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Here is Akshaya reading her own story aloud.





<p>Howdy, friends!</p>



<p>I’m Akshaya Rane, a fellow WordPress enthusiast from the vibrant suburbs of Mumbai, India. You’ll often find me at WordPress meetups, WordCamps, and Do Actions, eagerly soaking in the energy of this incredible community.</p>



<p>It all began at my first WordCamp Mumbai. The enthusiasm in the air, the insightful sessions, and the shared passion for WordPress left me inspired. At the time, I couldn’t imagine myself on that stage, yet here I am today, sharing my journey with you.</p>



<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7651_9919d8-02 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><strong>Discovering the Joy of Contribution</strong></h2>



<p>A few years later, WordCamp Mumbai hosted a Contribution Day, and my world opened up. I learned about the many ways to give back—Core, Meta, Photos, Themes, Translations, and more. My first contribution was a ticket in Core, and from there, I never looked back.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>Earning a few contribution badges along the way has been an honor, but the real reward has been the learning and the connections made with like-minded people worldwide.</p>
</blockquote>



<p>Recently, I had the privilege of serving as a release coordinator for WordPress 6.4 and 6.5. Working alongside such talented individuals from around the globe has been humbling and inspiring. If this sounds daunting, trust me—it wasn’t something I planned for. I simply embraced the opportunities that came my way and poured my time and effort into them.</p>



<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7651_c36762-8e wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><strong>Embracing the Speaker’s Stage</strong></h2>



<p>My speaker journey began with a #WPDiversity workshop led by Jill Binder. She simplified the process of becoming a speaker, guiding us from topic selection to proposal submission. While it took me a few months to act on it, the group’s encouragement kept me going.</p>



<p>Finally, I submitted my first application to WordCamp Kerala 2023, and to my surprise, I was selected! </p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>It was both exciting and nerve-wracking, but delivering that talk and hearing how others related to my experiences made it all worthwhile.</p>
</blockquote>



<p>Since then, I’ve delivered six to seven talks at various WordCamps, including panel discussions. These events have allowed me to explore new places, experience diverse cultures, savor local cuisines, and, most importantly, connect with fellow enthusiasts.</p>



<a href="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3024/11/akshaya_at_wordcamp.webp"><img width="1024" height="1024" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/3024/11/akshaya_at_wordcamp-1024x1024.webp" alt="Akshaya speaking at WordCamp Kerala." class="wp-image-7654" /></a>



<p>If you’re considering stepping onto the WordCamp stage, I’ve documented my speaker journey<a href="https://akshayar.online/from-novice-to-wordcamp-speaker-navigating-the-journey/"> here</a>. I hope it helps you get started!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-sharing-and-growing-together"><strong>Sharing and Growing Together</strong></h2>



<p>As I delved deeper into contributions, I wanted to share the experience with my team. With support from my company, we organized a WordPress Contribution Day, which was a great success. Seeing my teammates engage and grow was incredibly rewarding.</p>



<p>Being part of the 6.4 and 6.5 release teams taught me the value of empathy, time management, and collaboration. Every small change in WordPress reflects the dedication of contributors ensuring the platform remains reliable for countless businesses worldwide.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-problem-solving-through-wordpress"><strong>Problem-Solving Through WordPress</strong></h2>



<p>In my day-to-day role as a Project Manager, I specialize in solving business challenges. One project that stands out involved migrating subscriptions to WooCommerce. With careful planning and execution, we ensured seamless integration, minimizing disruption and protecting the client’s business.</p>



<blockquote class="wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow">
<p>These experiences remind me why WordPress is a cornerstone for so many businesses—it’s not just a tool; it’s a community-powered solution.</p>
</blockquote>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-the-heart-of-wordpress-community"><strong>The Heart of WordPress: Community</strong></h2>



<p>After nearly two decades, the WordPress community remains its greatest strength. It’s a place where we help each other grow and learn, and I am deeply grateful to be part of it.</p>



<p>I want to thank Topher for this opportunity to share my story on HeroPress, a platform filled with inspiring journeys. If my story resonates with you, feel free to reach out through my site. Whether it’s learning, connecting, or collaborating, I’d love to hear from you.</p>



<p>Let’s continue building and thriving together!</p>



<p></p>
<p>The post <a href="https://heropress.com/essays/from-attendee-to-contributor-my-wordpress-journey/">From Attendee to Contributor: My WordPress Journey</a> appeared first on <a href="https://heropress.com">HeroPress</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 20 Nov 2024 02:30:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:12:"Akshaya Rane";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:1;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>WordPress contributors kept a close eye on the complaints and have decided to release<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/11/19/wordpress-6-7-1-release-schedule/"> WordPress 6.7.1</a> on November 21, 2024, to address bugs introduced in version 6.7.</p>



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<p>Key fixes planned for WordPress 6.7.1 include:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Resolving issues with sizes=auto causing small images.</li>



<li>Fixing translation errors.</li>



<li>Addressing problems with uncategorized patterns breaking the editor.</li>



<li>Correcting zoom-in misalignment issues</li>



<li>Fixing the missing zoom-out button when plugins add toolbar items.</li>
</ul>



<p>Several other bugs are being reviewed and may be included if fixes are ready, including images being unexpectedly converted to HEIC files with temporary names when using the Upload button in Safari, broken category management in the Classic Editor, and changes to CSS targets on the login screen affecting custom logos.</p>



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<p><strong>This new version of the plugin replaces v5.3.4</strong>, which was briefly available from wordpress.org earlier today. This version contained code that had compatibility issues with versions of PHP earlier than 7.3. If you were affected by errors on installing this version, we&#8217;re very sorry for any difficulties this may have caused. We are adding extra automated testing to prevent this from happening again in the future. These issues are addressed in the current version,&nbsp;v5.3.5.</p>

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<p>A good online profile lets you strategically present yourself to align with your career goals and catch the eye of potential employers or clients.</p>



<p>Thankfully, with the right tools, you can create a consistent, professional presence across thousands of platforms without breaking a sweat. Ready to learn how? Let&#8217;s discover the secrets to crafting an online profile that truly shines.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 1: Implement essential strategies for a winning online profile</strong></h2>



<p>Creating an online profile that turns heads starts with defining your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">personal brand</a>. Think about what makes you unique. What skills, experiences, and values set you apart from the crowd? It’s not an easy thing to define, but once you do, everything else becomes much easier.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Every element of your profile, from your bio to your achievements, should consistently reflect this brand. Here are some strategies to keep in mind:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Be authentic.</strong> Genuinely displaying your experiences and aspirations builds trust. People can spot insincerity from a mile away, so keep it real.</li>



<li><strong>Use keywords strategically. </strong>Sprinkle industry-specific terms throughout your profile to boost your searchability. But don&#8217;t go overboard – it should still read naturally.</li>



<li><strong>Craft a compelling narrative.</strong> Instead of a dry list of jobs, tell the story of your career. What challenges have you overcome? What unique value do you bring?</li>



<li><strong>Optimize for AI-driven recruitment tools.</strong> Many companies use automated systems to screen candidates. Use relevant keywords to increase your chances of making it past these digital gatekeepers.</li>



<li><strong>Showcase tangible results.</strong> Don&#8217;t just say you&#8217;re great – <em>prove it</em>. Use specific metrics and outcomes to demonstrate your impact.</li>



<li><strong>Leverage multimedia.</strong> A picture is worth a thousand words, and a video might be worth even more. Consider incorporating presentations or infographics to make your profile more engaging.</li>
</ul>



<p>And remember, your profile isn&#8217;t set in stone. Keep it current by regularly updating your information to reflect your latest achievements and skills.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 2: Choose the right platforms for your professional goals</strong></h2>



<p>While <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a> is often the go-to for professionals, it&#8217;s not the only game in town. The trick here is to find platforms where your industry peers hang out. For developers, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a> is a must. Designers? Check out <a href="https://www.behance.net/search/projects">Behance</a> or <a href="https://dribbble.com/">Dribbble</a>.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s a pro tip: it&#8217;s better to have a strong presence on a few platforms than a weak one on many. Quality trumps quantity every time. Focus your efforts on platforms that align with your career objectives.</p>



<p>Don&#8217;t just set it and forget it, though. Use data-driven tools to track engagement and fine-tune your presence on each platform.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Leverage Gravatar for universal profile syncing</strong></h3>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about a tool that can make the whole process a lot easier: <a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="343" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-new-homepage-2.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar homepage" class="wp-image-2406" />



<p>Gravatar makes profile management easy by acting as a central point for your online identity. The platform connects your profile picture, biography, and professional information – it can be used as a main profile, an online resume, a digital business card, or a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/31/better-links-simple-messaging-developer-tools-and-more/">link-in-bio tool</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>It has one big advantage – when you update your information once in Gravatar, it syncs with each connected platform, including <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, and more. On top of that, the platform&#8217;s <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/05/user-profile-page-examples/">structured layout and simple design</a> present your skills, experiences, verified profiles, and portfolio in a professional format, making it an effective tool for establishing a unified personal brand.</p>



<img width="660" height="333" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-links-new.png?w=660" alt="Verified links feature of Gravatar profile" class="wp-image-2408" />



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 3: Select the perfect profile picture and craft an engaging bio</strong></h2>



<p>Your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/07/19/wordpress-profile-picture/">profile picture</a> is often the first thing people see, so make it count. Here&#8217;s how:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Invest in a high-quality, professional headshot. </strong>You don&#8217;t need to break the bank, but a blurry selfie won&#8217;t cut it.</li>



<li><strong>Dress the part. </strong>Wear something that matches your industry&#8217;s standards. A suit might be perfect for finance, while a more casual look could work for tech.</li>



<li><strong>Aim for friendly and approachable</strong>. A warm smile can go a long way in making a positive first impression.</li>



<li><strong>Keep the background simple.</strong> You&#8217;re the star of this show, not your bookshelf or your cat (as adorable as they might be).</li>
</ul>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk about your bio. It&#8217;s your elevator pitch in written form, and it needs to pack a punch:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Begin with a strong statement that encapsulates your professional value.</strong> Example: &#8220;<em>Enterprise software architect specializing in scalable cloud solutions with 15 years of experience leading distributed teams.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Identify your unique strengths and expertise.</strong> Focus on specific technical abilities, industry knowledge, or specialized experience that differentiates you from others in your field.</li>



<li><strong>Write in clear, direct language. </strong>Instead of &#8220;<em>Results-driven professional,</em>&#8221; try &#8220;<em>Increased client retention by 40% through implementing automated customer service systems.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Adapt your writing style to your industry&#8217;s expectations.</strong> Software developers might focus on technical achievements, while marketing professionals might highlight creative campaigns and measurable outcomes.</li>



<li><strong>Structure your bio to address your target audience&#8217;s needs</strong>. For recruiters, emphasize career progression and achievements. For potential clients, focus on problems you&#8217;ve solved and value delivered. For industry peers, highlight your contributions to the field and areas of expertise.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Pro tip: </strong>Try A/B testing different versions of your bio and profile picture. See which ones get more engagement and refine accordingly.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s where Gravatar comes in handy again. Use it as your central hub, then create platform-specific &#8220;satellite&#8221; bios that link back to your comprehensive Gravatar profile. This way, you can tailor your message for each platform while maintaining a consistent core identity.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 4: Showcase skills and achievements effectively</strong></h2>



<p>Demonstrating your skills and achievements is like showing your professional superpowers. Here&#8217;s how to do it right:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Prioritize relevant skills. </strong>Focus on abilities that align with your current career goals. Not every skill needs to be listed – quality beats quantity.</li>



<li><strong>Use quantifiable achievements. </strong>Numbers speak louder than words. Did you increase sales by 30%? Mention it.</li>



<li><strong>Highlight certifications and awards. </strong>These serve as third-party validation of your expertise.</li>



<li><strong>Share testimonials. </strong>Let others sing your praises. A glowing recommendation from a colleague or client can be incredibly powerful.</li>



<li><strong>Consider using a skills matrix or visual representation. </strong>This can make it easy to scan your abilities at a glance.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 5: Optimize your profile for recruiters and job searches</strong></h2>



<p>Optimizing your profile for both human recruiters and applicant tracking systems (ATS) requires strategic planning and precise execution:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Start with targeted industry terminology. </strong>Research job descriptions in your desired roles and incorporate relevant terms naturally throughout your profile. For example, a UX designer might include specific methodologies like &#8220;user research,&#8221; &#8220;wireframing,&#8221; and &#8220;usability testing.&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Focus on detailed, measurable accomplishments in each role.</strong> Instead of &#8220;Led marketing campaigns,&#8221; write &#8220;Led 12 marketing campaigns generating $2M in revenue through targeted email and social media strategies.&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Boost visibility through strategic content sharing. </strong>Post or share industry analysis, project case studies, or professional insights weekly. This activity signals to recruiters that you&#8217;re actively engaged in your field.</li>



<li><strong>Review your privacy settings carefully. </strong>Enable profile visibility for recruiters and ensure your contact information is current. LinkedIn&#8217;s &#8220;Open to Work&#8221; feature can be particularly effective when used selectively.</li>



<li><strong>Track your profile&#8217;s performance using built-in analytics tools.</strong> Monitor profile views and search appearances, then adjust your content strategy based on these metrics.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 6: Build and engage with your network</strong></h2>



<p>Building a strong professional network requires strategic outreach and meaningful engagement. Here&#8217;s how to maximize your networking effectiveness:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Craft personalized connection requests that demonstrate genuine interest.</strong> Example: &#8220;<em>Your presentation on AI ethics at the Tech Summit was fascinating. I&#8217;d appreciate connecting to discuss your insights on responsible AI development.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Participate actively in professional groups related to your expertise. </strong>Share practical insights, answer technical questions, and initiate discussions about industry trends. Quality contributions establish you as a knowledgeable peer.</li>



<li><strong>Implement a structured engagement strategy.</strong> Dedicate 15 minutes daily to interact with industry content, focusing on thoughtful comments that add value to the discussion.</li>



<li><strong>Leverage virtual professional events strategically.</strong> Research speakers and attendees beforehand, prepare relevant questions, and follow up with meaningful connection requests afterward.</li>
</ul>



<p>Focus on building mutually beneficial relationships by offering assistance <em>before </em>asking for favors. Your network&#8217;s strength lies in the value exchange between members.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 7: Continuous improvement and profile maintenance</strong></h2>



<p>Maintaining an effective online presence requires systematic monitoring and regular updates to reflect your professional growth.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Implement a structured review schedule.</strong> Set quarterly calendar reminders to assess your profile&#8217;s relevance and completeness. This means your online presence accurately reflects your current capabilities and achievements.</li>



<li><strong>Document professional accomplishments as they occur.</strong> Create a dedicated spreadsheet or note system to track new certifications, project outcomes, and quantifiable achievements. This makes profile updates more efficient and comprehensive.</li>



<li><strong>Use platform analytics effectively. </strong>Monitor key metrics such as profile views, search appearances, and engagement rates. Use this data to identify patterns and optimize your content strategy accordingly.</li>



<li><strong>Establish a peer review system. </strong>Develop relationships with respected colleagues who can provide specific, actionable feedback on your profile&#8217;s effectiveness and areas for improvement.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Common mistakes to avoid when creating an online profile</strong></h2>



<p>Certain profile missteps can significantly diminish your professional impact. Here&#8217;s how to avoid these common pitfalls:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Incomplete sections signal a lack of attention to detail.</strong> Fill out each section thoroughly, but purposefully. A partial employment history or missing education details can raise red flags for recruiters.</li>



<li><strong>Outdated information undermines credibility. </strong>Remove obsolete skills, update employment status promptly, and refresh contact details immediately when they change.</li>



<li><strong>Unprofessional imagery damages first impressions.</strong> Replace casual photos, low-resolution images, or group pictures with a clear, professional headshot.</li>



<li><strong>Generic descriptions waste valuable profile space.</strong> Replace overused phrases like &#8220;<em>team player</em>&#8221; or &#8220;<em>results-driven</em>&#8221; with specific examples: &#8220;<em>Led cross-functional team of 8 to deliver $1M project under budget.</em>&#8220;</li>



<li><strong>Inconsistent information across platforms creates confusion.</strong> Ensure your job titles, dates, and accomplishments align across all professional profiles.</li>



<li><strong>Neglecting privacy settings can expose sensitive information. </strong>Review and adjust visibility settings regularly, particularly when sharing personal updates or career changes.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Take charge of your online identity with Gravatar today</strong></h2>



<p>A polished online presence makes a measurable difference in professional advancement and networking opportunities. Each profile update, every connection, and all interactions contribute to your professional story.</p>



<p>Gravatar offers a sophisticated solution to streamline this process:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Sync your profile across thousands of platforms automatically, from GitHub to Slack and <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/">Stack Overflow</a>.</li>



<li>Create a customizable profile that functions as your professional hub.</li>



<li>Integrate social media profiles, portfolios, and website links.</li>



<li>Control your data sharing with a privacy-first design.</li>



<li>Personalize your presence with custom domain support – available through WordPress.com domain registration.</li>
</ul>



<p>Think of Gravatar as your professional command center. It eliminates the hassle of managing multiple profiles while ensuring your professional identity remains consistent and compelling.</p>



<p>Ready to make your mark? <a href="https://wordpress.com/log-in/link?client_id=1854&redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fpublic-api.wordpress.com%2Foauth2%2Fauthorize%3Fclient_id%3D1854%26response_type%3Dcode%26blog_id%3D0%26state%3De703ba11e8d0b0894bbbc4731bddd3a0fd4e1d8aa36b3519f01cf7305f56c738%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fgravatar.com%252Fconnect%252F%253Faction%253Drequest_access_token%26gravatar_from%3Dsignup%26from-calypso%3D1&gravatar_from=signup">Create your Gravatar profile now</a> and transform the way you manage your professional presence. Your next opportunity might be just one profile update away.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:31:15 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:11:"Ronnie Burt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:5;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:103:"WPTavern: WordPress 6.7 “Rollins” Released With New Default Theme, WordPress.org Experiences Outage";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=179550";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:107:"https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-7-rollins-released-with-new-default-theme-wordpress-org-experiences-outage";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:6659:"<p>WordPress 6.7, code-named “Rollins,” was released on November 12, introducing a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Five, zoom out view, and new powerful APIs. The <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/11/rollins/">announcement post</a> stated, “Rollins’ bold and exploratory style resonates with WordPress’ own commitment to empowering creators to push boundaries and explore new possibilities in digital expression.”</p>



<p>The new default theme, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/08/15/introducing-twenty-twenty-five/">Twenty Twenty-Five</a>, “embodies ultimate flexibility and adaptability.” Fully compatible with the Site Editor, it offers multilingual font support, diverse color palettes, and an extensive set of patterns to make site customization easier.</p>



<p>The new zoom out mode enhances the editing experience, focusing on broader content patterns rather than individual blocks, enabling users to work with content from a higher, less granular perspective.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.7 also improves media handling, adding HEIC image support, auto-sizing for lazy-loaded images, and more background image support at individual and global levels. The release also has tons of site editor improvements and improved font management with deep styling capabilities.</p>



<p>Now, the Query Loop block automatically inherits queries from the default template. WordPress 6.7 also stabilized <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/11/05/how-to-add-content-only-editing-support-to-a-block/">content-only editing</a> for blocks.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Performance has also been boosted with faster pattern loading, optimized previews in the data views component, enhanced PHP 8+ compatibility, removal of deprecated code, auto-sizing for lazy-loaded images, and more efficient tag processing within the HTML API.</p>



<p>This release has given importance to accessibility, too. “65+ accessibility fixes and enhancements focus on foundational aspects of the WordPress experience, from improving user interface components and keyboard navigation in the Editor, to an accessible heading on WordPress login screens and clearer labeling throughout.”</p>



<p>Two new APIs—Template Registration API and Preview Options API—debut with this release, alongside enhancements to the Interactivity, Block Bindings, and HTML APIs.</p>



<p>As the final major release of 2024, WordPress 6.7 reflects the work of more than 780 contributors and includes over 340 updates and fixes. For further insights, check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/23/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">Field Guide</a>, <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6.7/">WordPress 6.7 documentation</a>, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/dev-notes+6-7/">Developer Notes</a> or Jamie Marsland’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSTwyNVcO6g">250-second video</a> on the highlights. You can also watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6JKHMAkH8">Official WordPress 6.7 release video</a> for an overview.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">WordPress.org Experienced Increased Error Rates After the WordPress 6.7 Release</h2>



<p>Several people reported getting 502 “Bad Gateway” errors and Systems Wrangler at Automattic, Barry, has <a href="https://status.wordpress.org/2024/11/14/on-nov-12th-2024-beginning/">confirmed</a> that WordPress.org experienced intermittent elevated latency and increased error rates on November 12, which affected both the WordPress.org website and API.&nbsp;</p>



<p>He has shared more details, “This initial incident was quickly resolved by the team, but reoccurred briefly on Nov 13 at 0110 UTC, 0900 UTC, and 1400 UTC. The underlying cause was network saturation of the hosting provider’s network that hosts some of the WordPress.org infrastructure. Although all of the servers and switch interfaces that our team has visibility into were within normal levels of utilization, there were some upstream network bottlenecks that created increased latency and packet loss that affected the WordPress.org environment.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>They are still working to resolve the underlying issues.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Future of WordPress and Russian Contributions</h2>



<p>Robert DeVore <a href="https://x.com/deviorobert/status/1849264002632704350">drew the attention</a> of the WordPress community to Biden&#8217;s Executive Order 14071. He wondered what happens to WordPress when it can no longer accept contributors from Russia.</p>



<div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper">
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here's a question for the WordPress Community <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f914.png" alt="🤔" class="wp-smiley" /><br /><br />What happens to WordPress when it can no longer accept contributors from Russia? <br /><br />What happens when Automattic can no longer employ Russian employees to work on WordPress?<br /><br />Crazy talk? IDK about that <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f937-200d-2642-fe0f.png" alt="🤷‍♂️" class="wp-smiley" /><br /><br />"Biden's Executive Order… <a href="https://t.co/wlGBIusDRm">pic.twitter.com/wlGBIusDRm</a></p>&mdash; Robert DeVore (@deviorobert) <a href="https://twitter.com/deviorobert/status/1849264002632704350?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
</div>



<p>A WordPress.org spokesperson shared this with WPTavern on the issue: “The claim that Russians can&#8217;t contribute to GPL-licensed software is not entirely accurate. Executive Order 14071 was issued on April 6, 2022, and it prohibits new investments in the Russian Federation by U.S. citizens and restricts the exportation, reexportation, sale, or supply of certain services to individuals located in Russia.</p>



<p>Additionally, it does not specifically address or ban the use of GPL-licensed (General Public License) software by Russian individuals or entities. The U.S. Department of the Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has provided guidance on the scope of services restricted under this order. While certain information technology and software services are prohibited, these restrictions do not extend to the mere use of GPL-licensed software by individuals in Russia.</p>



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<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, enhancing WordPress productivity with a new WordPress plugin.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast, player of choice. Or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Calvin Alkan.</p>



<p>Calvin has been in the WordPress space for the past four or five years, with a focus on security research. His company&#8217;s security product, called Fortress, has become a widely used tool for many hosting companies.</p>



<p>Recently, Calvin and his team ventured into developing a new product CommandUI, and it&#8217;s this plugin which is the topic on the discussion today.</p>



<p>Calvin shares his journey, starting from his experiences redesigning the Fortress website, and his frustrations with the traditional WordPress workflows. This led him to create CommandUI, aimed at providing a more efficient, keyboard driven workflow, akin to features available in his IDE, PhpStorm.</p>



<p>Over the past two months, Calvin has been working on the plugin, and receiving positive feedback from the developer community, indicating a strong demand for such a tool.</p>



<p>We talk about CommandUI&#8217;s functionalities, including its ability to help quickly navigate around the WordPress admin UI. It executes WordPress tasks using keyboard shortcuts, and Calvin explains how the tool helps manage your website efficiently, and how it supports dynamic integration with menus and can enhance accessibility.</p>



<p>We also touch on the product&#8217;s reception into the market, and the serendipitous strategies that drove its vitality. Calvin talks about his efforts to ensure the tool resonates with power users, and the potential for future collaborations with plugin developers to expand its core offering.</p>



<p>We explore why CommandUI, despite its success, may not be a fit for WordPress Core, but remains a novel solution for users looking to save time moving around the WordPress backend.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re curious about how a new tool changes the way you work with WordPress, and how a new product can become popular quickly, this episode is for you.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Calvin Alkan.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast by Calvin Alkan. How are you doing, Calvin?</p>



<p>[00:03:34] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Hi Nathan, I&#8217;m doing fine. How are you?</p>



<p>[00:03:35] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, good, really good. This is unexpected. This episode probably would not have occurred just, I&#8217;m going to say, one month ago. Rewind the clock 30 days, and this episode probably would not have occurred. And you&#8217;ll find out why in a little while.</p>



<p>But before we do that, Calvin has been on podcasts with me in the past talking about WordPress in terms of security. This is going to be very much focused on a brand new product, and the journey, and the happenstance, and serendipity of releasing that product into the wild over the last few weeks.</p>



<p>But before we begin that Calvin, can I just give you a minute just to give us your bio, probably focusing on the WordPress space, maybe dropping some security bits and pieces in there as well. So just tell us who you are.</p>



<p>[00:04:20] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Sure. I am probably in the WordPress space since four or five years ago, I don&#8217;t know exactly. But until very recently, or maybe like two months ago, I was mainly in the security space. I did a lot of security research. Our main product of my company, Snicco is Fortress, which is like a very advanced security tool that we mostly sell to WordPress hosting companies.</p>



<p>That has mostly been my focus so far in WordPress, very focused on security. And we kind of stumbled into like a new product two months ago, which is CommandUI, which we&#8217;ll hopefully discuss in more depth right now.</p>



<p>[00:04:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, indeed we will. And it may be a good idea if you are listening to this podcast, to give yourself a bit of a flavor of what the product is. Head to commandui.com. Exactly as you might expect.</p>



<p>Anything that we discuss today, if there&#8217;s a link for it, I will track it down and put it into the show notes. So you can find that on wptavern.com. Search for this episode, and all of the links will be in there. So that should be easy for you to get to.</p>



<p>So this is a new product, brand new. It&#8217;s familiar, I would imagine, to most people, in the sense that they&#8217;ve probably used something like this before. That might be in their OS, or something. Do you want to just quickly tell us what it is, and then we&#8217;ll get into the fun story surrounding it.</p>



