editing mask? Should you be able to move things around?</p>



<p>So those are really the hard challenges right now, and that you only get when you actually talk to people of how they use WordPress. And I think that&#8217;s perspective is missing unfortunately, a lot in the community.</p>



<p>[00:43:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m glad that there are people like you who are giving that plenty of thought so that you can presumably contribute back, and give your opinions on how things should go from the admin side of things.</p>



<p>Fränk, just before we say thank you and adieu, do you want to just drop a couple of links? Maybe a website where you can be found, or a, I don&#8217;t know, social media handle where people can get in touch with you if they wish to.</p>



<p>[00:43:48] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Yes. My website is wpdevelopment.courses, quite easy. Then I&#8217;m on X at fklux. So yeah, the rest we&#8217;re going to put into the show notes.</p>



<p>[00:43:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, well, I will do that. Go to wptavern.com/podcast and search for the episode with Fränk Klein, and all of the links will be in the show notes there. So Fränk, once more, thank you so much for chatting to me today. I really appreciate it.</p>



<p>[00:44:13] <strong>Fränk Klein:</strong> Thank you very much.</p>
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<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://x.com/fklux">Fränk Klein</a>.</p>



<p>Fränk is a principal engineer at Human Made and brings a wealth of experience from his extensive history with WordPress, having started with the platform in 2011. He previously worked at Automattic and now directs his expertise towards WP Development Courses, where he teaches block theme and custom block development.</p>



<p>Fränk talks about the modernization of PHP within WordPress, a topic that often gets overshadowed by the hype around JavaScript. We get into Human Made&#8217;s work, an enterprise-focused WordPress agency renowned for serving high-profile clients such as the Harvard Gazette and TechCrunch. Fränk explains the intricate custom backend development needed to meet the complex requirements of enterprise clients, like sophisticated editorial workflows for clients like banks.</p>



<p>Fränk provides a comprehensive breakdown of the Gutenberg project&#8217;s four phases: content editing, site customization, collaborative editing, and multilingual capabilities. We explore how FSE is transforming WordPress by integrating new editing tools and modernising the admin interface, moving the platform from its classic roots to a more dynamic, block-based editing environment.</p>



<p>Fränk shares his unique perspective on the challenges and rewards of engineering and teaching within the WordPress ecosystem. He stresses the importance of understanding client needs and the necessity for developers to engage in continuous learning.</p>



<p>We also talk about using traditional WordPress solutions and third-party page builders like Bricks, Beaver Builder, and Elementor. Fränk argues for the streamlined, block-based systems offered by WordPress Core, citing both financial and technical benefits.</p>



<p>Our conversation continues into the broader implications of WordPress&#8217;s ongoing evolution; the significant admin interface redesign and its impact on users and agencies. Fränk discusses the challenges users face with these changes and the importance of improving communication within the WordPress community to facilitate smoother transitions.</p>



<p>Towards the end, Fränk talks about his experiences with course creation and content maintenance, particularly given the fast-paced changes in WordPress features. He emphasises the need for a solid grasp of foundational web development concepts to fully leverage the platform&#8217;s evolving tools.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re keen on understanding how full site editing and other WordPress innovations can enhance your projects, and wish to gain insights into the evolving WordPress landscape, this episode is for you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Useful links</h2>



<p><a href="https://humanmade.com/">Human Made</a></p>



<p><a href="https://wpdevelopment.courses/">WP Development Courses</a></p>



<p><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/">Harvard Gazette</a></p>



<p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/">TechCrunch</a></p>



<p><a href="https://ma.tt/2017/08/we-called-it-gutenberg-for-a-reason/">We Called it Gutenberg for a Reason</a></p>



<p><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress</a></p>



<p><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/">Developer Blog</a></p>



<p><a href="https://joshhall.co/349-is-wordpress-for-old-people-with-mark-szymanski/">Is WordPress for Old People?</a> Podcast with Josh Hall and Mark Szymanski</p>



<p><a href="https://bricksbuilder.io/">Bricks</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/">Beaver Builder</a></p>



<p><a href="https://elementor.com/">Elementor</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.notion.so/">Notion</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.hubspot.com/products/marketing/landing-pages">HubSpot Pages</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.clickfunnels.com/">ClickFunnels</a></p>



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<p>The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.51.0.pdf">revised document</a> with 144 pages, opens with strong accusations: “This is a case about abuse of power, extortion, and greed. The misconduct at issue is especially troubling because it took place within the WordPress open-source software community, which was built on promises of freedom to build, run, change, and redistribute without barriers or restrictions. Those promises were betrayed by the wrongful actions of a few defendants, to the detriment of the broader community—including WPE.”</p>



<p>The filing continues: “WPE brings this suit to stop the defendants from further harming WPE, its customer relationships, and the entire WordPress ecosystem, and to hold them accountable for their broken promises and misconduct.”</p>



<p>The document also raises concerns about trademark misuse, alleging that the defendants Automattic &amp; Matt have used their claimed trademark to violate antitrust laws. WP Engine claims to have used the terms &#8220;WordPress&#8221; and &#8220;WooCommerce&#8221; without issue since 2010 and 2018, respectively, even with Automattic&#8217;s knowledge. In fact, Automattic had invested in WP Engine in 2011 and remained an investor until 2018, and the companies maintained regular communications during that period.</p>



<p>The filing highlights an acknowledgment from Mullenweg years back when he publicly stated that WP Engine’s use of “WP” in its company name is entirely proper and serves as an example for other companies: “We ask you to not use WordPress in your domain name, which we’ve done for four years now. So, use like WP, like there’s WPEngine, call it WPEngine instead of WordPressEngine.com or something like that.”</p>



<p>Further, WP Engine argues that Mullenweg&#8217;s statements indicate Automattic’s knowledge of their legitimate use of the WordPress name and suggest that the recent trademark infringement claims are a strategy to harm competitors. The suit suggests that Automattic&#8217;s actions appear to be a deliberate attempt to undermine WP Engine through anticompetitive tactics.</p>



<p>WP Engine claims these actions are causing severe damage to its business and reputation, including:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Loss of access to WordPress.org functionality.</li>



<li>Customer attrition due to Automattic&#8217;s actions.</li>



<li>Costly workarounds as WPE expends significant resources to update plugins and serve customers.</li>



<li>Loss of key products, including the ACF plugin and its millions of users.</li>



<li>Reputational harm and loss of goodwill in the WordPress community.</li>
</ul>



<p>WP Engine argues that Automattic’s conduct has harmed four key markets relevant to the dispute &#8211; Web content management systems, WordPress web hosting services, WordPress custom field plugins and Distribution of WordPress plugins. </p>



<p>The lawsuit asserts that Automattic is attempting to raise costs for competitors by forcing WP Engine and others to pay licensing fees for trademarks Automattic claims to control. This, WP Engine argues, constitutes a violation of antitrust laws by attempting to monopolize key sectors of the WordPress ecosystem.</p>



<p>WP Engine also shared that even their CEO was threatened, and &#8220;Automattic has recently escalated its tactics by actively recruiting hundreds of WPE employees, in an apparent effort to weaken WPE by sowing doubts about the company’s future and enticing WPE’s employees to join Automattic.&#8221;</p>



<p>The filing invokes multiple legal frameworks, including the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/sherman-anti-trust-act">Sherman Act</a>, the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/lanham_act">Lanham Act</a>, <a href="https://www.classlawgroup.com/antitrust/state-laws/california-cartwright-act">California Cartwright Act</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act">Computer Fraud and Abuse Act</a>.</p>



<p>Automattic <a href="https://x.com/automattic/status/1857080476776767975">tweeted</a>, &#8220;WordPress isn’t just a software–it’s a movement. This movement, and the community that powers it, are why WordPress now powers over 40% of the web. That’s why Automattic and <a href="https://x.com/photomatt">@photomatt</a> are taking action to protect it from misuse by those who profit without giving back.&#8221; They also published <a href="https://automattic.com/2024/protecting-wordpress/">Defending Open Source: Protecting the Future of&nbsp;WordPress</a>. </p>



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Here is Akshaya reading her own story aloud.





<p>Howdy, friends!</p>



<p>I’m Akshaya Rane, a fellow WordPress enthusiast from the vibrant suburbs of Mumbai, India. You’ll often find me at WordPress meetups, WordCamps, and Do Actions, eagerly soaking in the energy of this incredible community.</p>



<p>It all began at my first WordCamp Mumbai. The enthusiasm in the air, the insightful sessions, and the shared passion for WordPress left me inspired. At the time, I couldn’t imagine myself on that stage, yet here I am today, sharing my journey with you.</p>



<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7651_9919d8-02 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><strong>Discovering the Joy of Contribution</strong></h2>



<p>A few years later, WordCamp Mumbai hosted a Contribution Day, and my world opened up. I learned about the many ways to give back—Core, Meta, Photos, Themes, Translations, and more. My first contribution was a ticket in Core, and from there, I never looked back.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>Earning a few contribution badges along the way has been an honor, but the real reward has been the learning and the connections made with like-minded people worldwide.</p>
</blockquote>



<p>Recently, I had the privilege of serving as a release coordinator for WordPress 6.4 and 6.5. Working alongside such talented individuals from around the globe has been humbling and inspiring. If this sounds daunting, trust me—it wasn’t something I planned for. I simply embraced the opportunities that came my way and poured my time and effort into them.</p>



<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7651_c36762-8e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><strong>Embracing the Speaker’s Stage</strong></h2>



<p>My speaker journey began with a #WPDiversity workshop led by Jill Binder. She simplified the process of becoming a speaker, guiding us from topic selection to proposal submission. While it took me a few months to act on it, the group’s encouragement kept me going.</p>



<p>Finally, I submitted my first application to WordCamp Kerala 2023, and to my surprise, I was selected! </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>It was both exciting and nerve-wracking, but delivering that talk and hearing how others related to my experiences made it all worthwhile.</p>
</blockquote>



<p>Since then, I’ve delivered six to seven talks at various WordCamps, including panel discussions. These events have allowed me to explore new places, experience diverse cultures, savor local cuisines, and, most importantly, connect with fellow enthusiasts.</p>



<a href="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3024/11/akshaya_at_wordcamp.webp"><img width="1024" height="1024" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3024/11/akshaya_at_wordcamp-1024x1024.webp" alt="Akshaya speaking at WordCamp Kerala." class="wp-image-7654" /></a>



<p>If you’re considering stepping onto the WordCamp stage, I’ve documented my speaker journey<a href="https://akshayar.online/from-novice-to-wordcamp-speaker-navigating-the-journey/"> here</a>. I hope it helps you get started!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-sharing-and-growing-together"><strong>Sharing and Growing Together</strong></h2>



<p>As I delved deeper into contributions, I wanted to share the experience with my team. With support from my company, we organized a WordPress Contribution Day, which was a great success. Seeing my teammates engage and grow was incredibly rewarding.</p>



<p>Being part of the 6.4 and 6.5 release teams taught me the value of empathy, time management, and collaboration. Every small change in WordPress reflects the dedication of contributors ensuring the platform remains reliable for countless businesses worldwide.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-problem-solving-through-wordpress"><strong>Problem-Solving Through WordPress</strong></h2>



<p>In my day-to-day role as a Project Manager, I specialize in solving business challenges. One project that stands out involved migrating subscriptions to WooCommerce. With careful planning and execution, we ensured seamless integration, minimizing disruption and protecting the client’s business.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>These experiences remind me why WordPress is a cornerstone for so many businesses—it’s not just a tool; it’s a community-powered solution.</p>
</blockquote>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-heart-of-wordpress-community"><strong>The Heart of WordPress: Community</strong></h2>



<p>After nearly two decades, the WordPress community remains its greatest strength. It’s a place where we help each other grow and learn, and I am deeply grateful to be part of it.</p>



<p>I want to thank Topher for this opportunity to share my story on HeroPress, a platform filled with inspiring journeys. If my story resonates with you, feel free to reach out through my site. Whether it’s learning, connecting, or collaborating, I’d love to hear from you.</p>



<p>Let’s continue building and thriving together!</p>



<p></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://heropress.com/essays/from-attendee-to-contributor-my-wordpress-journey/">From Attendee to Contributor: My WordPress Journey</a> appeared first on <a href="https://heropress.com">HeroPress</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:30:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Akshaya Rane";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:17;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>WordPress contributors kept a close eye on the complaints and have decided to release<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/wordpress-6-7-1-release-schedule/"> WordPress 6.7.1</a> on November 21, 2024, to address bugs introduced in version 6.7.</p>



<p>WordPress Core Committer Jonathan Desrosiers emphasized the release&#8217;s targeted approach, “The goal is to deliver a small handful of high-impact bug fixes for added stability prior to the busy online commerce holiday week consisting of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday.”</p>



<p>Key fixes planned for WordPress 6.7.1 include:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Resolving issues with sizes=auto causing small images.</li>



<li>Fixing translation errors.</li>



<li>Addressing problems with uncategorized patterns breaking the editor.</li>



<li>Correcting zoom-in misalignment issues</li>



<li>Fixing the missing zoom-out button when plugins add toolbar items.</li>
</ul>



<p>Several other bugs are being reviewed and may be included if fixes are ready, including images being unexpectedly converted to HEIC files with temporary names when using the Upload button in Safari, broken category management in the Classic Editor, and changes to CSS targets on the login screen affecting custom logos.</p>



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<p>A good online profile lets you strategically present yourself to align with your career goals and catch the eye of potential employers or clients.</p>



<p>Thankfully, with the right tools, you can create a consistent, professional presence across thousands of platforms without breaking a sweat. Ready to learn how? Let&#8217;s discover the secrets to crafting an online profile that truly shines.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 1: Implement essential strategies for a winning online profile</strong></h2>



<p>Creating an online profile that turns heads starts with defining your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">personal brand</a>. Think about what makes you unique. What skills, experiences, and values set you apart from the crowd? It’s not an easy thing to define, but once you do, everything else becomes much easier.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Every element of your profile, from your bio to your achievements, should consistently reflect this brand. Here are some strategies to keep in mind:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Be authentic.</strong> Genuinely displaying your experiences and aspirations builds trust. People can spot insincerity from a mile away, so keep it real.</li>



<li><strong>Use keywords strategically. </strong>Sprinkle industry-specific terms throughout your profile to boost your searchability. But don&#8217;t go overboard – it should still read naturally.</li>



<li><strong>Craft a compelling narrative.</strong> Instead of a dry list of jobs, tell the story of your career. What challenges have you overcome? What unique value do you bring?</li>



<li><strong>Optimize for AI-driven recruitment tools.</strong> Many companies use automated systems to screen candidates. Use relevant keywords to increase your chances of making it past these digital gatekeepers.</li>



<li><strong>Showcase tangible results.</strong> Don&#8217;t just say you&#8217;re great – <em>prove it</em>. Use specific metrics and outcomes to demonstrate your impact.</li>



<li><strong>Leverage multimedia.</strong> A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video might be worth even more. Consider incorporating presentations or infographics to make your profile more engaging.</li>
</ul>



<p>And remember, your profile isn&#8217;t set in stone. Keep it current by regularly updating your information to reflect your latest achievements and skills.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 2: Choose the right platforms for your professional goals</strong></h2>



<p>While <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a> is often the go-to for professionals, it&#8217;s not the only game in town. The trick here is to find platforms where your industry peers hang out. For developers, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a> is a must. Designers? Check out <a href="https://www.behance.net/search/projects">Behance</a> or <a href="https://dribbble.com/">Dribbble</a>.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s a pro tip: it&#8217;s better to have a strong presence on a few platforms than a weak one on many. Quality trumps quantity every time. Focus your efforts on platforms that align with your career objectives.</p>



<p>Don&#8217;t just set it and forget it, though. Use data-driven tools to track engagement and fine-tune your presence on each platform.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Leverage Gravatar for universal profile syncing</strong></h3>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about a tool that can make the whole process a lot easier: <a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="343" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-new-homepage-2.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar homepage" class="wp-image-2406" />



<p>Gravatar makes profile management easy by acting as a central point for your online identity. The platform connects your profile picture, biography, and professional information – it can be used as a main profile, an online resume, a digital business card, or a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/31/better-links-simple-messaging-developer-tools-and-more/">link-in-bio tool</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>It has one big advantage – when you update your information once in Gravatar, it syncs with each connected platform, including <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, and more. On top of that, the platform&#8217;s <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/05/user-profile-page-examples/">structured layout and simple design</a> present your skills, experiences, verified profiles, and portfolio in a professional format, making it an effective tool for establishing a unified personal brand.</p>



