Jeff Chandler

  • Stack Overflow Survey Respondents Still Rank WordPress Among the Most Dreadful Platforms

    Stack Overflow Survey Respondents Still Rank WordPress Among the Most Dreadful Platforms

    Stack Overflow, a Q&A community for developers, has published the results of its 2018 developer survey. The survey was held between January 8th through the 28th and includes responses from 101,592 software developers from 183 countries across the world. This is nearly twice the amount of responses compared to last year’s survey. Last year, WordPress…

  • WPCampus Scheduled for July 12-14 in St. Louis, MO

    WPCampus Scheduled for July 12-14 in St. Louis, MO

    WPCampus, an in-person conference dedicated to WordPress in higher education has announced its third annual event will be held July 12-14 at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. The call for speakers is open until April 7th. The event is two months after WordCamp St. Louis which will also be held at Washington University. WPCampus…

  • Yoast Launches Fund to Increase Speaker Diversity at Tech Conferences

    Yoast Launches Fund to Increase Speaker Diversity at Tech Conferences

    In an effort to increase speaker diversity at conferences worldwide, the team at Yoast SEO has launched a diversity fund. The fund will pledge a minimum of €25,000 each year. Its purpose is to remove the financial burdens that can cause minorities or underrepresented groups to speak at conferences. “There are WordCamps throughout the world,…

  • WPWeekly Episode 307 – Thirty Percent of the Web

    WPWeekly Episode 307 – Thirty Percent of the Web

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I start with a continued discussion of AMP from last week. We cover the big releases of the week including Jetpack, Genesis, Yoast SEO, and Gutenberg. We discuss a new project that aims to determine Gutenberg compatible plugins, debate the terminology used to describe WordPress’ market share, and…

  • Conceptual Ideas on How the Customizer Could Integrate With Gutenberg

    Conceptual Ideas on How the Customizer Could Integrate With Gutenberg

    While the initial focus of Gutenberg is the editor, the second focus is the Customization experience in WordPress. Mel Choyce, Product Designer at Automattic, recently spoke at LoopConf, on the past, present, and future of the customizer. Choyce begins the presentation by describing when and how the customizer was added to WordPress. Fun fact, the…

  • WordPress Now Used on 30% of the Top 10 Million Sites

    WordPress Now Used on 30% of the Top 10 Million Sites

    W3Techs, a survey company that monitors usage of various web technologies, is reporting that WordPress has reached 30% usage or 60.2% market share of all the websites whose content management systems it knows about. This represents a 0.6% increase since February 1st and 13.1% over the last seven years. Just five days ago, Matt Mullenweg,…

  • 4,500 Plugins Need Your Help in Determining Gutenberg Compatibility

    4,500 Plugins Need Your Help in Determining Gutenberg Compatibility

    One of the keys to a successful roll out of Gutenberg is plugin compatibility. Without it, users will experience unnecessary frustration and hamper enthusiasm of the new editor. In an effort to figure out what plugins are already compatible with Gutenberg, Daniel Bachhuber has created a Gutenberg Plugin Compatibility Database. The database contains 5,000 plugins…

  • WPWeekly Episode 306 – AMP, GDPR, and Brewing Beer At The Boss’ House

    WPWeekly Episode 306 – AMP, GDPR, and Brewing Beer At The Boss’ House

    In this episode, John James Jacoby joins me live from Hutchinson, KS, to talk about the news of the week. We started off the show discussing the GDPR and the number of things that need to be considered surrounding the right to be forgotten. We also have a lengthy conversation about AMP, the open web,…

  • New Team Forms to Facilitate GDPR Compliance in WordPress Core

    New Team Forms to Facilitate GDPR Compliance in WordPress Core

    As May 25th, the enforcement date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) draws near, individuals and businesses are scrambling to make sure they’re compliant. I’ve read a number of blog posts throughout the WordPress community explaining the GDPR and what needs to be done for compliance and it’s a tough thing to grasp. The…

  • Matt Cromwell Hosts Matt Mullenweg in Q&A Gutenberg Interview

    Matt Cromwell Hosts Matt Mullenweg in Q&A Gutenberg Interview

    Matt Cromwell, Head of Support and Community Outreach for GiveWP and an administrator for the Advanced WordPress Facebook group, hosted a question and answer session about Gutenberg with Matt Mullenweg earlier today. The interview concludes the Advanced WordPress Gutenberg interview series that includes, Joost de Valk, Ahmad Awais, and Tammie Lister. Mullenweg began the session by…

  • WordCamp Orange County Plugin-A-Palooza First Place Prize is $3,000

    WordCamp Orange County Plugin-A-Palooza First Place Prize is $3,000

    WordCamp Orange County, CA, 2018 will take place June 9-10. In addition to the regular WordCamp format of speakers sharing their knowledge, there is also a mini-event called Plugin-A-Palooza. This year marks the fourth contest where plugin authors will compete for one of three prizes. First Place – $3,000 cash and 1 Sucuri Business (VIP) license Second…

  • 10up Turns Seven

    10up Turns Seven

    10up, a web development agency founded by Jake Goldman in 2011, has turned seven years old. In a blog post celebrating the occasion, Goldman reviews the previous year and highlights some notable events for the company. “We welcomed more than 30 new clients to our portfolio in another record sales year,” Goldman said. “We launched…

  • Free Virtual WordPress for JavaScript Conference June 29th

    Free Virtual WordPress for JavaScript Conference June 29th

    Zac Gordon, who launched his Gutenberg development course earlier this year, is organizing a virtual conference called JavaScript for WordPress. The conference will take place June 29th and is free to watch. “Making the event free and online was really important for me so we could have as few barriers to entry for folks wanting…