<p>[00:05:35] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> The really quick explanation is if you ever used something like Spotlight on Mac, or Raycast, even like commercial products for Mac. I think even Windows has something right now with this Windows search bar key, I don&#8217;t know, I&#8217;m not like a Windows power user.</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve built the same thing, but specifically for WordPress. So it runs in your WordPress site, and basically allows you to build and manage your WordPress sites. The speed that was never possible before.</p>



<p>[00:06:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So when you say that, I&#8217;m imagining that a lot of people will be thinking, okay, there&#8217;s an interface, and I need to click around with a mouse. But maybe that&#8217;s what we should draw the distinction on straightaway. This is minimal mouse, I think you could describe as.</p>



<p>[00:06:13] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Ideally you can unplug the mouse completely. That would be like the goal, because it&#8217;s just way faster. Like working with just the keyword is a lot faster than using the mouse.</p>



<p>[00:06:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it invokes what you might describe as a modal front and center. So it&#8217;s a plugin, we should say that to begin with. It&#8217;s a plugin that you install in different WordPress websites. And then what do you do? How, do you invoke it? How do you interact with it? Let&#8217;s begin there.</p>



<p>[00:06:37] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> You have two options. You can either press the shift key twice, consecutively, with like a little, half a second time in between, or you can use the very classic command, or control K, combination that is used by other tools to invoke like similar models, or like command bars. So it&#8217;s one key combination. You can customise it if you want, but the default is, on Mac OS it&#8217;s command K, and on Windows it&#8217;s control K.</p>



<p>[00:07:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay. And if you do that, you then invoke, like I said, a modal, front and center in the middle. And it&#8217;s basically a text search box. And you can begin typing, and then the more input that you put in, it&#8217;s like faceted search in a way, it will then give you options for what you could do.</p>



<p>So I don&#8217;t know, you might type in the letters p and o, which might map to, for example, post, things like that. And then it will give you the different options that it ships with at the moment. I imagine that functionality over time will increase.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s go into the kind of things that you can do with it. So would you be able to just outline a few typical things that you can do with it, that everybody will understand. Then maybe we could get into some of the more unusual edge cases. But let&#8217;s start with the really basics that it can do.</p>



<p>[00:07:48] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Let&#8217;s start with the really basic of, you set up a new WordPress site, and you create like a post, and you view that post in the front end. And then you realise that you didn&#8217;t set up your pretty permalinks. So it&#8217;s still like p= whatever the number is, right, you know what I mean?</p>



<p>So normally in WordPress, you would then need to go to like the little icon in the top left, and go to the admin dashboard. From there you need to find the, I don&#8217;t even know the exact name, but settings, I think permalinks, and then you need to change it. And all of that takes you like four clicks I think, more or less.</p>



<p>And each of those clicks requires a full round trip to the server. So you need to wait to get a response back, and the server needs to render your WordPress page. So it probably takes you like, whatever, five seconds, let&#8217;s say, depending on your server speed.</p>



<p>With CommandUI, you would just open it and type perm, for permalinks, and then it would instantly bring you up the result for settings permalinks, and then you hit enter, and you immediately jump to that page. So you just skip through all of the intermediary work to get to exactly what you want without taking all of these like unnecessary detours, if that makes sense. That would be like a very, very basic example.</p>



<p>[00:08:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so you have got all of the default settings in there. So if I install a vanilla version of WordPress, you&#8217;ve mapped, I&#8217;m going to say, every single setting that you could possibly get to.</p>



<p>[00:09:03] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> The default core ones, yeah.</p>



<p>[00:09:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. right, okay. And although it might seem trivial, you know, if you&#8217;re listening to this podcast and you&#8217;ve just got one WordPress website, you may be thinking to yourself, well, it&#8217;s not that difficult, is it? I can click four times and it&#8217;s not much of a burden.</p>



<p>But honestly, when you&#8217;ve done that 15 times in a day. Map that over a week, and a year, this genuinely starts to add up. You only get a real understanding for it once you&#8217;ve done it. The sudden realisation that, okay, if I type three letters and hit return, that saves me from clicking this, waiting. Clicking this one now, and waiting. And then finally interacting. I know it seems like not a lot, but it is fairly profound.</p>



<p>[00:09:39] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It looks nice on demos, but it&#8217;s amazing when you like kind of experience it the first time. It&#8217;s like something that looks great, but you need to really try. And most people, if you use it for like five minutes, then you can immediately see it, there&#8217;s no way that I&#8217;ll ever be able to go back to not using a tool like this.</p>



<p>[00:09:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s kind of interesting because my muscle memory at the moment, navigating around a WordPress website is very much bound to the mouse. If I&#8217;m in a post, for example, and I know that I want to go to that permalink setting, I actually know exactly where it is. So I know that I would do precisely what you said.</p>



<p>But of course, for a bunch of people who are not really that familiar with WordPress, they may have seen a YouTube video and discovered, okay, I need to change the permalinks. Discovering where that is could be quite infuriating. So if you could just type in p e r, or whatever it might be, and you get there immediately, that kind of also helps the novice journey, if you like, inside of WordPress and managing all of that as well.</p>



<p>[00:10:31] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> And also, for example, one that might also resonate is if you have a site and you start to rack up the plugin numbers, like 20 plugins or, I don&#8217;t know. Let&#8217;s say 20 plugins, and each of those plugins adds like three menu items to the admin menu, and the icons look all familiar. It&#8217;s not uncommon to open it, and then you go like up and down looking for what it is that you&#8217;re trying to find. And it takes a lot of time.</p>



<p>Basically the more plugins you add, the more valuable something like this becomes. Because, let&#8217;s say you want to find some WooCommerce subsetting. You don&#8217;t need to scan the sidebar for the exact WooCommerce icon that you need to just go into the command bar type Woo settings, or even shorter, Woo S, and then it&#8217;ll immediately find where you want to go to. Basically the nastier the site, the more valuable something like this becomes.</p>



<p>[00:11:16] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Oh, interesting. Okay, so that&#8217;s curious. So let&#8217;s say that I have 20 plugins installed, and each of them got menus, within menus, within menus. Dozens and dozens of options. How does your plugin know of their existence, and how is it, I don&#8217;t know, understanding that this plugin over here has this selection of settings. And obviously if that plugin gets an update and a new setting arrives, perhaps, how does it know all of that? Basically, what&#8217;s the underlying technology? How are you building this menu that must be in there in the background?</p>



<p>[00:11:45] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So 99% of the product of CommandUI is like JavaScript that runs in your browser that has really nothing to do with WordPress, for it WordPress is just like a data source. And then you have like a tiny part that is like the PHP, the plugin part if you want. And that basically just informs the JavaScript of what kind of data is available.</p>



<p>So when you load a page in WordPress, then the PHP part can see which admin menus are registered in like the WordPress menu bar, in the sidebar. It kind of reads those, and passes that information down to the JavaScript part, which then transforms that into the UI.</p>



<p>So if you install a new plugin, it&#8217;ll immediately pull that in. You don&#8217;t need to need update anything, configure anything, it&#8217;s just all automatic.</p>



<p>If you deactivate one, it will not show it anymore, or even if you use like, there&#8217;s like popular menu editor plugins and whatever. If you use one of those to rename a plugin, then it will show that with the renamed name, for example.</p>



<p>So it&#8217;s all dynamic. It gathers all the data, basically, the plugin, and then passes the data down to the JavaScript libraries that we built, and that is responsible for presenting the data to you.</p>



<p>[00:12:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s not like I install a new plugin, and then I need to go around examining the settings, and CommandUI has to learn it as I&#8217;m seeing it.</p>



<p>[00:13:02] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It&#8217;s immediately available. And also in the front end. You can also do all of these actions from anywhere on your site. So on the front end, or even if you&#8217;re in a page builder, or inside Gutenberg, it always knows what you have available.</p>



<p>[00:13:13] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so let me just parse that so I&#8217;m sure that we&#8217;ve got it correct. So the first thing is, if I was to install CommandUI on an existing site, which has, let&#8217;s say, oh gosh, let&#8217;s go nuts, 50 plugins. The settings within those plugins would be available immediately. I wouldn&#8217;t have to wait for anything to be crawled.</p>



<p>[00:13:30] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So navigation is really just one part of what it does. But everything you see in the sidebar, so like the top level menu items, the little sub settings, these are all immediately available. And then it also picks up on any, for example, custom post types that a plugin might create. So you can create post types from within it, you can search across post types. So it&#8217;s all dynamic. There isn&#8217;t even like a configuration page for CommandUI. And that&#8217;s like kind of how I want to be, like just install it, and then it just kind of works, right?</p>



<p>[00:13:57] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think we&#8217;ve grasped that. And we&#8217;ll get onto those other use cases in a moment. But also you mentioned page builders. But the example that you gave was in the WP admin area, so you want to change a setting, for example. Are you saying that this can be invoked wherever you may be in your WordPress website? So you could be editing a post, you could be in a page builder. Elementor, Beaver Builder, what have you. You can do the same command K, it will come right up no matter where you are.</p>



<p>[00:14:22] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Correct. You could, for example, let&#8217;s say you are editing a page with Gutenberg, and then you realise that you missed your favorite block plugin that adds like custom blocks, or collections. You could install a plugin from the repository without ever leaving the Gutenberg editor. And then you would see these blocks available because you can also activate the plugin from within the post that you&#8217;re currently editing.</p>



<p>And Gutenberg is dynamic. So I think Gutenberg fetches new blocks dynamically once they&#8217;re available, and then you could immediately use them without first leaving, going back, then going back into Gutenberg. So it&#8217;s like everywhere, and like I said, it saves a huge amount of time.</p>



<p>[00:15:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Fascinating. Okay, so we understand that it&#8217;s everywhere. We understand that it can get into settings, and you mentioned that you could modify the settings.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s talk about some of the other slightly less normal use cases. So as an example, if I wanted to, I don&#8217;t know, create a new post of a custom post type of my design. It would allow me to do that I&#8217;m guessing as well? There&#8217;s a keyboard shortcut for add, I don&#8217;t know, custom post, or add taxonomy, or whatever it may be.</p>



<p>[00:15:26] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> You can actually press the C key, the letter C, anywhere on your site, and then it will bring up a subsection of CommandUI where you can just choose the post type that you want to create. So let&#8217;s say if you type C, it opens up the model, and then you just type P for post, or P O to narrow it down if you have a lot. And then you hit enter, and then it immediately brings you to the page where you can create a new post type.</p>



<p>And that not only works for the core post types, it also works dynamically for every single plugin that you install. So if you install ACF, for example, then you can press the C key, type ACF, and then you immediately get the option to create either ACF field group, or an ACF taxonomy, or you can even create ACF post type with it.</p>



<p>You can&#8217;t do it inside the model because every post type, if it&#8217;s a custom plugin, might require different fields that we might not know about, but we immediately send you to the page where you can start creating the post type.</p>



<p>[00:16:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is it possible to, with CommandUI, is it possible to open up things in a different tab or window? So as an example, I&#8217;m in the middle of a post, I&#8217;m in the flow, but I know that I need to modify some setting briefly, quickly over in a new thing. And typically I&#8217;d have to, I don&#8217;t know, right click, open new tab, navigate blah, blah, blah. So it can do all of that?</p>



<p>[00:16:39] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> By default, if you select an action with enter, then it opens it in the same window. If you select it with command, or control on Windows, and enter, then it opens the same action in a new tab. That is very useful. Like a lot of people have given me the feedback of like, this basically allows them to use their laptop without having 20 different chrome tabs open, because you don&#8217;t need to like save all those spots where you might want to go to later. You can just open it in a new tab, do your work, close the tab, and you&#8217;re back to where you were.</p>



<p>[00:17:08] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I mean, that&#8217;s a very typical frustration for me, is that I will halfway through something, and I don&#8217;t want to close it in case I, I don&#8217;t know, just forget where I was or something. I want to be able to open immediately the setting.</p>



<p>[00:17:20] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> But why don&#8217;t you want to close it?</p>



<p>[00:17:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I don&#8217;t know.</p>



<p>[00:17:23] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Probably because you know it would take you like a lot of time to get back to that page. That&#8217;s why you don&#8217;t want to close it.</p>



<p>[00:17:28] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s lots of little quality of life things basically it sort of sounds like.</p>



<p>Okay, so we know it can do settings. We know it can interact with posts. We know that you can open things in new tabs so that you don&#8217;t have to navigate from what you&#8217;re doing.</p>



<p>Does it do anything kind of quirky? I&#8217;m going to use the word quirky there. Does it do things that one might not expect? Have you built into it functionality that you thought, ooh, this is curious, maybe nobody will use this, but let&#8217;s see.</p>



<p>[00:17:52] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Probably. You can do a lot of little things that don&#8217;t really matter in the grand scheme of things. For example, toggle the admin sidebar or, I don&#8217;t know, if you&#8217;re on the dashboard page, you can toggle, or collapse all of these widgets on the dashboard in WP admin. Or use it to log out of your site.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s a lot of these little things in there that, on its own, they wouldn&#8217;t blow you away, right? But it kind of all adds up. And if you can do, eventually, everything in there, I want to have as much in there as possible.</p>



<p>And an important part that allows it to do this is because we built the entire search behind it from scratch. So we&#8217;ve tested this with like 100k items to be searched in the command bar. It doesn&#8217;t even break a sweat. It&#8217;s still in the sub 100 milliseconds for hundred thousands of items.</p>



<p>So there&#8217;s really no limit to how many things and actions you can put in there. And it doesn&#8217;t overwhelm you either because you only get shown what kind of matches your search query. I want to have as much things possible in there.</p>



<p>[00:18:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So are you imagining a scenario where it can search, for example, the content of posts? So for example, I want to track down a post with the word Calvin in it.</p>



<p>[00:18:56] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Right now it can already search all your users and every single post type. So posts, pages, every custom post type you create. For example, WooCommerce products, there&#8217;s a post type, so it can search those. But it only searches right now the titles. So you kind of need to at least roughly have an idea of where you want to go, that&#8217;s the search. That&#8217;s basically how it operates.</p>



<p>You roughly need to have an idea what you&#8217;re looking for. Maybe a couple of letters, or an initial if you want to find the user Nathan, but you don&#8217;t know the last name maybe, or the email, you could just type N A and you&#8217;d probably find it. But it&#8217;s not really like the best UI for like exploratory searches. That&#8217;s not the best model with the search bar, and result is not the best use case for exploring what&#8217;s there if you don&#8217;t really know what you&#8217;re looking for yet.</p>



<p>[00:19:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah. What I was describing is more the kind of search that you would have on the front end, isn&#8217;t it? Where you want to, I don&#8217;t know, search for a particular episode of a podcast, for example, with the word Calvin. And you would typically do that on the front end, and that&#8217;s an entirely different enterprise.</p>



<p>As we&#8217;ve been talking, it suddenly occurred to me that, and I don&#8217;t know what your posture is on this, I don&#8217;t know how much work you&#8217;ve put into it, but it feels like you&#8217;ve thrown the doors open to perhaps a more accessible website because obviously we&#8217;re using the keyboard suddenly to navigate all the things. And I don&#8217;t know if the UI that you&#8217;ve built, you&#8217;ve had that in mind in the background, or coincidentally it happens to satisfy that. What&#8217;s gone on from the accessibility side to make this product usable?</p>



<p>[00:20:18] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> A lot of work into accessibility. I&#8217;ve worked with Gen Herres, I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re familiar with her. She does lot of work in the accessibility space in WordPress. The website I think is Easy Accessibility Guide. I&#8217;ve worked a lot with her because she told me like about the potential this has for users with assistive technology. And we&#8217;ve worked really, really hard to improve the admin experience for users with assistive technology.</p>



<p>Building something like this, like that is so interactive in a way that doesn&#8217;t compromise power users, and users with assistive technology is really, really difficult. It&#8217;s not like a form where you go with the basics and then you&#8217;re good. Like this really, really needs a lot of custom work. But it turned out amazing. Every single item, every single search result is read out by the screen reader. Every single announcement, for example, if you install a plugin, then the screen reader will read out the progress information, like installing plugin, installed plugin.</p>



<p>Everything is keyboard accessible. Everything has the proper aria labels. We did a lot of work there basically. Even things where if you close the model, it restores the focus back to where you&#8217;ve been to before on the page. I really think it has a lot of potential in the accessibility space to help people use WordPress.</p>



<p>[00:21:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it just occurred to me that it was, in a sense, it was a really great interface for doing just that, because once you&#8217;re in the modal, you&#8217;re in the search bar, then you are basically using text. And if you can navigate through that with the tab key, or whatever it may be, with all the different assistive technologies out there, then that would be really useful. And it would circumvent that long journey of trying to find the menu, then finding the sub menu, then going through all the options, and toggling it on, or toggling it off.</p>



<p>[00:21:50] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> I think Gen did a video the other day about it, where she goes through the plugin with a screen reader and basically shows you how a user with a screen reader would experience that. So maybe you can link to it in a show notes later.</p>



<p>[00:22:01] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s perfect. I will make sure that that goes into the show notes so that people can examine that.</p>



<p>The other thing I was going to ask is, do you have intuitions that in the future you&#8217;ll be working with other developers? So for example, I don&#8217;t know, you mentioned popular plugins, a couple that you just mentioned. Is there any scope for them speaking to you to expose things that your plugin at the moment might not be able to get its teeth into, so that you can open up the functionality with CommandUI for the whole host of plugins that are out there in the wild?</p>



<p>[00:22:31] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Definitely, one of the big projects will be having a proper extension system and developer APIs, so that either we can build first party extensions that we maintain, or that developers build their own extensions for it. For example, right now I like Bricks Builder a lot. And I use that. So we have a really good integration with Bricks Builder where, for example, if you are on the homepage, and then CommandUI recognises that you built this page with Bricks, then you can just press the B key, on the keyboard without even opening it, and it immediately brings you to edit that page in Bricks Builder.</p>



<p>So that is something that obviously doesn&#8217;t work out of the box. So there&#8217;s like a little integration for handling Bricks specific things. You can also, if you search for a post, or let&#8217;s say a page, you wouldn&#8217;t edit posts with the page builder. But let&#8217;s say you have a landing page, or whatever, and then you search for it, and then instead of just a normal view page and edit page, it would also show you edit page in Bricks as an option, right? I think there&#8217;s a huge potential in having as many things as possible in there.</p>



<p>One big thing is I want to also make it as easy as possible for also developers that maintain a site, but also plugin developers to integrate it without complicated setups, without needing to install like React and pre-compiling their JavaScript. I think it needs to be really, really simple for it to work. And that will definitely be one big project in the future.</p>



<p>[00:23:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Fascinating what the future will hold. I mean that speaks to the next topic that I want to get into. Which is the fact that this is still really, really new. Really, this whole story has found its way into my consciousness because of, I guess maybe being on social networks. Up it popped a few weeks ago, maybe less, 10 days or something like that. And it feels like I had never heard of this until then, and then suddenly I couldn&#8217;t stop hearing about it. Let&#8217;s just get into that for a moment. First of all, why did you build this, and when did you start building it?</p>



<p>[00:24:21] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> So let me walk you through the timeline. I don&#8217;t remember the exact date, but I&#8217;d say like maybe two months ago I started working on the redesign of our website for Fortress, or other product, because that has still like a design from like two years ago that was never updated. You know how that goes, right?</p>



<p>So I started working on it and we were using WordPress for it as well, and I really, really disliked the experience of working all day in WordPress. So my role is primarily a developer. I use WordPress, but I&#8217;m not like a WordPress power user in the sense that I spend all my day inside WordPress. I spend most of my time in my IDE and PhpStorm.</p>



<p>And there I&#8217;m really, really spoiled by this keyboard driven workflow where you can do like thousands of things inside PhpStorm with just a couple keyboard combinations. And I really missed that in WordPress.</p>



<p>So once I started building a site, I was getting really annoyed and I was like, I don&#8217;t know, I can quickly hack together something that works for me right now. And it took me like a couple hours to build something that allowed me to navigate between different pages. That was all I could do, navigate between the admin, homepage, and the settings. The really basic stuff. Nothing to really brag about.</p>



<p>But then I recorded like a really crappy YouTube video, I think it&#8217;s still up somewhere, of just me showing that. And I posted it in groups where I frequently go to, in Facebook it was. People went absolutely crazy over it. The reaction was insane. People almost, how do you say, they bit my hand off to build this.</p>



<p>The initial reaction definitely showed that there might be something there. Sometimes that just happens, right? And that also then the timing was the same, where all the WP drama started. And once that started, I basically knew that, okay, like my primary customer base is hosting companies, and there&#8217;s probably not a lot of enterprise sales going on in the next months in the hosting space. I immediately knew that. Understandable.</p>



<p>But I knew that and then I was like, well, let me just try and build this thing properly, not the four hour versions, but like maybe the six week version. So the initial reaction was like very promising. And then I kept posting like videos about it, cool new things. And the reaction was always the same. People were messaging me in private, hey, I know this is not even like a finish, but can I please already pay you so that you can give me this, what you already have?</p>



<p>It was like very promising all along the way, very good signals. And that&#8217;s why I ultimately ended up building it. So it took like maybe two months, right now seven weeks, two months, I don&#8217;t know, to get where we&#8217;re at right now. And it completely blew my mind, the feedback and the attention that it got. I never really expected that, to be honest. I don&#8217;t know, maybe this helps a couple of people, and it&#8217;s useful for me, and maybe it pays for a couple months of rent, that was kind like my expectation of it.</p>



<p>[00:26:53] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well, I think most people who launch a product in the WordPress space, and if, dear listener, you are one of those people, I&#8217;m sure you can identify with the struggle. It&#8217;s not an easy place to be. There are countless different versions of more or less everything. So if you&#8217;re releasing a plugin, unless you come up with something truly different, then it&#8217;s likely that you are going to spend a lot of time bashing your head against the wall with the marketing, figuring out what the website&#8217;s going to look like.</p>



<p>You have just had, I don&#8217;t want to call it luck, but if you forgive me for using that word, you&#8217;ve just had this perfect storm of building something, creating a video, putting it into some social networks, getting really amazing feedback which encouraged you to build it. And again, not really marketing in the traditional sense of the word, just social media, hanging out in groups and what have you, and explaining what you&#8217;re doing. And I think it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s been a barnstormer.</p>



<p>Since you&#8217;ve started two months ago, we don&#8217;t need to get into the numbers, that&#8217;s not important, but is it fair to say that it has gone way beyond, in terms of the people that have interacted with you, and purchased it, and played with it, and given you feedback. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s fair to say that it&#8217;s gone way beyond what you imagined.</p>



<p>[00:28:00] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> For sure. The way I launched it basically was, so once the product was ready, or maybe a week or two before it was fully ready, I threw up a landing page, and recorded like a proper demo walkthrough, my first ever edited video. It turned out okay. It turned out good with Descript, and a lot of these tools make it, I guess a videographer would cringe at that, but it&#8217;s like passable, it did its job.</p>



<p>I threw up a wait list and had a little gamified approach to this waitlist thing, where I didn&#8217;t even like promise some crazy deal, or discount, or whatever. I just said, look, there will be a launch offer that will be better than the public offer, and it will be limited in quantity, not a gimmick or whatever, like when the quantity is sold out, it&#8217;s sold out.</p>



<p>And then I think that the verbiage was something like, if you&#8217;re on the wait list, you&#8217;ll get 48 hours exclusive access before public launch to secure wait list deals. And if you&#8217;re in the first 50 spots, I think it was, then you get an additional 48 hours.</p>



<p>I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s fun but I never expected it to go that crazy, like people were sharing it all over the place, and then once the first 50 people got access, a day before the entire wait list, they started using the product, loved it, posted about it.</p>



<p>It was well done, I put a lot of thought into it, but it&#8217;s also, something about the timing must have been right with maybe like all the negativity that was happening in WordPress, Twitter and Facebook groups, and whatever. No, definitely there&#8217;s some part to it where people like were excited to see something positive, or some positive news coming out I think.</p>



<p>[00:29:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I think also you happen to have a product which, if you frequent those Facebook groups, which I know you do, they&#8217;re full of people who are jobbing WordPressers. They&#8217;re either building websites, or they&#8217;re building plugins, or they&#8217;re building client websites as part of an agency or something like that.</p>



<p>So they&#8217;re fully into WordPress, but they also realise the limitations. And in some cases they may have not have realised the frustration, but then when they saw something like this and thought, actually, you know what, that&#8217;ll save me a minute here, and a minute there, which all adds up to greater productivity.</p>



<p>I think you just had that perfect storm of the right product, and you were already connecting to the perfect audience. And honestly, if we were to revisit this topic in a year and do some sort of marketing analysis, I think every domino was kind of set up perfectly. And again, I don&#8217;t mean this to sound bad, but kind of by accident in a sense. You&#8217;d already found your audience because you were in there talking to these communities. You built the product, which perfectly aligned, to scratch your own itch. What a lovely story, basically.</p>



<p>[00:30:36] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> I think maybe I stumbled upon the idea based on luck maybe, yeah, to some degree. I certainly didn&#8217;t expect that so many people will find it useful, or be interested in it. I do actually plan to, like once it all settles down a bit, do some sort of post mortem write up, or analysis of, this is how I launched it. This is why I did it this way, and why I didn&#8217;t do this, the decision making behind it. I also had a lot of trust, let&#8217;s say, not advisors, but like friends in the ecosystem that gave me a lot of feedback or, no, don&#8217;t do it this way, rather try this. And so I think like a proper writeup of that be cool to see, the behind the scenes.</p>



<p>[00:31:10] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, it would be interesting to match the people that you were already speaking to, prior to even conceiving the product, with the product that you then built, and the way that you were able to market it in a kind of gorilla fashion. Just producing some videos, and not, I don&#8217;t know, building an email list over many years and what have you.</p>



<p>And I think it will be interesting because I think we all know that the WordPress space can be saturated. And just because you build it doesn&#8217;t mean that they will come. There&#8217;s so many serendipitous bits in there. It&#8217;s fabulous.</p>



<p>One thing that I was going to ask you, and I don&#8217;t know if you have any intuitions about this, is that one of the comments that I kept seeing was something along the lines of, why isn&#8217;t this in Core WordPress? There were variants of that. You use it for a bit and you can&#8217;t not carry on using it. It&#8217;s got that stickiness to it. You get the muscle memory over a few short minutes and then suddenly it&#8217;s, oh, put the mouse away, I don&#8217;t want that anymore.</p>



<p>And I did wonder if you have any thoughts about letting something like this go into Core, or working with Core on it, or whether or not you&#8217;re going to stay with the product that you&#8217;ve got. Not sure what you think about that.</p>