<img width="660" height="333" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-links-new.png?w=660" alt="Verified links feature of Gravatar profile" class="wp-image-2408" />



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 3: Select the perfect profile picture and craft an engaging bio</strong></h2>



<p>Your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/19/wordpress-profile-picture/">profile picture</a> is often the first thing people see, so make it count. Here&#8217;s how:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Invest in a high-quality, professional headshot. </strong>You don&#8217;t need to break the bank, but a blurry selfie won&#8217;t cut it.</li>



<li><strong>Dress the part. </strong>Wear something that matches your industry&#8217;s standards. A suit might be perfect for finance, while a more casual look could work for tech.</li>



<li><strong>Aim for friendly and approachable</strong>. A warm smile can go a long way in making a positive first impression.</li>



<li><strong>Keep the background simple.</strong> You&#8217;re the star of this show, not your bookshelf or your cat (as adorable as they might be).</li>
</ul>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about your bio. It&#8217;s your elevator pitch in written form, and it needs to pack a punch:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Begin with a strong statement that encapsulates your professional value.</strong> Example: &#8220;<em>Enterprise software architect specializing in scalable cloud solutions with 15 years of experience leading distributed teams.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Identify your unique strengths and expertise.</strong> Focus on specific technical abilities, industry knowledge, or specialized experience that differentiates you from others in your field.</li>



<li><strong>Write in clear, direct language. </strong>Instead of &#8220;<em>Results-driven professional,</em>&#8221; try &#8220;<em>Increased client retention by 40% through implementing automated customer service systems.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Adapt your writing style to your industry&#8217;s expectations.</strong> Software developers might focus on technical achievements, while marketing professionals might highlight creative campaigns and measurable outcomes.</li>



<li><strong>Structure your bio to address your target audience&#8217;s needs</strong>. For recruiters, emphasize career progression and achievements. For potential clients, focus on problems you&#8217;ve solved and value delivered. For industry peers, highlight your contributions to the field and areas of expertise.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Pro tip: </strong>Try A/B testing different versions of your bio and profile picture. See which ones get more engagement and refine accordingly.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s where Gravatar comes in handy again. Use it as your central hub, then create platform-specific &#8220;satellite&#8221; bios that link back to your comprehensive Gravatar profile. This way, you can tailor your message for each platform while maintaining a consistent core identity.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 4: Showcase skills and achievements effectively</strong></h2>



<p>Demonstrating your skills and achievements is like showing your professional superpowers. Here&#8217;s how to do it right:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Prioritize relevant skills. </strong>Focus on abilities that align with your current career goals. Not every skill needs to be listed – quality beats quantity.</li>



<li><strong>Use quantifiable achievements. </strong>Numbers speak louder than words. Did you increase sales by 30%? Mention it.</li>



<li><strong>Highlight certifications and awards. </strong>These serve as third-party validation of your expertise.</li>



<li><strong>Share testimonials. </strong>Let others sing your praises. A glowing recommendation from a colleague or client can be incredibly powerful.</li>



<li><strong>Consider using a skills matrix or visual representation. </strong>This can make it easy to scan your abilities at a glance.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 5: Optimize your profile for recruiters and job searches</strong></h2>



<p>Optimizing your profile for both human recruiters and applicant tracking systems (ATS) requires strategic planning and precise execution:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Start with targeted industry terminology. </strong>Research job descriptions in your desired roles and incorporate relevant terms naturally throughout your profile. For example, a UX designer might include specific methodologies like &#8220;user research,&#8221; &#8220;wireframing,&#8221; and &#8220;usability testing.&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Focus on detailed, measurable accomplishments in each role.</strong> Instead of &#8220;Led marketing campaigns,&#8221; write &#8220;Led 12 marketing campaigns generating $2M in revenue through targeted email and social media strategies.&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Boost visibility through strategic content sharing. </strong>Post or share industry analysis, project case studies, or professional insights weekly. This activity signals to recruiters that you&#8217;re actively engaged in your field.</li>



<li><strong>Review your privacy settings carefully. </strong>Enable profile visibility for recruiters and ensure your contact information is current. LinkedIn&#8217;s &#8220;Open to Work&#8221; feature can be particularly effective when used selectively.</li>



<li><strong>Track your profile&#8217;s performance using built-in analytics tools.</strong> Monitor profile views and search appearances, then adjust your content strategy based on these metrics.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 6: Build and engage with your network</strong></h2>



<p>Building a strong professional network requires strategic outreach and meaningful engagement. Here&#8217;s how to maximize your networking effectiveness:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Craft personalized connection requests that demonstrate genuine interest.</strong> Example: &#8220;<em>Your presentation on AI ethics at the Tech Summit was fascinating. I&#8217;d appreciate connecting to discuss your insights on responsible AI development.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Participate actively in professional groups related to your expertise. </strong>Share practical insights, answer technical questions, and initiate discussions about industry trends. Quality contributions establish you as a knowledgeable peer.</li>



<li><strong>Implement a structured engagement strategy.</strong> Dedicate 15 minutes daily to interact with industry content, focusing on thoughtful comments that add value to the discussion.</li>



<li><strong>Leverage virtual professional events strategically.</strong> Research speakers and attendees beforehand, prepare relevant questions, and follow up with meaningful connection requests afterward.</li>
</ul>



<p>Focus on building mutually beneficial relationships by offering assistance <em>before </em>asking for favors. Your network&#8217;s strength lies in the value exchange between members.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 7: Continuous improvement and profile maintenance</strong></h2>



<p>Maintaining an effective online presence requires systematic monitoring and regular updates to reflect your professional growth.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Implement a structured review schedule.</strong> Set quarterly calendar reminders to assess your profile&#8217;s relevance and completeness. This means your online presence accurately reflects your current capabilities and achievements.</li>



<li><strong>Document professional accomplishments as they occur.</strong> Create a dedicated spreadsheet or note system to track new certifications, project outcomes, and quantifiable achievements. This makes profile updates more efficient and comprehensive.</li>



<li><strong>Use platform analytics effectively. </strong>Monitor key metrics such as profile views, search appearances, and engagement rates. Use this data to identify patterns and optimize your content strategy accordingly.</li>



<li><strong>Establish a peer review system. </strong>Develop relationships with respected colleagues who can provide specific, actionable feedback on your profile&#8217;s effectiveness and areas for improvement.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Common mistakes to avoid when creating an online profile</strong></h2>



<p>Certain profile missteps can significantly diminish your professional impact. Here&#8217;s how to avoid these common pitfalls:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Incomplete sections signal a lack of attention to detail.</strong> Fill out each section thoroughly, but purposefully. A partial employment history or missing education details can raise red flags for recruiters.</li>



<li><strong>Outdated information undermines credibility. </strong>Remove obsolete skills, update employment status promptly, and refresh contact details immediately when they change.</li>



<li><strong>Unprofessional imagery damages first impressions.</strong> Replace casual photos, low-resolution images, or group pictures with a clear, professional headshot.</li>



<li><strong>Generic descriptions waste valuable profile space.</strong> Replace overused phrases like &#8220;<em>team player</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>results-driven</em>&#8221; with specific examples: &#8220;<em>Led cross-functional team of 8 to deliver $1M project under budget.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Inconsistent information across platforms creates confusion.</strong> Ensure your job titles, dates, and accomplishments align across all professional profiles.</li>



<li><strong>Neglecting privacy settings can expose sensitive information. </strong>Review and adjust visibility settings regularly, particularly when sharing personal updates or career changes.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Take charge of your online identity with Gravatar today</strong></h2>



<p>A polished online presence makes a measurable difference in professional advancement and networking opportunities. Each profile update, every connection, and all interactions contribute to your professional story.</p>



<p>Gravatar offers a sophisticated solution to streamline this process:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Sync your profile across thousands of platforms automatically, from GitHub to Slack and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a>.</li>



<li>Create a customizable profile that functions as your professional hub.</li>



<li>Integrate social media profiles, portfolios, and website links.</li>



<li>Control your data sharing with a privacy-first design.</li>



<li>Personalize your presence with custom domain support – available through WordPress.com domain registration.</li>
</ul>



<p>Think of Gravatar as your professional command center. It eliminates the hassle of managing multiple profiles while ensuring your professional identity remains consistent and compelling.</p>



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<p>The new default theme, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/08/15/introducing-twenty-twenty-five/">Twenty Twenty-Five</a>, “embodies ultimate flexibility and adaptability.” Fully compatible with the Site Editor, it offers multilingual font support, diverse color palettes, and an extensive set of patterns to make site customization easier.</p>



<p>The new zoom out mode enhances the editing experience, focusing on broader content patterns rather than individual blocks, enabling users to work with content from a higher, less granular perspective.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.7 also improves media handling, adding HEIC image support, auto-sizing for lazy-loaded images, and more background image support at individual and global levels. The release also has tons of site editor improvements and improved font management with deep styling capabilities.</p>



<p>Now, the Query Loop block automatically inherits queries from the default template. WordPress 6.7 also stabilized <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/11/05/how-to-add-content-only-editing-support-to-a-block/">content-only editing</a> for blocks.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Performance has also been boosted with faster pattern loading, optimized previews in the data views component, enhanced PHP 8+ compatibility, removal of deprecated code, auto-sizing for lazy-loaded images, and more efficient tag processing within the HTML API.</p>



<p>This release has given importance to accessibility, too. “65+ accessibility fixes and enhancements focus on foundational aspects of the WordPress experience, from improving user interface components and keyboard navigation in the Editor, to an accessible heading on WordPress login screens and clearer labeling throughout.”</p>



<p>Two new APIs—Template Registration API and Preview Options API—debut with this release, alongside enhancements to the Interactivity, Block Bindings, and HTML APIs.</p>



<p>As the final major release of 2024, WordPress 6.7 reflects the work of more than 780 contributors and includes over 340 updates and fixes. For further insights, check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/23/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">Field Guide</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6.7/">WordPress 6.7 documentation</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-7/">Developer Notes</a> or Jamie Marsland’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTwyNVcO6g">250-second video</a> on the highlights. You can also watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6JKHMAkH8">Official WordPress 6.7 release video</a> for an overview.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">WordPress.org Experienced Increased Error Rates After the WordPress 6.7 Release</h2>



<p>Several people reported getting 502 “Bad Gateway” errors and Systems Wrangler at Automattic, Barry, has <a href="https://status.wordpress.org/2024/11/14/on-nov-12th-2024-beginning/">confirmed</a> that WordPress.org experienced intermittent elevated latency and increased error rates on November 12, which affected both the WordPress.org website and API.&nbsp;</p>



<p>He has shared more details, “This initial incident was quickly resolved by the team, but reoccurred briefly on Nov 13 at 0110 UTC, 0900 UTC, and 1400 UTC. The underlying cause was network saturation of the hosting provider’s network that hosts some of the WordPress.org infrastructure. Although all of the servers and switch interfaces that our team has visibility into were within normal levels of utilization, there were some upstream network bottlenecks that created increased latency and packet loss that affected the WordPress.org environment.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>They are still working to resolve the underlying issues.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Future of WordPress and Russian Contributions</h2>



<p>Robert DeVore <a href="https://x.com/deviorobert/status/1849264002632704350">drew the attention</a> of the WordPress community to Biden&#8217;s Executive Order 14071. He wondered what happens to WordPress when it can no longer accept contributors from Russia.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's a question for the WordPress Community <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f914.png" alt="🤔" class="wp-smiley" /><br /><br />What happens to WordPress when it can no longer accept contributors from Russia? <br /><br />What happens when Automattic can no longer employ Russian employees to work on WordPress?<br /><br />Crazy talk? IDK about that <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f937-200d-2642-fe0f.png" alt="🤷‍♂️" class="wp-smiley" /><br /><br />"Biden's Executive Order… <a href="https://t.co/wlGBIusDRm">pic.twitter.com/wlGBIusDRm</a></p>&mdash; Robert DeVore (@deviorobert) <a href="https://twitter.com/deviorobert/status/1849264002632704350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
</div>



<p>A WordPress.org spokesperson shared this with WPTavern on the issue: “The claim that Russians can&#8217;t contribute to GPL-licensed software is not entirely accurate. Executive Order 14071 was issued on April 6, 2022, and it prohibits new investments in the Russian Federation by U.S. citizens and restricts the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply of certain services to individuals located in Russia.</p>



<p>Additionally, it does not specifically address or ban the use of GPL-licensed (General Public License) software by Russian individuals or entities. The U.S. Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has provided guidance on the scope of services restricted under this order. While certain information technology and software services are prohibited, these restrictions do not extend to the mere use of GPL-licensed software by individuals in Russia.</p>



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<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, enhancing WordPress productivity with a new WordPress plugin.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice. Or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Calvin Alkan.</p>



<p>Calvin has been in the WordPress space for the past four or five years, with a focus on security research. His company&#8217;s security product, called Fortress, has become a widely used tool for many hosting companies.</p>



<p>Recently, Calvin and his team ventured into developing a new product CommandUI, and it&#8217;s this plugin which is the topic on the discussion today.</p>



<p>Calvin shares his journey, starting from his experiences redesigning the Fortress website, and his frustrations with the traditional WordPress workflows. This led him to create CommandUI, aimed at providing a more efficient, keyboard driven workflow, akin to features available in his IDE, PhpStorm.</p>



<p>Over the past two months, Calvin has been working on the plugin, and receiving positive feedback from the developer community, indicating a strong demand for such a tool.</p>



<p>We talk about CommandUI&#8217;s functionalities, including its ability to help quickly navigate around the WordPress admin UI. It executes WordPress tasks using keyboard shortcuts, and Calvin explains how the tool helps manage your website efficiently, and how it supports dynamic integration with menus and can enhance accessibility.</p>



<p>We also touch on the product&#8217;s reception into the market, and the serendipitous strategies that drove its vitality. Calvin talks about his efforts to ensure the tool resonates with power users, and the potential for future collaborations with plugin developers to expand its core offering.</p>



<p>We explore why CommandUI, despite its success, may not be a fit for WordPress Core, but remains a novel solution for users looking to save time moving around the WordPress backend.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re curious about how a new tool changes the way you work with WordPress, and how a new product can become popular quickly, this episode is for you.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Calvin Alkan.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast by Calvin Alkan. How are you doing, Calvin?</p>



<p>[00:03:34] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Hi Nathan, I&#8217;m doing fine. How are you?</p>



<p>[00:03:35] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, good, really good. This is unexpected. This episode probably would not have occurred just, I&#8217;m going to say, one month ago. Rewind the clock 30 days, and this episode probably would not have occurred. And you&#8217;ll find out why in a little while.</p>



<p>But before we do that, Calvin has been on podcasts with me in the past talking about WordPress in terms of security. This is going to be very much focused on a brand new product, and the journey, and the happenstance, and serendipity of releasing that product into the wild over the last few weeks.</p>



<p>But before we begin that Calvin, can I just give you a minute just to give us your bio, probably focusing on the WordPress space, maybe dropping some security bits and pieces in there as well. So just tell us who you are.</p>



<p>[00:04:20] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Sure. I am probably in the WordPress space since four or five years ago, I don&#8217;t know exactly. But until very recently, or maybe like two months ago, I was mainly in the security space. I did a lot of security research. Our main product of my company, Snicco is Fortress, which is like a very advanced security tool that we mostly sell to WordPress hosting companies.</p>



<p>That has mostly been my focus so far in WordPress, very focused on security. And we kind of stumbled into like a new product two months ago, which is CommandUI, which we&#8217;ll hopefully discuss in more depth right now.</p>



<p>[00:04:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, indeed we will. And it may be a good idea if you are listening to this podcast, to give yourself a bit of a flavor of what the product is. Head to commandui.com. Exactly as you might expect.</p>



<p>Anything that we discuss today, if there&#8217;s a link for it, I will track it down and put it into the show notes. So you can find that on wptavern.com. Search for this episode, and all of the links will be in there. So that should be easy for you to get to.</p>



<p>So this is a new product, brand new. It&#8217;s familiar, I would imagine, to most people, in the sense that they&#8217;ve probably used something like this before. That might be in their OS, or something. Do you want to just quickly tell us what it is, and then we&#8217;ll get into the fun story surrounding it.</p>



