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Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a creative way to find new WordPress customers that may just surprise you! Find an existing community of non technical people that have websites (like bookkeepers or copywriters) Then look at any of these three things… 1. Above…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News Big acquisition news happened last week when Delicious Brains, owned by Brad Touesnard, sold five of its plugins to WPEngine. You may use one or all of these plugins starting with Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  If you haven’t heard, Brad Touesnard has sold his suite of Delicious Brains plugins to WP Engine. In this interview, I ask him the following question: 1. The million-dollar question: Why sell a suite of WordPress popular, profitable and beloved plugins — of…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News WordPress turned 19 this year on May 27th. Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern wrote an article covering the beginning when Matt Mullenweg partnered with Mike Little and released the first version of WordPress based on the b2/cafelog software. The highlight of this…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  If you’ve been using InstaWP to launch sandbox WordPress websites, things are about to heat up for the platform lead by Vikas Singhal. In an exclusive interview with Daniel Schutzsmith, Vikas shared how he landed a seed funding round from Automattic and how…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  After some spotty patches announcing new pricing, WordPress.com released a new $5/month Starter plan. I had the chance to send some questions to Dave Martin, CEO of Automattic, about the announcement, plus, some other areas of .com that I was interested in knowing…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News WordPress 6.0 “Arturo” was released. This release was named for the Latin jazz musician and director Arturo O’Farrill. With nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. You can watch the official release over on YouTube….

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  How much thread could a Twitter thread thread if a Twitter thread could thread thread Carolina Nymark shares some of the trends she’s seeing with Full Site Editing themes in the repo. Data like, common block styles include button, post-title, and site-title. Check…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News Want to find the latest with Gutenberg? You can quickly find the updates on the Gutenberg Hub. where can check out the latest resources or tutorials. Maciek Palmowski tweeted this resource where you can create a Gutenberg page quickly by using the…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News With the release of WordPress 6.0 RC1, it is time to explore the 97+ enhancements that have been made. Milana Cap over at make.wordpress.org has shared the field guide where developers can read about the high-level changes in WordPress 6.0. The field…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 is now available for testing. These releases are moving along and testers are needed for the most recent release. If you would like to check out the release schedule you can go over to make.wordpress.org. It was just…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Recently on the WPMinute, I was able to have another interview with Eric Karkovack a producer at the WPMinute about his view of the Freelancer in WordPress. Eric has been a freelancer since 1999 and knows how the changes and ups and downs…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  WordPress 6.0 Beta 2 is now available for testing. The call continues to be made for testers and if you would like to contribute to this cycle jump over to make.wordpress.org. The WordPress Performance Group has a stable release of their plugin. The…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  Daniel and Matt are back to discuss the week in WordPress news. They’ll cover some of the important stories that came across The WP Minute news desk like: TinyPress WordPress.com Makes Major Unannounced Pricing Changes, Slashes Free Storage Limits Matt’s Twitter survey Jetpack…

Thanks Pressable for supporting the podcast! What hosting should feel like…nothing! https://pressable.com/wpminute  News There is a call for WordPress users to help with the upcoming release of WordPress 6.0. This release is scheduled for May 24, 2022. There have been over 400 updates and 500 bug fixes since the last release and they could really…