<p>[00:32:11] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Well, it is kind of in Core, a lot of people don&#8217;t know that. In Gutenberg, in the block editor, and inside the site editor there is, I wouldn&#8217;t say similar, but they have a Command Palette, but it just, it never really stuck for people, getting into the habit of using it.</p>



<p>Let&#8217;s say like this, a command bar is, I don&#8217;t know, maybe the best analogy is a keyboard. All keyboards, more or less, they look the same if you just glance at them from a distance. But once you start pressing like the first key, you really feel like the difference between like a $500 mechanical keyboard and a default keyboard, right? It&#8217;s hard to describe, but that&#8217;s like the best analogy I can give for it.</p>



<p>And if a command bar is not like really, a really, really polished product, technically zero friction, people don&#8217;t get into the habit of using it. And I think that&#8217;s maybe why previous attempts of building something like this in WordPress didn&#8217;t really stick around, or didn&#8217;t take off. It&#8217;s just my theory.</p>



<p>[00:33:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Wasn&#8217;t it also limited just to the Gutenberg UI?</p>



<p>[00:33:03] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> That&#8217;s also a big part of it. If you can just use it inside the block editor, then it obviously won&#8217;t stick around. It&#8217;s like the default workflow for people. But also, of course, WordPress Core is just one tiny part of it, and there&#8217;s probably not resources to dedicate a full command bar team to it basically.</p>



<p>In my opinion, maybe this shouldn&#8217;t be a Core thing to its fullest degree. There&#8217;s always the saying of 80 20 rule that they have, right? I don&#8217;t think 80% of WordPress users will use this. In the same way that not 80% of MacOS users use Spotlight or Raycast. There&#8217;s probably a big segment of users that will use it, but it&#8217;s nowhere near 80, probably not even near 50% of people that will use it. So I think the resources could be spent other ways. I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s just my theory.</p>



<p>[00:33:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That seems like a sensible way of doing it. I think the promise of WordPress is to be, if 80% of the people use it, then it can be considered. And I think you&#8217;re right. I think for people who are really in WordPress all the time, like you, like me, like the people that you&#8217;ve pitched the product to and who have bought it, then that makes perfect sense. But perhaps for the more casual user who&#8217;s just got a brochure site that they don&#8217;t really modify all that much, then maybe not.</p>



<p>[00:34:05] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> It&#8217;s also, I very much built this for the power user audience. And if you built with that in mind, the outcome is very different to if built like a, you can also build like a command bar that is more geared towards, let&#8217;s say beginners that need maybe more exploratory features. So if you open it, it&#8217;s more like, hey, you can do this, and from here you can go there. And ours is very much, you type a couple letters in some random order, and it more or less brings you to already where you know you want to go. So it&#8217;s I guess built for a different segment also.</p>



<p>[00:34:36] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, definitely worth checking out. So I think probably we&#8217;ve reached the number of minutes, which would be suitable for this episode. So we&#8217;ll knock it on the head there. But just before we go, one last mention of the URL, it&#8217;s commandui.com, no hyphens, just all as one word, commandui.com. Go and check it out.</p>



<p>Where can we find you if we want to communicate about this? Obviously the website probably, but are there other places where you hang out? Sounds like you do hang out on socials quite a bit.</p>



<p>[00:35:02] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Yeah, I&#8217;m in like all the popular WordPress Facebook Groups, mostly agency groups I think. And also since half a year, a year or so, very active on X, I think my handle is @CalvinAlkan. So if you want to hit me up, just hit me up there.</p>



<p>[00:35:17] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, so that&#8217;s perfect. I will link to that in the show notes. Well, well done for, firstly, bringing a product to market in a record amount of time, but also for the barnstorming success that you&#8217;ve had. I hope that it carries on in that same way, and maybe, you never know, in a year or two, we&#8217;ll come back and see where you&#8217;re at. But Calvin Alkan, thank you so much for chatting to me today.</p>



<p>[00:35:35] <strong>Calvin Alkan:</strong> Thank you Nathan, thanks for having me.</p>
</div>



<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://x.com/CalvinAlkan">Calvin Alkan</a>.</p>



<p>Calvin has been in the WordPress space for the past four to five years, with a focus on security research. His company’s security product, called <a href="https://fortress.snicco.io/">Fortress</a>, has become a widely used tool for many hosting companies. Recently, Calvin and his team ventured into developing a new product, <a href="https://commandui.com/">CommandUI</a>, and it’s this plugin which is the topic under discussion today.</p>



<p>Calvin shares his journey, starting from his experiences redesigning the Fortress website, and his frustrations with the traditional WordPress workflows. This led him to create CommandUI, aimed at providing a more efficient, keyboard-driven workflow, akin to features available in his IDE, PhpStorm. Over the past two months, Calvin has been working on the plugin and received positive feedback from the developer community, indicating a strong demand for such a tool.</p>



<p>We talk about CommandUI&#8217;s functionalities, including its ability to help quickly navigate around the WordPress admin UI. It executes WordPress tasks using keyboard shortcuts, and Calvin explains how the tool helps manage your website efficiently, and how it supports dynamic integration with menus, and can enhance accessibility.</p>



<p>We also touch on the product&#8217;s reception into the market, and the serendipitous strategies that drove its virality. Calvin talks about his efforts to ensure the tool resonates with power users, and the potential for future collaborations with plugin developers to expand its core offering.</p>



<p>We explore why CommandUI, despite its success, may not be a fit for WordPress Core, but remains a novel solution for users looking to save time moving around the WordPress backend.</p>



<p>If you’re curious about how a new tool changes the way that you work with WordPress, and how a new product can become popular quickly, this episode is for you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Useful links</h2>



<p><a href="https://snicco.io/">Snicco</a></p>



<p><a href="https://fortress.snicco.io/">Fortress</a></p>



<p><a href="https://commandui.com/">CommandUI</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.raycast.com/">Raycast</a></p>



<p><a href="https://easya11yguide.com/">EasyA11yGuide website</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eU59Hk4m70&feature=youtu.be">A11Y battle: CommandUI vs WP Core vs Turbo Admin</a> &#8211; video with Gen Herres on YouTube</p>



<p><a href="https://bricksbuilder.io/">Bricks Builder</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/">PhpStorm</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.descript.com">Descript</a></p>



<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/site-editor-command-palette/">WordPress Command Palette</a></p>



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<p>While sharing your email address online is necessary to direct visitors towards your support and sales channels, it’s an open invitation for spambots, too. These automated programs crawl the web, collect public email addresses, and send a barrage of spam in the hopes that you or someone on your team takes the&nbsp;bait.</p>

<p>Thankfully, this can be prevented with a tactic known as email obfuscation. This technique disguises your email addresses, keeping them safe from <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/what-is-a-spambot/">spambots</a> and protecting your business from unwanted&nbsp;messages.</p>

<p>So today, let’s explore email obfuscation in depth and explain how you can use it (alongside other methods) to improve your online&nbsp;security.</p>


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<h2 id="what-is-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">What is email&nbsp;obfuscation?</h2>

<p>Email obfuscation is a technique used to mask email addresses so that they’re not as easily detected by spambots. When an email address is obfuscated, it’s still completely readable by humans, but is difficult for bots to&nbsp;recognize.</p>

<p>Malicious bots are constantly crawling the internet looking for emails to scrape and add to their spam lists, and email obfuscation is absolutely necessary to prevent spam. While this won’t help against targeted spam and phishing attempts, it will at least stop the bulk of automated spam&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<p>There are several ways to obfuscate an email on your site. Some methods include replacing parts of the email with HTML characters, or using JavaScript to dynamically display the email when the page is loaded. These make it a lot harder for simple bots to scrape your email. We’ll go into the details on how it works&nbsp;below.</p>


<img width="1066" height="1600" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image.jpeg" alt="someone writing an email on their laptop, with a tablet and color swatches next to them" class="wp-image-284219" />


<h2 id="why-is-email-obfuscation-crucial-for-cybersecurity-and-spam prevention" class="wp-block-heading">Why is email obfuscation crucial for cybersecurity and spam&nbsp;prevention?</h2>

<p>Email obfuscation might not seem all that important. It’s hard to understand how disruptive spam can be until you have an inbox full of it. And by then, it’s too late to do anything about it except change your email address&nbsp;entirely.</p>

<p>Here are some of the risks of leaving your email&nbsp;unobfuscated:</p>

<h3 id="email-harvesting-bots-scraping-your email" class="wp-block-heading">Email harvesting bots scraping your&nbsp;email</h3>

<p>You don’t want your email on a scammer’s list. These are sold to spammers looking for active emails to send their junk mail to. If your email is out there long enough, it’s nearly inevitable, but you can use email obfuscation to delay it as long as&nbsp;possible.</p>

<h3 id="brute-force-attacks-on-your-email account" class="wp-block-heading">Brute force attacks on your email&nbsp;account</h3>

<p>Once attackers know your email, they can attempt to launch brute force attacks to access your account. When this happens, they’ll try as many passwords as possible, and break in. It’s best to hide your email from the automated programs that run these brute force&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<h3 class="wp-block-heading">A spam&#8209;filled&nbsp;inbox</h3>

<p>Spam may seem like just an annoyance, but it can be devastating when it’s in full force. Genuine customers get drowned out and your inbox becomes impossible to sort&nbsp;through.</p>

<h3 id="being-targeted-by-phishing attacks" class="wp-block-heading">Being targeted by phishing&nbsp;attacks</h3>


<p>Phishing occurs when an attacker tries to trick you into revealing sensitive info, like your email or website login info. Or, you might receive an email asking you to click a link or download an attachment that installs malware on your device and steals your info. Basic phishing attacks can be automated.&nbsp;</p>



<p>While <em>you </em>may know all about how to identify a scam, not everyone on your team might be so experienced. The more team members that have access to your business email, the more likely they’ll fall prey to phishing attempts.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And since over <a href="https://siliconangle.com/2023/10/02/report-half-phishing-emails-now-use-obfuscation-tactics-avoid-detection/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">55% of phishing emails</a> now employ some form of obfuscation to evade detection — which marks a significant 24.4% increase from the previous year — it’s more important than ever to implement some level of prevention.&nbsp;</p>


<h2 id="common-methods-of-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">Common methods of email&nbsp;obfuscation</h2>

<p>There are several ways to hide the email address on your website from bots while still allowing real customers and prospects to contact you. And the good news is you can employ one or all of&nbsp;them.</p>


<h3 id="use-a-contact-form-with-spam-protection " class="wp-block-heading">Use a contact form with spam protection&nbsp;</h3>


<p>One of the most effective email obfuscation techniques is to avoid displaying your email online altogether. Instead, you can just use a contact form. Of course, contact forms have their own issues with spam, which is why you’ll need to use this alongside an anti&#8209;spam solution like&nbsp;<a href="https://akismet.com/">Akismet</a>.</p>


<img width="1000" height="518" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-1.jpeg" alt="Akismet homepage with the text " />



<p>Akismet uses AI to scan all incoming form submissions and filter out unwanted, spammy messages with 99.99% effectiveness. <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/captcha-alternatives/">No need for CAPTCHA</a> or other obtrusive spam protection methods. Spam will never even reach your inbox when you use Akismet. And if you have a WordPress website, it comes pre-installed, which is pretty convenient.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 id="character-replacement" class="wp-block-heading">Character replacement</h3>



<p>This can be as simple as replacing the “@” in an email with “at”, or replacing the symbols with their HTML entities. So an email address like “test@example.com” becomes “test@example.com”.&nbsp;</p>


<p>This renders correctly for people who visit your website but parses as gibberish for bots. The downside is that it only works for very simple bots, so you should use it in conjunction with other&nbsp;methods.</p>


<h3 id="image-based-obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">Image-based obfuscation</h3>


<p>Another simple solution is displaying your email as an image. Most bots can’t read images, so this can work pretty well. But it’s not user&#8209;friendly at all since visitors have to type in your email manually. There are also serious accessibility concerns for those who use screen readers. Because of these reasons, this isn’t the best option to&nbsp;pursue.</p>


<h3 id="javascript-based-obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">JavaScript-based obfuscation</h3>



<p>This is a more involved method, where the email is hidden in the site’s code and rendered dynamically. The email address can be hidden within the site’s HTML code and is only displayed when the page is loaded by a browser. This makes it a lot more challenging for bots to scrape this data.&nbsp;</p>


<p>There are more advanced bots out there, however, especially those running in a fully&#8209;fledged browser environment that can bypass these methods​. So that’s something to be aware&nbsp;of.</p>


<h3 id="encoding-techniques" class="wp-block-heading">Encoding techniques</h3>


<p>Encoding techniques involve converting an email address into a string of code that a browser can interpret, but that is difficult for bots to decode. A common method is <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Base64 encoding</a>, where the email is transformed into a string of characters that can be decoded by the browser using JavaScript.&nbsp;</p>

<p>So, if you have an email like &#8220;example@example.com&#8221; it might be encoded into a string like &#8220;ZXhhbXBsZUBleGFtcGxlLmNvbQ==&#8221;. When the page loads, a script decodes this string back into a readable email address that people can interact&nbsp;with.</p>

<p>This method can be thwarted by more advanced bots though, so be mindful of that when putting a plan together to prevent&nbsp;spam.</p>

<h2 id="how-email-obfuscation-fits-into-a-broader-cybersecurity framework" class="wp-block-heading">How email obfuscation fits into a broader cybersecurity&nbsp;framework</h2>

<p>Where there’s a website, there’s a risk of people trying to break into it. You don’t need to be running a huge enterprise website to be targeted by bad actors. In all actuality, hackers and spammers are more than happy to take advantage of the lax security on smaller&nbsp;sites.</p>

<p>That’s why cybersecurity should be a major concern of yours, whatever the size of your website. Digital threats, from spam to malware, are constantly evolving. And email obfuscation is just one piece of the puzzle that can put a stop to these&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>Email obfuscation serves as a preventative measure, reducing the likelihood that your email will be harvested and used for spam and phishing attacks. While spam is just a nuisance, phishing can lead to losing your account or major data breaches. So if you make your email harder to find, it lowers the chances of you being&nbsp;targeted.</p>

<p>But email obfuscation isn’t enough on its own. It should complement other security measures. The anti&#8209;spam tools offered by Akismet can detect and block malicious messages that do manage to slip&nbsp;through.</p>

<p>And you can further secure your online presence by setting up (and mandating) two&#8209;factor authentication for you and your team, <a href="https://jetpack.com/blog/weak-passwords/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">using strong passwords</a> (and not reusing them), and keeping website and server software up to date. Firewalls and intrusion detection systems can also work to keep your site&nbsp;safe.</p>

<p>Besides that, providing cybersecurity training to your team (or thoroughly educating yourself if it’s just you) can help you recognize potential&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>So email obfuscation is a valuable tool, yes, but it works best when integrated into a comprehensive cybersecurity&nbsp;strategy.</p>

<h2 id="the-importance-of-layered-security measures" class="wp-block-heading">The importance of layered security&nbsp;measures</h2>

<p>There’s no one cybersecurity solution that will protect your entire online presence. So you’ll need to rely on multiple security measures that work together to create a more resilient&nbsp;defense.</p>

<p>Redundancy is something you might have heard of in reference to web hosting servers. In a redundant hosting setup, if one server fails, a backup server is ready to take its place and prevent downtime. It’s used a lot when talking about website backups, too. If one backup fails, there’s another saved in a different location to ensure your data isn’t&nbsp;lost.</p>


<p>This same concept of redundancy also applies to cybersecurity. If one layer of your defense fails, others are still in place to catch the threat.&nbsp;</p>


<p>So if spambots figure out how to bypass your email obfuscation, having an <a href="https://akismet.com/wordpress/">anti&#8209;spam solution</a> like Akismet will prevent that phishing email from reaching your inbox. And if it somehow does slip through that and your email spam filter, having two&#8209;factor authentication in place will prevent the phishing attempt from being successful even if you do hand over your login&nbsp;credentials.</p>


<p>As cyberthreats are constantly becoming more sophisticated, this layered strategy is extremely important.&nbsp;</p>


<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How Akismet&#8217;s spam protection complements email&nbsp;obfuscation</h2>

<p>While email obfuscation can be an effective strategy for keeping your email address hidden from spambots, it’s not&nbsp;foolproof.</p>

<p>The issue with email obfuscation is that it’s static. Once you implement it, all attackers have to do is figure out how you’re hiding your email and update their bots to account for it. Then this method won’t work anymore. You can keep updating your methods, but it’s tedious to have to stay a step ahead of potential threats at all&nbsp;times.</p>

<p>That’s why Akismet’s spam protection is such a preferred choice. Akismet is a spam protection platform that analyzes incoming messages for common spam patterns and then blocks spam&nbsp;immediately.</p>

<p>And the big difference is that it’s dynamic, not static. Akismet is powered by machine learning that’s been trained on a dataset of billions of pieces of spam. As spammers use new methods to evade filters, Akismet learns in real&#8209;time, updating itself to respond to new&nbsp;threats.</p>

<p>And that’s all done without any input needed from you, or your visitors. Unlike CAPTCHA, which can slow down and annoy your users, Akismet runs non&#8209;intrusively in the&nbsp;background.</p>

<p>As we mentioned, a layered cybersecurity strategy is the best way to keep spam, phishing, and malware far away from your website. And while email obfuscation alone is not enough to protect yourself, combining it with Akismet makes for the best way to safeguard your email address&nbsp;online.</p>

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Real&#8209;world examples where Akismet has effectively reduced&nbsp;spam</h2>

<p>Akismet has proven to be a powerful tool in the fight against spam, helping countless businesses and individuals alike protect themselves. 100 million sites have used Akismet to block <strong>more than 500 billion pieces of&nbsp;spam</strong>.</p>

<p>We’ve released a few case studies showcasing real&#8209;world examples where Akismet has made a significant&nbsp;impact.</p>

<p>One is the <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/convertkit-customerstory/">ConvertKit case study</a>, which explores how the marketing platform protected over 400,000 creators from spam. Lower billing fees and less email reputation damage meant happier ConvertKit customers, and the switch to Akismet was a major success. It just proves how well Akismet works for <a href="https://akismet.com/enterprise/">enterprise&#8209;grade&nbsp;anti&#8209;spam</a>.</p>


<p>Akismet also helped <a href="https://akismet.com/blog/saying-no-to-spam-on-smitten-kitchens-popular-food-site/">Smitten Kitchen</a> block 2.3 million pieces of spam. Major websites like this can end up with thousands of comments per post and no easy way to filter them manually.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1500" height="1066" src="https://akismet.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/image-4.png" alt="comment sections on the Smitten Kitchen website" class="wp-image-284221" />


<p>Thankfully, Akismet saved Smitten Kitchen from a spam disaster by blocking spam from ever reaching their&nbsp;inbox.</p>

<h2 id="frequently-asked questions" class="wp-block-heading">Frequently asked&nbsp;questions</h2>


<p>This article has covered what you need to know about email obfuscation and why it plays a key part in spam prevention. But in case you have any lingering questions, here are some answers to commonly asked questions about both email obfuscation and spam.&nbsp;</p>


<h3 id="what-are-the-risks-associated-with-unprotected-email addresses" class="wp-block-heading">What are the risks associated with unprotected email&nbsp;addresses?</h3>

<p>Failing to protect your email address leaves it vulnerable to spambots that crawl the web and capture them. Once your email is scraped, you can become a target for spam, phishing, and even brute force&nbsp;attacks.</p>

<p>Besides filling your inbox with unwanted emails, you also risk losing your account if you fall for a phishing email or hackers manage to break&nbsp;in.</p>

<h3 id="can-email-obfuscation-completely-prevent spam" class="wp-block-heading">Can email obfuscation completely prevent&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Email obfuscation can reduce the risk of your email address being collected, but it’s not 100% effective. Advanced bots can easily evade obfuscation tactics. That’s why it’s important to pair obfuscation with other security measures, like spam&nbsp;filters.</p>

<h3 id="how-does-email-obfuscation-impact-the-user-experience-on-a website" class="wp-block-heading">How does email obfuscation impact the user experience on a&nbsp;website?</h3>

<p>When done correctly, email obfuscation should have minimal impact on user experience. Users should still be able to see and copy your email address. But some methods, like using image&#8209;based obfuscation makes for a negative user experience that’s terrible for&nbsp;accessibility.</p>

<h3 id="what-are-the-best-practices-for-implementing-email obfuscation" class="wp-block-heading">What are the best practices for implementing email&nbsp;obfuscation?</h3>

<p>It’s best to avoid user&#8209;unfriendly obfuscation tactics like image&#8209;based email obfuscation, and instead use tactics like character replacement, JavaScript, or encoding. But the best way of all is to forgo posting your email and instead use a contact form with spam protection like what’s offered by&nbsp;Akismet.</p>

<h3 id="how-can-i-also-protect-my-contact-forms-from spam" class="wp-block-heading">How can I also protect my contact forms from&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Akismet is a highly effective way to protect your contact forms from spam. Akismet automatically filters out spam submissions, ensuring that only legitimate messages reach your inbox. And since you’re using a contact form, your email is&nbsp;hidden.</p>

<h3 id="how-accurate-is-akismet-at-stopping spam" class="wp-block-heading">How accurate is Akismet at stopping&nbsp;spam?</h3>

<p>Akismet is incredibly accurate at identifying and filtering out spam. It’s actually 99.99% effective. It uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to detect a majority of spam. While no system is perfect, Akismet’s track record speaks for itself, with millions of spam messages blocked daily across millions of&nbsp;websites.</p>

<h3 id="how-many-sites-use akismet" class="wp-block-heading">How many sites use&nbsp;Akismet?</h3>

<p>Over 100 million sites worldwide use Akismet to protect their online presence from spam. Well&#8209;known brands like Microsoft, Bluehost, WordPress.com, and ConvertKit rely on Akismet to keep their platforms&nbsp;clean.</p>

<h3 id="where-can-i-learn-more-about akismet" class="wp-block-heading">Where can I learn more about&nbsp;Akismet?</h3>

<p>You can learn more about Akismet on our <a href="https://akismet.com/features/">features page</a> and the rest of the website. This will explain everything you need to know about the platform. You can also check the <a href="https://akismet.com/pricing/">pricing&nbsp;page</a>.</p>


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<p>Each WordPress release celebrates an artist who has made an indelible mark on the world of music. WordPress 6.7, code-named &#8220;Rollins,&#8221; pays tribute to the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Known as one of the greatest improvisers and pioneers in jazz, Rollins has influenced generations of musicians with his technical brilliance, innovative spirit, and fearless approach to musical expression.</p>



<p>Sonny Rollins&#8217; work is characterized by its unmatched energy and emotional depth. His compositions, such as &#8220;St. Thomas,&#8221; &#8220;Oleo,&#8221; and &#8220;Airegin,&#8221; are timeless jazz standards, celebrated for their rhythmic complexity and melodic inventiveness. Rollins&#8217; bold and exploratory style resonates with WordPress&#8217; own commitment to empowering creators to push boundaries and explore new possibilities in digital expression.</p>



<p>Embrace the spirit of innovation and spontaneity that defines Rollins&#8217; sound as you dive into the new features and enhancements of WordPress 6.7.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Welcome to WordPress 6.7!</h2>



<p>WordPress 6.7 debuts the modern Twenty Twenty-Five theme, offering ultimate design flexibility for any blog at any scale. Control your site typography like never before with new font management features. The new Zoom Out feature lets you design your site with a macro view, stepping back from the details to bring the big picture to life.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Introducing Twenty Twenty-Five</h2>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Endless possibility without complexity</h4>



<p>Twenty Twenty-Five offers a flexible, design-focused theme that lets you build stunning sites with ease. Tailor your aesthetic with an array of style options, block patterns, and color palettes. Pared down to the essentials, this is a theme that can truly grow with you.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Get the big picture with Zoom Out</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">Explore your content from a new perspective</h4>



<p>Edit and arrange entire sections of your content like never before. A broader view of your site lets you add, edit, shuffle, or remove patterns to your liking. Embrace your inner architect.</p>



<img src="https://i0.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/6.7/feature-zoom-2.webp?ssl=1" alt="" />



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Connect blocks and custom fields with no hassle (or code)</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">A streamlined way to create dynamic content</h4>



<p>This feature introduces a new UI for connecting blocks to custom fields, putting control of dynamic content directly in the editor. Link blocks with fields in just a few clicks, enhancing flexibility and efficiency when building. Your clients will love you—as if they didn&#8217;t already.</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Embrace your inner font nerd</h3>



<h4 class="wp-block-heading">New style section, new possibilities</h4>



<p>Create, edit, remove, and apply font size presets with the next addition to the Styles interface. Override theme defaults or create your own custom font size, complete with fluid typography for responsive font scaling. Get into the details!</p>



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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Performance</h3>



<p>WordPress 6.7 delivers important performance updates, including faster pattern loading, optimized previews in the data views component, improved PHP 8+ support and removal of deprecated code, auto sizes for lazy-loaded images, and more efficient tag processing in the HTML API.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Accessibility</h3>



<p>65+ accessibility fixes and enhancements focus on foundational aspects of the WordPress experience, from improving user interface components and keyboard navigation in the Editor, to an accessible heading on WordPress login screens and clearer labeling throughout.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">And much more</h3>



<p>For a comprehensive overview of all the new features and enhancements in WordPress 6.7, please visit the feature-showcase website.</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Learn more about WordPress 6.7</h2>



<p><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/">Learn WordPress</a> is a free resource for new and experienced WordPress users. Learn is stocked with how-to videos on using various features in WordPress, <a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/social-learning/">interactive workshops</a> for exploring topics in-depth, and lesson plans for diving deep into specific areas of WordPress.</p>



<p>Read the <a href="https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-6.7">WordPress 6.7 Release Notes</a> for information on installation, enhancements, fixed issues, release contributors, learning resources, and the list of file changes.</p>



<p>Explore the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/wordpress-6-7-field-guide/">WordPress 6.7 Field Guide</a>. Learn about the changes in this release with detailed developer notes to help you build with WordPress.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">The 6.7 release squad</h2>



<p>Every release comes to you from a dedicated team of enthusiastic contributors who help keep things on track and moving smoothly. The team that has led 6.7 is a cross-functional group of contributors who are always ready to champion ideas, remove blockers, and resolve issues.</p>



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<li>Release Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/">Matt Mullenweg</a></li>



<li>Release Coordinator: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbaumwald/">David Baumwald</a></li>



<li>Core Tech Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/">Peter Wilson</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kirasong/">Kira Schroder</a></li>