<p>[00:05:35] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> The really quick explanation is if you ever used something like Spotlight on Mac, or Raycast, even like commercial products for Mac. I think even Windows has something right now with this Windows search bar key, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not like a Windows power user.</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve built the same thing, but specifically for WordPress. So it runs in your WordPress site, and basically allows you to build and manage your WordPress sites. The speed that was never possible before.</p>



<p>[00:06:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So when you say that, I&#8217;m imagining that a lot of people will be thinking, okay, there&#8217;s an interface, and I need to click around with a mouse. But maybe that&#8217;s what we should draw the distinction on straightaway. This is minimal mouse, I think you could describe as.</p>



<p>[00:06:13] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Ideally you can unplug the mouse completely. That would be like the goal, because it&#8217;s just way faster. Like working with just the keyword is a lot faster than using the mouse.</p>



<p>[00:06:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it invokes what you might describe as a modal front and center. So it&#8217;s a plugin, we should say that to begin with. It&#8217;s a plugin that you install in different WordPress websites. And then what do you do? How, do you invoke it? How do you interact with it? Let&#8217;s begin there.</p>



<p>[00:06:37] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> You have two options. You can either press the shift key twice, consecutively, with like a little, half a second time in between, or you can use the very classic command, or control K, combination that is used by other tools to invoke like similar models, or like command bars. So it&#8217;s one key combination. You can customise it if you want, but the default is, on Mac OS it&#8217;s command K, and on Windows it&#8217;s control K.</p>



<p>[00:07:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. And if you do that, you then invoke, like I said, a modal, front and center in the middle. And it&#8217;s basically a text search box. And you can begin typing, and then the more input that you put in, it&#8217;s like faceted search in a way, it will then give you options for what you could do.</p>



<p>So I don&#8217;t know, you might type in the letters p and o, which might map to, for example, post, things like that. And then it will give you the different options that it ships with at the moment. I imagine that functionality over time will increase.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s go into the kind of things that you can do with it. So would you be able to just outline a few typical things that you can do with it, that everybody will understand. Then maybe we could get into some of the more unusual edge cases. But let&#8217;s start with the really basics that it can do.</p>



<p>[00:07:48] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Let&#8217;s start with the really basic of, you set up a new WordPress site, and you create like a post, and you view that post in the front end. And then you realise that you didn&#8217;t set up your pretty permalinks. So it&#8217;s still like p= whatever the number is, right, you know what I mean?</p>



<p>So normally in WordPress, you would then need to go to like the little icon in the top left, and go to the admin dashboard. From there you need to find the, I don&#8217;t even know the exact name, but settings, I think permalinks, and then you need to change it. And all of that takes you like four clicks I think, more or less.</p>



<p>And each of those clicks requires a full round trip to the server. So you need to wait to get a response back, and the server needs to render your WordPress page. So it probably takes you like, whatever, five seconds, let&#8217;s say, depending on your server speed.</p>



<p>With CommandUI, you would just open it and type perm, for permalinks, and then it would instantly bring you up the result for settings permalinks, and then you hit enter, and you immediately jump to that page. So you just skip through all of the intermediary work to get to exactly what you want without taking all of these like unnecessary detours, if that makes sense. That would be like a very, very basic example.</p>



<p>[00:08:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so you have got all of the default settings in there. So if I install a vanilla version of WordPress, you&#8217;ve mapped, I&#8217;m going to say, every single setting that you could possibly get to.</p>



<p>[00:09:03] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> The default core ones, yeah.</p>



<p>[00:09:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. right, okay. And although it might seem trivial, you know, if you&#8217;re listening to this podcast and you&#8217;ve just got one WordPress website, you may be thinking to yourself, well, it&#8217;s not that difficult, is it? I can click four times and it&#8217;s not much of a burden.</p>



<p>But honestly, when you&#8217;ve done that 15 times in a day. Map that over a week, and a year, this genuinely starts to add up. You only get a real understanding for it once you&#8217;ve done it. The sudden realisation that, okay, if I type three letters and hit return, that saves me from clicking this, waiting. Clicking this one now, and waiting. And then finally interacting. I know it seems like not a lot, but it is fairly profound.</p>



<p>[00:09:39] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It looks nice on demos, but it&#8217;s amazing when you like kind of experience it the first time. It&#8217;s like something that looks great, but you need to really try. And most people, if you use it for like five minutes, then you can immediately see it, there&#8217;s no way that I&#8217;ll ever be able to go back to not using a tool like this.</p>



<p>[00:09:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of interesting because my muscle memory at the moment, navigating around a WordPress website is very much bound to the mouse. If I&#8217;m in a post, for example, and I know that I want to go to that permalink setting, I actually know exactly where it is. So I know that I would do precisely what you said.</p>



<p>But of course, for a bunch of people who are not really that familiar with WordPress, they may have seen a YouTube video and discovered, okay, I need to change the permalinks. Discovering where that is could be quite infuriating. So if you could just type in p e r, or whatever it might be, and you get there immediately, that kind of also helps the novice journey, if you like, inside of WordPress and managing all of that as well.</p>



<p>[00:10:31] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> And also, for example, one that might also resonate is if you have a site and you start to rack up the plugin numbers, like 20 plugins or, I don&#8217;t know. Let&#8217;s say 20 plugins, and each of those plugins adds like three menu items to the admin menu, and the icons look all familiar. It&#8217;s not uncommon to open it, and then you go like up and down looking for what it is that you&#8217;re trying to find. And it takes a lot of time.</p>



<p>Basically the more plugins you add, the more valuable something like this becomes. Because, let&#8217;s say you want to find some WooCommerce subsetting. You don&#8217;t need to scan the sidebar for the exact WooCommerce icon that you need to just go into the command bar type Woo settings, or even shorter, Woo S, and then it&#8217;ll immediately find where you want to go to. Basically the nastier the site, the more valuable something like this becomes.</p>



<p>[00:11:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, interesting. Okay, so that&#8217;s curious. So let&#8217;s say that I have 20 plugins installed, and each of them got menus, within menus, within menus. Dozens and dozens of options. How does your plugin know of their existence, and how is it, I don&#8217;t know, understanding that this plugin over here has this selection of settings. And obviously if that plugin gets an update and a new setting arrives, perhaps, how does it know all of that? Basically, what&#8217;s the underlying technology? How are you building this menu that must be in there in the background?</p>



<p>[00:11:45] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So 99% of the product of CommandUI is like JavaScript that runs in your browser that has really nothing to do with WordPress, for it WordPress is just like a data source. And then you have like a tiny part that is like the PHP, the plugin part if you want. And that basically just informs the JavaScript of what kind of data is available.</p>



<p>So when you load a page in WordPress, then the PHP part can see which admin menus are registered in like the WordPress menu bar, in the sidebar. It kind of reads those, and passes that information down to the JavaScript part, which then transforms that into the UI.</p>



<p>So if you install a new plugin, it&#8217;ll immediately pull that in. You don&#8217;t need to need update anything, configure anything, it&#8217;s just all automatic.</p>



<p>If you deactivate one, it will not show it anymore, or even if you use like, there&#8217;s like popular menu editor plugins and whatever. If you use one of those to rename a plugin, then it will show that with the renamed name, for example.</p>



<p>So it&#8217;s all dynamic. It gathers all the data, basically, the plugin, and then passes the data down to the JavaScript libraries that we built, and that is responsible for presenting the data to you.</p>



<p>[00:12:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s not like I install a new plugin, and then I need to go around examining the settings, and CommandUI has to learn it as I&#8217;m seeing it.</p>



<p>[00:13:02] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It&#8217;s immediately available. And also in the front end. You can also do all of these actions from anywhere on your site. So on the front end, or even if you&#8217;re in a page builder, or inside Gutenberg, it always knows what you have available.</p>



<p>[00:13:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so let me just parse that so I&#8217;m sure that we&#8217;ve got it correct. So the first thing is, if I was to install CommandUI on an existing site, which has, let&#8217;s say, oh gosh, let&#8217;s go nuts, 50 plugins. The settings within those plugins would be available immediately. I wouldn&#8217;t have to wait for anything to be crawled.</p>



<p>[00:13:30] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So navigation is really just one part of what it does. But everything you see in the sidebar, so like the top level menu items, the little sub settings, these are all immediately available. And then it also picks up on any, for example, custom post types that a plugin might create. So you can create post types from within it, you can search across post types. So it&#8217;s all dynamic. There isn&#8217;t even like a configuration page for CommandUI. And that&#8217;s like kind of how I want to be, like just install it, and then it just kind of works, right?</p>



<p>[00:13:57] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think we&#8217;ve grasped that. And we&#8217;ll get onto those other use cases in a moment. But also you mentioned page builders. But the example that you gave was in the WP admin area, so you want to change a setting, for example. Are you saying that this can be invoked wherever you may be in your WordPress website? So you could be editing a post, you could be in a page builder. Elementor, Beaver Builder, what have you. You can do the same command K, it will come right up no matter where you are.</p>



<p>[00:14:22] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Correct. You could, for example, let&#8217;s say you are editing a page with Gutenberg, and then you realise that you missed your favorite block plugin that adds like custom blocks, or collections. You could install a plugin from the repository without ever leaving the Gutenberg editor. And then you would see these blocks available because you can also activate the plugin from within the post that you&#8217;re currently editing.</p>



<p>And Gutenberg is dynamic. So I think Gutenberg fetches new blocks dynamically once they&#8217;re available, and then you could immediately use them without first leaving, going back, then going back into Gutenberg. So it&#8217;s like everywhere, and like I said, it saves a huge amount of time.</p>



<p>[00:15:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Fascinating. Okay, so we understand that it&#8217;s everywhere. We understand that it can get into settings, and you mentioned that you could modify the settings.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s talk about some of the other slightly less normal use cases. So as an example, if I wanted to, I don&#8217;t know, create a new post of a custom post type of my design. It would allow me to do that I&#8217;m guessing as well? There&#8217;s a keyboard shortcut for add, I don&#8217;t know, custom post, or add taxonomy, or whatever it may be.</p>



<p>[00:15:26] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> You can actually press the C key, the letter C, anywhere on your site, and then it will bring up a subsection of CommandUI where you can just choose the post type that you want to create. So let&#8217;s say if you type C, it opens up the model, and then you just type P for post, or P O to narrow it down if you have a lot. And then you hit enter, and then it immediately brings you to the page where you can create a new post type.</p>



<p>And that not only works for the core post types, it also works dynamically for every single plugin that you install. So if you install ACF, for example, then you can press the C key, type ACF, and then you immediately get the option to create either ACF field group, or an ACF taxonomy, or you can even create ACF post type with it.</p>



<p>You can&#8217;t do it inside the model because every post type, if it&#8217;s a custom plugin, might require different fields that we might not know about, but we immediately send you to the page where you can start creating the post type.</p>



<p>[00:16:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is it possible to, with CommandUI, is it possible to open up things in a different tab or window? So as an example, I&#8217;m in the middle of a post, I&#8217;m in the flow, but I know that I need to modify some setting briefly, quickly over in a new thing. And typically I&#8217;d have to, I don&#8217;t know, right click, open new tab, navigate blah, blah, blah. So it can do all of that?</p>



<p>[00:16:39] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> By default, if you select an action with enter, then it opens it in the same window. If you select it with command, or control on Windows, and enter, then it opens the same action in a new tab. That is very useful. Like a lot of people have given me the feedback of like, this basically allows them to use their laptop without having 20 different chrome tabs open, because you don&#8217;t need to like save all those spots where you might want to go to later. You can just open it in a new tab, do your work, close the tab, and you&#8217;re back to where you were.</p>



<p>[00:17:08] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I mean, that&#8217;s a very typical frustration for me, is that I will halfway through something, and I don&#8217;t want to close it in case I, I don&#8217;t know, just forget where I was or something. I want to be able to open immediately the setting.</p>



<p>[00:17:20] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> But why don&#8217;t you want to close it?</p>



<p>[00:17:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I don&#8217;t know.</p>



<p>[00:17:23] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Probably because you know it would take you like a lot of time to get back to that page. That&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t want to close it.</p>



<p>[00:17:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s lots of little quality of life things basically it sort of sounds like.</p>



<p>Okay, so we know it can do settings. We know it can interact with posts. We know that you can open things in new tabs so that you don&#8217;t have to navigate from what you&#8217;re doing.</p>



<p>Does it do anything kind of quirky? I&#8217;m going to use the word quirky there. Does it do things that one might not expect? Have you built into it functionality that you thought, ooh, this is curious, maybe nobody will use this, but let&#8217;s see.</p>



<p>[00:17:52] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Probably. You can do a lot of little things that don&#8217;t really matter in the grand scheme of things. For example, toggle the admin sidebar or, I don&#8217;t know, if you&#8217;re on the dashboard page, you can toggle, or collapse all of these widgets on the dashboard in WP admin. Or use it to log out of your site.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s a lot of these little things in there that, on its own, they wouldn&#8217;t blow you away, right? But it kind of all adds up. And if you can do, eventually, everything in there, I want to have as much in there as possible.</p>



<p>And an important part that allows it to do this is because we built the entire search behind it from scratch. So we&#8217;ve tested this with like 100k items to be searched in the command bar. It doesn&#8217;t even break a sweat. It&#8217;s still in the sub 100 milliseconds for hundred thousands of items.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s really no limit to how many things and actions you can put in there. And it doesn&#8217;t overwhelm you either because you only get shown what kind of matches your search query. I want to have as much things possible in there.</p>



<p>[00:18:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So are you imagining a scenario where it can search, for example, the content of posts? So for example, I want to track down a post with the word Calvin in it.</p>



<p>[00:18:56] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Right now it can already search all your users and every single post type. So posts, pages, every custom post type you create. For example, WooCommerce products, there&#8217;s a post type, so it can search those. But it only searches right now the titles. So you kind of need to at least roughly have an idea of where you want to go, that&#8217;s the search. That&#8217;s basically how it operates.</p>



<p>You roughly need to have an idea what you&#8217;re looking for. Maybe a couple of letters, or an initial if you want to find the user Nathan, but you don&#8217;t know the last name maybe, or the email, you could just type N A and you&#8217;d probably find it. But it&#8217;s not really like the best UI for like exploratory searches. That&#8217;s not the best model with the search bar, and result is not the best use case for exploring what&#8217;s there if you don&#8217;t really know what you&#8217;re looking for yet.</p>



<p>[00:19:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. What I was describing is more the kind of search that you would have on the front end, isn&#8217;t it? Where you want to, I don&#8217;t know, search for a particular episode of a podcast, for example, with the word Calvin. And you would typically do that on the front end, and that&#8217;s an entirely different enterprise.</p>



<p>As we&#8217;ve been talking, it suddenly occurred to me that, and I don&#8217;t know what your posture is on this, I don&#8217;t know how much work you&#8217;ve put into it, but it feels like you&#8217;ve thrown the doors open to perhaps a more accessible website because obviously we&#8217;re using the keyboard suddenly to navigate all the things. And I don&#8217;t know if the UI that you&#8217;ve built, you&#8217;ve had that in mind in the background, or coincidentally it happens to satisfy that. What&#8217;s gone on from the accessibility side to make this product usable?</p>



<p>[00:20:18] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> A lot of work into accessibility. I&#8217;ve worked with Gen Herres, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re familiar with her. She does lot of work in the accessibility space in WordPress. The website I think is Easy Accessibility Guide. I&#8217;ve worked a lot with her because she told me like about the potential this has for users with assistive technology. And we&#8217;ve worked really, really hard to improve the admin experience for users with assistive technology.</p>



<p>Building something like this, like that is so interactive in a way that doesn&#8217;t compromise power users, and users with assistive technology is really, really difficult. It&#8217;s not like a form where you go with the basics and then you&#8217;re good. Like this really, really needs a lot of custom work. But it turned out amazing. Every single item, every single search result is read out by the screen reader. Every single announcement, for example, if you install a plugin, then the screen reader will read out the progress information, like installing plugin, installed plugin.</p>



<p>Everything is keyboard accessible. Everything has the proper aria labels. We did a lot of work there basically. Even things where if you close the model, it restores the focus back to where you&#8217;ve been to before on the page. I really think it has a lot of potential in the accessibility space to help people use WordPress.</p>



