WP Engine should offer free #WordPress hosting for a year to people laid off by #automattic yesterday, since they're no longer getting free hosting from .com.
WP Engine should offer free #WordPress hosting for a year to people laid off by #automattic yesterday, since they're no longer getting free hosting from .com.
Sain tänään ulos WordPress-ylläpitopalvelumme landing-sivun @dude. Siitä tuli hieno, vaikka itse sanonkin! https://www.dude.fi/wordpress-yllapito
#WPA11yMeetup is starting in 10 minutes! Join us for Accessible Firebrand: “Why can’t I use my brand color there, and if not there, then where?” with Deneb Pulsipher & Mark Alvis #WordPress #a11y #accessibility https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8217436916640/WN_TJZT1ARGRcCffMGZWHbXNA
Important post on the ongoing governance problems in the #WordPress community and Matt Mullenweg punishes dissent: https://progressplanner.com/real-impact-of-being-banned-from-wordpress/
“a Senior Quality Engineer on WooCommerce, said his entire team was let go.”
as if the quality of WooCommerce can afford to get any worse?
One more tidbit from The Repository’s coverage of the #WordPress layoffs at Automattic:
“95% of those let go were age 40 or over.”
Last year I talked about why those in #WordPress have a responsibility to not bring new people in who risk the ire of Matt’s whims. Taco and Joost aren’t new to WordPress but this post of Taco’s talking about how they’ve been banned, does a great job of illustrating the danger of relying on a dying ecosystem for a living and why the “community” crowd around it can be so very dangerous. https://progressplanner.com/real-impact-of-being-banned-from-wordpress/
#WordPress #Automattic #layoffs
'Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce. The layoffs will impact 16% of staff across divisions, an Automattic blog post published Wednesday reveals.'
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/wordpress-maker-automattic-lays-off-16-of-staff/
Hey #wordpress experts, anyone remembers where was the configuration for this bit?, the fediverse part when posting a new entry, I know it can be configured to indicate which account to use, but I can't find where to change it
Wordpress.org: Automattic entlässt 16 Prozent seiner Mitarbeiter
Um die Zukunft des Unternehmens zu sichern, entlässt Wordpress-Eigentümer Automattic 16 Prozent der Belegschaft.
I wonder how realistic (as in convenient and usable) to run a Fediverse instance that's actually just a WordPress installation with the ActivityPub plugin.
Has anyone tried?
I understand that it may not be the best way to proceed (as WordPress wasn't designed for this) but it could bean easy way to introduce people like me (long time WordPress users but not tech people) to running their own Fediverse instances.
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #WordPress
I can’t say I’m surprised to see this with #WordPress in decline but I really do feel for those folks affected. https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/
Wow!
Can now turn a WordPress site/blog into a Fediverse "account". I will test this with my own, but eyeing the Baronial web page to provide a non-Facebook way to "follow" it!
#fediverse #WordPress
fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-yo…
Matt Mullenweg announces 16% staff reduction at Automattic in restructuring announcement.
https://automattic.com/2025/04/02/restructuring-announcement/
An update about #WordPress :
If you have a WP blog, people can follow your blog account and interact with your blog posts from Mastodon etc. More info at https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server
The latest version of WP's Fediverse support introduces migration of Mastodon posts onto WordPress blogs as WP posts. (See thread at https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/114263501158396609)
BUT unfortunately WP's largest developer's CEO has been behaving, um... unusually It's still unclear how this will resolve, it may be that a fork takes over.
Question, I really need your opinion:
I have red as my brand color (#E00000).
But I also have a more green/teal color as a contrast color, also on darkmode. My boyfriend says it clashes with the red color. And what do you think of the hover effect on the cards?
Personaly I really like the pink hover effect on the cards.
This is not finished yet. by the way.
https://rosita311.github.io/RulesbyRosita-theme/
Can someone please remind me why deleting #WordPress was discussed so much on here a couple of months ago? It was more than an #infosec issue, right? There were ethico-political issues too? I’ve searched past posts and can’t find anything. Thanks.
Very exciting news about #Ghost, the blogging software I use for my website, beta testing their new social web integration! Activating it enables direct interaction with blogs on #Wordpress and soon #Tumblr, #Mastodon and the whole #Fediverse, as well as #BlueSky and #Threads according to their changelog:
https://ghost.org/changelog/social-web-beta/
As a self-hosting user I'll have to wait for a stable release but I am thrilled!
What a great turnout last night, diverse ages and backgrounds coming together to share their #WordPress journeys curated by Janice & Beccy. One of the attendees (Brian) has written a piece on his personal website;
https://www.briansnellgrove.net/2025/04/02/the-rebirth-of-a-bristol-wordpress-group/
I really, really wish that people would stop using their age as the reason they can't deal with the #wordpress Block Editor! (Said the woman in her 8th decade.)
C'mon! You learned to use your smart phone, nu? Sheesh!