<li>Editor Tech Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kevin940726/">Kai Hao</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/noisysocks/">Robert Anderson</a></li>



<li>Core Triage Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/stoyangeorgiev/">Stoyan Georgiev</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/">Ahmed Kabir Chaion</a></li>



<li>Editor Triage Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ndiego/">Nick Diego</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://wordpress.org/support/users/colorful-tones/">Damon Cook</a></li>



<li>Documentation Leads: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiankaegy/">Fabian Kägy</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/faguni22/">Mumtahina Faguni</a></li>



<li>Test Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/">Ankit K. Gupta</a></li>



<li>Design Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joen/">Joen Asmussen</a></li>



<li>Performance Lead: <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/"></a><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mukesh27/">Mukesh Panchal</a></li>



<li>Default Theme Design Lead:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beafialho/">Beatriz Fialho</a></li>



<li>Default Theme Development Leads:&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/juanfra/">Juan Aldasoro</a></li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Thank you, contributors</h2>



<p>The mission of WordPress is to <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/">democratize publishing</a> and embody the <a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">freedoms that come with open source</a>. A global and diverse community of people collaborating to strengthen the software supports this effort.</p>



<p>WordPress 6.7 reflects the tireless efforts and passion of more than 780 contributors in countries all over the world. This release also welcomed over 230 first-time contributors!</p>



<p>Their collaboration delivered more than 340 enhancements and fixes, ensuring a stable release for all—a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress open source community.</p>



<p class="is-style-wporg-props-long alignfull"><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/benniledl/">!Benni</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/75thtrombone/">75thtrombone</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/">Aaron Jorbin</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aaronrobertshaw/">Aaron Robertshaw</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aware/">Aaron Ware</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aatanasov/">aatanasov</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/webcommsat/">Abha Thakor</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/abhi3315/">abhi3315</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fitehal/">Abhishek Deshpande</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ababir/">Abir</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/acafourek/">acafourek</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamkheckler/">Adam Heckler</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamsilverstein/">Adam Silverstein</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adamwood/">Adam Wood</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/zieladam/">Adam Zieliński</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adarshposimyth/">Adarsh Akshat</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/adrian2k7/">Adrian</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aduth/">aduth</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ah72king/">ah72king</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ahmarzaidi/">Ahmar Zaidi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chaion07/">Ahmed Kabir Chaion</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/engahmeds3ed/">Ahmed Saeed</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajitbohra/">Ajit Bohra</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/akashdhawade/">Akash Dhawade</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wildworks/">Aki Hamano</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/atachibana/">Akira Tachibana</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/akshat2802/">Akshat Kakkad</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alaminfirdows/">Al-Amin Firdows</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alanfuller/">Alan Fuller</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aljullu/">Albert Juh&#233; Lluveras</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alessandrotesoro/">Alessandro Tesoro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ralessio/">Alessio</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/xknown/">Alex Concha</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ajlende/">Alex Lende</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexstine/">Alex Stine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alex27/">alex27</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/digitalex11/">Alexander Frank</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexandrebuffet/">Alexandre Buffet</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/harlet7/">Alexandru Horeanu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alexcu21/">alexcu21</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ali7ali/">Ali Ali</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aliaghdam/">aliaghdam</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/firewatch/">allilevine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mrfoxtalbot/">Alvaro G&#243;mez</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alvitazwar052/">Alvi Tazwar</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amincharoliya/">Amin Charoliya</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amirthepiper/">Amir Abbas</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amitraj2203/">Amit Raj</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/amjadr360/">Amjad Ali</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/anthakkar08/">Anand Thakkar</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afercia/">Andrea Fercia</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/awetz583/">Andrea Roenning</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andraganescu/">Andrei Draganescu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/euthelup/">Andrei Lupu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andreiglingeanu/">andreiglingeanu</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewhayward/">Andrew Hayward</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/azaozz/">Andrew Ozz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/andrewserong/">Andrew Serong</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/rarst/">Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/oandregal/">André Maneiro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/afragen/">Andy Fragen</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/la-geek/">Angelika Reisiger</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/aniketpatel/">Aniket Patel</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit-k-gupta/">Ankit K Gupta</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ankit k gupta/">Ankit K. 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P.</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/poena/">Carolina Nymark</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/carstenbach/">Carsten Bach</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbirdsong/">cbirdsong</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mchirag2002/">Chirag Mathur</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/chrico/">ChriCo</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jazzs3quence/">Chris Reynolds</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eclare/">Chris Trynkiewicz (Sukces Strony)</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/apermo/">Christoph Daum</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cfinke/">Christopher Finke</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ckanitz/">Christopher Kanitz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nyiriland/">Christy Nyiri</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/butterflymedia/">Ciprian</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/codersantosh/">codersantosh</a> · <a 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href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidbinda/">David Biňovec</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidabowman/">David Bowman</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidhbrown/">David Brown</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dpcalhoun/">David Calhoun</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/davidgodleman10up/">David Godleman</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhenriet/">David Henriet</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dlh/">David Herrera</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/justlevine/">David Levine</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/daviedr/">David Rozando</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dshanske/">David Shanske</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/get_dave/">David Smith</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ddewan/">ddewan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dsas/">Dean Sas</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/debarghyabanerjee/">DEBARGHYA BANERJEE</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deepakrohilla/">Deepak Rohilla</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deepakvijayan/">Deepak Vijayan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dekadinious/">Dekadinious</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dmsnell/">Dennis Snell</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dsmart/">Derek Smart</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deryck/">Deryck</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/designsimply/">designsimply</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/devansh2002/">Devansh Chaudhary</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/devspace/">devspace</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhananjaykuber/">Dhananjay Kuber</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dharm1025/">Dharmesh Patel</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhrumilk/">Dhrumil Kumbhani</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhruval04/">Dhruval Shah</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhruvang21/">Dhruvang21</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilipbheda/">Dilip Bheda</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dilip2615/">Dilip Modhavadiya</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dd32/">Dion Hulse</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/divibanks/">Divi Banks</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/djcowan/">dj.cowan</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/djennez/">djennez</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cyberorca/">Doni Kuntoro</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/dorzki/">Dor Zuberi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drewapicture/">Drew Jaynes</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drivingralle/">Drivingralle</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/drzraf/">drzraf</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/elrae/">Earle Davies</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eballeste/">eballeste</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eclev91/">eclev91</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/beckej/">Ed Beck</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ejnwebmaster/">ejnwebmaster</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/elfu98/">elfu98</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eliorivero/">Elio Rivero</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ellatrix/">Ella van Durpe</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/erichmond/">Elliott Richmond</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eatse/">Emmanue ATS&#201;</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/manooweb/">Emmanuel Hesry</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/emmanuel78/">emmanuel78</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lopo/">Enrico Battocchi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/nrqsnchz/">Enrique S&#225;nchez</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ericdye/">Eric Dye</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/kebbet/">Erik</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/erikiva/">erikiva</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/erikyo/">erikyo</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/eherman24/">Evan Herman</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/circlecube/">Evan Mullins</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiankaegy/">Fabian Kägy</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fabiorubioglio/">Fabio Rubioglio</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fahimmurshed/">FahimMurshed</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/faisalahammad/">Faisal Ahammad</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/faisal03/">Faisal Alvi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fazyshah/">Faizan Nabi</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/iamfarhan09/">Farhan Ahmed</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fayyazfayzi/">Fayyaz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/flixos90/">Felix Arntz</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/ffffelix/">Felix Renicks</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fjorgemota/">Fernando Jorge Mota (a11n)</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/firoz2456/">Firoz Sabaliya</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fcoveram/">Francisco</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/franz00/">Fransisca H</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/fullworks/">fullworks</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gwallace87/">Gale Wallace</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gansbrest/">gansbrest</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/garethelwell/">Gareth Elwell</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/garrett-eclipse/">Garrett Hyder</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/pento/">Gary Pendergast</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gauravtiwari/">Gaurav Tiwari</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/gauravsingh7/">gauravsingh7</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/georgwordpress/">Georg</a> · <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/mamaduka/">George 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<p>Other details on this single-page website include links to <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wp-engine-promotions/">promotions</a> offered by other hosting providers for migrating from WP Engine and the number of websites each hosting provider gained via migration. Pressable is the top gainer, followed by Bluehost and SiteGround.&nbsp;</p>



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<p>Ironically, the site&#8217;s URL is wordpressenginetracker.com as the whole WordPress-WP Engine dispute started with Matt accusing the hosting company of misusing the WordPress trademark. Also Automattic had <a href="https://wptavern.com/automattic-and-matt-mullenweg-push-for-dismissal-of-key-claims-in-wp-engine-lawsuit">opposed</a> WP Engine’s lawsuit claiming their <a href="https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/opposition-to-preliminary-injunction.pdf">allegations regarding lost customers</a> should be viewed with skepticism.&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/cloudflare-blocks-automattics-wp-engine-tracker-for-phishing/532244/">Search Engine Journal</a> reported that the website was blocked by Cloudflare for &#8220;suspected phishing,&#8221; but it is now up. It <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wpengine-tracker-domain-protest-site/532253/">also reported</a> about someone registering the domain name <a href="http://wpenginetracker.com">WPEngineTracker.com</a>.</p>



<a href="https://wpenginetracker.com/"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXeDl2uHqqXyd1eRG1-27QU1sfZQeMZpCSSwUqOCdqx6wap8FWPYcyiVjohWnPORVldwEU4ZHN5TcntIXJR18a3CocU8fLEx-nXwYk72jLrUZ7wpYxQBiQ5BagG61Mk01vIXVwE2sw?key=LpNsXrCc-NEhL-PqP_-S_5CU" alt="" /></a>



<a href="https://github.com/wordpressenginetracker/wordpressenginetracker.github.io/issues/6#issuecomment-2463027472"><img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdDLhQruoamTpBlRZOaA1fc-9rl9f1Ban1pafy7hiQTUo4oxgX5RTaF2PTOZsDrIDJjEsGq1se6fqLqUjIjFYpTr_ll7RBPbIJO5S9rTUI2qbp5MhjCayOivn7CuAaVHkfOUYia_w?key=LpNsXrCc-NEhL-PqP_-S_5CU" alt="" /></a>



<p><a href="https://x.com/WordPress/status/1854271844309684285"></a>Eric Karkovack of The WP Minute <a href="https://x.com/karks88/status/1854610815330271588">tweeted</a>, “Sort of like Ford tracking everyone who switched from Chevy. Doesn&#8217;t matter to me, I&#8217;m a Honda guy.” WordPress developer Brian Coords <a href="https://x.com/briancoords/status/1855286440537841792">shared</a> this: “This has nice design/dev, but it&#8217;s sad to see talent and resources poured into increased negativity in the community, criticism without substance, tearing down instead of building up. Just sad that&#8217;s what WordPress is becoming a symbol for.”</p>



<p>Security researcher Daniel Ruf dubbed it “amateurish”. He <a href="https://github.com/wordpressenginetracker/wordpressenginetracker.github.io/issues/3#issuecomment-2461388912">continued</a>, “I&#8217;m not sure what the goal of this website is and what Matt tries to achieve. But the community is getting increasingly annoyed of such unprofessional behavior of Matt and in the security community some also think about dropping 0days for WordPress and related plugins/themes due to this whole situation. The feedback under the tweet from the official WordPress account and in the reddit community shows, what most of us think. The whole situation hurts everyone more than needed.”</p>



<p>Another person <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42074721">commented</a>, “So Automattic has put together a list for spammers and hackers to use to target a bunch of sites who are no longer doing business with Matt Mullenweg’s nemesis. That’s… shortsighted. This will surely result in legal action from one or more of these sites?”&nbsp;</p>



<p>As of November 12, 18,280 websites have left WP Engine according to this website. </p>



<p><strong>Update: </strong>An Automattic spokesperson shared this with us, &#8220;“The beauty of open source software is that everyone is able to access data on a granular level, because it’s all publicly available information. That public data has shown that ever since WP Engine filed its lawsuit – making it clear that they do not have an official association with WordPress and attracting greater attention to the company’s poor service, modifications to the WordPress core software, increasing and convoluted pricing structure, and repeated down times – their customers have left their platform for other hosting providers. WP Engine can and always has been able to access the WordPress software and plugins available on WordPress.org, as can anyone.”</p>



<p>Automattic also <a href="https://x.com/automattic/status/1856034544115429655">tweeted </a>this, &#8220;We got the domains list from several third-party sources, not from .org. It&#8217;s pretty easy for anyone to do with services like W3techs, Builtwith, etc, you could recreate the same with a few hours of work and a few hundred dollars. These are all public sites in DNS.&#8221;</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:25:22 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:15;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"WPTavern: Design Team Unveils New WordPress Design System Figma Library";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=179442";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:82:"https://wptavern.com/design-team-unveils-new-wordpress-design-system-figma-library";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2643:"<p>Automattician James Koster has <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2024/11/07/announcing-the-new-wordpress-design-system-figma-library/">announced the launch</a> of a new WordPress Design System library for Figma, the popular tool the design team uses to create mockups and prototypes for WordPress. “The intention of this resource is to streamline the design process for folks working in the WordPress ecosystem,” he explained. </p>



<p>The design library offers a comprehensive range of components, including buttons, forms, icons, and menus, bringing everything you need into one place. It also includes style tokens that allow you to easily manage visual details like radius, elevation, color, and typography. For added convenience, the library provides handy stickers for individual components, and more extensive UI elements like the full-screen editor and site editor.</p>



<p>James also revealed that the “intention is to publish a new version of the library in line with each Gutenberg release, and from 6.8 each major WordPress release too.”</p>



<p>For WordPress Design Team members, the library will be automatically enabled in all new design files within the WordPress.org community Figma organization. Designers working in other Figma organizations can access it by duplicating the file from the community page and publishing it in their own organization.</p>



<p>For those new to Figma, the WordPress Design Team recommends checking out Figma&#8217;s &#8220;Learn&#8221; platform, which offers a comprehensive &#8220;<a href="https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002051613-Get-started">Get Started</a>&#8221; section to help users become familiar with the tool.</p>



<p>You can leave your feedback in the <a href="https://www.figma.com/design/804HN2REV2iap2ytjRQ055/WordPress-Design-System?node-id=2799-26256&node-type=canvas">source file</a> or on the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg">Gutenberg repository on GitHub</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The community has responded positively to the new library. WordPress committer Tammie Lister <a href="https://x.com/karmatosed/status/1854789281933308098">shared</a>, “It also is a step towards the true design system needed. Figma is a part of the system, but an important piece when updated regularly.” </p>



<p>Courtney Robertson, Open Source Developer Advocate at GoDaddy, <a href="https://x.com/courtneyr_dev/status/1855676450394808746">tweeted</a>, “#WordPress just stepped up its design game with a brand-new Figma Library as part of its Design System. Designers, it’s time to explore a more seamless workflow!”. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:38:31 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:16;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:93:"Do The Woo Community: Strategies for Selecting Effective Marketing Channels with Afshana Diya";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=86803";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:92:"https://dothewoo.io/strategies-for-selecting-effective-marketing-channels-with-afshana-diya/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:231:"In this episode of Woo BizChat, Katie Keith and Afsaneh Diya discuss effective marketing strategies for WooCommerce and WordPress businesses, emphasizing audience understanding, community engagement, and diverse marketing channels.";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5:"BobWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:17;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:22:"Matt: RIP Quincy Jones";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:23:"https://ma.tt/?p=129636";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:39:"https://ma.tt/2024/11/rip-quincy-jones/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3206:"<p>Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it&#8217;s impossible to summarize. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones_production_discography">His discography is amazing</a>. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn&#8217;t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were important. We talked a lot about his Count Basie and Frank Sinatra days. If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with him, <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80102952">the Quincy documentary on Netflix is a good start</a>. His musical fingerprints are everywhere, including the super-catchy theme songs for <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5zyrFDT1xa91xTShK6etQ8?si=aab3f9fd6b114881">Sanford and Sons</a> and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0Jw3cPBXlGnA6DEJrZSTI0?si=8b0773b2ef16409a">Austin Powers</a>.</p>



<img width="604" height="402" src="https://i0.wp.com/ma.tt/files/2012/09/MCM_4579-1024x681.jpg?resize=604%2C402&ssl=1" alt="" class="wp-image-43056" />



<p>He passed away last week, on November 3<sup>rd</sup>. As a tribute, here are ten albums he was involved in from the jazz side that have been big parts of my life. I&#8217;ll link to Spotify, but find them wherever you can:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2m0W0n7zBYmRNs1QAgoa6Z?si=w0HA3i5yReWoOAKgAFFwBg">Sinatra at the Sands</a>, Quincy arranges and directs the Count Basie band. This live album is great to listen to, you also get Frank doing stand-up comedy. </li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5lXF6AFeXG8UsIUfBJNsNH?si=UtcgbyAwSOOLQlml_UuJIQ">It Might As Well Be Swing</a>, Frank Sinatra.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/18JHKcwCBtOfCGmOB7hXx8?si=XBdTKfEcSeeZs-jv02C_Yw">Julian &#8220;Cannonball&#8221; Adderley</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5DDLqs1JsR7ZfnuoqLL5dB?si=N0fAf0qYSw2Hm2V2A5j0rA">Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Quincy Jones</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/752AJr22BFy9yubj4XJauv?si=jVCG1rGERQeQhQOuOfODUw">Ella and Basie</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/4GFWnwli2cVOBp2G1zqhV1?si=Mhk0Jo8vQ0KYOugXPPSpVw">The Genius of Ray Charles</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/79co4mGqrQdDK93j5ZuqH2?si=Q_ZupFpfSDKnXU8jN-jg9Q">For Those in Love, Dinah Washington</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3J6gCSiLOWrRjSY8xqpvkV?si=qrCG7mlpTxWFI3HFWcHC_g">Dizzy and Strings, Dizzy Gillespie</a>.</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/5ioLlvIO3CZOmxvsQmGRZ4?si=yq6JeWoASEigUQHgmMNw8w">Quincy Here We Come, Benny Bailey</a>. (The track Meet Benny Bailey has an <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7AurSRjfOYfUD9sWSi4MV1?si=cSvdBmZGQKG4qMWSO2kEzA">excellent tribute on Manhattan Transfer&#8217;s Vocalese</a>.)</li>



<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/7MGttcftncXXItvutjK9dM?si=VKNQsJlOTvWh39sdqmXnOg">Social Call, Betty Carter</a>.</li>
</ol>



<p>I put all ten into <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BVr7ZF2X5p2RZ433VliiT?si=c8ce164132e74aac">one Spotify playlist if you want to check them all out</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:57:23 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:18;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:74:"Gravatar: 7 Actionable Steps to List Your Social Media Handles Effectively";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:32:"http://blog.gravatar.com/?p=2412";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:70:"https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/11/11/how-to-list-social-media-handles/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:21771:"<p>Social media handles are your digital name tags – they help people find and connect with you across every platform. When chosen and used strategically, these identifiers do more than just label your accounts; they make your brand more recognizable and help grow your following.&nbsp;</p>



<p>From major corporations to personal brands, the right social media handle can be the difference between getting lost in the crowd and standing out online. These handles are like a unique fingerprint across platforms, and their presentation on business cards, websites, product packaging, and marketing materials can leave a lasting impression.</p>



<p>While it may sound like a simple thing, there is a strategy to it, and we’re here to show you exactly that. This guide walks you through seven actionable steps to list your social media handles effectively.&nbsp;</p>



<p>From crafting consistent handles to harnessing modern tools like QR codes and integrating your profiles into video content, you&#8217;ll discover practical strategies to boost your brand&#8217;s following and make your social profiles easily accessible.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 1: Choose consistent and memorable social media handles</strong></h2>



<p>Being consistent with your social media handles builds recognition and allows your audience to find you across different platforms. Think of your handle as your digital signature – the more consistent it is, the more memorable you become.</p>



<p>Inconsistent handles, on the other hand, could confuse your audience. Imagine a small business called &#8220;Green Leaf Gardens,&#8221; which has different handles on each platform:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Instagram: @greenleafgardens</li>



<li>Twitter: @GLGardens2023</li>



<li>Facebook: @greenleaflandscaping</li>



<li>TikTok: @thegardeningexperts</li>



<li>LinkedIn: @green-leaf-gardens-llc</li>
</ul>



<p>The mix of abbreviations, numbers, and different business names confuses potential customers and dilutes brand recognition. Using @greenleafgardens consistently (or a close variation if the exact handle isn&#8217;t available) would create a stronger, more memorable online presence.</p>



<p>So, how can you prevent that?&nbsp;</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Pick a handle that&#8217;s up for grabs on all the platforms that matter to you. </strong>We&#8217;re talking Instagram, <a href="https://twitter.com/">Twitter (now X)</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/">TikTok</a>, and any niche networks where your audience hangs out.</li>



<li><strong>Keep it short and sweet.</strong> The simpler your handle, the easier it is to remember and type.</li>



<li><strong>Make sure it reflects your brand. </strong>Your handle should give people a taste of who you are or what you do.</li>
</ol>



<p><strong><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f4a1.png" alt="💡" class="wp-smiley" />Pro tip:</strong> <em>Start with the social platforms where your audience spends most of their time. But don&#8217;t stop there – grab your handle on emerging platforms, too, even if you&#8217;re not ready to use them yet – you might need them in the future.</em></p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Use Namechk and KnowEm to ensure handle availability</strong></h3>



<p>Before you commit to a handle, take it for a test drive. Free tools like <a href="https://namechk.com/">Namechk</a> or <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/knowem-social-media-usern/mbkgomeeoffmnhnkmngelnbfbhoggmpm">KnowEm</a> can show you if your dream handle is available across multiple social media platforms and domains.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If your first-choice handle is taken, don&#8217;t panic. Get creative with variations that still keep your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">brand identity</a> intact. Maybe add your location or an industry keyword. For example, @JohnDoeBakeryNYC tells people who you are, what you do, and where you&#8217;re based.</p>



<p>And here&#8217;s a crucial step many folks overlook: <strong>check for potential trademark issues</strong>. The last thing you want is a legal headache down the road. A quick search of your local trademark office can save you a world of trouble.</p>



<p><strong><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f4a1.png" alt="💡" class="wp-smiley" />Pro tip:</strong> <em>If you&#8217;re unsure about potential trademark conflicts, it&#8217;s worth chatting with a legal pro specializing in intellectual property.</em></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 2: Optimize handles for each platform&#8217;s format</strong></h2>



<p>Each social media platform has its own handle requirements that you need to be aware of.&nbsp;</p>



<p>For example, the <strong>character limitations are different</strong>. Twitter (now X) has a 15-character limit, while Instagram gives you a bit more breathing room with 30 characters. LinkedIn takes a different approach, using URLs like linkedin.com/in/username without the &#8220;@&#8221; symbol.&nbsp; Sometimes, you might need to tweak your handle slightly to fit a platform&#8217;s requirements. That&#8217;s okay, but try to keep it as close to your brand name as possible.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Now, let&#8217;s talk symbols. On most platforms – Twitter, Instagram, TikTok – your handle starts with an &#8220;@&#8221; symbol. It&#8217;s like a universal &#8220;hey, this is a social media handle&#8221; sign. However, platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook often skip the &#8220;@&#8221; and use the full profile URL instead.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s a hot tip: <strong>avoid unnecessary symbols or numbers in your handle</strong> unless they&#8217;re essential to your brand identity. Sure, @JaneDoe_123_NYC might be available, but it&#8217;s a mouthful to say out loud and a pain to type. Keep it clean and simple.</p>



<p>Different platforms have different purposes, and your handle should adapt accordingly. LinkedIn, for instance, is all about professional networking. So, your handle there might be more formal than your fun, casual Instagram handle.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Finally, don&#8217;t forget to create a custom URL where possible. On LinkedIn or Facebook, you can often set up a custom URL (like linkedin.com/in/YourBrandName) that aligns closely with your handles on other platforms. It&#8217;s an easy way to keep your brand consistent across the board.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 3: Display social media handles on marketing materials creatively</strong></h2>



<p>Your marketing materials are a great opportunity to plug your social media handles and are often the first thing people look for in business cards, brochures, and product packages. Here&#8217;s how to make the most of it:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use clear, readable fonts: </strong>Choose fonts that are easy on the eyes, especially for smaller spaces like business cards, and make your handles stand out without overwhelming the design.</li>



<li><strong>Incorporate social media icons: </strong>Place recognizable icons (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.) next to your handles and in your email signatures. They have to be high-resolution and align with your overall branding.</li>



<li><strong>Showcase handles on product packaging:  </strong>If you sell physical products, use that space to encourage social engagement. For example, you can include your handles with a call-to-action like &#8220;Tag us on Instagram!&#8221;</li>



<li><strong>Leverage event materials: </strong>Print your social handles on banners, posters, and promotional merchandise. You could also use items like T-shirts or tote bags to encourage attendees to follow you online.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 4: Display your social handles in one place with Gravatar</strong></h2>



<p>Promoting your social media handles across platforms can complicate things for your target audience, so the best course of action is to use a centralized page where they can find everything.&nbsp;</p>



<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> is a free tool that lets you create a dynamic profile and include different types of information for your audience to see, including your verified social media profiles and other important links.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="333" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-links-new-2.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar verified accounts section" class="wp-image-2415" />



<p>The most important feature of Gravatar is its automatic synchronization – update your profile in one place, and it will reflect across all connected platforms, which includes <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>, <a href="https://github.com/">GitHub</a>, and more! </p>



<p>On top of that, Gravatar allows you to verify your accounts, adding a layer of trust and authority. This is especially valuable for online personalities, entrepreneurs, CEOs, artists, and other professionals.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In short, this is the perfect place for you to add all your social handles and easily share them across your website, email signatures, business cards, and marketing materials. You can do this by adding your <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/26/link-your-gravatar-profile-with-a-free-custom-domain/">personal Gravatar .link URL</a> or generating a QR code directly from the platform.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="660" height="436" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-qr-code.png?w=660" alt="Gravatar QR code" class="wp-image-2416" />



<p>This can be extremely useful as it provides users with instant access to all your verified social profiles with one quick scan.</p>



<p>Gravatar lets you create a cohesive, professional online presence that boosts your brand&#8217;s visibility and credibility. It ensures that your audience knows they&#8217;re connecting with the real you, no matter which platform they&#8217;re on.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 5: Leverage QR codes to simplify access</strong></h2>



