Jonathan Bossenger

  • WordCamp Asia Extends Sponsor Application Deadline

    WordCamp Asia Extends Sponsor Application Deadline

    The WordCamp Asia organizing team has extended its call for sponsors until Thursday, November 30, 2023. In an update on the official website, organizers explained that they received feedback from multiple potential sponsors regarding why they had been unable to apply before the original deadline.  Some of the reasons included the following: WordCamp Asia’s organizers…

  • WordPress Training Team Seeks Community Feedback on Learning Pathways

    WordPress Training Team Seeks Community Feedback on Learning Pathways

    Earlier this year, the WordPress Training Team published the results from the Individual Learner Survey completed in 2022. The goal of the survey was to identify the most useful and high-impact resources and content for Learn.WordPress.org and guide the future development of this community learning tool. One of the main takeaways of this survey was…

  • SpinupWP Launches CLI Tool and External Database Support

    SpinupWP Launches CLI Tool and External Database Support

    SpinupWP, the cloud-based WordPress server control panel from the folks at Delicious Brains, turns four this year. They celebrated by launching one of the most frequently requested features, a command-line interface to manage servers and sites from the terminal. Other recent updates include external database support, the site log viewer which allows you to view…

  • Getting Your WordPress Plugins and Themes Ready for PHP 8

    Getting Your WordPress Plugins and Themes Ready for PHP 8

    On Monday, WordPress core contributor Jonathan Desrosiers published a detailed post on the Make WordPress Core blog about the upcoming PHP 8 release and how it affects WordPress. PHP 8 Is Coming Scheduled for release on November 26, 2020, PHP 8 is the next major update to our favorite scripting language. While previous PHP releases…

  • Is WP Notify the Silver Bullet WordPress Needs to End Admin Notification Spam?

    Is WP Notify the Silver Bullet WordPress Needs to End Admin Notification Spam?

    A short while ago, Justin Tadlock posted an article titled Are Plugin Authors to Blame for the Poor Admin Notices Experience?. If you haven’t already, I recommend reading his article. It describes in detail one question I’ve been pondering since I originally posted the WP Notify feature project proposal almost a year ago now: Will…

  • Attend the Great WP Virtual Summit for Free: August 19-23

    Attend the Great WP Virtual Summit for Free: August 19-23

    For five days next week, from August 19-23, the inaugural event of The Great WP Virtual Summit will be taking place. Conceived by South African based WordPress developer Anchen le Roux, the summit aims to bring together experts from various fields within the WordPress ecosystem to share their knowledge over the five days I reached…