<p>[00:21:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it just occurred to me that it was, in a sense, it was a really great interface for doing just that, because once you&#8217;re in the modal, you&#8217;re in the search bar, then you are basically using text. And if you can navigate through that with the tab key, or whatever it may be, with all the different assistive technologies out there, then that would be really useful. And it would circumvent that long journey of trying to find the menu, then finding the sub menu, then going through all the options, and toggling it on, or toggling it off.</p>



<p>[00:21:50] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> I think Gen did a video the other day about it, where she goes through the plugin with a screen reader and basically shows you how a user with a screen reader would experience that. So maybe you can link to it in a show notes later.</p>



<p>[00:22:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s perfect. I will make sure that that goes into the show notes so that people can examine that.</p>



<p>The other thing I was going to ask is, do you have intuitions that in the future you&#8217;ll be working with other developers? So for example, I don&#8217;t know, you mentioned popular plugins, a couple that you just mentioned. Is there any scope for them speaking to you to expose things that your plugin at the moment might not be able to get its teeth into, so that you can open up the functionality with CommandUI for the whole host of plugins that are out there in the wild?</p>



<p>[00:22:31] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Definitely, one of the big projects will be having a proper extension system and developer APIs, so that either we can build first party extensions that we maintain, or that developers build their own extensions for it. For example, right now I like Bricks Builder a lot. And I use that. So we have a really good integration with Bricks Builder where, for example, if you are on the homepage, and then CommandUI recognises that you built this page with Bricks, then you can just press the B key, on the keyboard without even opening it, and it immediately brings you to edit that page in Bricks Builder.</p>



<p>So that is something that obviously doesn&#8217;t work out of the box. So there&#8217;s like a little integration for handling Bricks specific things. You can also, if you search for a post, or let&#8217;s say a page, you wouldn&#8217;t edit posts with the page builder. But let&#8217;s say you have a landing page, or whatever, and then you search for it, and then instead of just a normal view page and edit page, it would also show you edit page in Bricks as an option, right? I think there&#8217;s a huge potential in having as many things as possible in there.</p>



<p>One big thing is I want to also make it as easy as possible for also developers that maintain a site, but also plugin developers to integrate it without complicated setups, without needing to install like React and pre-compiling their JavaScript. I think it needs to be really, really simple for it to work. And that will definitely be one big project in the future.</p>



<p>[00:23:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Fascinating what the future will hold. I mean that speaks to the next topic that I want to get into. Which is the fact that this is still really, really new. Really, this whole story has found its way into my consciousness because of, I guess maybe being on social networks. Up it popped a few weeks ago, maybe less, 10 days or something like that. And it feels like I had never heard of this until then, and then suddenly I couldn&#8217;t stop hearing about it. Let&#8217;s just get into that for a moment. First of all, why did you build this, and when did you start building it?</p>



<p>[00:24:21] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So let me walk you through the timeline. I don&#8217;t remember the exact date, but I&#8217;d say like maybe two months ago I started working on the redesign of our website for Fortress, or other product, because that has still like a design from like two years ago that was never updated. You know how that goes, right?</p>



<p>So I started working on it and we were using WordPress for it as well, and I really, really disliked the experience of working all day in WordPress. So my role is primarily a developer. I use WordPress, but I&#8217;m not like a WordPress power user in the sense that I spend all my day inside WordPress. I spend most of my time in my IDE and PhpStorm.</p>



<p>And there I&#8217;m really, really spoiled by this keyboard driven workflow where you can do like thousands of things inside PhpStorm with just a couple keyboard combinations. And I really missed that in WordPress.</p>



<p>So once I started building a site, I was getting really annoyed and I was like, I don&#8217;t know, I can quickly hack together something that works for me right now. And it took me like a couple hours to build something that allowed me to navigate between different pages. That was all I could do, navigate between the admin, homepage, and the settings. The really basic stuff. Nothing to really brag about.</p>



<p>But then I recorded like a really crappy YouTube video, I think it&#8217;s still up somewhere, of just me showing that. And I posted it in groups where I frequently go to, in Facebook it was. People went absolutely crazy over it. The reaction was insane. People almost, how do you say, they bit my hand off to build this.</p>



<p>The initial reaction definitely showed that there might be something there. Sometimes that just happens, right? And that also then the timing was the same, where all the WP drama started. And once that started, I basically knew that, okay, like my primary customer base is hosting companies, and there&#8217;s probably not a lot of enterprise sales going on in the next months in the hosting space. I immediately knew that. Understandable.</p>



<p>But I knew that and then I was like, well, let me just try and build this thing properly, not the four hour versions, but like maybe the six week version. So the initial reaction was like very promising. And then I kept posting like videos about it, cool new things. And the reaction was always the same. People were messaging me in private, hey, I know this is not even like a finish, but can I please already pay you so that you can give me this, what you already have?</p>



<p>It was like very promising all along the way, very good signals. And that&#8217;s why I ultimately ended up building it. So it took like maybe two months, right now seven weeks, two months, I don&#8217;t know, to get where we&#8217;re at right now. And it completely blew my mind, the feedback and the attention that it got. I never really expected that, to be honest. I don&#8217;t know, maybe this helps a couple of people, and it&#8217;s useful for me, and maybe it pays for a couple months of rent, that was kind like my expectation of it.</p>



<p>[00:26:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, I think most people who launch a product in the WordPress space, and if, dear listener, you are one of those people, I&#8217;m sure you can identify with the struggle. It&#8217;s not an easy place to be. There are countless different versions of more or less everything. So if you&#8217;re releasing a plugin, unless you come up with something truly different, then it&#8217;s likely that you are going to spend a lot of time bashing your head against the wall with the marketing, figuring out what the website&#8217;s going to look like.</p>



<p>You have just had, I don&#8217;t want to call it luck, but if you forgive me for using that word, you&#8217;ve just had this perfect storm of building something, creating a video, putting it into some social networks, getting really amazing feedback which encouraged you to build it. And again, not really marketing in the traditional sense of the word, just social media, hanging out in groups and what have you, and explaining what you&#8217;re doing. And I think it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s been a barnstormer.</p>



<p>Since you&#8217;ve started two months ago, we don&#8217;t need to get into the numbers, that&#8217;s not important, but is it fair to say that it has gone way beyond, in terms of the people that have interacted with you, and purchased it, and played with it, and given you feedback. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s gone way beyond what you imagined.</p>



<p>[00:28:00] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> For sure. The way I launched it basically was, so once the product was ready, or maybe a week or two before it was fully ready, I threw up a landing page, and recorded like a proper demo walkthrough, my first ever edited video. It turned out okay. It turned out good with Descript, and a lot of these tools make it, I guess a videographer would cringe at that, but it&#8217;s like passable, it did its job.</p>



<p>I threw up a wait list and had a little gamified approach to this waitlist thing, where I didn&#8217;t even like promise some crazy deal, or discount, or whatever. I just said, look, there will be a launch offer that will be better than the public offer, and it will be limited in quantity, not a gimmick or whatever, like when the quantity is sold out, it&#8217;s sold out.</p>



<p>And then I think that the verbiage was something like, if you&#8217;re on the wait list, you&#8217;ll get 48 hours exclusive access before public launch to secure wait list deals. And if you&#8217;re in the first 50 spots, I think it was, then you get an additional 48 hours.</p>



<p>I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s fun but I never expected it to go that crazy, like people were sharing it all over the place, and then once the first 50 people got access, a day before the entire wait list, they started using the product, loved it, posted about it.</p>



<p>It was well done, I put a lot of thought into it, but it&#8217;s also, something about the timing must have been right with maybe like all the negativity that was happening in WordPress, Twitter and Facebook groups, and whatever. No, definitely there&#8217;s some part to it where people like were excited to see something positive, or some positive news coming out I think.</p>



<p>[00:29:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think also you happen to have a product which, if you frequent those Facebook groups, which I know you do, they&#8217;re full of people who are jobbing WordPressers. They&#8217;re either building websites, or they&#8217;re building plugins, or they&#8217;re building client websites as part of an agency or something like that.</p>



<p>So they&#8217;re fully into WordPress, but they also realise the limitations. And in some cases they may have not have realised the frustration, but then when they saw something like this and thought, actually, you know what, that&#8217;ll save me a minute here, and a minute there, which all adds up to greater productivity.</p>



<p>I think you just had that perfect storm of the right product, and you were already connecting to the perfect audience. And honestly, if we were to revisit this topic in a year and do some sort of marketing analysis, I think every domino was kind of set up perfectly. And again, I don&#8217;t mean this to sound bad, but kind of by accident in a sense. You&#8217;d already found your audience because you were in there talking to these communities. You built the product, which perfectly aligned, to scratch your own itch. What a lovely story, basically.</p>



<p>[00:30:36] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> I think maybe I stumbled upon the idea based on luck maybe, yeah, to some degree. I certainly didn&#8217;t expect that so many people will find it useful, or be interested in it. I do actually plan to, like once it all settles down a bit, do some sort of post mortem write up, or analysis of, this is how I launched it. This is why I did it this way, and why I didn&#8217;t do this, the decision making behind it. I also had a lot of trust, let&#8217;s say, not advisors, but like friends in the ecosystem that gave me a lot of feedback or, no, don&#8217;t do it this way, rather try this. And so I think like a proper writeup of that be cool to see, the behind the scenes.</p>



<p>[00:31:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it would be interesting to match the people that you were already speaking to, prior to even conceiving the product, with the product that you then built, and the way that you were able to market it in a kind of gorilla fashion. Just producing some videos, and not, I don&#8217;t know, building an email list over many years and what have you.</p>



<p>And I think it will be interesting because I think we all know that the WordPress space can be saturated. And just because you build it doesn&#8217;t mean that they will come. There&#8217;s so many serendipitous bits in there. It&#8217;s fabulous.</p>



<p>One thing that I was going to ask you, and I don&#8217;t know if you have any intuitions about this, is that one of the comments that I kept seeing was something along the lines of, why isn&#8217;t this in Core WordPress? There were variants of that. You use it for a bit and you can&#8217;t not carry on using it. It&#8217;s got that stickiness to it. You get the muscle memory over a few short minutes and then suddenly it&#8217;s, oh, put the mouse away, I don&#8217;t want that anymore.</p>



<p>And I did wonder if you have any thoughts about letting something like this go into Core, or working with Core on it, or whether or not you&#8217;re going to stay with the product that you&#8217;ve got. Not sure what you think about that.</p>



<p>[00:32:11] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Well, it is kind of in Core, a lot of people don&#8217;t know that. In Gutenberg, in the block editor, and inside the site editor there is, I wouldn&#8217;t say similar, but they have a Command Palette, but it just, it never really stuck for people, getting into the habit of using it.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s say like this, a command bar is, I don&#8217;t know, maybe the best analogy is a keyboard. All keyboards, more or less, they look the same if you just glance at them from a distance. But once you start pressing like the first key, you really feel like the difference between like a $500 mechanical keyboard and a default keyboard, right? It&#8217;s hard to describe, but that&#8217;s like the best analogy I can give for it.</p>



<p>And if a command bar is not like really, a really, really polished product, technically zero friction, people don&#8217;t get into the habit of using it. And I think that&#8217;s maybe why previous attempts of building something like this in WordPress didn&#8217;t really stick around, or didn&#8217;t take off. It&#8217;s just my theory.</p>



<p>[00:33:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Wasn&#8217;t it also limited just to the Gutenberg UI?</p>



<p>[00:33:03] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> That&#8217;s also a big part of it. If you can just use it inside the block editor, then it obviously won&#8217;t stick around. It&#8217;s like the default workflow for people. But also, of course, WordPress Core is just one tiny part of it, and there&#8217;s probably not resources to dedicate a full command bar team to it basically.</p>



<p>In my opinion, maybe this shouldn&#8217;t be a Core thing to its fullest degree. There&#8217;s always the saying of 80 20 rule that they have, right? I don&#8217;t think 80% of WordPress users will use this. In the same way that not 80% of MacOS users use Spotlight or Raycast. There&#8217;s probably a big segment of users that will use it, but it&#8217;s nowhere near 80, probably not even near 50% of people that will use it. So I think the resources could be spent other ways. I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s just my theory.</p>



<p>[00:33:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That seems like a sensible way of doing it. I think the promise of WordPress is to be, if 80% of the people use it, then it can be considered. And I think you&#8217;re right. I think for people who are really in WordPress all the time, like you, like me, like the people that you&#8217;ve pitched the product to and who have bought it, then that makes perfect sense. But perhaps for the more casual user who&#8217;s just got a brochure site that they don&#8217;t really modify all that much, then maybe not.</p>



<p>[00:34:05] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It&#8217;s also, I very much built this for the power user audience. And if you built with that in mind, the outcome is very different to if built like a, you can also build like a command bar that is more geared towards, let&#8217;s say beginners that need maybe more exploratory features. So if you open it, it&#8217;s more like, hey, you can do this, and from here you can go there. And ours is very much, you type a couple letters in some random order, and it more or less brings you to already where you know you want to go. So it&#8217;s I guess built for a different segment also.</p>



<p>[00:34:36] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, definitely worth checking out. So I think probably we&#8217;ve reached the number of minutes, which would be suitable for this episode. So we&#8217;ll knock it on the head there. But just before we go, one last mention of the URL, it&#8217;s commandui.com, no hyphens, just all as one word, commandui.com. Go and check it out.</p>



<p>Where can we find you if we want to communicate about this? Obviously the website probably, but are there other places where you hang out? Sounds like you do hang out on socials quite a bit.</p>



<p>[00:35:02] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Yeah, I&#8217;m in like all the popular WordPress Facebook Groups, mostly agency groups I think. And also since half a year, a year or so, very active on X, I think my handle is @CalvinAlkan. So if you want to hit me up, just hit me up there.</p>



<p>[00:35:17] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so that&#8217;s perfect. I will link to that in the show notes. Well, well done for, firstly, bringing a product to market in a record amount of time, but also for the barnstorming success that you&#8217;ve had. I hope that it carries on in that same way, and maybe, you never know, in a year or two, we&#8217;ll come back and see where you&#8217;re at. But Calvin Alkan, thank you so much for chatting to me today.</p>



<p>[00:35:35] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Thank you Nathan, thanks for having me.</p>
</div>



<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://x.com/CalvinAlkan">Calvin Alkan</a>.</p>



<p>Calvin has been in the WordPress space for the past four to five years, with a focus on security research. His company’s security product, called <a href="https://fortress.snicco.io/">Fortress</a>, has become a widely used tool for many hosting companies. Recently, Calvin and his team ventured into developing a new product, <a href="https://commandui.com/">CommandUI</a>, and it’s this plugin which is the topic under discussion today.</p>



<p>Calvin shares his journey, starting from his experiences redesigning the Fortress website, and his frustrations with the traditional WordPress workflows. This led him to create CommandUI, aimed at providing a more efficient, keyboard-driven workflow, akin to features available in his IDE, PhpStorm. Over the past two months, Calvin has been working on the plugin and received positive feedback from the developer community, indicating a strong demand for such a tool.</p>



<p>We talk about CommandUI&#8217;s functionalities, including its ability to help quickly navigate around the WordPress admin UI. It executes WordPress tasks using keyboard shortcuts, and Calvin explains how the tool helps manage your website efficiently, and how it supports dynamic integration with menus, and can enhance accessibility.</p>



<p>We also touch on the product&#8217;s reception into the market, and the serendipitous strategies that drove its virality. Calvin talks about his efforts to ensure the tool resonates with power users, and the potential for future collaborations with plugin developers to expand its core offering.</p>



<p>We explore why CommandUI, despite its success, may not be a fit for WordPress Core, but remains a novel solution for users looking to save time moving around the WordPress backend.</p>



<p>If you’re curious about how a new tool changes the way that you work with WordPress, and how a new product can become popular quickly, this episode is for you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Useful links</h2>



<p><a href="https://snicco.io/">Snicco</a></p>



<p><a href="https://fortress.snicco.io/">Fortress</a></p>



<p><a href="https://commandui.com/">CommandUI</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.raycast.com/">Raycast</a></p>



<p><a href="https://easya11yguide.com/">EasyA11yGuide website</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eU59Hk4m70&feature=youtu.be">A11Y battle: CommandUI vs WP Core vs Turbo Admin</a> &#8211; video with Gen Herres on YouTube</p>



<p><a href="https://bricksbuilder.io/">Bricks Builder</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/">PhpStorm</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.descript.com">Descript</a></p>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor-command-palette/">WordPress Command Palette</a></p>