<p>Speaking of QR codes, here&#8217;s how to utilize them effectively.&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use reliable, free QR code generators</strong> such as <a href="https://www.qr-code-generator.com/">QR Code Generator</a>, <a href="https://scanova.io/">Scanova</a>, or <a href="http://bit.ly">Bit.ly</a> to create scannable links for individual platforms or a single page listing all your profiles (e.g., a Gravatar profile or <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/10/21/linktree-alternatives/">Linktree page</a>). As noted above, if you have a Gravatar profile, you get a QR code for free and won’t have to use external tools. </li>



<li><strong>Always test your QR codes</strong> before implementation to ensure they direct users to the correct destination.</li>
</ul>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Include QR codes in physical assets</strong> like business cards, product packaging, in-store displays, printed advertisements, and flyers.</li>



<li><strong>Develop platform-specific QR codes. </strong>If your target audience favors different social networks, create separate QR codes for each platform. Alternatively, use a single QR code to direct people to a central page listing all your social handles.</li>



<li><strong>Opt for dynamic QR codes when possible. </strong>Unlike static codes, dynamic versions can be updated after printing, providing flexibility if you need to change the destination link. This feature lets you modify your digital information without reprinting materials if you update your social handles.</li>
</ul>



<p>Remember, QR codes are most effective when paired with clear instructions and a compelling reason to scan. Provide context for what users will gain by scanning – whether it&#8217;s access to exclusive content, special offers, or a comprehensive view of your social profiles.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 6: List social media handles on your website and landing pages</strong></h2>



<p>Your website and landing pages are prime real estate for showcasing your social media handles. By strategically integrating these handles, you can create a true connection between your web presence and social profiles.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Include social media icons in key website locations</strong></h3>



<p>Social media icons are a standard and effective method to display your handles on your website. These icons typically link directly to your social profiles, allowing visitors to follow you with a single click, which is why it’s good to place them in prominent areas like the header, footer, and contact sections of your website. This ensures visitors can easily access your handles regardless of which page they&#8217;re on.</p>



<p>It’s also recommended that you use branded, recognizable icons to maintain a professional appearance and keep the user experience consistent. Still, make sure that they fit your website&#8217;s <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/05/user-profile-page-examples/">design and color scheme</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Embedding live social media feeds</strong></h3>



<p>Display live content from various platforms, such as Instagram posts, Twitter/X updates, or TikTok videos on strategic pages. For example, if you’re a food blogger, you could include an instagram feed with mouth-watering content that will entice people to follow you there.&nbsp;</p>



<p>What’s important here is to make it as easy as possible for readers to find you, and the best way to do this is through CTA buttons. Place them at the end of blog posts, on product pages, or in pop-ups. Direct visitors to your social platforms with clear, actionable prompts.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Optimize social media links for mobile users</strong></h3>



<p>With a significant portion of web traffic coming from mobile devices, remember to make your social media links mobile-friendly. Here’s how to do that:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Make links easily tappable: </strong>Icons and links have to be large enough for easy interaction on mobile screens. Avoid clustering links too closely together to prevent accidental taps.</li>



<li><strong>Ensure responsive design: </strong>Verify that linked pages are optimized for mobile browsing and test the user experience across various devices and screen sizes.</li>



<li><strong>Consider load times: </strong>Slow-loading social media elements can frustrate users and decrease engagement, so don’t forget to optimize icon images and linked content for quick loading on mobile networks.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 7: Promote social media handles in video and audio content</strong></h2>



<p>Incorporating your social media handles into video and audio content can significantly boost your online presence. This approach allows you to reach audiences across multiple platforms and encourages cross-platform engagement.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Display social media handles as text overlays in videos</strong></h3>



<p>Text overlays are an effective way to make your handles visible without disrupting the main content of your videos.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Use lower-thirds for handle display</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Place your handles in the bottom section of the video, commonly known as lower-thirds.</li>



<li>Ensure the text is clear and easy to read on both desktop and mobile devices.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Match branding with font choice</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Select fonts that align with your overall brand aesthetic.</li>



<li>Keep the text professional and easily legible.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Balance visibility and subtlety</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Make sure your handles are noticeable without overwhelming the video&#8217;s visuals.</li>



<li>Consider using semi-transparent overlays to minimize distraction.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Add social media handles to the description box of video platforms</strong></h3>



<p>Video platforms like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/">YouTube</a>, TikTok, and <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a> offer valuable space in their description boxes for promoting your handles.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Prioritize handle placement</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>List your most important handles at the top of the description.</li>



<li>Use clickable links to make it easy for viewers to follow you immediately after watching.</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Tailor approach for different platforms</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>On TikTok, where space is limited, focus on your primary handle in the caption or on-screen text.</li>



<li>For YouTube, utilize the expanded description space to list multiple handles and provide context.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Mention handles verbally in video and audio content</strong></h3>



<p>Verbal mentions of your social media handles can reinforce them and prompt your audience to follow you. However, you need to be strategic: Include handle mentions at the start, during transitions, or at the end of your content. For longer content like podcasts, naturally incorporate handle mentions during topic transitions.</p>



<p>We also recommend briefly explaining what kind of content followers can expect on each platform and using a call-to-action approach, encouraging listeners to connect with you on social media.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Include social media handles in end screens or outro segments</strong></h3>



<p>End screens and outros are prime locations for promoting your social media handles, as viewers often decide what to do next after finishing a video.</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Create branded end screens</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Design clear, visually appealing end screens that prominently feature your handles.</li>



<li>Include CTAs like, &#8220;Follow us on Instagram @YourHandle for behind-the-scenes content.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
</li>



<li><strong>Utilize platform-specific features</strong>
<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>On YouTube, use the end screen feature to display clickable social media icons alongside your handles.</li>



<li>Ensure these elements are easily clickable on both desktop and mobile devices.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Promote social handles during live streams</strong></h3>



<p>Live streams offer real-time opportunities to promote your social media handles while interacting directly with your audience. Use a persistent on-screen graphic showing your primary social media handles and rotate different handles throughout the stream if you&#8217;re active on multiple platforms.</p>



<p>You can also verbally encourage follows by periodically reminding viewers to follow you on other platforms and highlighting exclusive content or benefits available on specific social media channels.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Utilize social media handle watermarks in visual content</strong></h3>



<p>Watermarks ensure your handle remains visible even if your video is shared across different platforms. Place the watermark in a corner of the video where it won&#8217;t distract from the content and ensure it&#8217;s noticeable enough for viewers to remember and easily read.</p>



<p>Remember to be consistent! Use the same watermark design across all your video content for brand recognition. Consider using your primary social media handle as the watermark for maximum impact.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Take control of your online presence with Gravatar today</strong></h2>



<p>Effectively listing and promoting your social media handles is crucial for building a strong online presence. Consistency and visibility are key, but so is efficiency. Managing multiple social media profiles can become time-consuming, especially when updating handles or ensuring consistency across platforms.</p>



<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> offers a straightforward solution for organizing your online presence, making it easier for others to find and follow your profiles without having to manage multiple platforms. With Gravatar, you can:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Create a centralized profile listing links to all your social media accounts, website, portfolio, and other online presences.</li>



<li>Link to your Gravatar profile in email signatures, websites, business cards, and even physical marketing materials using a QR code.</li>



<li>Verify your social media accounts and links, adding a layer of trust and authority to your online presence.</li>
</ul>



<p>Whether you&#8217;re a small business owner, entrepreneur, or social media manager, Gravatar provides a streamlined solution to keep your social media handles up-to-date and visible across your digital footprint.</p>



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<p>Digital business cards shine in both online (as a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/08/28/level-up-your-profile-3-cool-new-features-for-your-link-in-bio/">link in bio</a> tool, in the footer of contact pages and emails) and offline (in-person networking and <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/08/02/organizational-benefits-of-efficient-contact-sharing/">contact sharing</a>) settings.<strong> </strong>So, whether you&#8217;re adding them to your email signature or sharing them at in-person events, they make networking and follow-ups much easier.&nbsp;</p>



<p><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f331.png" alt="🌱" class="wp-smiley" /> As a bonus, they&#8217;re environmentally friendly, reducing paper waste.</p>



<p>However, creating an effective digital business card comes with challenges. Many solutions can be costly, and designing one without the necessary skills can be daunting. Thankfully, <a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> exists – a completely free and powerful platform for crafting digital business cards.</p>



<p>This guide will show you how to use Gravatar to create a professional, eye-catching digital business card – no design expertise required!</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Necessary features and design elements for your digital business card</strong></h2>



<p>While it’s good to be creative and unique with your digital business card, you still need some essential elements. Let’s see what they are:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Profile photo:</strong> It&#8217;s often the first thing people notice, so choose a clear, well-lit, high-quality headshot that reflects your professional persona.</li>



<li><strong>Contact information:</strong> Include the essentials such as name, job title, company, email, and phone number. Remember, digital cards allow for easy updating if any details change.</li>



<li><strong>Social media links: </strong>Add links to your relevant social profiles. This expands your networking reach, allowing connections to engage with you on multiple platforms.</li>



<li><strong>Personal website or portfolio link:</strong> Showcase your work and drive traffic to your site by including a link to your personal website or portfolio.</li>



<li><strong>Brief bio or tagline: </strong>Craft a concise personal statement that encapsulates your professional identity or unique selling point. Keep it short, sharp, and memorable.</li>



<li><strong>Customization options:</strong> Your digital card should align with your personal brand, especially the visuals, such as the color scheme, fonts, and overall design. For example, you could use the same font as you would on your website but also include an effective one-liner like you would on LinkedIn.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Sharing methods: </strong>Ensure your digital card is easily shareable both online and offline. For example, you can create your own QR code that people can scan and access your card in seconds. Online, the most effective way is to have a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/26/link-your-gravatar-profile-with-a-free-custom-domain/">nice, short, custom URL</a>.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Easy follow-ups and contact: </strong>Your business card needs to make it easy for people to follow up and contact you when they want to. That means including your email signature in your business card, or links to contact forms.&nbsp;</li>



<li><strong>Privacy controls: </strong>Make sure you can control what information is visible and to whom. This flexibility allows you to tailor your card for different professional contexts.</li>



<li><strong>Integration capabilities: </strong>Consider how your digital card might connect with other tools you use regularly, such as CRM systems or other professional platforms.</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Create a stunning digital business card with Gravatar – no design skills needed</strong></h2>



<img width="2492" height="1298" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-new-homepage.png" alt="Gravatar homepage" class="wp-image-2391" />



<p>Enter Gravatar: your free ticket to a globally recognized digital identity. This platform is a powerful tool for managing your online presence across thousands of websites and services. Think of it as your universal digital business card and <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/04/10/personal-branding-tools/">personal branding hub</a> all rolled into one.</p>



<img width="1032" height="776" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/ronnie-gravatar-profile.png" alt="Ronnie Burt’s Gravatar profile" class="wp-image-2392" />



<p>What sets Gravatar apart? Its simplicity. You don&#8217;t need to be a design guru to create a standout profile. Just upload an avatar and fill in your details, and you&#8217;re good to go. But don&#8217;t let the ease of use fool you – there&#8217;s plenty of room for customization. You can play with background colors, tweak button hues, or add a custom-branded header and footer.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1613" height="919" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-profile-edit-page.png" alt="Demo profile in Gravatar" class="wp-image-2393" />



<p>You can even rearrange the layout to suit your style. And for those who want to go the extra mile, why not embed a video introduction? It&#8217;s all about making your digital card uniquely you.</p>



<p>Here&#8217;s what you can pack into your Gravatar profile:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Your chosen avatar image (make it a good one!)</li>



<li>Name and a snappy biography</li>



<li>Contact information (email, website)</li>



<li>Links to your social media profiles</li>



<li>Other relevant links (portfolio, projects, etc.)</li>
</ul>



<p>But here&#8217;s where Gravatar really shines: <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/02/27/gravatar-manifesto-one-profile-everywhere/"><strong>automatic synchronization</strong></a>. Update your profile once, and those changes instantly appear across all connected platforms&nbsp; – no more scrambling to update multiple online profiles when you change jobs or contact details. This ensures your personal brand stays consistent everywhere you appear online, from professional forums to project collaborations.&nbsp;</p>



<p>And for those <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/06/16/how-to-network-at-a-conference/">in-person networking moments</a>, you can generate a QR code for your Gravatar profile and watch as people scan their way straight to your digital doorstep.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Android and Apple Wallet Support, Too</h2>



<img width="2800" height="1720" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/image.png" alt="" class="wp-image-2427" />



<p>Never fumble for a business card again. Your Gravatar profile now lives in your phone&#8217;s wallet!</p>



<p><strong>Quick Setup:</strong></p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li>Log into your Gravatar profile</li>



<li>Click the &#8216;Share profile&#8217; button</li>



<li>Select &#8216;Add to Apple Wallet&#8217; or &#8216;Add to Google Wallet&#8217;</li>



<li>Tap to add &#8211; you&#8217;re done!</li>
</ol>



<p><strong>Why You&#8217;ll Love It:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Always on hand &#8211; even when your phone is offline</li>



<li>Share your profile with a quick tap</li>



<li>Updates automatically when you change your Gravatar</li>



<li>Looks sleek in your digital wallet</li>



<li>Perfect for conferences and meetups</li>



<li>More eco-friendly than paper cards</li>
</ul>



<p><img src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/wpcom-smileys/twemoji/2/72x72/1f31f.png" alt="🌟" class="wp-smiley" /> <strong>Here&#8217;s a neat trick</strong>: Gravatar integrates with comment systems on many blogs and news sites. This means your digital business card can pop up alongside your online contributions, turning everyday interactions into potential networking gold.</p>



<img width="1744" height="952" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/gravatar-comment-section.png" alt="Responses to comments in Gravatar" class="wp-image-2394" />



<p>So, ready to create a digital business card that works as hard as you do? Let&#8217;s dive into how you can make Gravatar work its magic for your professional brand.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Future-proof your networking: Create a digital business card with Gravatar</strong></h2>



<p>Gravatar isn&#8217;t just another digital business card platform – it&#8217;s a revolution in online networking. Its unique email-based system allows you to manage multiple online identities effortlessly. And with thousands of integrated platforms, your Gravatar profile becomes a centralized hub for your digital presence.</p>



<p>Worried about design skills or costs? Gravatar eliminates these common hurdles. It&#8217;s free, user-friendly, and doesn&#8217;t require a degree in graphic design to look professional.</p>



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<p>The updated logo, featuring a lively purple and white color palette, has already sparked a buzz in the WordPress community. It showcases “WOO” in white against a deep purple background, sometimes transitioning into a shopping cart, with the “O”s doubling as wheels—perfectly representing a platform that powers millions of online stores worldwide.</p>



<p>Jay Walsh, Director of Communications at WooCommerce.com, shared that they recently discussed plans around the Woo and WooCommerce brand and identity during the keynote session of this year’s WooSesh. The team teased a refreshed WooCommerce logo treatment during the keynote, which is part of the wider effort to make the Woo brand, voice, and identity bolder and more engaging for current and future merchants.&nbsp;</p>



<p>“Evolving our brand and our main product is crucial to our strategy of growing new stores, reaching new merchants, and maintaining our position as the world’s most popular commerce platform”, he explained.&nbsp;</p>



<p>The animated logo has been a hit, drawing comments like “one of the best logos I&#8217;ve seen in a while” to “This is so darn cool.” BobWP of Do the Woo Podcast <a href="https://x.com/BobWP/status/1851528372054061090">tweeted</a>, “In case you missed this. And coming from someone who used to design logos professionally, the simplest ideas, which now seem obvious, are the hardest. Great job!”&nbsp;</p>



<p>Remkus de Vries of Within WordPress newsletter, shared his excitement <a href="https://x.com/remkusdevries/status/1851552009662386658">saying</a>, “It&#8217;s very rare to see a rebrand with a new logo where I immediately go &#8220;Wow, that&#8217;s a huge improvement, I love it&#8221;, but when I saw this last week, that&#8217;s exactly what I thought.”</p>



<p>Despite the enthusiasm, a few critics questioned the color choice, but WooCommerce Product Lead James Kemp has <a href="https://x.com/jamesckemp/status/1851355951166603264">assured</a> that “the whole rebrand is super vibrant and the purple has been enhanced.”</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 08 Nov 2024 08:35:50 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:23;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>If you don’t provide them with one, you’re losing business, plain and simple.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Thankfully, there are many website personalization tools that are transforming how businesses connect with their audience online. These tools enable companies to deliver individualized experiences that resonate with each visitor, going beyond traditional segment-based approaches.&nbsp;</p>



<p>In the following sections, we&#8217;ll explore the top 7 personalization tools and their features, showing you how to unlock new levels of engagement and business success.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Introducing the top 7 website personalization tools</strong></h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1.</strong> <strong>Gravatar</strong></h3>



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<p><a href="https://gravatar.com/">Gravatar</a> is a unique tool in the world of website personalization. It simplifies user profile management and enhances personalization based on users&#8217; email addresses, offering a distinct advantage by utilizing data already provided by users. This approach allows developers to personalize site experiences without extensive data collection.</p>



<p>Gravatar offers two powerful APIs for integration:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/api/avatars/images/">The Avatar API</a> that is designed specifically for requesting avatars.</li>



<li><a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/">The Profiles-As-A-Service API</a>, which enables developers to import comprehensive profile information.</li>
</ol>



<p>These APIs create a centralized hub where users can update their information once, and it syncs across all Gravatar-integrated sites. Gravatar has also introduced <em>Interests</em>, allowing users to list specific topics they&#8217;re interested in – something that can change the game for website owners looking to understand user preferences.&nbsp;</p>



<img width="1511" height="865" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/gravatar-interests-section.png" alt="Gravatar Interests section" class="wp-image-2256" />



<p>For example, an e-commerce site could show personalized product recommendations based on these interests.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Users can create a <a href="https://blog.gravatar.com/2024/05/09/wordpress-profile-page/">single avatar profile page</a> associated with their email address.</li>
</ul>



<img width="1032" height="776" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/ronnie-gravatar-profile.png" alt="Example of a Gravatar profile page" class="wp-image-2257" />



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>This profile automatically appears on any Gravatar-enabled site, providing a consistent identity across platforms.</li>



<li>Users can add important information such as avatar, bio, pronouns, and job info – update once, sync everywhere.</li>



<li>Gravatar is natively supported by <a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a>, enabling effortless avatar management for WordPress users and developers without additional plugins or code.</li>
</ul>



<p>For developers looking to import user profiles, integration with Gravatar&#8217;s profile API is needed. To streamline the user experience, it&#8217;s recommended to explain to users that they can control their avatar and profile information directly from their Gravatar profile.</p>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Gravatar is particularly beneficial for developers, bloggers, and business owners. It provides a consistent brand image across platforms and maximizes engagement by offering personalized user experiences.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> Gravatar integrates with popular platforms like <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress.com</a>, <a href="https://slack.com/">Slack</a>, <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>, <a href="https://www.figma.com/">Figma</a>, and <a href="https://mailchimp.com/">Mailchimp</a>, demonstrating its versatility and wide-reaching impact.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> One of Gravatar&#8217;s standout features is its pricing model – or lack of. It&#8217;s a completely free service for site owners, developers, and users, and is run and supported by <a href="https://automattic.com/">Automattic</a>. There&#8217;s no paid version and no usage limits, making it an accessible option for businesses of all sizes.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>2. Dynamic Yield&nbsp;</strong></h3>



<img width="660" height="379" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/dynamic-yield-homepage.png?w=660" alt="Dynamic Yield homepage" class="wp-image-2258" />



<p><a href="https://www.dynamicyield.com/">Dynamic Yield</a> is a powerful player in the website personalization arena, known for delivering personalized onsite experiences through AI-powered targeting and real-time analytics.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Contextually relevant content:</strong> Delivers personalized content based on user behavior and preferences. For instance, a returning visitor interested in sports might see sports-related content prominently displayed on the homepage.</li>



<li><strong>Product recommendations:</strong> Uses AI to suggest products based on browsing history and purchase patterns. An online retailer could use this to show complementary items to those in a user&#8217;s cart.</li>



<li><strong>Personalized messages:</strong> Tailors messaging based on visitor behavior and characteristics. A travel website might show different promotional messages to first-time visitors versus frequent bookers.</li>



<li><strong>Real-time personalization:</strong> Adapts content in real-time as users interact with the site. For example, a news site could reshuffle article placement based on what the user clicks on during their visit.</li>
</ul>



<p>Dynamic Yield integrates well with other tools to enhance personalization efforts, particularly <a href="https://segment.com/twilio/">Twilio Segment</a>, a customer data platform enabling real-time data collection and action.</p>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can use Dynamic Yield to increase engagement and conversion rates, such as personalizing homepage experiences for returning visitors.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> <a href="https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us.html">McDonald&#8217;s</a>, <a href="https://www.pacsun.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopO0JjIGm5h8VDxzygttVVXvTEK6hTqyyXzFsLeCnaxG9mugNBs">PacSun</a>, <a href="https://www.cotopaxi.com/?srsltid=AfmBOorz7QhfPrt0CHN8RFdUjv_7VPTjcywAtK4ykdXSoYwhBNXT6eh8">Cotopaxi</a>, among others.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> Dynamic Yield offers a customized pricing model tailored to each client&#8217;s specific needs and scale. For detailed pricing information, you&#8217;ll need to <a href="https://www.dynamicyield.com/request-demo/">contact their sales team</a> directly.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>3. Optimizely</strong></h3>



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<p><a href="https://www.optimizely.com/">Optimizely</a> is a leading digital experience platform that empowers businesses to create, experiment, and personalize user experiences.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>A/B testing and multivariate testing: </strong>Allows testing of different page versions to identify the most effective elements. An e-commerce site could test different product page layouts to see which leads to more purchases.</li>



<li><strong>AI-driven optimization:</strong> Uses machine learning to automatically optimize experiences. This could involve automatically adjusting the placement of call-to-action buttons based on user interaction patterns.</li>



<li><strong>Personalized content delivery: </strong>Serves different content to different user segments based on their data. A software company might show different feature highlights to enterprise visitors versus small business owners.</li>



<li><strong>Integrations:</strong> Make the most out of Optimizely by combining it with tools like Twilio Segment, <a href="https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/en_uk/about/analytics/">Google Analytics</a>, and <a href="https://business.adobe.com/">Adobe Experience Cloud</a>.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can increase engagement and conversion rates by running A/B tests on different versions of their product pages to identify the most effective elements.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> <a href="https://www.ebay.com/">eBay</a>, <a href="https://www.americanexpress.com/">American Express</a>, <a href="https://www.dolby.com/">Dolby</a>, <a href="https://www.fjallraven.com/eu/en-gb/">Fjallraven</a>, among others.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> Optimizely offers a customized pricing model tailored to each client&#8217;s specific needs and scale. <a href="https://www.optimizely.com/plans/">Contact their sales team directly</a> for detailed pricing information.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>4. HubSpot&nbsp;</strong></h3>



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<p><a href="https://www.hubspot.com/">HubSpot</a> is a popular all-in-one CRM platform offering many powerful tools for marketing, sales, and customer service, with a strong emphasis on website personalization.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Smart Content: </strong>Dynamically adjusts website content based on user attributes and behavior. For example, a B2B site could show different case studies to visitors from different industries.</li>



<li><strong>Personalized CTAs:</strong> Displays different call-to-action buttons to different user segments. A SaaS company might show a &#8220;<em>Start Free Trial</em>&#8221; CTA to new visitors and an &#8220;<em>Upgrade Now</em>&#8221; CTA to existing customers.</li>



<li><strong>Automated workflows:</strong> Creates personalized user journeys based on user actions and characteristics. This could involve sending a series of targeted emails based on which resources a user has downloaded.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can use HubSpot to increase engagement and conversion rates by delivering targeted CTAs to specific visitor groups.</p>



<p><strong>Used By:</strong> <a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/">Tripadvisor</a>, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/">Eventbrite</a>, <a href="https://www.weightwatchers.com/us/">WeightWatchers</a>, and more.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> HubSpot offers <a href="https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/marketing/enterprise?hubs_content=www.hubspot.com%2F&hubs_content-cta=nav-pricing&term=annual">tiered pricing plans</a> for their different products, which include marketing, sales, service, content, operations, and commerce. All of them start at $15/month per seat and can go up to $3,600/month, depending on what you need. They also have many free tools, so you can get a taste of the platform before you commit to subscribing.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>5. Hyperise</strong></h3>



<img width="660" height="407" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/hyperise-homepage.png?w=660" alt="Hyperise homepage" class="wp-image-2261" />



<p><a href="https://hyperise.com/">Hyperise</a> is a personalization platform that allows businesses to dynamically personalize images and content across various digital touchpoints.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Dynamic image personalization: </strong>Customizes images based on user data. A real estate site could show property images with the visitor&#8217;s name on the &#8220;For Sale&#8221; sign.</li>



<li><strong>Personalized text overlays: </strong>Adds personalized text to images or videos. An online course platform could add the user&#8217;s name to certificate images in promotional materials.</li>



<li><strong>CRM integration:</strong> Pulls data from CRM systems to personalize content. This allows for using detailed customer information, like past purchases or support interactions, in personalizing the web experience.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can use Hyperise to create personalized landing pages for different audience segments, enhancing relevance and engagement.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> <a href="https://www.g2.com/">G2</a>, <a href="http://placer.ai">Placer.ai</a>, <a href="https://www.salesloft.com/">SalesLoft</a>, and <a href="https://orca.security/">Orca Security</a>.&nbsp;</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> Hyperise offers various pricing plans, depending on what you want included. Their <em>Images </em>plan costs $69/month per seat and lets you create personalized images for your outreach. The other two tiers include adding a website and videos.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>6. Marketing Cloud Personalization by Salesforce</strong></h3>



<img width="660" height="360" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/salesforce-homepage.png?w=660" alt="Salesforce marketing personalization homepage" class="wp-image-2262" />



<p><a href="https://www.salesforce.com/eu/">Salesforce</a>, formerly known as Evergage, is a comprehensive customer data platform that now also includes a personalization engine as part of its marketing tools. Businesses can use their tools to create individualized experiences across multiple channels, including web, mobile, and email.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Real-time segmentation:</strong> Groups users based on their current behavior and historical data. An airline website could segment users based on their typical flight patterns and current browsing behavior.</li>



<li><strong>Dynamic content personalization:</strong> Adapts content in real-time based on user segments and behavior. A media streaming service could adjust its homepage layout based on the user&#8217;s viewing history and current trends.</li>



