It's clear the WordPress world needs a change. So I wrote a post about exactly that:
Breaking the Status Quo: A vision for a new WordPress era
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Can we all agree that this is nonsense?
I have nothing against Elementor, but it’s not a CMS. It’s a page builder, or whatever we call those things these days. It doesn’t store the content, doesn’t deal with users, doesn’t do authentication, etc. Etc.
The CMS is called WordPress!
https://x.com/w3techs/status/1742211668241686979?s=46&t=7ZSGALqJdOXPVqkMXGbtww
It's a new year, time to get blogging more! I wrote about my experience with (and fix for) #WordPress comment cookies and proxy caching:
File under “ChatGPT writing articles is not a blessing”:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/23/yoast-ceo-calls-for-a-federated-approach-to-wordpress-repository/
I've updated my post about AVIF and WebP social share images with updated tests and more info, including on how to fix this for @Yoast SEO if you're using modern image formats on your site:
Read quickly to see that you can now safely use WebP for share images everywhere!!
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I've been *super* excited by @felixarntz's work on the AI services plugin, and now I get to play with it and build stuff for it in this hackathon 😄️
I wrote a thing, mostly fun for search geeks: should we standardize redirect-by?
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Unfortunately, Sportlink, which the Dutch football association KNVB forces football clubs to use, is rather ancient: it doesn't expose APIs for things like member data.
This means that when someone changes their email address, we have to manually change that in 3 to 4 systems.
Another thing I've done over that period is slowly revamp the website. It hadn't had the love it needed for a while, but slowly https://svawc.nl is actually looking good again and providing the needed info.
We launched our newest plugin project at Emilia Capital today, have a look!
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While that's been an interesting experience, I've concluded that I simply miss being an entrepreneur too much. So, it's time to spread my wings, and get the entrepreneurial juices flowing again.
Saying goodbye to Newfold of course does not mean saying goodbye to WordPress. I'll be a part of the WordPress community for as long as I live, so I look forward to meeting many of my beloved, former, Newfold colleagues at WordCamps and other events.
I migrated Emilia Capital from HelpScout to Freescout, as I’m considering more and more open-source solutions for running our business. I documented the entire process & would ❤️ to hear your thoughts:
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I'd love to hear from others who've done similar work: what are good tools? What is good stuff to use for a football club?
I love it when I can send bug reports to a team, and they tackle them as pro’s, like The Events Calendar team did here:
https://theeventscalendar.com/blog/announcing-major-seo-improvements-to-the-events-calendar/
I've got a thing I'd love the opinion on from #WordPress developers: should register_taxonomy and register_post_type() default to $public = false ?