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<p>While sharing your email address online is necessary to direct visitors towards your support and sales channels, it’s an open invitation for spambots, too. These automated programs crawl the web, collect public email addresses, and send a barrage of spam in the hopes that you or someone on your team takes the&nbsp;bait.</p>

<p>Thankfully, this can be prevented with a tactic known as email obfuscation. This technique disguises your email addresses, keeping them safe from <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/what-is-a-spambot/">spambots</a> and protecting your business from unwanted&nbsp;messages.</p>

<p>So today, let’s explore email obfuscation in depth and explain how you can use it (alongside other methods) to improve your online&nbsp;security.</p>


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<h2 id="what-is-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">What is email&nbsp;obfuscation?</h2>

<p>Email obfuscation is a technique used to mask email addresses so that they’re not as easily detected by spambots. When an email address is obfuscated, it’s still completely readable by humans, but is difficult for bots to&nbsp;recognize.</p>

<p>Malicious bots are constantly crawling the internet looking for emails to scrape and add to their spam lists, and email obfuscation is absolutely necessary to prevent spam. While this won’t help against targeted spam and phishing attempts, it will at least stop the bulk of automated spam&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<p>There are several ways to obfuscate an email on your site. Some methods include replacing parts of the email with HTML characters, or using JavaScript to dynamically display the email when the page is loaded. These make it a lot harder for simple bots to scrape your email. We’ll go into the details on how it works&nbsp;below.</p>


<img width="1066" height="1600" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.jpeg" alt="someone writing an email on their laptop, with a tablet and color swatches next to them" class="wp-image-284219" />


<h2 id="why-is-email-obfuscation-crucial-for-cybersecurity-and-spam prevention" class="wp-block-heading">Why is email obfuscation crucial for cybersecurity and spam&nbsp;prevention?</h2>

<p>Email obfuscation might not seem all that important. It’s hard to understand how disruptive spam can be until you have an inbox full of it. And by then, it’s too late to do anything about it except change your email address&nbsp;entirely.</p>

<p>Here are some of the risks of leaving your email&nbsp;unobfuscated:</p>

<h3 id="email-harvesting-bots-scraping-your email" class="wp-block-heading">Email harvesting bots scraping your&nbsp;email</h3>

<p>You don’t want your email on a scammer’s list. These are sold to spammers looking for active emails to send their junk mail to. If your email is out there long enough, it’s nearly inevitable, but you can use email obfuscation to delay it as long as&nbsp;possible.</p>

<h3 id="brute-force-attacks-on-your-email account" class="wp-block-heading">Brute force attacks on your email&nbsp;account</h3>

<p>Once attackers know your email, they can attempt to launch brute force attacks to access your account. When this happens, they’ll try as many passwords as possible, and break in. It’s best to hide your email from the automated programs that run these brute force&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A spam&#8209;filled&nbsp;inbox</h3>

<p>Spam may seem like just an annoyance, but it can be devastating when it’s in full force. Genuine customers get drowned out and your inbox becomes impossible to sort&nbsp;through.</p>

<h3 id="being-targeted-by-phishing attacks" class="wp-block-heading">Being targeted by phishing&nbsp;attacks</h3>


<p>Phishing occurs when an attacker tries to trick you into revealing sensitive info, like your email or website login info. Or, you might receive an email asking you to click a link or download an attachment that installs malware on your device and steals your info. Basic phishing attacks can be automated.&nbsp;</p>



<p>While <em>you </em>may know all about how to identify a scam, not everyone on your team might be so experienced. The more team members that have access to your business email, the more likely they’ll fall prey to phishing attempts.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And since over <a href="https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/02/report-half-phishing-emails-now-use-obfuscation-tactics-avoid-detection/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">55% of phishing emails</a> now employ some form of obfuscation to evade detection — which marks a significant 24.4% increase from the previous year — it’s more important than ever to implement some level of prevention.&nbsp;</p>


<h2 id="common-methods-of-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">Common methods of email&nbsp;obfuscation</h2>

<p>There are several ways to hide the email address on your website from bots while still allowing real customers and prospects to contact you. And the good news is you can employ one or all of&nbsp;them.</p>


<h3 id="use-a-contact-form-with-spam-protection " class="wp-block-heading">Use a contact form with spam protection&nbsp;</h3>


<p>One of the most effective email obfuscation techniques is to avoid displaying your email online altogether. Instead, you can just use a contact form. Of course, contact forms have their own issues with spam, which is why you’ll need to use this alongside an anti&#8209;spam solution like&nbsp;<a href="https://akismet.com/">Akismet</a>.</p>


<img width="1000" height="518" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1.jpeg" alt="Akismet homepage with the text " />



<p>Akismet uses AI to scan all incoming form submissions and filter out unwanted, spammy messages with 99.99% effectiveness. <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/captcha-alternatives/">No need for CAPTCHA</a> or other obtrusive spam protection methods. Spam will never even reach your inbox when you use Akismet. And if you have a WordPress website, it comes pre-installed, which is pretty convenient.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 id="character-replacement" class="wp-block-heading">Character replacement</h3>



<p>This can be as simple as replacing the “@” in an email with “at”, or replacing the symbols with their HTML entities. So an email address like “test@example.com” becomes “test@example.com”.&nbsp;</p>


<p>This renders correctly for people who visit your website but parses as gibberish for bots. The downside is that it only works for very simple bots, so you should use it in conjunction with other&nbsp;methods.</p>


<h3 id="image-based-obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">Image-based obfuscation</h3>


<p>Another simple solution is displaying your email as an image. Most bots can’t read images, so this can work pretty well. But it’s not user&#8209;friendly at all since visitors have to type in your email manually. There are also serious accessibility concerns for those who use screen readers. Because of these reasons, this isn’t the best option to&nbsp;pursue.</p>


<h3 id="javascript-based-obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">JavaScript-based obfuscation</h3>



<p>This is a more involved method, where the email is hidden in the site’s code and rendered dynamically. The email address can be hidden within the site’s HTML code and is only displayed when the page is loaded by a browser. This makes it a lot more challenging for bots to scrape this data.&nbsp;</p>


<p>There are more advanced bots out there, however, especially those running in a fully&#8209;fledged browser environment that can bypass these methods​. So that’s something to be aware&nbsp;of.</p>


<h3 id="encoding-techniques" class="wp-block-heading">Encoding techniques</h3>



<p>Encoding techniques involve converting an email address into a string of code that a browser can interpret, but that is difficult for bots to decode. A common method is <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Base64 encoding</a>, where the email is transformed into a string of characters that can be decoded by the browser using JavaScript.&nbsp;</p>


<p>So, if you have an email like &#8220;example@example.com&#8221; it might be encoded into a string like &#8220;ZXhhbXBsZUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ==&#8221;. When the page loads, a script decodes this string back into a readable email address that people can interact&nbsp;with.</p>

<p>This method can be thwarted by more advanced bots though, so be mindful of that when putting a plan together to prevent&nbsp;spam.</p>

<h2 id="how-email-obfuscation-fits-into-a-broader-cybersecurity framework" class="wp-block-heading">How email obfuscation fits into a broader cybersecurity&nbsp;framework</h2>

<p>Where there’s a website, there’s a risk of people trying to break into it. You don’t need to be running a huge enterprise website to be targeted by bad actors. In all actuality, hackers and spammers are more than happy to take advantage of the lax security on smaller&nbsp;sites.</p>

<p>That’s why cybersecurity should be a major concern of yours, whatever the size of your website. Digital threats, from spam to malware, are constantly evolving. And email obfuscation is just one piece of the puzzle that can put a stop to these&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>Email obfuscation serves as a preventative measure, reducing the likelihood that your email will be harvested and used for spam and phishing attacks. While spam is just a nuisance, phishing can lead to losing your account or major data breaches. So if you make your email harder to find, it lowers the chances of you being&nbsp;targeted.</p>

<p>But email obfuscation isn’t enough on its own. It should complement other security measures. The anti&#8209;spam tools offered by Akismet can detect and block malicious messages that do manage to slip&nbsp;through.</p>

<p>And you can further secure your online presence by setting up (and mandating) two&#8209;factor authentication for you and your team, <a href="https://jetpack.com/blog/weak-passwords/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">using strong passwords</a> (and not reusing them), and keeping website and server software up to date. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems can also work to keep your site&nbsp;safe.</p>

<p>Besides that, providing cybersecurity training to your team (or thoroughly educating yourself if it’s just you) can help you recognize potential&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>So email obfuscation is a valuable tool, yes, but it works best when integrated into a comprehensive cybersecurity&nbsp;strategy.</p>

<h2 id="the-importance-of-layered-security measures" class="wp-block-heading">The importance of layered security&nbsp;measures</h2>

<p>There’s no one cybersecurity solution that will protect your entire online presence. So you’ll need to rely on multiple security measures that work together to create a more resilient&nbsp;defense.</p>

<p>Redundancy is something you might have heard of in reference to web hosting servers. In a redundant hosting setup, if one server fails, a backup server is ready to take its place and prevent downtime. It’s used a lot when talking about website backups, too. If one backup fails, there’s another saved in a different location to ensure your data isn’t&nbsp;lost.</p>


<p>This same concept of redundancy also applies to cybersecurity. If one layer of your defense fails, others are still in place to catch the threat.&nbsp;</p>


<p>So if spambots figure out how to bypass your email obfuscation, having an <a href="https://akismet.com/wordpress/">anti&#8209;spam solution</a> like Akismet will prevent that phishing email from reaching your inbox. And if it somehow does slip through that and your email spam filter, having two&#8209;factor authentication in place will prevent the phishing attempt from being successful even if you do hand over your login&nbsp;credentials.</p>


<p>As cyberthreats are constantly becoming more sophisticated, this layered strategy is extremely important.&nbsp;</p>


<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How Akismet&#8217;s spam protection complements email&nbsp;obfuscation</h2>

<p>While email obfuscation can be an effective strategy for keeping your email address hidden from spambots, it’s not&nbsp;foolproof.</p>

<p>The issue with email obfuscation is that it’s static. Once you implement it, all attackers have to do is figure out how you’re hiding your email and update their bots to account for it. Then this method won’t work anymore. You can keep updating your methods, but it’s tedious to have to stay a step ahead of potential threats at all&nbsp;times.</p>

<p>That’s why Akismet’s spam protection is such a preferred choice. Akismet is a spam protection platform that analyzes incoming messages for common spam patterns and then blocks spam&nbsp;immediately.</p>

<p>And the big difference is that it’s dynamic, not static. Akismet is powered by machine learning that’s been trained on a dataset of billions of pieces of spam. As spammers use new methods to evade filters, Akismet learns in real&#8209;time, updating itself to respond to new&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>And that’s all done without any input needed from you, or your visitors. Unlike CAPTCHA, which can slow down and annoy your users, Akismet runs non&#8209;intrusively in the&nbsp;background.</p>

<p>As we mentioned, a layered cybersecurity strategy is the best way to keep spam, phishing, and malware far away from your website. And while email obfuscation alone is not enough to protect yourself, combining it with Akismet makes for the best way to safeguard your email address&nbsp;online.</p>

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Real&#8209;world examples where Akismet has effectively reduced&nbsp;spam</h2>

<p>Akismet has proven to be a powerful tool in the fight against spam, helping countless businesses and individuals alike protect themselves. 100 million sites have used Akismet to block <strong>more than 500 billion pieces of&nbsp;spam</strong>.</p>

<p>We’ve released a few case studies showcasing real&#8209;world examples where Akismet has made a significant&nbsp;impact.</p>

<p>One is the <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/convertkit-customerstory/">ConvertKit case study</a>, which explores how the marketing platform protected over 400,000 creators from spam. Lower billing fees and less email reputation damage meant happier ConvertKit customers, and the switch to Akismet was a major success. It just proves how well Akismet works for <a href="https://akismet.com/enterprise/">enterprise&#8209;grade&nbsp;anti&#8209;spam</a>.</p>


<p>Akismet also helped <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/saying-no-to-spam-on-smitten-kitchens-popular-food-site/">Smitten Kitchen</a> block 2.3 million pieces of spam. Major websites like this can end up with thousands of comments per post and no easy way to filter them manually.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1500" height="1066" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-4.png" alt="comment sections on the Smitten Kitchen website" class="wp-image-284221" />


<p>Thankfully, Akismet saved Smitten Kitchen from a spam disaster by blocking spam from ever reaching their&nbsp;inbox.</p>

<h2 id="frequently-asked questions" class="wp-block-heading">Frequently asked&nbsp;questions</h2>

<p>This guide has covered what you need to know about email obfuscation and why it plays a key part in spam prevention. But in case you have any lingering questions, here are some answers to commonly asked questions about both email obfuscation and spam.&nbsp;</p>

<h3 id="what-are-the-risks-associated-with-unprotected-email addresses" class="wp-block-heading">What are the risks associated with unprotected email&nbsp;addresses?</h3>

<p>Failing to protect your email address leaves it vulnerable to spambots that crawl the web and capture them. Once your email is scraped, you can become a target for spam, phishing, and even brute force&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<p>Besides filling your inbox with unwanted emails, you also risk losing your account if you fall for a phishing email or hackers manage to break&nbsp;in.</p>

<h3 id="can-email-obfuscation-completely-prevent spam" class="wp-block-heading">Can email obfuscation completely prevent&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Email obfuscation can reduce the risk of your email address being collected, but it’s not 100% effective. Advanced bots can easily evade obfuscation tactics. That’s why it’s important to pair obfuscation with other security measures, like spam&nbsp;filters.</p>

<h3 id="how-does-email-obfuscation-impact-the-user-experience-on-a website" class="wp-block-heading">How does email obfuscation impact the user experience on a&nbsp;website?</h3>

<p>When done correctly, email obfuscation should have minimal impact on user experience. Users should still be able to see and copy your email address. But some methods, like using image&#8209;based obfuscation makes for a negative user experience that’s terrible for&nbsp;accessibility.</p>

<h3 id="what-are-the-best-practices-for-implementing-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">What are the best practices for implementing email&nbsp;obfuscation?</h3>

<p>It’s best to avoid user&#8209;unfriendly obfuscation tactics like image&#8209;based email obfuscation, and instead use tactics like character replacement, JavaScript, or encoding. But the best way of all is to forgo posting your email and instead use a contact form with spam protection like what’s offered by&nbsp;Akismet.</p>

<h3 id="how-can-i-also-protect-my-contact-forms-from spam" class="wp-block-heading">How can I also protect my contact forms from&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Akismet is a highly effective way to protect your contact forms from spam. Akismet automatically filters out spam submissions, ensuring that only legitimate messages reach your inbox. And since you’re using a contact form, your email is&nbsp;hidden.</p>

<h3 id="how-accurate-is-akismet-at-stopping spam" class="wp-block-heading">How accurate is Akismet at stopping&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Akismet is incredibly accurate at identifying and filtering out spam. It’s actually 99.99% effective. It uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to detect a majority of spam. While no system is perfect, Akismet’s track record speaks for itself, with millions of spam messages blocked daily across millions of&nbsp;websites.</p>

<h3 id="how-many-sites-use akismet" class="wp-block-heading">How many sites use&nbsp;Akismet?</h3>

<p>Over 100 million sites worldwide use Akismet to protect their online presence from spam. Well&#8209;known brands like Microsoft, Bluehost, WordPress.com, and ConvertKit rely on Akismet to keep their platforms&nbsp;clean.</p>

<h3 id="where-can-i-learn-more-about akismet" class="wp-block-heading">Where can I learn more about&nbsp;Akismet?</h3>

<p>You can learn more about Akismet on our <a href="https://akismet.com/features/">features page</a> and the rest of the website. This will explain everything you need to know about the platform. You can also check the <a href="https://akismet.com/pricing/">pricing&nbsp;page</a>.</p>


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<p>Each WordPress release celebrates an artist who has made an indelible mark on the world of music. WordPress 6.7, code-named &#8220;Rollins,&#8221; pays tribute to the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Known as one of the greatest improvisers and pioneers in jazz, Rollins has influenced generations of musicians with his technical brilliance, innovative spirit, and fearless approach to musical expression.</p>



<p>Sonny Rollins&#8217; work is characterized by its unmatched energy and emotional depth. His compositions, such as &#8220;St. Thomas,&#8221; &#8220;Oleo,&#8221; and &#8220;Airegin,&#8221; are timeless jazz standards, celebrated for their rhythmic complexity and melodic inventiveness. Rollins&#8217; bold and exploratory style resonates with WordPress&#8217; own commitment to empowering creators to push boundaries and explore new possibilities in digital expression.</p>