<li><strong>Journey orchestration</strong>: Creates and manages personalized customer journeys across multiple touchpoints. A bank could create different communication sequences for customers based on their life events, like buying a house or starting a business.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can use Salesforce for personalized product recommendations and content tailored to individual shopping behaviors.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> <a href="https://www.generalmills.com/">General Mills</a>, <a href="https://www.formula1.com/">Formula 1</a>, <a href="https://www.accenture.com/us-en">Accenture</a>, among others.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> This service comes in <a href="https://www.salesforce.com/marketing/pricing/">three tiers</a>: Marketing Cloud Engagement, Marketing Cloud Account Engagement, and Marketing Cloud Growth Edition. The first two tiers go for $1,250/month, while the third is $1,500/month per organization.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>7. Yieldify</strong></h3>



<img width="660" height="385" src="https://blog.gravatar.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/yieldify-homepage.png?w=660" alt="Yieldify homepage" class="wp-image-2263" />



<p><a href="https://www.yieldify.com/">Yieldify</a> is a platform designed to optimize customer journeys through personalized experiences and conversion rate optimization, focusing on e-commerce businesses.</p>



<p><strong>Best features:</strong></p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><strong>Personalized overlays and pop-ups: </strong>Creates targeted messages that appear based on user behavior. An e-commerce site could show a discount pop-up to users who are about to leave the site without purchasing.</li>



<li><strong>Behavioral targeting: </strong>Tailors experiences based on user actions and characteristics. A fashion retailer could show different promotional banners to users based on the categories they&#8217;ve been browsing.</li>



<li><strong>Data-driven insights:</strong> Provides analytics to help understand user behavior and optimize personalization strategies. This could help identify which personalization tactics are most effective for different user segments.</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Use cases:</strong> Businesses can use Yieldify to reduce cart abandonment through exit-intent pop-ups and promote special offers based on user behavior.</p>



<p><strong>Used by:</strong> <a href="https://www.lacoste.com/">Lacoste</a>, <a href="https://www.kiehls.com/">Kiehls</a>, <a href="https://int.clarins.com/">Clarins</a>, <a href="https://www.thenorthface.com/">The North Face</a>, among others.</p>



<p><strong>Price:</strong> Yieldify offers customized pricing based on specific needs. <a href="https://www.yieldify.com/get-started/">Contact them directly</a> to get started and obtain pricing information.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Selecting the ideal personalization tools for your website</strong></h2>



<p>Choosing the right personalization tools for your website is crucial for maximizing engagement and conversion rates. Here&#8217;s how to approach this important decision:</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 1: Understand your needs</strong></h3>



<p>Before selecting a tool, identify your specific goals and challenges. Are you looking to improve user engagement, increase conversion rates, or streamline user profile management? Assess your current marketing stack and identify integration needs to ensure quick and easy implementation.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 2: Evaluate key features</strong></h3>



<p>Create a list of essential features you need in a personalization tool. Consider factors such as:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Ease of use and integration</li>



<li>A/B testing capabilities</li>



<li>Real-time analytics</li>



<li>User-friendly interfaces to reduce the learning curve for your team</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Don&#8217;t overlook the importance of data privacy and security.</strong> Tools like Gravatar emphasize user control over personal information, allowing users to edit their public profiles and share only what they&#8217;re comfortable with. Ensure the tool complies with regulations such as <a href="https://gdpr-info.eu/">GDPR</a> and <a href="https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa">CCPA</a> for legal data handling practices.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 3: Analyze cost and ROI</strong></h3>



<p>Consider both short-term costs and long-term value when evaluating tools. Low-cost and free tools like Gravatar offer high value and low risk, making them excellent starting points for personalization efforts.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 4: Success stories</strong></h3>



<p>Look at real-world examples of companies successfully using personalization tools to drive growth. For instance, a great example of successful personalization is the plant-based cosmetics brand <a href="https://int.clarins.com/">Clarins</a> which <a href="https://www.yieldify.com/success-stories/clarins/">increased conversions by 20% using Yieldify</a>. Some of the strategies they implemented include:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Adding virtual consultations to help users find the best products.&nbsp;</li>



<li>Guiding users to book a complimentary phone consultation with a specialist on category pages.&nbsp;</li>



<li>Re-engaging shoppers who try to change tabs with special overlays that include basket reminders and introducing Clarins’ three complimentary products that they offer with each order.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>



<p>Looking at examples like this will show you the full potential of the specific platform and maybe even give you some ideas on how you can implement similar strategies in your own business.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Step 5: Make an informed decision</strong></h3>



<p>Finally, whenever you can, take advantage of demos to better understand each tool&#8217;s capabilities before making a decision. Weigh the risk versus reward, keeping in mind that tools like Gravatar offer easy integration and are free to use, making them a low-risk option to start with.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Unlock the potential of your website with personalization tools&nbsp;</strong></h2>



<p>Website personalization tools are powerful assets in enhancing customer engagement and boosting conversion rates. By tailoring user experiences, these tools provide a significant competitive advantage. In fact, <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/the-value-of-getting-personalization-right-or-wrong-is-multiplying">companies excelling at personalization generate 40% more revenue than their counterparts</a>.</p>



<p>When choosing personalization tools, consider factors like powerful features, integration capabilities, and ROI measurement.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Gravatar stands out with its unique advantage of utilizing existing user data for personalization without extensive on-site data collection. Its Profile API allows developers to create more detailed and personalized user experiences by integrating additional user information into their websites.</p>



<p>As you explore the tools we&#8217;ve discussed, consider how they align with your business needs. Remember, <a href="https://gravatar.com/developers/new-application">Gravatar is an excellent starting point</a> – it&#8217;s both highly useful and free.&nbsp;</p>



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<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast, which is dedicated to all things, WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how the Interactivity API will transform your WordPress websites.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice. Or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcasts players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today we have Damon Cook and Seth Rubenstein.</p>



<p>Damon Cook is a developer advocate with WP Engine, and previously worked as a front end developer at several WordPress focused agencies.</p>



<p>Seth Rubenstein began his WordPress journey in college, and is now the lead engineer at the Pew Research Center, where he works on interactive WordPress applications.</p>



<p>This is the last of the podcast recorded at WordCamp, us 2024, and our focus today is the interactivity API. You may not be familiar with what this is and why it matters, so Damon and Seth will break it down, and explain how it might transform your WordPress websites in the future.</p>



<p>Damon starts off by defining what an interactive website is, giving examples such as single page applications, and dynamic elements like tabs and accordions. Seth adds his perspective on how interactivity aids both the end user, and website editors. Making for a more compelling user experience and efficient content creation.</p>



<p>We get into why WordPress needed an interactivity API, even though the platform already supports libraries, like React. The interactivity API provides a standardized way to create dynamic content, which is essential for modern web expectations.</p>



<p>We also highlight real-world examples, including faceted searching and filtering, which have been successfully implemented using this API.</p>



<p>The conversation also touches on performance improvements brought by the API, emphasizing how it can offload server resources by only updating necessary content.</p>



<p>Towards the end we explore how the API is being used in Gutenberg blocks, and how it supports both developers and site builders.</p>



<p>Damon and Seth also discussed the project&#8217;s development, encouraging more contributions and feedback from the community.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re intrigued by improving your websites&#8217; interactivity and performance, this episode is for you.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to find out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Damon Cook and Seth Rubenstein.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Damon Cook and Seth Rubenstein. Hello.</p>



<p>[00:03:40] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Hey, how&#8217;s it going?</p>



<p>[00:03:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, really, really nice thank you. That&#8217;s Damon.</p>



<p>[00:03:44] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Hello, I&#8217;m Seth.</p>



<p>[00:03:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you so much. We&#8217;re at WordCamp US, it&#8217;s happening in Oregon. It is the month of September 2024, and I&#8217;m being joined by Damon and Seth so that we can talk about the Interactivity API.</p>



<p>Before we get into that, I think it&#8217;s probably important to paint a picture of both of you, what your background is with WordPress technology, et cetera. So we&#8217;ll just keep this very brief. Let&#8217;s go for Damon first. Damon, just tell us a little bit about you, your potted bio, if you like.</p>



<p>[00:04:10] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Sure, yeah. Well, I started out as a WordPress front end developer at WordPress. There&#8217;s several different WordPress focused agencies, and now I&#8217;m a developer advocate with WP Engine.</p>



<p>[00:04:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you very much. And Seth?</p>



<p>[00:04:23] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> My first time using WordPress was in college. I converted all of our websites to WordPress multi-site, as like the assistant web developer. And from there I just kept going, and that was just my career track from then on, just WordPress all the time. And now I am the lead engineer at the Pew Research Center, where we have a WordPress platform that we&#8217;ve made ourselves, and we work on a lot of interactive WordPress applications.</p>



<p>[00:04:43] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Just staying on your bios just for a moment, what does the Pew Research Center do? I&#8217;ve not heard of them before.</p>



<p>[00:04:49] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> We are a non-partisan, non advocacy social science research organisation. So we basically study the American public and where they are, what they think on certain issues. And we do a lot of public polling and things like that, and we report that back. So we&#8217;re kind of like a nonprofit news organisation.</p>



<p>[00:05:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Gosh, okay thank you. That&#8217;s really interesting.</p>



<p>Okay, let&#8217;s open it up and talk about the subject at hand today. So we&#8217;ve got both of these gentlemen here to talk about the Interactivity API. I think probably we should first deal with the topic of, what is an interactive website?</p>



<p>Probably, dear listener, if you&#8217;re listening to this, you might know this already, but I have an intuition that some people won&#8217;t. So, what are the benefits of having an interactive website? And whoever wants to answer that, pick up the mic and go for it.</p>



<p>[00:05:30] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I think the classic example is that of a single page application. So the idea of being able to navigate from page to page, or section to section even, and just have things that seem seamless, so the page isn&#8217;t refreshing, that is a pretty common scenario. But there&#8217;s also lots of other interactive pieces like tabs, accordions, all that stuff gets really helpful when you reach for the Interactivity API in creating stuff like that.</p>



<p>[00:05:59] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> I don&#8217;t have anything to add to that. I guess what I would say is, on the other side of it besides the front end user, the kind of, your visitor, I think the interactivity part of a website kind of also can help out your editors, and how they&#8217;re building content, and making more engaging content.</p>



<p>I think this will be interesting because I think, you know, Damon might have a kind of perspective of the front end user, and I&#8217;m definitely coming from a perspective of, how can I scale up my editorial team&#8217;s ability to create interactive content? And not so much like what it looks like on the front end.</p>



<p>[00:06:27] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So there&#8217;s an interesting distinction there. So, does the work that you are doing touch on both the front end and the back end? So it&#8217;s not just for the forward facing, user facing part of a WordPress website. This is things that you can do in the back end, the admin side of things too.</p>



<p>[00:06:40] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah, it&#8217;s how editors create interactive bits of content, and how those interactive bits of content might interact with each other. Because I think right now, without the Interactivity API, that kind of content is static and siloed on the page.</p>



<p>[00:06:52] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> We will link in the show notes to all of the different places, and no doubt one of the first links will be to the project itself, the Interactivity, API. But I guess I have to ask the question, why is this even a project in WordPress? Is it that WordPress historically wasn&#8217;t particularly adapted towards interactive content?</p>



<p>I mean, we know how to publish posts and pages, and once you&#8217;ve done that, that&#8217;s kind of it. You&#8217;ve done it, and there&#8217;s no interactivity there. Is this something that has been, I don&#8217;t know, more recently thought was necessary? Is this something that you think should be in Core? Let&#8217;s just take that. Has WordPress been bad at interactivity historically?</p>



<p>[00:07:28] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I don&#8217;t think that it&#8217;s been bad historically, I think that it&#8217;s more of kind of a, I guess a technology trend of leaning into libraries like React or Preact, which Interactivity is built upon. So I think it&#8217;s more of a trend, but also, yeah, a necessity in Core, because folks are trying to build these types of experiences, and we want to have a standardised way for them to be able to do that, and not have to pull in a bunch of different libraries. And although they still can, you know, there&#8217;s a standardised and backwards compatible way for them to do it. So that&#8217;s the idea.</p>



<p class="ticss-13c01dd4">[00:08:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you. Seth, anything to add?</p>



<p>[00:08:06] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah. I don&#8217;t think WordPress has done a bad job on interactivity in the past, you know, ships with jQuery, ships with React, that&#8217;s all available to you. I think the Interactivity API is kind of looking at how developers have been creating front end experience with React, and narrowing that down to be like the right tool set for blocks and for block developers specifically.</p>



<p>[00:08:26] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s about having the right tooling. Something standardised that everybody can get their teeth into, that every developer understands.</p>



<p>[00:08:32] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah, and something that fits the blocks kind of model I think, a little bit better than some of these other frameworks.</p>



<p>[00:08:38] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, that&#8217;s great. So give us some examples of good interactivity on the internet. So we could limit ourselves to WordPress, but let&#8217;s not do that. Let&#8217;s just go out there and try to pick good examples.</p>



<p>Really, I guess we could be talking about Google Docs, we could be talking about websites, we could be talking about anything. Do you want to just rattle off a few things where you&#8217;ve seen and you&#8217;ve been impressed, and thought, ah okay, there&#8217;s a good example. The only reason I&#8217;m asking this really is so that the listener can just get an idea of what interactivity means.</p>



<p>[00:09:05] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Sure. And I&#8217;m actually going to set up Seth, because I think a lot of the things that his organisation is creating are representative of what folks kind of need. So I&#8217;ll set him up for that.</p>



<p>[00:09:17] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> And I&#8217;ll say the word that he&#8217;s probably thinking of, facets. Amazon, you&#8217;re browsing Amazon, you want to narrow down the content that you&#8217;re looking at. Those facets on the left hand side, filters, aggregations, whatever you want to call them. I think this has probably been our biggest success with the Interactivity API, is developing out facet blocks.</p>



<p>And with the Interactivity API what that would let you do is just server side hydrate data before it gets back to the client. And you can browse through all this content, and do it in a performant way that you just couldn&#8217;t do before. Or you could, but it would take a lot of work on your part to build out the framework and the technology to handle all that.</p>



<p>And so now that&#8217;s just in the box in WordPress free to use. So we can probably touch on facets a little bit more later, but I think that&#8217;s probably the best use case for the Interactivity API thus far.</p>



<p>[00:10:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Let&#8217;s dig into that a little bit. So when you say facets, my head is immediately going to things like, I don&#8217;t know, the posts and pages, table layout, or something like that. And the fact that, if I want to get to post number 11, I might have to click a button, wait for a moment whilst the page refreshes, there&#8217;s obviously something going on there, page refresh, I&#8217;m contacting the server and what have you. Is the idea here that, a bit like, I don&#8217;t know, if I scroll on Google, I would be able to automatically upload more pages, more posts, that kind of thing? And then be able to, I don&#8217;t know, say filter them, show me only the ones that are authored by me, or ones with featured images, and that would all happen on the fly.</p>



<p>[00:10:35] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah. So, you know, you can filter by author, by taxonomies, category, custom taxonomies, whatever, date, et cetera. And those results just update in real time, without you having to refresh the page.</p>



<p>You can paginate through those results without having to refresh the page. That, of course, is great for the end user, but it&#8217;s also great on the backend because you&#8217;re saving server resources without having to re-render that entire page every single time. So you&#8217;re only rendering out what&#8217;s changed.</p>



<p>So in that way, great for the end user and great for you as a website operator, because the Interactivity API kind of offloads some of that performance overhead that way.</p>



<p>[00:11:07] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, okay. I have children, and they have been born in a world where the mobile phone is completely ubiquitous. And the idea of anything refreshing to them just seems like an anathema, just a pointless thing. You know, you want to open an app, and from that moment just everything happens. You scroll, there&#8217;s more to see, you press back, it just immediately loads and what have you.</p>



<p>Is that kind of where we&#8217;re going with the internet? And what I mean by that is, sites where you&#8217;ve got to click a button to see another further piece of content, or for your shopping cart to be updated, or whatever it may be, that just seems like the 1990s almost.</p>



<p>Is it a bit of that? Is it just we&#8217;re kind of keeping up with the times? And the expectation from the next generation of users is going to be, well, if it isn&#8217;t interactive, I&#8217;m not sticking around. So if I&#8217;ve got a, I don&#8217;t know, a WooCommerce store or something like that, it&#8217;s going to be painful for a user to have to refresh, click a button to go to a cart, wait for it to load and all that. It&#8217;s just, like I said, the 1990s.</p>



<p>[00:12:05] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Yeah, I think a lot of it does touch on that and, yeah, just reaching out to that kind of experience. But, yeah, I think Seth touched on this, but the performance impact is pretty great about the Interactivity API because you&#8217;re only updating the sections, or components on the page that are really relevant to what the user is doing. So that has a performance impact. It makes things feel seamless, faster, and I think that&#8217;s a lot of probably what we&#8217;re all looking for at the end of the day.</p>



<p>[00:12:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It feels like something more native to the device that you are on. So it feels like a Mac app, or a Windows app, or an Android, or an iPhone app. Does that kind of make sense? It just feels like we&#8217;re in the modern world, not in the old world where any kind of refresh just seems bizarre, frankly. Anything to add, Seth?</p>



<p>[00:12:46] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> You know, I think the coolest part about this is it basically lets you take a PHP application and turn it into a single page JavaScript app. I mean, that&#8217;s really what the Interactivity API as a whole is doing. And I think that&#8217;s what developers are looking for these days. Look at, you know, Next.js, and frameworks like that that are really grown and are really popular. And I think that this kind of API just is an answer to those for WordPress developers.</p>



<p>[00:13:06] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So if I were a developer and I was, I don&#8217;t know, creating plugins, themes, blocks, whatever it may be, where do I go and find out about this? How do I get my teeth into the project? So you might want to drop a URL at this point, wherever you want to point us.</p>



<p>[00:13:20] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Sure. Well, I can tell you how I find it because I Google it. I Google it myself. Interactivity API Handbook, I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll find it, and developer.wordpress.org. The documentation is very thorough, and up to date, and complete. And I think that&#8217;s what&#8217;s excites me about this API because it&#8217;s a very discreet project that kind of got pulled together and, yeah, the documentation is really up to date and great, so that&#8217;s where I&#8217;d go.</p>



<p>[00:13:47] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, I will link to that in the show notes. And probably a good idea, dear listener, to pause at this point, go and check that out and then come back and hit play.</p>



<p>So from the developer sort of point of view, how baked is it? How complete is it? Is there a lot that you have achieved already? Is there a big roadmap for things that you want to achieve?</p>



<p>I know that&#8217;s going to be difficult to encapsulate in a few sentences, but just tell us the state of the project now for developers listening to this, they might have some intuitions as, okay, that sounds like something I could use right now, as opposed to the roadmap features that are still going to come.</p>



<p>[00:14:17] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Sure. No, it is quite complete and ready to use, and the documentation can even step you through how to integrate it into an existing block. You can even spin up a new block with the Interactivity API already baked in.</p>



<p>Some of the future roadmap areas is, I know that we&#8217;re still working on like client side navigation, and then pulling in kind of different modules. Like I know one experiment that&#8217;s being explored is, there&#8217;s a package for accessibility. So just the general idea of speaking, screen reader, passing along. So these APIs have been in WordPress for a while, like some of the accessibility packages. So there&#8217;s explorations in kind of porting that over, and pulling it in, because the Interactivity APIs uses JavaScript modules for a lot of this. So it&#8217;s kind of re jigging, I guess, some of the code and pulling in some of these packages so that developers can use kind of those old, not old, but accessibility features, and have all that compatibility baked in.</p>



<p>So that&#8217;s some of the areas that are still getting integrated, and I&#8217;m excited for them. And I think that&#8217;s on the roadmap right now, and there&#8217;s folks contributing towards it.</p>



<p>[00:15:24] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> The modules area is probably, I think probably the area that it needs the most work, and hopefully the most amount of work is going into. I would say that&#8217;s probably one of the roughest parts of the Interactivity API right now is, if you need to use an external script, or kind of library, or framework, it&#8217;s a little difficult to get that in. So I think that&#8217;s probably where the most amount of work&#8217;s going to be going.</p>



<p>And I think there&#8217;s some work going on WordPress URL, bringing that in as well. And there&#8217;s a few more directives too, to the API, that are being added like wp-show which should be interesting, that should let you dynamically hydrate elements on the page in a different way. I won&#8217;t go to like all the technical details on that, but there are some additional features that are coming to the Interactivity API, beyond just the module stuff. So there are, in the Interactivity API parlance, there are new directives coming soon.</p>



<p>[00:16:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think for anybody who is a developer, you&#8217;re going to be fine looking at the documentation. But if I say any acronym on this podcast, I always get some pushback from people who are not developers, WordPress end users. So let&#8217;s address that.</p>



<p>Is there going to be functionality within the Interactivity API, although it&#8217;s there, and it is part of the Interactivity API, will be available to just builders of websites? People who have their own blog, or their own property, they&#8217;re not interested in WordPress from a technical point of view. Is there anything that they can do with it so that they can have this sort of dynamic content? Or is it mainly going to be through the work that developers do, through plugins, and blocks, and what have you?</p>



<p>[00:16:44] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Right now. It&#8217;s live, already on your site if you&#8217;re running kind of the latest version of WordPress. The light box in the image block is using the Interactivity API. So site builders are already gaining that Core query, already has interactivity built in. So does the pagination block. So your publication pages can already be kind of a single page JavaScript app. So Core is adding that stuff in and, yeah, obviously plugin developers will also hopefully add interactivity to their plugins, but it&#8217;s already there for site builders.</p>



<p>[00:17:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It feels like we&#8217;ve gone down the road in WordPress where everybody&#8217;s done their own thing with interactivity. The page builders have done, well, not just the page builders as one block, but each page builder has done a different thing. You&#8217;ve got these multitude of plugins that do the sort of facet searching and all of that kind of thing.</p>



<p>The idea that there&#8217;s just going to be this one thing, I suppose in a sense you kind of want the Interactivity API to not really be that well known about. The idea is for it to sort of fade into the background and nobody even realise that there&#8217;s a thing. Is that sort of doing down the project a little bit, or is that kind of the point? If nobody knows it exists, but it works, that&#8217;s kind of the ideal.</p>



<p>[00:17:45] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Yeah, I mean these APIs are in the background, yeah, for developers to explore, and use, and pull in, and integrate. But yeah, at the end of the day, the end user shouldn&#8217;t know about it, have to know about any of this, and just, have a great experience. So yeah, I think that&#8217;s the idea.</p>



<p>[00:18:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Where do you learn what you should be working on? So the team of volunteers and seconded people that are working on the Interactivity API, who are you listening to? Where do you get your feedback from? And I know in the open source world, it&#8217;s hard to get that feedback. And you might be just listening to a dozen voices, interested people, or there may be, I don&#8217;t know, hundreds of people talking to you. But to drive it forward, who are you listening to? Where do you get your intuitions as to what should be on the roadmap?</p>



<p>[00:18:25] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> There is a Make Slack Group, it&#8217;s Interactivity API I believe, or Core Interactivity API room. But there&#8217;s some great contributors in there, and I&#8217;m probably going to mess up all their names but there&#8217;s Jon Surrell, I believe, and Greg Ziółkowski. I apologise Greg, I tried. But they are very active contributors and I probably feel like the least contributor. But, yeah, they&#8217;ve been doing a great job.</p>



<p>I think what it comes down to historically, the Frontity team, I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;re familiar with that project, but back in the day they kind of got integrated. All these smart folks into Automattic as full-time contributors, and a lot of them have been driving this project daily and contributing towards it, and they&#8217;ve been doing an amazing job. Some other folks, I think from Google, also contribute a lot towards Interactivity API. So that&#8217;s what I follow, they&#8217;re all in that room a lot and very active.</p>



<p>[00:19:20] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> That&#8217;s almost everybody. I don&#8217;t know if you mentioned Luis, he&#8217;s kind of my main point of contact. I ping him with questions, or ideas or, hey, we&#8217;re going to try to do this, does this sound crazy to do with the Interactivity API? And he&#8217;s pretty receptive.</p>



<p>[00:19:32] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Would it be fair to say that you could do with some more helpers though? I think in the open source world we could always use some more people flocking around any particular given project. Is that something that you&#8217;d be interested in? I don&#8217;t know, one of the intentions of a podcast like this is to make things like that happen but, yeah, is that a thing?</p>



<p>[00:19:47] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> I would like to see a lot more people using an API. You know, we&#8217;re trying to push the limits of the API, and I think it&#8217;s important that we all kind of try to push the limits and see where it needs additional work, or where we might need extra functionality. So I&#8217;d love to see a lot more people using it because I just don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s gotten kind of the critical mass yet.</p>



<p>[00:20:04] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Can you give us some nice examples that I could link to in the show notes of situations where you&#8217;ve seen, specifically the Interactivity API. We mentioned earlier about, you know, general websites and what have you.</p>



<p>Are there any good examples where you&#8217;ve seen somebody using it, so that if there is a developer looking at this, they can go, oh okay, that&#8217;s the kind of thing we&#8217;re talking about.</p>



<p>[00:20:21] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I certainly can share some links. I have some repos on GitHub where I&#8217;ve built custom blocks and I&#8217;ve done, I believe there&#8217;s a YouTube, at least a recording of a presentation where I&#8217;ve gone step through building, some of these custom blocks and they&#8217;re all in my repo.</p>



<p>I was going to hand it off to Seth, I guess again, because I know one block that stood out to me that him and his team have created is like a, well, I think you have a poll, but also like a table filtering. I mean, I think those are pretty common experiences that we see on sites, and they&#8217;ve done a great job in creating that seamless experience of filtering.</p>



<p>[00:20:56] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> I can just gush for a moment. If you want a good example, www.pewresearch.org, almost everything that you&#8217;re going to see there is using the Interactivity API. Mega Menus, MailChimp newsletter signups, facets, pagination, table of contents. That updates as you scroll through the page, because the chapter blocks report using the Interactivity API to the table of contents block, which is separate, their position. Data tables, charts, quizzes, you name it, pretty much everything that we have on our website is using the Interactivity API at this point.</p>



<p>There&#8217;s a few plugins that we still have to convert, it&#8217;s actually only two. But almost everything that you see there is using the API, and almost all that code is available for free open source on github.com/pewresearch.</p>



<p>[00:21:39] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Did you do that yourself because you are knee deep in the weeds of this, and so you could understand easily how to do that? Or would it be true to say that the developer documents that you&#8217;ve just mentioned would steer any, air quotes, competent developer to be able to achieve that? Or is it just that you know, you&#8217;ve got the Interactivity API, you also work for this organisation, so the two met.</p>



<p>[00:21:58] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> I think it&#8217;s because we wanted to provide learning resources, we wanted to provide a use case of, here&#8217;s what is possible. Obviously I&#8217;m talking about a lot of blocks that are interactive, but one of the things that I could really go into is our concept around the Interactivity API.</p>



<p>I think a lot of examples that people can point to, it&#8217;s a very specific use case. This block is a collapsible block, you click on it and it expands. We&#8217;ve taken a different approach, something that we call Atomic Interactive Blocks. And so we&#8217;ll make a block and it will have some interactivity instructions and functionality, but the point of that is to be dropped into another block, which has its own interactivity, and instructions, and functionality, and so on and so forth.</p>



<p>And so what we&#8217;ve really done is made a library of interactive blocks that kind of act like React components, and that you can drop them in other use cases and style them however you want, but what they do is defined maybe higher up.</p>



<p>Yeah, so I think to me that&#8217;s really the power of the Interactivity API, because what that allows us to do is, as developers, is just maintain a small library of blocks that are programmed to do a lot of things, and interact with a lot of other blocks, but then hand off styling, and content, and all that stuff to designers and other people.</p>



<p>For me, that&#8217;s been the coolest part about the Interactivity API, is this abstraction out of a block of what it does. We can go into it more, but the interactive stores can communicate with one another, and so you can have block A do a very specific thing, you click on it and it opens. And maybe you put that inside of block B, and block B is aware, well, when block A is set to be open, when its state is set to be open, I need to do this. And so, you know, you can imagine, you can make a button block, and use that in infinite applications.</p>



<p>The way that we approach it though, that block can dynamically target an interactive store rather than statically being set to just do this one thing in this one interactive store. So all of those GitHub repos will provide examples of how that kind of system works, and how you might approach the same thing for your organisation or website.</p>



<p>[00:23:48] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I think what Seth touched upon is interesting because I think it says a lot kind of to how the API has been built to abstract some of these ideas, and just shared state between components. So like you touched on, a button can be shared, and so many are used in so many contexts, but to be able to abstract that and share state, and the interactivity between these components is, it shows a lot of, the API has been built smartly so that it can be explored and experimented with, which is neat.</p>



<p>[00:24:19] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think one thing about this topic is that it is possible, probably, to go a bit overboard with being interactive. I&#8217;ve got the API, I know how to use it now, I&#8217;m going to make everything interactive. And I guess there&#8217;s a point where you&#8217;ve got to tell yourself, slow down, not everything needs to be interactive. So let&#8217;s just go into that. Are there any uses which you would say, yeah, you could do that interactively but we probably shouldn&#8217;t? Are there any times where you think, let&#8217;s put the brakes on?</p>



<p>[00:24:45] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I mean, I think any developer will kind of realise when they&#8217;ve maybe over-engineered something. There&#8217;s always going too far and making everything, yeah. You&#8217;ll know I think if you&#8217;re trying to make everything interactive, every paragraph or, you know, it&#8217;s just kind of pointless. But the exciting part is that you can experiment and explore, interact with these APIs and see what you can do. And find the edges of what you can do, and what you should do, or shouldn&#8217;t do, that&#8217;s the fun part.</p>



<p>[00:25:10] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah, I will say that, is it possible that you can do too much? For sure. Technically speaking though, is it possible that you can do too much? I don&#8217;t think so. Like I said, we have a lot of interactivity blocks on a page, and the performance has been great. So I don&#8217;t think there should be a concern of like, oh, I&#8217;m overdoing it with using the Interactivity API in terms of performance. I think the more things you make with the Interactivity API, the better performance you&#8217;re going to get.</p>



<p>[00:25:33] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Let&#8217;s just speak to the performance side of things because you mentioned technically how it&#8217;s achieved a little bit, but could we just develop that a little bit? And you&#8217;ve definitely said performance isn&#8217;t affected, or performance is really great a number of times. What does that actually mean? So if I&#8217;m using this, is it a more performant website because it&#8217;s, I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s loading content asynchronously or what have you?</p>



<p>Has there been any situations where you&#8217;ve had to, I don&#8217;t know, refactor things because the performance took a dip. Performance at the moment is everybody&#8217;s big worry, isn&#8217;t it? Because, you know, Google takes those metrics and ranks you accordingly. So we kind of want to know that if we make this thing interactive, it&#8217;s not going to suddenly impact our score. And I know that Google does take note of these kind of things.</p>



<p>[00:26:11] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> Yeah, I think on the performance bit, I mean, to get a little technical, what makes it so performant is kind of that idea of server side hydration, right? You click on something and that element changes, and that can happen client side, but if it needs a new data, that in the past has meant refreshing the page or doing something really kind of complex and technical.</p>



<p>Now when the data changes and when that element needs to change, that one element re renders on the server, and then it&#8217;s returned back to the client, not the whole page. So that right there is an immediate performance savings because you&#8217;re not having to render a whole page out again, just to get this one little bit of changed information on a page.</p>



<p>[00:26:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Let&#8217;s get into probably the final thing for today, and that is the accessibility perspective of things. It&#8217;s become the watch word I think of 2023, 2024, and probably it&#8217;ll carry on, rightly so.</p>



<p>Has there been any accessibility concerns? Because obviously if you&#8217;re updating content live on the page, is there anything that we need to be concerned about if we&#8217;re developing with the Interactivity API in terms of the accessibility, I don&#8217;t know, screen readers or other assistive technologies.</p>



<p>[00:27:12] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> Sure, yeah. I think it&#8217;s always a challenge in building your components, and making sure they&#8217;re interactive. So I think that it&#8217;s really kind of just abstracting things, trying to figure out what your HTML is, what your CSS is, and then layering on the Interactivity API. I know that some of the extensions of pulling in like strings of information that are being updated on the page, like some of the older packages, like the accessibility, or a11y, for the acronym. Some of these packages that have been in Core for a while, they&#8217;re being ported over into the Interactivity API.</p>



<p>That&#8217;s something that&#8217;s kind of on the roadmap and being explored right now, so that we can have some of these screen reader updates for components, and on the page be integrated with the Interactivity API. So that&#8217;s, yeah, definitely something that&#8217;s being explored.</p>



<p>But also, yeah, a lot of it is more of just the approach because just the markup and the CSS alone, having the knowledge of how to make that accessible is always a practice, an art form, and something that is always, can be improved.</p>



<p>[00:28:17] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Okay, thank you. Anything, Seth?</p>



<p>[00:28:19] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> I think that there&#8217;s actually probably better accessibility that you&#8217;re going to get out of the Interactivity API. You know, I know that screen readers and assistive technologies have come a long way, but if a lot of your website relied on React, and other JavaScript frameworks that render after the page has been rendered, that could pose a problem for accessibility technologies. Here, all that stuff is pre-hydrated and pre-rendered before the page even loads. So your markup&#8217;s ready to go as soon as the page loads, which is actually great.</p>



<p>[00:28:46] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I think probably time has caught up with us. But before we go, we did mention the URLs and where you can find the project. Let&#8217;s just, firstly, go through where we can find you individually. So that might be an email, a Twitter handle, or whatever it might be. So let&#8217;s go to Damon first. Where can people find you if they&#8217;re interested in catching up?</p>



<p>[00:29:03] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> I think probably the easiest is X, I still call it Twitter. I am dcook. I&#8217;m always open. Yeah, reach out. I think 99% of my Twitter timeline is sharing WordPress ideas, outreach links. So yeah, you&#8217;ll find me for any WordPress stuff there.</p>



<p>[00:29:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you so much. And, Seth?</p>



<p>[00:29:22] <strong>Seth Rubenstein:</strong> You can also find me on Twitter, which I refuse to call X. Twitter.com/sethrubenstein. And I also share a bunch of Interactivity API and WordPress stuff.</p>



<p>[00:29:29] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you. So this is the bit where I ask, is there anything that we missed? Is there something that you desperately wanted to get across that I failed to ask?</p>



<p>[00:29:36] <strong>Damon Cook:</strong> To go back just a little bit, he was touching on performance. So one thing actually I wanted to speak to was the idea of the Interactivity API is a standard means for developers to pull in these kind of libraries and do interactivity experiences. And so using this API, you&#8217;re relying on, you know, a simple small bit of source code that is going to be integrated on every page. So that performance impact of not having to pull in an entire library, so it makes it a smaller source code that&#8217;s being pulled in, so that has a huge performance impact as well.</p>
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<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/damon-cook/">Damon Cook</a> and <a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/seth-rubenstein/">Seth Rubenstein</a>.</p>



<p>This is the last of the podcasts recorded at WordCamp US 2024, and our focus today is the Interactivity API. You may not be familiar with what this is and why it matters, so Damon and Seth will break it down, and explain how it might transform your WordPress websites in the future.</p>



<p>Damon starts off by defining what an interactive website is, giving examples such as single-page applications and dynamic elements like tabs and accordions. Seth adds his perspective on how interactivity aids both the end-user and website editors, making for a more compelling user experience and efficient content creation.</p>



<p>We get into why WordPress needed an Interactivity API, even though the platform already supports libraries like React. The Interactivity API provides a standardised way to create dynamic content, which is essential for modern web expectations.</p>



<p>We also highlight real-world examples, including faceted searching and filtering, which have been successfully implemented using this API. The conversation also touches on performance improvements brought by the API, emphasising how it can offload server resources by only updating necessary content.</p>



<p>Towards the end, we explore how the API is already being used in Gutenberg blocks and how it supports both developers and site builders. Damon and Seth also discuss the project&#8217;s development, encouraging more contributions and feedback from the community.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re intrigued by improving your WordPress site’s interactivity and performance, this episode is for you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Useful links</h2>



<p><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org">Pew Research Center</a></p>



<p><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/interactivity-api/">Interactivity API Handbook</a></p>



<p><a href="https://developer.wordpress.org">WordPress Developer Resources</a></p>



<p><a href="https://frontity.org">Frontity</a></p>



<p><a href="https://github.com/pewresearch">Pew Research Center on GitHub</a></p>



<p><a href="https://x.com/dcook/">Damon&#8217;s X</a></p>



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<p>The scholarship honors <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2019/11/people-of-wordpress-kim-parsell/">Kim Parsell</a>, a cherished member of the WordPress community and regarded as one of the first “women of WordPress”. Known fondly as #wpmom, Kim was a dedicated volunteer who devoted countless hours to the WordPress project and was a strong advocate for women entering the tech industry.</p>



<p>In 2014, Kim received a travel stipend from the WordPress Foundation, allowing her to attend the WordPress Community Summit held alongside WordCamp San Francisco—a transformative experience she cherished.The WordPress Foundation now offers this scholarship in her memory.</p>



<p>The<a href="https://wordpressfoundation.org/news/2024/kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship-expands-to-wordcamp-asia-and-wordcamp-europe/"> announcement post</a> states: “ This expansion honors Kim’s legacy and her dedication to inclusivity and diversity within the WordPress community, making it possible for more community members to attend these inspiring events.”</p>



<p>To qualify, applicants must:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Identify as a woman</li>



<li>Actively contribute to the WordPress project</li>



<li>Have never attended WordCamp Asia or WordCamp Europe before</li>



<li>Require financial assistance to attend WordCamp Asia or WordCamp Europe 2025</li>
</ul>



<p><strong>Applications are open until November 30, 2024, for both <a href="https://wordcampcentral.survey.fm/wcasia-2025-kim-parsell-scholarship-application">WordCamp Asia</a> and <a href="https://wordcampcentral.survey.fm/wceu-2025-kim-parsell-scholarship-application">WordCamp Europe</a>, with notifications sent by December 21, 2024. </strong> Applications for WordCamp US will open in the coming months. The scholarship covers travel to the host city, hotel accommodation for the event duration, and a WordCamp ticket. It does not include airport transfers, meals, or other incidental expenses.</p>



<p>The scholarship’s inaugural recipient in 2015 was <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/anyssa/">Anyssa Ferreira</a>, a Brazilian designer, feminist, and WordPress community activist. Last year, it was awarded to <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cnormandigital/">Cynthia Norman</a>, a WordPress developer and Web designer, with a background in training and education.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 06 Nov 2024 04:48:30 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:29;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:53:"WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.7 Release Candidate 3";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:35:"https://wordpress.org/news/?p=18056";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:69:"https://wordpress.org/news/2024/11/wordpress-6-7-release-candidate-3/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8986:"<p>The third release candidate (RC3) for WordPress 6.7 is ready for download and testing!</p>



<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>.<strong> Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites.</strong> Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC3 on a test server and site.</p>



<p>Reaching this phase of the release cycle is an important milestone. While release candidates are considered ready for release, testing remains crucial to ensure that everything in WordPress 6.7 is the best it can be.</p>



<p>You can test WordPress 6.7 RC3 in four ways:</p>



<table><tbody><tr><th>Plugin</th><td>Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin on a WordPress install. (Select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</td></tr><tr><th>Direct Download</th><td>Download the <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.7-RC3.zip">RC3 version (zip)</a> and install it on a WordPress website.</td></tr><tr><th>Command Line</th><td>Use the following <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/cli/">WP-CLI</a> command:<br /><code>wp core update --version=6.7-RC3</code></td></tr><tr><th>WordPress Playground</th><td>Use the <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/#%7B%20%22preferredVersions%22:%20%7B%20%22php%22:%20%228.0%22,%20%22wp%22:%20%22beta%22%20%7D,%20%22features%22:%20%7B%20%22networking%22:%20true%20%7D,%20%22steps%22:%20%5B%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22login%22,%20%22username%22:%20%22admin%22,%20%22password%22:%20%22password%22%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22importFile%22,%20%22file%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22url%22,%20%22url%22:%20%22https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wpaccessibility/a11y-theme-unit-test/master/a11y-theme-unit-test-data.xml%22%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22importFile%22,%20%22file%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22url%22,%20%22url%22:%20%22https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WordPress/theme-test-data/master/themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml%22%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22query-monitor%22%20%7D,%20%22options%22:%20%7B%20%22activate%22:%20false%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22create-block-theme%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22debug-bar%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22health-check%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22test-reports%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22user-switching%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D%20%5D%20%7D">6.7 RC3 WordPress Playground instance</a> (available within 35 minutes after the release is ready) to test the software directly in your browser without the need for a separate site or setup.</td></tr></tbody></table>You can test the RC3 version in four ways.



<p>The current target for the WordPress 6.7 release is <strong>November 12, 2024</strong>. Get an overview of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-7/">6.7 release cycle</a>, and check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/6-7/">6.7-related posts</a> in the coming weeks for further details.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What&#8217;s in WordPress 6.7 RC3?</h2>



<p>Get a recap of WordPress 6.7’s highlighted features in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wordpress-6-7-beta-1/">Beta 1 announcement</a>. For more technical information related to issues addressed since RC2, you can browse the following links:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commits/wp/6.7?since=2024-10-29&until=2024-11-05">GitHub commits for 6.7</a> since October 29</li>



<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&changetime=10%2F29%2F2024..11%2F05%2F2024&milestone=6.7&col=id&col=summary&col=milestone&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&order=id">Closed Trac tickets</a> since October 29</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How you can contribute</h2>



<p>WordPress is open source software made possible by a passionate community of people collaborating on and contributing to its development. The resources below outline various ways you can help the world’s most popular open source web platform, regardless of your technical expertise.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Get involved in testing</h3>



<p>Testing for issues is critical to ensuring WordPress is performant and stable. It’s also a meaningful way for anyone to contribute. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/10/01/help-test-wordpress-6-7/">This detailed guide</a> will walk you through testing features in WordPress 6.7. For those new to testing, follow <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/02/15/help-test-wordpress-6-5-beta-1">this general testing guide</a> for more details on getting set up.</p>



<p>If you encounter an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> of the support forums or directly to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">WordPress Trac</a> if you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report. You can also check your issue against a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



<p>Curious about testing releases in general? Follow along with the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">testing initiatives in Make Core</a> and join the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/">#core-test channel</a> on <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/">Making WordPress Slack</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Search for vulnerabilities</h3>



<p>From now until the final release of WordPress 6.7 (scheduled for November 12, 2024), the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/security/2024/02/12/welcoming-2024-with-wordpress-6-5-beta-1/">monetary reward for reporting new, unreleased security vulnerabilities</a> is doubled. Please follow responsible disclosure practices as detailed in the project’s security practices and policies outlined on the <a href="https://hackerone.com/wordpress">HackerOne page</a> and in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/security/">security white paper</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Update your theme or plugin</h3>



<p>For plugin and theme authors, your products play an integral role in extending the functionality and value of WordPress for all users.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Thanks for continuing to test your themes and plugins with the WordPress 6.7 beta releases. With RC3, you’ll want to conclude your testing and update the <em>“Tested up to”</em> version in your <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-works/">plugin’s readme file</a> to 6.7.</p>



<p>If you find compatibility issues, please post detailed information to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">support forum</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Help translate WordPress</h3>



<p>Do you speak a language other than English? <span lang="es">¿Español?</span> <span lang="fr">Français?</span> <span lang="ru">Русский?</span> <span lang="ja">日本?</span> <span lang="hi">हिन्दी?</span> <span lang="bn">বাংলা?</span> You can <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/">help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Release the haiku</h2>



<p><em>RC3 arrives,<br />Final polish, last bugs fall,<br />Six point seven calls.</em></p>



<p><em>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post:</em> <em><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/peterwilsoncc/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>peterwilsoncc</a>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/joedolson/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>joedolson</a></em>, <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/sabernhardt/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>sabernhardt</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 05 Nov 2024 17:02:15 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"David Baumwald";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:31;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:84:"Do The Woo Community: Do the Woo WooSesh Recap, Day 2, with Robbie, Marcus and Brian";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=86634";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:80:"https://dothewoo.io/do-the-woo-woosesh-recap-day-2-with-robbie-marcus-and-brian/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:228:"The episode covers insights from WooSesh on motion design, e-commerce localization, accessibility, payment security, customer success, and lifetime licenses in plugin development, emphasizing enhancing user experience and trust.";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:20:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5:"BobWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:32;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:100:"WordPress Foundation: Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Expands to WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe!";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:42:"https://wordpressfoundation.org/?p=1194089";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:120:"https://wordpressfoundation.org/news/2024/kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship-expands-to-wordcamp-asia-and-wordcamp-europe/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:2835:"<p>We are thrilled to announce that following the latest WordPress Foundation Board meeting, the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship will now be available for WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe, in addition to WordCamp US. This expansion honors Kim’s legacy and her dedication to inclusivity and diversity within the WordPress community, making it possible for more community members to attend these inspiring events.</p>



<p>The scholarship is designed to support those who are passionate about contributing to WordPress, especially individuals who might otherwise face financial barriers to attending. By extending the scholarship to WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe, we aim to further empower community members around the globe to engage with and grow the WordPress community.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Scholarship Requirements and Application</strong></h3>



<p>The requirements for applying and the application forms for WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe are available below.</p>



<p><strong>Eligibility Information</strong></p>



<p>There is one scholarship position available to each flagship event (WordCamp Asia, Europe and WordCamp US). To be considered, applicants must meet the following criteria:&nbsp;</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Is a woman</li>



<li>Is an active contributor to the WordPress project</li>



<li>Has never attended WordCamp Asia/Europe before</li>



<li>Requires financial assistance to attend WordCamp Asia/Europe 2025</li>
</ul>



<p>If you meet the above requirements and would like to be considered, please apply as soon as possible. Applications will be accepted until the closing date of 30 November 2024 for both WordCamp Asia and WordCamp Europe.&nbsp;</p>



<p>All applicants will receive notification by December 21, 2024.</p>



<p>For more information, please visit the WordPress Foundation’s page <a href="https://wordpressfoundation.org/projects/kim-parsell-memorial-scholarship/">about the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship</a>.</p>



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<p>Stay tuned, as applications for the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for WordCamp US will open in the coming months!</p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://wceurope.survey.fm/wceu-2026-call-for-host-city">Applications</a> are open until Friday, 15 November 2024. </strong>The final decision on the 2026 host city is expected by Friday, 29 November 2024. Applicants should consider an appropriate venue that can accommodate 1,500 seats in a main auditorium-style layout, with additional spaces for breakout tracks and workshops, as well as around 15 rooms for support functions.</p>



<p>The Host City Selection Committee is committed to fairness, providing equal assistance to all applicants. Applications will be evaluated based on survey responses, with rankings used to determine the final selection. Preference will be given to countries that have not previously hosted WordCamp Europe, as past events have taken place in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Spain, Austria, France, Serbia, Germany, Portugal, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland.</p>



<p>The team from the selected city will be invited to join the organizing team for <a href="https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/">WordCamp Europe 2025</a> in Basel, where they will gain valuable insights. The current organizing team will provide guidance on processes, offer ongoing support, and ensure a smooth handover for the 2026 event.</p>



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<p>This week, I started my <a href="https://x.com/bph/status/1851248209890296100">month-long hiatus from social media</a>. It&#8217;s a completely arbitrary timing of my bi-annual ritual.  Gutenberg Times post will be shared on LinkedIn and Mastodon, automatically posted using the built-in Jetpack feature. I&#8217;ll be back after Thanksgiving Nov 29th for a few weeks before I start my year-end vacation. You might see me posting from <a href="https://events.wordpress.org/rome/2024/coredays/">Core Days in Rome, Italy</a>, though. I am excited to meet contributors there and post one or two selfies. </p>



<p>Speaking of Rome: it will be my first time there, and I booked a tour of Vatican City at 7am to beat the crowds. I got a few chuckles of disbelieve from hubby and other family members as I am normally not an early riser&#8230; I&#8217;ll let you know how it turns out.</p>





<p>Have a splendid weekend ahead!</p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br /><em>Birgit</em></p>



<p class="has-text-align-left">PS: <strong>Voting for <a href="https://thewpweekly.com/awards/">WP Awards 2024</a></strong><a href="https://thewpweekly.com/awards/"> </a>is now open, produced by <a href="https://x.com/idavinder">Davinder Singh Kainth</a>.  Consider giving your vote to the  &#8220;Gutenberg Times&#8221; in the blog category and to &#8220;Gutenberg Changelog&#8221; in the podcast category, please. 🤗 </p>



<p>PPS: Reminder: <strong>November 5th at 17:00 UTC</strong>: <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6N098ElnYU">WordPress 6.7 Highlights and Q &amp; A with Jamie Marsland, Nick Diego and Rich Tabor</a> </strong>Live on YouTube. </p>



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<ol><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a><ol><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#collaborative-editing-inline-comments">Collaborative Editing: Inline comments</a></li></ol></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </a></li><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#this-week-in-wordpress-playground">This week in WordPress Playground </a><ol><li><a class="wp-block-table-of-contents__entry" href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/inline-comments-new-playground-blueprints-block-bindings-and-more-weekend-edition-310/#new-blueprints-in-the-gallery">New Blueprints in the Gallery</a></li></ol></li></ol>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-word-press-release-information">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>



<p><strong>Nathan Wrigley</strong> of WP Builds invited me to start a new podcast series called &#8220;At the Core&#8221; and to discuss with him what next for WordPress. The first episode arrived on people&#8217;s podcast app this week: <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2024/10/31/396-new-show-at-the-core-with-birgit-pauli-haack-episode-1/">At The Core with Birgit Pauli-Haack &#8211; Episode 1</a>. Wrigley is a master moderator and host. It was a great pleasure being on this show with him. We discussed a heap of information: about WordPress 6.7, WordPress Playground, Gutenberg experiments, and the 2025 default theme. And a lot more. Listen in.</p>



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<p><strong>Pooja Bhimani</strong>, developer and project manager at <a href="https://www.multidots.com/">Mulidots</a>, together with other core contributors released the <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/60622"><strong>first and experimental version for inline commenting</strong></a> to the block editor. Before you can explore it, you need to enable the experiment &#8220;Block comments&#8221; on the Gutenberg plugin. It will be released with Gutenberg 19.6 next week. You can already take a peak via the <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/playnightly.json">Gutenberg Nightly on Playground</a>. </p>



<p>Once enabled, you see an new menu item on the 3-dot-menu from the block toolbar, that opens a box in the sidebar to add your comment. A new icon appears in the toolbar once a comment is associated with a block. Then you can open, edit, delete or reply to the comment or &#8216;resolve&#8217; the issue. When you click on the canvas, you can view all the comments for this particular post. Using the star on top of the comment sidebar, you can pin the icon to the top of the screen for easy access. You can use comments on pages or posts or any other custom post types. Once the post is published, inline comments are disabled.</p>



<p>As an MVP (minimally viable product) it works very well, apart from a few tiny quirks. Make sure to share your findings on GitHub or in the #outreach channel. The team also provides a list of what&#8217;s next for the inline commenting in <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/66377">this GitHub tracking issue</a></p>



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<p>🎙️ Latest episode: <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/gutenberg-changelog-110-gutenberg-19-5-wordpress-6-7-create-block-theme-plugin/">Gutenberg Changelog #110 – Gutenberg 19.5, WordPress 6.7, Create Block Theme Plugin and a Thousand Block Themes at the Repository</a> with Joni Halabi </p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>



<p>On YouTube, <strong>Jamie Marsland</strong>, teaches you in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrizp4PuGDw"><strong>WordPress Layouts! A Beginner&#8217;s Guide</strong></a>, how to master content widths and page widths for stunning layouts. Discover the 4 essential widths:  Normal width,  Wide content width, Full width and Custom width via Global Styles and learn how your various container blocks adapt to the settings. </p>



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<p>At our friends over at WordPress.com, <strong>Tanya Thibodeau</strong> shared <a href="https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/10/31/5-powerful-gutenberg-blocks-for-developers-to-create-custom-layouts/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><strong>Five Powerful Gutenberg Blocks for Developers to Create Custom Layouts</strong></a> and explained how best to use the Group, Columns, Cover, Spacer and &#8211; my new favorite &#8211; the Query Loop block. Thibodeau has instructions and demos for each of them.</p>



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<p><strong>Justin Tadlock</strong> has updated the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/x3p0-breadcrumbs/"><strong>X3P0: Breadcrumbs plugin</strong></a> with the option to remove the first breadcrumb. He also added a Markup Style option for selecting between plain HTML, Microdata, and RDFa (default) markup. Developer can also find new hooks that act as extension points.</p>



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<p><strong>Rob O’Rourke</strong>, principal engineer at HumanMade, <a href="https://humanmade.com/engineering/introducing-lottie-lite-for-wordpress-animations/"><strong>introduced  Lottie Lite for WordPress animations</strong></a> It&#8217;s a lightweight alternative to the Lottie Files plugin and is  designed to offer a simpler, more efficient solution for WordPress users. O&#8217;Rourke shared in his post the genesis of the project as its key features and how they work. Check out <a href="https://github.com/humanmade/lottie-lite">Lottie Lite over on Human Made&#8217;s GitHub</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="2-word-press-6-0-1-and-6-1-scheduled">Theme Development for Full Site Editing and Blocks</h2>