<p>Embrace the spirit of innovation and spontaneity that defines Rollins&#8217; sound as you dive into the new features and enhancements of WordPress 6.7.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Welcome to WordPress 6.7!</h2>



<p>WordPress 6.7 debuts the modern Twenty Twenty-Five theme, offering ultimate design flexibility for any blog at any scale. Control your site typography like never before with new font management features. The new Zoom Out feature lets you design your site with a macro view, stepping back from the details to bring the big picture to life.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Introducing Twenty Twenty-Five</h2>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Endless possibility without complexity</h4>



<p>Twenty Twenty-Five offers a flexible, design-focused theme that lets you build stunning sites with ease. Tailor your aesthetic with an array of style options, block patterns, and color palettes. Pared down to the essentials, this is a theme that can truly grow with you.</p>



<img src="https://i0.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/6.7/feature-tt5-2.webp?ssl=1" alt="" />



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Get the big picture with Zoom Out</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Explore your content from a new perspective</h4>



<p>Edit and arrange entire sections of your content like never before. A broader view of your site lets you add, edit, shuffle, or remove patterns to your liking. Embrace your inner architect.</p>



<img src="https://i0.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/6.7/feature-zoom-2.webp?ssl=1" alt="" />



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Connect blocks and custom fields with no hassle (or code)</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">A streamlined way to create dynamic content</h4>



<p>This feature introduces a new UI for connecting blocks to custom fields, putting control of dynamic content directly in the editor. Link blocks with fields in just a few clicks, enhancing flexibility and efficiency when building. Your clients will love you—as if they didn&#8217;t already.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Embrace your inner font nerd</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">New style section, new possibilities</h4>



<p>Create, edit, remove, and apply font size presets with the next addition to the Styles interface. Override theme defaults or create your own custom font size, complete with fluid typography for responsive font scaling. Get into the details!</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Performance</h3>



<p>WordPress 6.7 delivers important performance updates, including faster pattern loading, optimized previews in the data views component, improved PHP 8+ support and removal of deprecated code, auto sizes for lazy-loaded images, and more efficient tag processing in the HTML API.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Accessibility</h3>



<p>65+ accessibility fixes and enhancements focus on foundational aspects of the WordPress experience, from improving user interface components and keyboard navigation in the Editor, to an accessible heading on WordPress login screens and clearer labeling throughout.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">And much more</h3>



<p>For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 6.7, please visit the feature-showcase website.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Learn more about WordPress 6.7</h2>



<p><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress</a> is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/">interactive workshops</a> for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.</p>



<p>Read the <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6.7">WordPress 6.7 Release Notes</a> for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.</p>



<p>Explore the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">WordPress 6.7 Field Guide</a>. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The 6.7 release squad</h2>



<p>Every release comes to you from a dedicated team of enthusiastic contributors who help keep things on track and moving smoothly. The team that has led 6.7 is a cross-functional group of contributors who are always ready to champion ideas, remove blockers, and resolve issues.</p>



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<li>Release Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>



<li>Release Coordinator: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a></li>



<li>Core Tech Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/">Peter Wilson</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kirasong/">Kira Schroder</a></li>



<li>Editor Tech Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevin940726/">Kai Hao</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/">Robert Anderson</a></li>



<li>Core Triage Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/stoyangeorgiev/">Stoyan Georgiev</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/">Ahmed Kabir Chaion</a></li>



<li>Editor Triage Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ndiego/">Nick Diego</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorful-tones/">Damon Cook</a></li>



<li>Documentation Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiankaegy/">Fabian Kägy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/faguni22/">Mumtahina Faguni</a></li>



<li>Test Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/">Ankit K. Gupta</a></li>



<li>Design Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joen/">Joen Asmussen</a></li>



<li>Performance Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/"></a><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/">Mukesh Panchal</a></li>



<li>Default Theme Design Lead:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li>



<li>Default Theme Development Leads:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/juanfra/">Juan Aldasoro</a></li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Thank you, contributors</h2>



<p>The mission of WordPress is to <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/">democratize publishing</a> and embody the <a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">freedoms that come with open source</a>. A global and diverse community of people collaborating to strengthen the software supports this effort.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.7 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 780 contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 230 first-time contributors!</p>



<p>Their collaboration delivered more than 340 enhancements and fixes, ensuring a stable release for all—a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress open source community.</p>



<p class="is-style-wporg-props-long alignfull"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/benniledl/">!Benni</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/75thtrombone/">75thtrombone</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/">Aaron Jorbin</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrobertshaw/">Aaron Robertshaw</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aware/">Aaron Ware</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aatanasov/">aatanasov</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abcsun/">abcsun</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">Abha Thakor</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abhi3315/">abhi3315</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fitehal/">Abhishek Deshpande</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ababir/">Abir</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/acafourek/">acafourek</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamkheckler/">Adam Heckler</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/">Adam Silverstein</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamwood/">Adam Wood</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/zieladam/">Adam Zieliński</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adarshposimyth/">Adarsh Akshat</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adrian2k7/">Adrian</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aduth/">aduth</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahmarzaidi/">Ahmar Zaidi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/">Ahmed Kabir Chaion</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/engahmeds3ed/">Ahmed Saeed</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahsankhan316/">Ahsan Khan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajitbohra/">Ajit Bohra</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/akashdhawade/">Akash Dhawade</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/">Aki Hamano</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/atachibana/">Akira Tachibana</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/akshat2802/">Akshat Kakkad</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alaminfirdows/">Al-Amin Firdows</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alanfuller/">Alan Fuller</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aljullu/">Albert Juh&#233; Lluveras</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alessandrotesoro/">Alessandro Tesoro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralessio/">Alessio</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/xknown/">Alex Concha</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexcu21/">Alex Cuadra</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajlende/">Alex Lende</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexstine/">Alex Stine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alex27/">alex27</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/albigdd/">Alexander Bigga</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalex11/">Alexander Frank</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexandrebuffet/">Alexandre Buffet</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harlet7/">Alexandru Horeanu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ali7ali/">Ali Ali</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aliaghdam/">aliaghdam</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/firewatch/">allilevine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrfoxtalbot/">Alvaro G&#243;mez</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alvitazwar052/">Alvi Tazwar</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amincharoliya/">Amin Charoliya</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amirthepiper/">Amir Abbas</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitraj2203/">Amit Raj</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amjadr360/">Amjad Ali</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/anthakkar08/">Anand Thakkar</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andergmartins/">andergmartins</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afercia/">Andrea Fercia</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/awetz583/">Andrea Roenning</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andraganescu/">Andrei Draganescu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/euthelup/">Andrei Lupu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreiglingeanu/">andreiglingeanu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewhayward/">Andrew Hayward</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/">Andrew Ozz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewserong/">Andrew Serong</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rarst/">Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oandregal/">André Maneiro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afragen/">Andy Fragen</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/la-geek/">Angelika Reisiger</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aniketpatel/">Aniket Patel</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/">Ankit K Gupta</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit k gupta/">Ankit K. 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P.</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/carstenbach/">Carsten Bach</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbirdsong/">cbirdsong</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/charleslf/">charleslf</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mchirag2002/">Chirag Mathur</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrico/">ChriCo</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jazzs3quence/">Chris Reynolds</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eclare/">Chris Trynkiewicz (Sukces Strony)</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/apermo/">Christoph Daum</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/">Christopher Finke</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ckanitz/">Christopher Kanitz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cpal/">Christos Paloukas</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nyiriland/">Christy Nyiri</a> · <a 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href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/colorful-tones/">Damon Cook</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/colorful tones/">Damon Cook</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/daniguardiola/">Dani Guardiola</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/talldanwp/">Daniel Richards</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mte90/">Daniele Scasciafratte</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/itsdanny/">Danny</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dannyreaktiv/">dannyreaktiv</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/darerodz/">darerodz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/d-signed/">Dareth NHANG</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nerrad/">Darren Ethier (nerrad)</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/darshitrajyaguru97/">Darshit Rajyaguru</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/daveagp/">daveagp</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fac3less/">David</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dballari/">David Ballarin Prunera</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbinda/">David Biňovec</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidabowman/">David Bowman</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidhbrown/">David Brown</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpcalhoun/">David Calhoun</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidgodleman10up/">David Godleman</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhenriet/">David Henriet</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dlh/">David Herrera</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/justlevine/">David Levine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/daviedr/">David Rozando</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dshanske/">David Shanske</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ddewan/">ddewan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dsas/">Dean Sas</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/debarghyabanerjee/">DEBARGHYA BANERJEE</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deepakrohilla/">Deepak Rohilla</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deepakvijayan/">Deepak Vijayan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dekadinious/">Dekadinious</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmsnell/">Dennis Snell</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dsmart/">Derek Smart</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deryck/">Deryck</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/designsimply/">designsimply</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/devansh2002/">Devansh Chaudhary</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/devspace/">devspace</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhananjaykuber/">Dhananjay Kuber</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dharm1025/">Dharmesh Patel</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhewercorus/">dhewercorus</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhrumilk/">Dhrumil Kumbhani</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhruval04/">Dhruval Shah</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhruvang21/">Dhruvang21</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilipbheda/">Dilip Bheda</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilip2615/">Dilip Modhavadiya</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dimplemodi/">dimplemodi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/">Dion Hulse</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/divibanks/">Divi Banks</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/djcowan/">dj.cowan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/djennez/">djennez</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cyberorca/">Doni Kuntoro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dooperweb/">dooperweb</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dorzki/">Dor Zuberi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewapicture/">Drew Jaynes</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drivingralle/">Drivingralle</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drzraf/">drzraf</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/elrae/">Earle Davies</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eballeste/">eballeste</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eclev91/">eclev91</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beckej/">Ed Beck</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/edithlb/">Edith Milagros Loayza Barazorda</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ejnwebmaster/">ejnwebmaster</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/elfu98/">elfu98</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eliorivero/">Elio Rivero</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ellatrix/">Ella van Durpe</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/erichmond/">Elliott Richmond</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eatse/">Emmanue ATS&#201;</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/manooweb/">Emmanuel Hesry</a> · <a 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<p>Last but not least, thanks to the volunteers who contribute to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/">support forums</a> by answering questions from WordPress users worldwide.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Get involved</h2>



<p>Participation in WordPress goes far beyond coding, and learning more and getting involved is easy. Discover the teams that come together to <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/">Make WordPress</a> and use <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/contribute/">this interactive tool</a> to help you decide which is right for you.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:35:22 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"Matt Mullenweg";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:30;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:110:"WPTavern: Automattic Launches ‘WP Engine Tracker’ to Monitor Sites Leaving WP Engine, Sparking Controversy";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=179470";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:114:"https://wptavern.com/automattic-launches-wp-engine-tracker-to-monitor-sites-leaving-wp-engine-sparking-controversy";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5822:"<p>The ongoing WordPress-WP Engine dispute has escalated with Automattic launching a new website &#8211; <a href="https://wordpressenginetracker.com/">WP Engine Tracker</a>, to track the number of websites leaving WP Engine hosting.</p>



<p>“An Automattic thingamajig,” this website tracks WP Engine hosting migrations from September 21, 2024, and also provides a downloadable CSV list of websites currently hosted on WP Engine, dubbed “sites ready for a new home.”</p>



<p>Other details on this single-page website include links to <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wp-engine-promotions/">promotions</a> offered by other hosting providers for migrating from WP Engine and the number of websites each hosting provider gained via migration. Pressable is the top gainer, followed by Bluehost and SiteGround.&nbsp;</p>



<a href="https://x.com/WordPress/status/1854271844309684285"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfs6RSLk07o0BhMxybcYgIiAjVM6pgF0UiehAbRc1-X_Jkihc5BXOEsKLZ67X4z333Qo-2-U1wRtte4T5vxPAJD_zGs1sf9PWkxJTbS0X_O4ijVutcF6sCpAu-9mlp_lqCbDpIoDw?key=LpNsXrCc-NEhL-PqP_-S_5CU" alt="" /></a>



<p>Ironically, the site&#8217;s URL is wordpressenginetracker.com as the whole WordPress-WP Engine dispute started with Matt accusing the hosting company of misusing the WordPress trademark. Also Automattic had <a href="https://wptavern.com/automattic-and-matt-mullenweg-push-for-dismissal-of-key-claims-in-wp-engine-lawsuit">opposed</a> WP Engine’s lawsuit claiming their <a href="https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/opposition-to-preliminary-injunction.pdf">allegations regarding lost customers</a> should be viewed with skepticism.&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cloudflare-blocks-automattics-wp-engine-tracker-for-phishing/532244/">Search Engine Journal</a> reported that the website was blocked by Cloudflare for &#8220;suspected phishing,&#8221; but it is now up. It <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wpengine-tracker-domain-protest-site/532253/">also reported</a> about someone registering the domain name <a href="http://wpenginetracker.com">WPEngineTracker.com</a>.</p>



<a href="https://wpenginetracker.com/"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeDl2uHqqXyd1eRG1-27QU1sfZQeMZpCSSwUqOCdqx6wap8FWPYcyiVjohWnPORVldwEU4ZHN5TcntIXJR18a3CocU8fLEx-nXwYk72jLrUZ7wpYxQBiQ5BagG61Mk01vIXVwE2sw?key=LpNsXrCc-NEhL-PqP_-S_5CU" alt="" /></a>



<a href="https://github.com/wordpressenginetracker/wordpressenginetracker.github.io/issues/6#issuecomment-2463027472"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdDLhQruoamTpBlRZOaA1fc-9rl9f1Ban1pafy7hiQTUo4oxgX5RTaF2PTOZsDrIDJjEsGq1se6fqLqUjIjFYpTr_ll7RBPbIJO5S9rTUI2qbp5MhjCayOivn7CuAaVHkfOUYia_w?key=LpNsXrCc-NEhL-PqP_-S_5CU" alt="" /></a>



<p><a href="https://x.com/WordPress/status/1854271844309684285"></a>Eric Karkovack of The WP Minute <a href="https://x.com/karks88/status/1854610815330271588">tweeted</a>, “Sort of like Ford tracking everyone who switched from Chevy. Doesn&#8217;t matter to me, I&#8217;m a Honda guy.” WordPress developer Brian Coords <a href="https://x.com/briancoords/status/1855286440537841792">shared</a> this: “This has nice design/dev, but it&#8217;s sad to see talent and resources poured into increased negativity in the community, criticism without substance, tearing down instead of building up. Just sad that&#8217;s what WordPress is becoming a symbol for.”</p>



<p>Security researcher Daniel Ruf dubbed it “amateurish”. He <a href="https://github.com/wordpressenginetracker/wordpressenginetracker.github.io/issues/3#issuecomment-2461388912">continued</a>, “I&#8217;m not sure what the goal of this website is and what Matt tries to achieve. But the community is getting increasingly annoyed of such unprofessional behavior of Matt and in the security community some also think about dropping 0days for WordPress and related plugins/themes due to this whole situation. The feedback under the tweet from the official WordPress account and in the reddit community shows, what most of us think. The whole situation hurts everyone more than needed.”</p>



<p>Another person <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42074721">commented</a>, “So Automattic has put together a list for spammers and hackers to use to target a bunch of sites who are no longer doing business with Matt Mullenweg’s nemesis. That’s… shortsighted. This will surely result in legal action from one or more of these sites?”&nbsp;</p>



<p>As of November 12, 18,280 websites have left WP Engine according to this website. </p>



<p><strong>Update: </strong>An Automattic spokesperson shared this with us, &#8220;“The beauty of open source software is that everyone is able to access data on a granular level, because it’s all publicly available information. That public data has shown that ever since WP Engine filed its lawsuit – making it clear that they do not have an official association with WordPress and attracting greater attention to the company’s poor service, modifications to the WordPress core software, increasing and convoluted pricing structure, and repeated down times – their customers have left their platform for other hosting providers. WP Engine can and always has been able to access the WordPress software and plugins available on WordPress.org, as can anyone.”</p>



<p>Automattic also <a href="https://x.com/automattic/status/1856034544115429655">tweeted </a>this, &#8220;We got the domains list from several third-party sources, not from .org. It&#8217;s pretty easy for anyone to do with services like W3techs, Builtwith, etc, you could recreate the same with a few hours of work and a few hundred dollars. These are all public sites in DNS.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:25:22 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:31;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"WPTavern: Design Team Unveils New WordPress Design System Figma Library";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=179442";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:82:"https://wptavern.com/design-team-unveils-new-wordpress-design-system-figma-library";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2643:"<p>Automattician James Koster has <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2024/11/07/announcing-the-new-wordpress-design-system-figma-library/">announced the launch</a> of a new WordPress Design System library for Figma, the popular tool the design team uses to create mockups and prototypes for WordPress. “The intention of this resource is to streamline the design process for folks working in the WordPress ecosystem,” he explained. </p>



<p>The design library offers a comprehensive range of components, including buttons, forms, icons, and menus, bringing everything you need into one place. It also includes style tokens that allow you to easily manage visual details like radius, elevation, color, and typography. For added convenience, the library provides handy stickers for individual components, and more extensive UI elements like the full-screen editor and site editor.</p>



<p>James also revealed that the “intention is to publish a new version of the library in line with each Gutenberg release, and from 6.8 each major WordPress release too.”</p>



<p>For WordPress Design Team members, the library will be automatically enabled in all new design files within the WordPress.org community Figma organization. Designers working in other Figma organizations can access it by duplicating the file from the community page and publishing it in their own organization.</p>



<p>For those new to Figma, the WordPress Design Team recommends checking out Figma&#8217;s &#8220;Learn&#8221; platform, which offers a comprehensive &#8220;<a href="https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002051613-Get-started">Get Started</a>&#8221; section to help users become familiar with the tool.</p>



<p>You can leave your feedback in the <a href="https://www.figma.com/design/804HN2REV2iap2ytjRQ055/WordPress-Design-System?node-id=2799-26256&node-type=canvas">source file</a> or on the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg">Gutenberg repository on GitHub</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The community has responded positively to the new library. WordPress committer Tammie Lister <a href="https://x.com/karmatosed/status/1854789281933308098">shared</a>, “It also is a step towards the true design system needed. Figma is a part of the system, but an important piece when updated regularly.” </p>



<p>Courtney Robertson, Open Source Developer Advocate at GoDaddy, <a href="https://x.com/courtneyr_dev/status/1855676450394808746">tweeted</a>, “#WordPress just stepped up its design game with a brand-new Figma Library as part of its Design System. Designers, it’s time to explore a more seamless workflow!”. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:38:31 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:32;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"Do The Woo Community: Strategies for Selecting Effective Marketing Channels with Afshana Diya";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=86803";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:92:"https://dothewoo.io/strategies-for-selecting-effective-marketing-channels-with-afshana-diya/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:231:"In this episode of Woo BizChat, Katie Keith and Afsaneh Diya discuss effective marketing strategies for WooCommerce and WordPress businesses, emphasizing audience understanding, community engagement, and diverse marketing channels.";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5:"BobWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:33;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:22:"Matt: RIP Quincy Jones";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:23:"https://ma.tt/?p=129636";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:39:"https://ma.tt/2024/11/rip-quincy-jones/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3206:"<p>Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it&#8217;s impossible to summarize. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones_production_discography">His discography is amazing</a>. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn&#8217;t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were important. We talked a lot about his Count Basie and Frank Sinatra days. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with him, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80102952">the Quincy documentary on Netflix is a good start</a>. His musical fingerprints are everywhere, including the super-catchy theme songs for <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5zyrFDT1xa91xTShK6etQ8?si=aab3f9fd6b114881">Sanford and Sons</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0Jw3cPBXlGnA6DEJrZSTI0?si=8b0773b2ef16409a">Austin Powers</a>.</p>



<img width="604" height="402" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2012/09/MCM_4579-1024x681.jpg?resize=604%2C402&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-43056" />



<p>He passed away last week, on November 3<sup>rd</sup>. As a tribute, here are ten albums he was involved in from the jazz side that have been big parts of my life. I&#8217;ll link to Spotify, but find them wherever you can:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2m0W0n7zBYmRNs1QAgoa6Z?si=w0HA3i5yReWoOAKgAFFwBg">Sinatra at the Sands</a>, Quincy arranges and directs the Count Basie band. This live album is great to listen to, you also get Frank doing stand-up comedy. </li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5lXF6AFeXG8UsIUfBJNsNH?si=UtcgbyAwSOOLQlml_UuJIQ">It Might As Well Be Swing</a>, Frank Sinatra.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/18JHKcwCBtOfCGmOB7hXx8?si=XBdTKfEcSeeZs-jv02C_Yw">Julian &#8220;Cannonball&#8221; Adderley</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5DDLqs1JsR7ZfnuoqLL5dB?si=N0fAf0qYSw2Hm2V2A5j0rA">Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/752AJr22BFy9yubj4XJauv?si=jVCG1rGERQeQhQOuOfODUw">Ella and Basie</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4GFWnwli2cVOBp2G1zqhV1?si=Mhk0Jo8vQ0KYOugXPPSpVw">The Genius of Ray Charles</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/79co4mGqrQdDK93j5ZuqH2?si=Q_ZupFpfSDKnXU8jN-jg9Q">For Those in Love, Dinah Washington</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3J6gCSiLOWrRjSY8xqpvkV?si=qrCG7mlpTxWFI3HFWcHC_g">Dizzy and Strings, Dizzy Gillespie</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5ioLlvIO3CZOmxvsQmGRZ4?si=yq6JeWoASEigUQHgmMNw8w">Quincy Here We Come, Benny Bailey</a>. (The track Meet Benny Bailey has an <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7AurSRjfOYfUD9sWSi4MV1?si=cSvdBmZGQKG4qMWSO2kEzA">excellent tribute on Manhattan Transfer&#8217;s Vocalese</a>.)</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7MGttcftncXXItvutjK9dM?si=VKNQsJlOTvWh39sdqmXnOg">Social Call, Betty Carter</a>.</li>
</ol>



<p>I put all ten into <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BVr7ZF2X5p2RZ433VliiT?si=c8ce164132e74aac">one Spotify playlist if you want to check them all out</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:57:23 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:34;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:74:"Gravatar: 7 Actionable Steps to List Your Social Media Handles Effectively";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=2412";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:70:"https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/11/11/how-to-list-social-media-handles/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21771:"<p>Social media handles are your digital name tags – they help people find and connect with you across every platform. When chosen and used strategically, these identifiers do more than just label your accounts; they make your brand more recognizable and help grow your following.&nbsp;</p>



<p>From major corporations to personal brands, the right social media handle can be the difference between getting lost in the crowd and standing out online. These handles are like a unique fingerprint across platforms, and their presentation on business cards, websites, product packaging, and marketing materials can leave a lasting impression.</p>



<p>While it may sound like a simple thing, there is a strategy to it, and we’re here to show you exactly that. This guide walks you through seven actionable steps to list your social media handles effectively.&nbsp;</p>



<p>From crafting consistent handles to harnessing modern tools like QR codes and integrating your profiles into video content, you&#8217;ll discover practical strategies to boost your brand&#8217;s following and make your social profiles easily accessible.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 1: Choose consistent and memorable social media handles</strong></h2>



<p>Being consistent with your social media handles builds recognition and allows your audience to find you across different platforms. Think of your handle as your digital signature – the more consistent it is, the more memorable you become.</p>



<p>Inconsistent handles, on the other hand, could confuse your audience. Imagine a small business called &#8220;Green Leaf Gardens,&#8221; which has different handles on each platform:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Instagram: @greenleafgardens</li>



<li>Twitter: @GLGardens2023</li>



<li>Facebook: @greenleaflandscaping</li>



<li>TikTok: @thegardeningexperts</li>



<li>LinkedIn: @green-leaf-gardens-llc</li>
</ul>



<p>The mix of abbreviations, numbers, and different business names confuses potential customers and dilutes brand recognition. Using @greenleafgardens consistently (or a close variation if the exact handle isn&#8217;t available) would create a stronger, more memorable online presence.</p>



<p>So, how can you prevent that?&nbsp;</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Pick a handle that&#8217;s up for grabs on all the platforms that matter to you. </strong>We&#8217;re talking Instagram, <a href="https://twitter.com/">Twitter (now X)</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/">TikTok</a>, and any niche networks where your audience hangs out.</li>



<li><strong>Keep it short and sweet.</strong> The simpler your handle, the easier it is to remember and type.</li>



<li><strong>Make sure it reflects your brand. </strong>Your handle should give people a taste of who you are or what you do.</li>
</ol>



<p><strong><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f4a1.png" alt="💡" class="wp-smiley" />Pro tip:</strong> <em>Start with the social platforms where your audience spends most of their time. But don&#8217;t stop there – grab your handle on emerging platforms, too, even if you&#8217;re not ready to use them yet – you might need them in the future.</em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Use Namechk and KnowEm to ensure handle availability</strong></h3>



<p>Before you commit to a handle, take it for a test drive. Free tools like <a href="https://namechk.com/">Namechk</a> or <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/knowem-social-media-usern/mbkgomeeoffmnhnkmngelnbfbhoggmpm">KnowEm</a> can show you if your dream handle is available across multiple social media platforms and domains.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If your first-choice handle is taken, don&#8217;t panic. Get creative with variations that still keep your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">brand identity</a> intact. Maybe add your location or an industry keyword. For example, @JohnDoeBakeryNYC tells people who you are, what you do, and where you&#8217;re based.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s a crucial step many folks overlook: <strong>check for potential trademark issues</strong>. The last thing you want is a legal headache down the road. A quick search of your local trademark office can save you a world of trouble.</p>



<p><strong><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f4a1.png" alt="💡" class="wp-smiley" />Pro tip:</strong> <em>If you&#8217;re unsure about potential trademark conflicts, it&#8217;s worth chatting with a legal pro specializing in intellectual property.</em></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 2: Optimize handles for each platform&#8217;s format</strong></h2>



<p>Each social media platform has its own handle requirements that you need to be aware of.&nbsp;</p>



<p>For example, the <strong>character limitations are different</strong>. Twitter (now X) has a 15-character limit, while Instagram gives you a bit more breathing room with 30 characters. LinkedIn takes a different approach, using URLs like linkedin.com/in/username without the &#8220;@&#8221; symbol.&nbsp; Sometimes, you might need to tweak your handle slightly to fit a platform&#8217;s requirements. That&#8217;s okay, but try to keep it as close to your brand name as possible.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk symbols. On most platforms – Twitter, Instagram, TikTok – your handle starts with an &#8220;@&#8221; symbol. It&#8217;s like a universal &#8220;hey, this is a social media handle&#8221; sign. However, platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook often skip the &#8220;@&#8221; and use the full profile URL instead.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s a hot tip: <strong>avoid unnecessary symbols or numbers in your handle</strong> unless they&#8217;re essential to your brand identity. Sure, @JaneDoe_123_NYC might be available, but it&#8217;s a mouthful to say out loud and a pain to type. Keep it clean and simple.</p>



<p>Different platforms have different purposes, and your handle should adapt accordingly. LinkedIn, for instance, is all about professional networking. So, your handle there might be more formal than your fun, casual Instagram handle.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Finally, don&#8217;t forget to create a custom URL where possible. On LinkedIn or Facebook, you can often set up a custom URL (like linkedin.com/in/YourBrandName) that aligns closely with your handles on other platforms. It&#8217;s an easy way to keep your brand consistent across the board.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 3: Display social media handles on marketing materials creatively</strong></h2>



<p>Your marketing materials are a great opportunity to plug your social media handles and are often the first thing people look for in business cards, brochures, and product packages. Here&#8217;s how to make the most of it:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use clear, readable fonts: </strong>Choose fonts that are easy on the eyes, especially for smaller spaces like business cards, and make your handles stand out without overwhelming the design.</li>



<li><strong>Incorporate social media icons: </strong>Place recognizable icons (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) next to your handles and in your email signatures. They have to be high-resolution and align with your overall branding.</li>



<li><strong>Showcase handles on product packaging:  </strong>If you sell physical products, use that space to encourage social engagement. For example, you can include your handles with a call-to-action like &#8220;Tag us on Instagram!&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Leverage event materials: </strong>Print your social handles on banners, posters, and promotional merchandise. You could also use items like T-shirts or tote bags to encourage attendees to follow you online.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 4: Display your social handles in one place with Gravatar</strong></h2>



<p>Promoting your social media handles across platforms can complicate things for your target audience, so the best course of action is to use a centralized page where they can find everything.&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> is a free tool that lets you create a dynamic profile and include different types of information for your audience to see, including your verified social media profiles and other important links.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="333" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-links-new-2.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar verified accounts section" class="wp-image-2415" />



<p>The most important feature of Gravatar is its automatic synchronization – update your profile in one place, and it will reflect across all connected platforms, which includes <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>, and more! </p>



<p>On top of that, Gravatar allows you to verify your accounts, adding a layer of trust and authority. This is especially valuable for online personalities, entrepreneurs, CEOs, artists, and other professionals.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In short, this is the perfect place for you to add all your social handles and easily share them across your website, email signatures, business cards, and marketing materials. You can do this by adding your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/26/link-your-gravatar-profile-with-a-free-custom-domain/">personal Gravatar .link URL</a> or generating a QR code directly from the platform.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="436" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-qr-code.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar QR code" class="wp-image-2416" />



<p>This can be extremely useful as it provides users with instant access to all your verified social profiles with one quick scan.</p>



<p>Gravatar lets you create a cohesive, professional online presence that boosts your brand&#8217;s visibility and credibility. It ensures that your audience knows they&#8217;re connecting with the real you, no matter which platform they&#8217;re on.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 5: Leverage QR codes to simplify access</strong></h2>



<p>Speaking of QR codes, here&#8217;s how to utilize them effectively.&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use reliable, free QR code generators</strong> such as <a href="https://www.qr-code-generator.com/">QR Code Generator</a>, <a href="https://scanova.io/">Scanova</a>, or <a href="http://bit.ly">Bit.ly</a> to create scannable links for individual platforms or a single page listing all your profiles (e.g., a Gravatar profile or <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/10/21/linktree-alternatives/">Linktree page</a>). As noted above, if you have a Gravatar profile, you get a QR code for free and won’t have to use external tools. </li>



<li><strong>Always test your QR codes</strong> before implementation to ensure they direct users to the correct destination.</li>
</ul>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Include QR codes in physical assets</strong> like business cards, product packaging, in-store displays, printed advertisements, and flyers.</li>



<li><strong>Develop platform-specific QR codes. </strong>If your target audience favors different social networks, create separate QR codes for each platform. Alternatively, use a single QR code to direct people to a central page listing all your social handles.</li>



<li><strong>Opt for dynamic QR codes when possible. </strong>Unlike static codes, dynamic versions can be updated after printing, providing flexibility if you need to change the destination link. This feature lets you modify your digital information without reprinting materials if you update your social handles.</li>
</ul>



<p>Remember, QR codes are most effective when paired with clear instructions and a compelling reason to scan. Provide context for what users will gain by scanning – whether it&#8217;s access to exclusive content, special offers, or a comprehensive view of your social profiles.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 6: List social media handles on your website and landing pages</strong></h2>



<p>Your website and landing pages are prime real estate for showcasing your social media handles. By strategically integrating these handles, you can create a true connection between your web presence and social profiles.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Include social media icons in key website locations</strong></h3>



<p>Social media icons are a standard and effective method to display your handles on your website. These icons typically link directly to your social profiles, allowing visitors to follow you with a single click, which is why it’s good to place them in prominent areas like the header, footer, and contact sections of your website. This ensures visitors can easily access your handles regardless of which page they&#8217;re on.</p>



<p>It’s also recommended that you use branded, recognizable icons to maintain a professional appearance and keep the user experience consistent. Still, make sure that they fit your website&#8217;s <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/05/user-profile-page-examples/">design and color scheme</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Embedding live social media feeds</strong></h3>



<p>Display live content from various platforms, such as Instagram posts, Twitter/X updates, or TikTok videos on strategic pages. For example, if you’re a food blogger, you could include an instagram feed with mouth-watering content that will entice people to follow you there.&nbsp;</p>



<p>What’s important here is to make it as easy as possible for readers to find you, and the best way to do this is through CTA buttons. Place them at the end of blog posts, on product pages, or in pop-ups. Direct visitors to your social platforms with clear, actionable prompts.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Optimize social media links for mobile users</strong></h3>



<p>With a significant portion of web traffic coming from mobile devices, remember to make your social media links mobile-friendly. Here’s how to do that:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Make links easily tappable: </strong>Icons and links have to be large enough for easy interaction on mobile screens. Avoid clustering links too closely together to prevent accidental taps.</li>



<li><strong>Ensure responsive design: </strong>Verify that linked pages are optimized for mobile browsing and test the user experience across various devices and screen sizes.</li>



<li><strong>Consider load times: </strong>Slow-loading social media elements can frustrate users and decrease engagement, so don’t forget to optimize icon images and linked content for quick loading on mobile networks.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 7: Promote social media handles in video and audio content</strong></h2>



<p>Incorporating your social media handles into video and audio content can significantly boost your online presence. This approach allows you to reach audiences across multiple platforms and encourages cross-platform engagement.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Display social media handles as text overlays in videos</strong></h3>



<p>Text overlays are an effective way to make your handles visible without disrupting the main content of your videos.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use lower-thirds for handle display</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Place your handles in the bottom section of the video, commonly known as lower-thirds.</li>



<li>Ensure the text is clear and easy to read on both desktop and mobile devices.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Match branding with font choice</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Select fonts that align with your overall brand aesthetic.</li>



<li>Keep the text professional and easily legible.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Balance visibility and subtlety</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Make sure your handles are noticeable without overwhelming the video&#8217;s visuals.</li>



<li>Consider using semi-transparent overlays to minimize distraction.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Add social media handles to the description box of video platforms</strong></h3>



<p>Video platforms like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, TikTok, and <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a> offer valuable space in their description boxes for promoting your handles.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Prioritize handle placement</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>List your most important handles at the top of the description.</li>



<li>Use clickable links to make it easy for viewers to follow you immediately after watching.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Tailor approach for different platforms</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>On TikTok, where space is limited, focus on your primary handle in the caption or on-screen text.</li>



<li>For YouTube, utilize the expanded description space to list multiple handles and provide context.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Mention handles verbally in video and audio content</strong></h3>



<p>Verbal mentions of your social media handles can reinforce them and prompt your audience to follow you. However, you need to be strategic: Include handle mentions at the start, during transitions, or at the end of your content. For longer content like podcasts, naturally incorporate handle mentions during topic transitions.</p>



<p>We also recommend briefly explaining what kind of content followers can expect on each platform and using a call-to-action approach, encouraging listeners to connect with you on social media.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Include social media handles in end screens or outro segments</strong></h3>



<p>End screens and outros are prime locations for promoting your social media handles, as viewers often decide what to do next after finishing a video.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Create branded end screens</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Design clear, visually appealing end screens that prominently feature your handles.</li>



<li>Include CTAs like, &#8220;Follow us on Instagram @YourHandle for behind-the-scenes content.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Utilize platform-specific features</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>On YouTube, use the end screen feature to display clickable social media icons alongside your handles.</li>



<li>Ensure these elements are easily clickable on both desktop and mobile devices.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Promote social handles during live streams</strong></h3>



<p>Live streams offer real-time opportunities to promote your social media handles while interacting directly with your audience. Use a persistent on-screen graphic showing your primary social media handles and rotate different handles throughout the stream if you&#8217;re active on multiple platforms.</p>



<p>You can also verbally encourage follows by periodically reminding viewers to follow you on other platforms and highlighting exclusive content or benefits available on specific social media channels.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Utilize social media handle watermarks in visual content</strong></h3>



<p>Watermarks ensure your handle remains visible even if your video is shared across different platforms. Place the watermark in a corner of the video where it won&#8217;t distract from the content and ensure it&#8217;s noticeable enough for viewers to remember and easily read.</p>



<p>Remember to be consistent! Use the same watermark design across all your video content for brand recognition. Consider using your primary social media handle as the watermark for maximum impact.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Take control of your online presence with Gravatar today</strong></h2>



<p>Effectively listing and promoting your social media handles is crucial for building a strong online presence. Consistency and visibility are key, but so is efficiency. Managing multiple social media profiles can become time-consuming, especially when updating handles or ensuring consistency across platforms.</p>



<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> offers a straightforward solution for organizing your online presence, making it easier for others to find and follow your profiles without having to manage multiple platforms. With Gravatar, you can:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Create a centralized profile listing links to all your social media accounts, website, portfolio, and other online presences.</li>



<li>Link to your Gravatar profile in email signatures, websites, business cards, and even physical marketing materials using a QR code.</li>



<li>Verify your social media accounts and links, adding a layer of trust and authority to your online presence.</li>
</ul>



<p>Whether you&#8217;re a small business owner, entrepreneur, or social media manager, Gravatar provides a streamlined solution to keep your social media handles up-to-date and visible across your digital footprint.</p>



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<p>Digital business cards shine in both online (as a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/08/28/level-up-your-profile-3-cool-new-features-for-your-link-in-bio/">link in bio</a> tool, in the footer of contact pages and emails) and offline (in-person networking and <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/08/02/organizational-benefits-of-efficient-contact-sharing/">contact sharing</a>) settings.<strong> </strong>So, whether you&#8217;re adding them to your email signature or sharing them at in-person events, they make networking and follow-ups much easier.&nbsp;</p>



<p><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f331.png" alt="🌱" class="wp-smiley" /> As a bonus, they&#8217;re environmentally friendly, reducing paper waste.</p>



<p>However, creating an effective digital business card comes with challenges. Many solutions can be costly, and designing one without the necessary skills can be daunting. Thankfully, <a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> exists – a completely free and powerful platform for crafting digital business cards.</p>



<p>This guide will show you how to use Gravatar to create a professional, eye-catching digital business card – no design expertise required!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Necessary features and design elements for your digital business card</strong></h2>



<p>While it’s good to be creative and unique with your digital business card, you still need some essential elements. Let’s see what they are:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Profile photo:</strong> It&#8217;s often the first thing people notice, so choose a clear, well-lit, high-quality headshot that reflects your professional persona.</li>



<li><strong>Contact information:</strong> Include the essentials such as name, job title, company, email, and phone number. Remember, digital cards allow for easy updating if any details change.</li>



<li><strong>Social media links: </strong>Add links to your relevant social profiles. This expands your networking reach, allowing connections to engage with you on multiple platforms.</li>



<li><strong>Personal website or portfolio link:</strong> Showcase your work and drive traffic to your site by including a link to your personal website or portfolio.</li>



<li><strong>Brief bio or tagline: </strong>Craft a concise personal statement that encapsulates your professional identity or unique selling point. Keep it short, sharp, and memorable.</li>



<li><strong>Customization options:</strong> Your digital card should align with your personal brand, especially the visuals, such as the color scheme, fonts, and overall design. For example, you could use the same font as you would on your website but also include an effective one-liner like you would on LinkedIn.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Sharing methods: </strong>Ensure your digital card is easily shareable both online and offline. For example, you can create your own QR code that people can scan and access your card in seconds. Online, the most effective way is to have a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/26/link-your-gravatar-profile-with-a-free-custom-domain/">nice, short, custom URL</a>.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Easy follow-ups and contact: </strong>Your business card needs to make it easy for people to follow up and contact you when they want to. That means including your email signature in your business card, or links to contact forms.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Privacy controls: </strong>Make sure you can control what information is visible and to whom. This flexibility allows you to tailor your card for different professional contexts.</li>



<li><strong>Integration capabilities: </strong>Consider how your digital card might connect with other tools you use regularly, such as CRM systems or other professional platforms.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Create a stunning digital business card with Gravatar – no design skills needed</strong></h2>



<img width="2492" height="1298" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-new-homepage.png" alt="Gravatar homepage" class="wp-image-2391" />



<p>Enter Gravatar: your free ticket to a globally recognized digital identity. This platform is a powerful tool for managing your online presence across thousands of websites and services. Think of it as your universal digital business card and <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">personal branding hub</a> all rolled into one.</p>



<img width="1032" height="776" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ronnie-gravatar-profile.png" alt="Ronnie Burt’s Gravatar profile" class="wp-image-2392" />



<p>What sets Gravatar apart? Its simplicity. You don&#8217;t need to be a design guru to create a standout profile. Just upload an avatar and fill in your details, and you&#8217;re good to go. But don&#8217;t let the ease of use fool you – there&#8217;s plenty of room for customization. You can play with background colors, tweak button hues, or add a custom-branded header and footer.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1613" height="919" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-edit-page.png" alt="Demo profile in Gravatar" class="wp-image-2393" />



<p>You can even rearrange the layout to suit your style. And for those who want to go the extra mile, why not embed a video introduction? It&#8217;s all about making your digital card uniquely you.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what you can pack into your Gravatar profile:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Your chosen avatar image (make it a good one!)</li>



<li>Name and a snappy biography</li>



<li>Contact information (email, website)</li>



<li>Links to your social media profiles</li>



<li>Other relevant links (portfolio, projects, etc.)</li>
</ul>



<p>But here&#8217;s where Gravatar really shines: <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/02/27/gravatar-manifesto-one-profile-everywhere/"><strong>automatic synchronization</strong></a>. Update your profile once, and those changes instantly appear across all connected platforms&nbsp; – no more scrambling to update multiple online profiles when you change jobs or contact details. This ensures your personal brand stays consistent everywhere you appear online, from professional forums to project collaborations.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And for those <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/16/how-to-network-at-a-conference/">in-person networking moments</a>, you can generate a QR code for your Gravatar profile and watch as people scan their way straight to your digital doorstep.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Android and Apple Wallet Support, Too</h2>



<img width="2800" height="1720" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2427" />



<p>Never fumble for a business card again. Your Gravatar profile now lives in your phone&#8217;s wallet!</p>



<p><strong>Quick Setup:</strong></p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li>Log into your Gravatar profile</li>



<li>Click the &#8216;Share profile&#8217; button</li>



<li>Select &#8216;Add to Apple Wallet&#8217; or &#8216;Add to Google Wallet&#8217;</li>



<li>Tap to add &#8211; you&#8217;re done!</li>
</ol>



<p><strong>Why You&#8217;ll Love It:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Always on hand &#8211; even when your phone is offline</li>



<li>Share your profile with a quick tap</li>



<li>Updates automatically when you change your Gravatar</li>



<li>Looks sleek in your digital wallet</li>



<li>Perfect for conferences and meetups</li>



<li>More eco-friendly than paper cards</li>
</ul>



<p><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f31f.png" alt="🌟" class="wp-smiley" /> <strong>Here&#8217;s a neat trick</strong>: Gravatar integrates with comment systems on many blogs and news sites. This means your digital business card can pop up alongside your online contributions, turning everyday interactions into potential networking gold.</p>



<img width="1744" height="952" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-comment-section.png" alt="Responses to comments in Gravatar" class="wp-image-2394" />



<p>So, ready to create a digital business card that works as hard as you do? Let&#8217;s dive into how you can make Gravatar work its magic for your professional brand.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Future-proof your networking: Create a digital business card with Gravatar</strong></h2>



<p>Gravatar isn&#8217;t just another digital business card platform – it&#8217;s a revolution in online networking. Its unique email-based system allows you to manage multiple online identities effortlessly. And with thousands of integrated platforms, your Gravatar profile becomes a centralized hub for your digital presence.</p>



<p>Worried about design skills or costs? Gravatar eliminates these common hurdles. It&#8217;s free, user-friendly, and doesn&#8217;t require a degree in graphic design to look professional.</p>



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<p>The updated logo, featuring a lively purple and white color palette, has already sparked a buzz in the WordPress community. It showcases “WOO” in white against a deep purple background, sometimes transitioning into a shopping cart, with the “O”s doubling as wheels—perfectly representing a platform that powers millions of online stores worldwide.</p>



<p>Jay Walsh, Director of Communications at WooCommerce.com, shared that they recently discussed plans around the Woo and WooCommerce brand and identity during the keynote session of this year’s WooSesh. The team teased a refreshed WooCommerce logo treatment during the keynote, which is part of the wider effort to make the Woo brand, voice, and identity bolder and more engaging for current and future merchants.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Evolving our brand and our main product is crucial to our strategy of growing new stores, reaching new merchants, and maintaining our position as the world’s most popular commerce platform”, he explained.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The animated logo has been a hit, drawing comments like “one of the best logos I&#8217;ve seen in a while” to “This is so darn cool.” BobWP of Do the Woo Podcast <a href="https://x.com/BobWP/status/1851528372054061090">tweeted</a>, “In case you missed this. And coming from someone who used to design logos professionally, the simplest ideas, which now seem obvious, are the hardest. Great job!”&nbsp;</p>



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<p>If you don’t provide them with one, you’re losing business, plain and simple.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Thankfully, there are many website personalization tools that are transforming how businesses connect with their audience online. These tools enable companies to deliver individualized experiences that resonate with each visitor, going beyond traditional segment-based approaches.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In the following sections, we&#8217;ll explore the top 7 personalization tools and their features, showing you how to unlock new levels of engagement and business success.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Introducing the top 7 website personalization tools</strong></h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1.</strong> <strong>Gravatar</strong></h3>



<img width="1473" height="918" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gravatar-profiles-as-a-service.png" alt="Gravatar homepage" class="wp-image-2255" />



<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> is a unique tool in the world of website personalization. It simplifies user profile management and enhances personalization based on users&#8217; email addresses, offering a distinct advantage by utilizing data already provided by users. This approach allows developers to personalize site experiences without extensive data collection.</p>



<p>Gravatar offers two powerful APIs for integration:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/images/">The Avatar API</a> that is designed specifically for requesting avatars.</li>



<li><a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/">The Profiles-As-A-Service API</a>, which enables developers to import comprehensive profile information.</li>
</ol>



<p>These APIs create a centralized hub where users can update their information once, and it syncs across all Gravatar-integrated sites. Gravatar has also introduced <em>Interests</em>, allowing users to list specific topics they&#8217;re interested in – something that can change the game for website owners looking to understand user preferences.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1511" height="865" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gravatar-interests-section.png" alt="Gravatar Interests section" class="wp-image-2256" />



<p>For example, an e-commerce site could show personalized product recommendations based on these interests.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Users can create a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/05/09/wordpress-profile-page/">single avatar profile page</a> associated with their email address.</li>
</ul>



<img width="1032" height="776" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ronnie-gravatar-profile.png" alt="Example of a Gravatar profile page" class="wp-image-2257" />



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>This profile automatically appears on any Gravatar-enabled site, providing a consistent identity across platforms.</li>



<li>Users can add important information such as avatar, bio, pronouns, and job info – update once, sync everywhere.</li>



<li>Gravatar is natively supported by <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, enabling effortless avatar management for WordPress users and developers without additional plugins or code.</li>
</ul>



<p>For developers looking to import user profiles, integration with Gravatar&#8217;s profile API is needed. To streamline the user experience, it&#8217;s recommended to explain to users that they can control their avatar and profile information directly from their Gravatar profile.</p>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Gravatar is particularly beneficial for developers, bloggers, and business owners. It provides a consistent brand image across platforms and maximizes engagement by offering personalized user experiences.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> Gravatar integrates with popular platforms like <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>, <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, <a href="https://www.figma.com/">Figma</a>, and <a href="https://mailchimp.com/">Mailchimp</a>, demonstrating its versatility and wide-reaching impact.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> One of Gravatar&#8217;s standout features is its pricing model – or lack of. It&#8217;s a completely free service for site owners, developers, and users, and is run and supported by <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. There&#8217;s no paid version and no usage limits, making it an accessible option for businesses of all sizes.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>2. Dynamic Yield&nbsp;</strong></h3>



<img width="660" height="379" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dynamic-yield-homepage.png?w=660" alt="Dynamic Yield homepage" class="wp-image-2258" />



<p><a href="https://www.dynamicyield.com/">Dynamic Yield</a> is a powerful player in the website personalization arena, known for delivering personalized onsite experiences through AI-powered targeting and real-time analytics.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Contextually relevant content:</strong> Delivers personalized content based on user behavior and preferences. For instance, a returning visitor interested in sports might see sports-related content prominently displayed on the homepage.</li>



<li><strong>Product recommendations:</strong> Uses AI to suggest products based on browsing history and purchase patterns. An online retailer could use this to show complementary items to those in a user&#8217;s cart.</li>



<li><strong>Personalized messages:</strong> Tailors messaging based on visitor behavior and characteristics. A travel website might show different promotional messages to first-time visitors versus frequent bookers.</li>



<li><strong>Real-time personalization:</strong> Adapts content in real-time as users interact with the site. For example, a news site could reshuffle article placement based on what the user clicks on during their visit.</li>