<p><strong>Carolina Nymark</strong>, core contributor sponsored by Yoast, and <strong>Juanfra Aldasoro</strong> are the lead developers for this year&#8217;s WordPress default theme, Twenty-Twenty-Five. During this week&#8217;s Developer Hours they gave a behind-the-scenes insight into the making of the theme. The recording is available on WordPress TV: <strong><a href="https://wordpress.tv/2024/10/29/developer-hours-exploring-the-twenty-twenty-five-theme/">Developer Hours: Exploring the Twenty Twenty-Five Theme</a></strong>. </p>



<p>They also shared links to dive in: </p>



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<li>Demo site: <a href="https://2025.wordpress.net/">2025.wordpress.net</a>, </li>



<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/twentytwentyfive">GitHub repo</a></li>



<li><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/08/15/introducing-twenty-twenty-five/">Introducing Twenty Twenty-Five</a></li>
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<p><strong>&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2024&#8221;</a>&nbsp;</strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2024 on. Updated by yours truly. The previous years are also available: <strong><strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/">2020</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2021/">2021</a></strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2022/">2022</a></strong></strong>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/gutenberg-index-2023">2023</a></strong></p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </h2>



<p>In his tutorial, <a href="https://webberzone.com/custom-block-theme-templates-wordpress-plugins/"><strong>Building Custom Block Theme Templates: A Plugin Developer’s Guide</strong></a>, <strong>Ajay D’Souza</strong>, walks plugin developer through the process to providing templates to block themes. <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/08/29/registering-block-templates-via-plugins-in-wordpress-6-7/">WordPress 6.7 will come with a new API</a> for this use case, though. However what are plugin developers to do when they want to support older WordPress version, too? D&#8217;Souza has you covered. You learn about the nature of block theme templates and how to build a template handler, define your loading methods, and put it all together in an real-life examples. </p>



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<p>ICYMI: The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2024/10/30/recap-hallway-hangout-dataviews-and-dataform-components/"><strong>Recap: Hallway Hangout DataViews and DataForm Components</strong></a> is now available with the recording, a summary, details, shared resources and a transcript. Riad Benguella, André Maneiro, and I discussed with Nick Diego the evolution and future of DataViews and DataForms in WordPress. The overall focus of the demonstration was to showcase the current capabilities of DataViews and DataForm, as well as the plans for future extensibility and integration with the broader WordPress admin experience. <a href="https://youtu.be/wApJVW8uxno">The recording</a> is available on YouTube</p>


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<p>In <strong>Justin Tadlock</strong>&#8216;s latest tutorial on the WordPress Developer blog, <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2024/10/29/getting-and-setting-block-binding-values-in-the-editor/"><strong>Getting and setting Block Binding values in the Editor,</strong></a> he walks you through making the data from your custom binding sources appear in the Editor and also letting users edit that data from the connected blocks.</p>



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<p>WordPress Playground is an exciting new platform that is the basis of a few features and tools around WordPress. Recently, it received a new, much more intuitive interface, that looks familiar to site editor users. You can learn more about this change from the new Make Blog of the Playground team. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/playground/2024/09/27/running-multiple-playgrounds-with-wordpress-playground/"><strong>Running Multiple Playgrounds with WordPress Playground</strong></a> by Brandon Payton.</p>



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<p><strong>Jonathan Bossenger</strong>, developer educator on the WordPress training team,  added a blueprint to load the Create Block Theme plugin automatically to the next Playground instance. That way you can instantly start working on a new theme.  <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wordpress/blueprints/trunk/blueprints/create-block-theme/blueprint.json">Try it out. </a></p>



<p><strong>Alex Kirk</strong>, web developer from Vienna, added a blueprint to turn Playground into a feed reader with the Friends Plugin. Using it allows you to  read feeds from the web in Playground, and even via ActivityPub.  <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wordpress/blueprints/trunk/blueprints/friends-cors/blueprint.json">Start reading</a> (Add the Gutenberg Times via it&#8217;s feed URL https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed) </p>



<p><strong>Jason Bahl</strong>, developer of WPGraphQL, didn&#8217;t wait long to add a blueprint that <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wordpress/blueprints/trunk/blueprints/wpgraphql/blueprint.json">loads WordPress with WPGraphQL active and defaults to the WPGraphQL IDE page </a>to allow users to test GraphQL queries and explore the GraphQL Schema.</p>



<p>There are a few other blueprints for Playground are waiting to be discovered in the Blueprint Gallery. You can <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/blueprints/blob/trunk/GALLERY.md">browse the list on GitHub</a> or on any new Playground instance. </p>



<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. </p>



<p>Now also available via <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/?blueprint-url=https://gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/playnightly.json">WordPress Playground</a>. There is no need for a test site locally or on a server. Have you been using it? <a href="mailto:pauli@gutenbergtimes.com">Email me </a>with your experience</p>



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<p class="has-text-align-center has-small-font-size"><em>Questions? Suggestions? Ideas? </em><br /><em>Don&#8217;t hesitate to send <a href="mailto:pauli@gutenbergtimes.com">them via email</a> or</em><br /><em> send me a message on WordPress Slack or Twitter @bph</em>.</p>



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<p>In response, Automattic has filed three key documents: a Motion to Dismiss WP Engine’s Complaint, a Motion to Strike, and the Opposition to WP Engine’s Preliminary Injunction. </p>



<p>Automattic also <a href="https://x.com/automattic/status/1851869479028023505">tweeted</a>, &#8220;Today, in order to protect the community from the threat posed by <a href="https://x.com/wpengine">@WPEngine</a>’s conduct, we have filed three documents with the court. These documents respond to WP Engine’s cherry-picked versions of events with critical context not found in their legal filings.&#8221; </p>



<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the main points in the documents. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Motion to Dismiss WP Engine’s Complaint&nbsp;</h3>



<p>The <a href="https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/motion-to-dismiss.pdf">Motion to Dismiss </a>begins with the introduction, “Contrary to the allegations in WP Engine’s Complaint, the perpetrator responsible for the harms against the WordPress community is not Automattic or Matt Mullenweg (“Matt”). It is WP Engine itself. Despite its own (mis)conduct, WP Engine’s Complaint now asks this Court to compel Matt to provide various resources and support to private equity-backed WP Engine for free, in the absence of any contract, agreement, or promise to do so. The Complaint also seeks to restrict Matt’s ability to express openly his perspective that WP Engine’s practices negatively impact the WordPress software platform and community—a platform and community that has been his life’s work. There is no legal or factual basis for the Court to compel such access or restrict such speech.”</p>



<p>The motion argues that “WP Engine’s complaint is full of sound and fury, but WP Engine’s allegations ultimately signify nothing. Beneath the Complaint’s tone of indignation lies an utter absence of any factual allegations that do or could plausibly state a claim for relief. The Complaint strains mightily and misleadingly to conflate the WordPress software with Matt’s Website and with the WordPress trademarks, but it is devoid of any facts establishing that Matt has any obligation to provide the resources on the Website to WP Engine.”</p>



<p>It states that “WP Engine’s misleadingly curated Complaint focuses solely on the events of the last two months, but this story actually begins over two decades ago, when Matt created a new way to build websites.”</p>



<p>“Contrary to the allegations of the Complaint, Automattic, founded by Matt in 2005, does not own the WordPress software but rather offers three managed WordPress hosting services, WordPress.com for everyday users; Pressable, for agencies and developers; and WordPress VIP, for high-end enterprise sites including WhiteHouse.gov, NASA, Salesforce, and CNN. The WordPress ecosystem is also supported by the WordPress Foundation (“Foundation”)—a 501(c)(3) public benefit corporation dedicated to educating the public about WordPress and open source software. The role of the Foundation is charitable, educational, and scientific.”</p>



<p>The motion details the significant time and resources that Matt and Automattic contribute to WordPress.org. “Matt is the owner of the WordPress.org domain name. Matt created the Website to support the WordPress community and software. Over time, the content the Website provides has become more robust. It takes significant resources from Matt and others to maintain the Website. For example, Matt and other employees of Automattic contribute over 3,500 hours weekly to support and maintain the Website, including the core software and other features offered through the Website.”</p>



<p>The motion accuses WP Engine of leveraging WordPress resources for profit while failing to contribute meaningfully back to the community and profiting off the goodwill of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. It alleges that WP Engine’s shift in practices began in 2018 when private equity firm Silver Lake took majority control, leading to intensified trademark use and an increased profit-driven focus.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Alleging trademark violations since 2021, the motion claims that WP Engine and Silver Lake have attempted to profit from WordPress’s reputation without bearing a share of the responsibilities. Matt had requested that WP Engine either license the WordPress trademarks or dedicate eight percent of its revenue to the further development of the open source WordPress software, but WP Engine declined.</p>



<p>When it became abundantly clear to Matt that WP Engine had no interest in giving back, Matt was left with two choices: (i) continue to allow WP Engine to unfairly exploit the free resources of the Website, use the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks without authorization, which would also threaten the very existence of those trademarks, and remain silent on the negative impact of its behavior or (ii) refuse to allow WP Engine to do that and demand publicly that WP Engine do more to support the community.</p>



<p>The motion also states, “The mere fact that WP Engine made the risky decision to base its growing business on a site to which it has no rights or guarantee of access, without making backup plans, is not enough for it to conjure a claim out of legal thin air. Similarly, WP Engine’s business decision to rely on Matt’s Website does not provide any legal or factual basis for muzzling Matt and preventing him from criticizing WP Engine for acts that he believes are damaging the WordPress community.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>It continues, “The real unlawful activity here is WP Engine’s infringement of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks. This infringement was so egregious that in the days prior to filing this lawsuit, WP Engine scurried to delete various unauthorized uses of the WordPress and WooCommerce trademarks from its website—a tacit acknowledgement of their infringing nature.”</p>



<p>In short, WP Engine&#8217;s complaint fails to state claims concerning intentional interference with contractual relations, tortious interference with prospective economic advantage, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violations, attempted extortion, and unfair competition under California Business and Professions Code § 17200.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Motion to Strike&nbsp;</h3>



<p>Automattic and Matt Mullenweg have moved to<a href="https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/motion-to-strike.pdf"> strike parts of WP Engine’s complaint</a>, citing California’s anti-SLAPP law. They argue that WP Engine’s  “claims fail as a matter of law and must be struck under California’s anti-SLAPP law because they improperly seek to impose liability for commentary and debate on an issue of public interest—namely, WP Engine’s commitment (or lack thereof) to the WordPress community &#8211; without any valid basis. WP Engine’s attempt to stifle public discussion of those issues via these claims violates California law and should be stopped here.”</p>



<p>The motion also asserts,&nbsp; “Matt was speaking and writing in his individual capacity as WordPress’s co-founder, and not as CEO of Automattic. There is no basis to impute his statements to the company. For these and other reasons, WP Engine’s ninth, tenth, and eleventh causes of action should be stricken.”</p>



<p>WP Engine’s defamation claims are based on statements Mullenweg made on public platforms, which his attorneys argue are protected by the First Amendment and California law.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Mullenweg’s comments about WP Engine’s &#8220;parasitic&#8221; behavior were part of a broader conversation on the tragedy-of-the-commons theory, explaining the critical importance of meaningful, sustained contributions to the WordPress community through the Five for the Future initiative. Besides, WP Engine does not challenge any of Matt’s statements.&nbsp;</p>



<p>WP Engine’s trade libel claim fails to plausibly allege another required element: WP Engine has not identified any specific third party who was deterred from conducting business with WP Engine as a result of Matt’s Statements.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Opposition to WP Engine’s Preliminary Injunction</h3>



<p>Automattic and Matt have requested the <a href="https://automattic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/opposition-to-preliminary-injunction.pdf">denial of WP Engine’s motion</a>, arguing that “WP Engine conflates the open source WordPress software with a website located at wordpress.org (“Website”) that is provided by Matt. The Website is distinct from the WordPress open source software platform and both are distinct from Automattic and the WordPress Foundation, a nonprofit public benefit corporation that was organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes, not commercial endeavors. WP Engine’s CEO Heather Brunner feigns ignorance and reliance on a false understanding that an educational foundation was responsible for the Website that provides resources for commercial endeavors.”</p>



<p>WP Engine has always had unrestricted access to the open-source WordPress software and plugins, which do not require login credentials. The only resources it cannot access are certain developer tools on WordPress.org, previously used to manage plugin versions. WP Engine quickly restored its lost functionality by hosting its plugins independently on its own website.</p>



<p>WP Engine also seeks to limit competition by asking the Court to prevent Matt from criticizing its actions and to restrict Automattic from offering promotional incentives to consumers. Automattic contends that WP Engine’s purported damages, such as customer losses, result from WP Engine’s service quality rather than any actions by the defendants.</p>



<p>Also “Matt does not and never has had any contracts, agreements, or obligations to provide WP Engine access to the Website. Nor did WP Engine pay any operating costs towards the Website or to access the Website for this convenience.”</p>



<p>After losing access, WP Engine implemented a solution restoring its workflow by linking its plugins to its own servers. This setup has been operational for over a month, making any claimed harm from access denial either nonexistent or resolved.</p>



<p>Since ACF plugin has over two million active installs, so any security vulnerability within ACF would threaten a substantial portion of the WordPress community, the WordPress security team forked that plugin, and named that fork SCF. The public was also notified of the developments.</p>



<p>&#8220;WP Engine experienced a loss of income or capital in that intervening period, these losses are the result of its decision to freeride off the Website and Matt’s extensive efforts to support and maintain the Website, all the while knowing it had no contractual agreement entitling it to the continued receipt of those resources. WP Engine gambled, for the sake of profit, on Matt’s continued maintenance and provision of the Website for free. Having lost that bet, it cannot now come to the Court complaining of the consequences.&#8221;</p>



<p>If an injunction is considered, the defendants argue that it should only cover access to WordPress software and plugins. WP Engine should also be required to post a bond compensating Matt for any services he might be compelled to provide, as well as Automattic for any lost revenue due to restricted competition. Maintaining WordPress.org involves annual administrative and operational costs estimated at $800,000. If WP Engine is granted ongoing access, a bond of at least $1.6 million should be posted to cover these services for the case’s expected two-year duration.</p>



<p>Automattic has also issued the following <a href="https://automattic.com/2024/10/31/legal-response-to-wp-engine/">public statement</a> through its blog:</p>



<p>“After engaging in conduct that undermines the WordPress community, WP Engine and its private equity owner, Silver Lake, have resorted to making unfounded allegations against the founder and vanguard of the open source software.”</p>



<p>“WordPress open source software remains freely available to all. But WP Engine is not entitled, either legally or morally, to have unfettered access to WordPress.org—a website Matt Mullenweg built for the benefit of a robust community.”</p>



<p>“Preserving and maintaining the resources made available on WordPress.org requires considerable effort, investment, and a shared sense of mission that the plaintiff does not embrace. WP Engine and Silver Lake should not expect to profit off the back of others without carrying some of the weight, and that is all that Matt is asking.”</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What&#8217;s New?</h2>



<p>Our platform-specific SDKs leverage native UI frameworks &#8211; Compose for Android and Swift UI for iOS &#8211; to provide seamless integration with your existing mobile applications. Each SDK is carefully crafted to follow platform-specific best practices while maintaining consistent functionality across ecosystems.</p>



<p>One of the more exciting additions is our new native Avatar Change Flow &#8211; a complete, ready-to-use UI component that can be embedded directly into your app. This feature eliminates the need to build your own avatar management system, saving you valuable development time. Users can easily update their Gravatar image through a polished, platform-native interface that handles all the complexity of image selection, cropping, and uploading.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Key Features</h2>



<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/slidesz/AGV_vUf0HwSEeJ6Lkgk7Y_aM3eq2zVwuENr6t7zlcQ-jpp_gFVpj6Axtm7VjQ1AqKRiMb7oj596PPAqdhy2lYTZMBgrdRxFo5M6GG3zrRai_8jNuuo0m0vMznXnXpR5pUcRLSLe_4ej_vE-w8CKNx83hFteoQg3nj1o=nw?key=WL-tUAjvcHnxVirOGhmFGA" alt="" /><em>Gravatar SDK in <a href="https://pocketcasts.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pocket Casts</a></em>



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<li><strong>Ready-to-Use UI Components</strong>: Display profile views and avatars with pre-built components</li>



<li><strong>Efficient Avatar Management</strong>: Calculate and download avatar URLs based on email addresses</li>



<li><strong>Built-in Image Caching</strong>: Optimize performance with automatic image caching</li>



<li><strong>Profile Integration</strong>: Fetch and display Gravatar profiles directly within your app</li>



<li><strong>Avatar Upload Support</strong>: Enable users to update their Gravatar images from your app</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Platform-Specific Benefits</h2>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Android SDK</h3>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Built with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, with easy compatibility with the old view system</li>



<li>Seamless integration with modern Android development workflows</li>



<li>Android-specific optimizations for performance</li>
</ul>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">iOS SDK</h3>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Written in Swift with native iOS UI frameworks</li>



<li>Available via CocoaPods and Swift Package Manager</li>



<li>iOS-specific extensions including UIImageView integration</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Getting Started</h2>



<p>Visit our GitHub repositories to start integrating Gravatar into your mobile apps:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li>Android SDK: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/Gravatar-SDK-Android">github.com/Automattic/Gravatar-SDK-Android</a></li>



<li>iOS SDK: <a href="https://github.com/Automattic/Gravatar-SDK-iOS">github.com/Automattic/Gravatar-SDK-iOS</a></li>
</ul>



<p>For implementation guides and detailed documentation, visit our <a href="https://docs.gravatar.com/sdk/">developer site</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Security and Privacy</h2>



<p>Your users&#8217; privacy and security are our top priority. The SDK implements secure data handling via oAuth and gives users full control over their profile visibility. </p>



<p><a href="https://support.gravatar.com/privacy-pledge/">Visit our privacy pledge here</a>.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Coming Soon</h2>



<p>We&#8217;re actively working on expanding the SDK&#8217;s capabilities with full profile editing support. This upcoming feature will allow users to manage additional profile fields and user information directly within your app, making it even easier to provide a comprehensive Gravatar integration experience.</p>



<p>We&#8217;re committed to improving the developer experience and would love to hear your feedback. Try out the new SDKs and let us know what you think!</p>



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<p>[00:00:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley.</p>



<p>Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, how education and WordPress can work hand in hand.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to wptavern.com/feed/podcast, and you can copy that URL into most podcast players.</p>



<p>If you have a topic that you&#8217;d like us to feature on the podcast, I&#8217;m keen to hear from you and hopefully get you, or your idea, featured on the show. Head to wptavern.com/contact/jukebox, and use the form there.</p>



<p>So on the podcast today, we have Aaron Reimann and Keith Osburn.</p>



<p>Keith is the chief information officer and Deputy Superintendent for Tech Services at the Georgia Department of Education. With a rich background in both education and technology, he&#8217;s been instrumental in driving tech innovation within the state&#8217;s education system.</p>



<p>Aaron runs ClockworkWP, a WordPress agency, and boasts extensive experience in web development dating back to 1996.</p>



<p>Together, they&#8217;ve been leveraging WordPress to tackle some of Georgia&#8217;s most pressing educational needs.</p>



<p>We start off by discussing the financial advantages of using WordPress to achieve cost efficiencies compared to pricier alternatives. Keith shares his insights into how Georgia has successfully rolled out community focused sites and specialized platforms for the state&#8217;s educational staff.</p>



<p>The conversation moves on to their collaboration with other states, advocating for open source solutions to solve enterprise level problems.</p>



<p>We get into the infrastructure choices, including dedicated Azure servers for individual WordPress instances, ensuring better control and scalability.</p>



<p>We also touch on their strategic approach to resource discoverability and user engagement. Highlighting significant traffic and potential for growth through grants and professional learning events.</p>



<p>Aaron and Keith elaborate on the importance of accessibility, GDPR compliance, and the role of collaboration in addressing security and legal concerns.</p>



<p>One standout part of this episode features the culinary sites they created, aimed at helping Georgia schools manage cafeteria recipes and nutritional information. Streamlining a previously manual task, and saving significant time for school staff.</p>



<p>Towards the end, we discuss the cultural shift towards open source platforms, emphasizing the flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and community driven spirit of WordPress in education.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re curious to learn about how technology can enhance educational systems and promote global collaboration, this episode is for you.</p>



<p>If you&#8217;re interested in finding out more, you can find all of the links in the show notes by heading to wptavern.com/podcast, where you&#8217;ll find all the other episodes as well.</p>



<p>And so without further delay, I bring you Aaron Reimann and Keith Osburn.</p>



<p>I am joined on the podcast today by Aaron Reimann and Keith Osburn. How are you both doing?</p>



<p>[00:03:47] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> I am doing well, thank you.</p>



<p>[00:03:49] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> You&#8217;re welcome.</p>



<p>[00:03:50] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Nathan, thank you so much for having us today. Really excited to be with you today. Doing very, very well.</p>



<p>[00:03:55] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you so much. We&#8217;re here at WordCamp US. We&#8217;re in Portland, Oregon. We&#8217;re going to be talking today about education in the state of Georgia in particular, and how WordPress is being used to, well, hopefully make the job of teaching, the profession of teaching, a little bit more straightforward with the benefit of technology.</p>



<p>Before we begin that, I wonder if you would both in turn like to give us your little bio, because I know you have very different roles in life. So maybe if we start with you, Keith, just a short bio about who you are and what you do.</p>



<p>[00:04:22] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Absolutely. So thank you so much Nathan. So, again, my name is Keith Osburn. I serve as the Chief Information Officer and the Deputy Superintendent for Tech Services for the Georgia Department of Education. And so my team is both responsible for the technology that the department uses, but also helping ensure that educational technology has a purpose, a meaningful purpose, if you will, in the school systems throughout Georgia.</p>



<p>[00:04:45] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Is your background then more in tech, or more in education, or a bit of both?</p>



<p>[00:04:49] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> It&#8217;s actually a bit of both. So I was a classroom teacher for a number of years. I taught chemistry and physics at the high school level. Again, I&#8217;ve been in education for 35 years, and so I was there long enough to see really the first introductions of technology into the classroom, and just became really fascinated with that, and began to ultimately merge into that, and became a technology specialist, and a Chief Information Technology Director, and then ultimately moved to the State Department.</p>



<p>[00:05:14] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Thank you so much. So I guess we&#8217;ll hand the mic to Aaron and, yeah, tell us a little bit about yourself.</p>



<p>[00:05:19] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> So my name&#8217;s Aaron Reimann and I run an agency called ClockworkWP, and we specialise in pretty much anything WordPress. We&#8217;ve grown a lot in the past year and a half or so, and we&#8217;re about, depending on how you count everybody, we&#8217;re about 14, 15 people or so. And I&#8217;ve been doing WordPress since 2008, and been doing web development since 96. So I have got a lot of gray hair because I&#8217;ve been doing it for a long time.</p>



<p>[00:05:44] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> How did you two hook up, if you don&#8217;t mind me asking? Do you both have some sort of hobby that crosses, or did you go out looking?</p>



<p>[00:05:51] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> That&#8217;s an interesting, love that question, and it&#8217;s a great story that we love to tell. So I do have an interest in both the open source community, and certainly WordPress in addition to that. But actually there&#8217;s a unique event that happened. We had an event, a WordPress meetup that happened to be virtual, and one Aaron Riemann happened to be speaking that night. And as it turns out, I had a situation that had arisen within Georgia, and it was during the time of the pandemic, where obviously as you well know, we as a society completely socially distanced.</p>



<p>But training needed to happen. And specifically our bus drivers throughout the state of Georgia needed annual security training, safety training. And we were trying to think, how do we train them? But at the same time, we can&#8217;t get them together. And so obviously technology became an opportunity for us. And so my team and I, we built a small WordPress instance. We used a plugin called Learn Dash. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re probably familiar with that.</p>



<p>What happened was nothing less than just stellar growth that happened. You know, we had 50 people one day, we had 500 people in the next couple of days. And then it just really became quite asymptotic. As it turns out, you know, I just was in the event just because of my interest there, and as I listened to Aaron talk, and he began to talk about hosting some types of things, it just really formatted my mind that he and I needed to talk. So I said, Aaron, will you remain on the call after you&#8217;re done, please. You and I need to talk. And that formed a lasting bond, and a great public private partnership, if you will, of which all the stuff that we&#8217;ll probably talk about today has materialised from. So, great event.</p>



<p>[00:07:21] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Nice. That&#8217;s really great. Is there anything you want to add?</p>



<p>[00:07:25] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> I would just say, I lead the Atlanta WordPress meetup, and that to me is just a big plug. If you&#8217;re trying to get into a WordPress community, you can get good clients by doing that. So I love the WordPress community. So doing a little plug there.</p>



<p>[00:07:37] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Well that&#8217;s great. Thank you so much. Now, in the UK, which is the only educational format, for want of a better word, the only educational locale that I can talk about, I don&#8217;t know if it in any way resembles how it is in the US, but my impression of the US is that it&#8217;s atomised by state. So the things that you do in Georgia may well be different from how they&#8217;re done here in Oregon, and Portland, and all over the place.</p>



<p>But in the UK, I don&#8217;t know, probably about 20 years ago, the technological area of education was kind of flooded by proprietary, paid for services. You know, Microsoft stepped in and dominated the kind of desktop space, and a whole bunch of other things. But then there was a move much more recently to free and open source software. I think there was a thought that in the future we want to be educating our children in how to do open sourcey things, and we had this lovely thing called a Raspberry Pi which came along, which really kind of opened the technology of the hardware up to children.</p>



<p>But I just wondered if we could get into the open source nature, and whether or not that&#8217;s an important part of the Georgia landscape, free, open source software? Or do you find yourself being compelled by state legislation to use proprietary, paid for software?</p>



<p>[00:08:46] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Wow, great question. And you&#8217;re right, it could very well vary by state. Every state has something that&#8217;s probably unique about them, and in regards to education that could be driven by legislation law, or policy procedures, those types of things. In this particular case, and certainly, you know, an enterprise organisation as large as we are, Georgia&#8217;s population as a whole is about 10.8 million people. We have 2 million students. 230 plus districts. 2,500 schools. Each one of those, by the way, have some degree of local control. And so, we as a state, our job is to provide service and support.</p>



<p>I think what started this conversation for me as a state chief was really beginning to notice a change in the landscape, especially as it relates to technology. And you&#8217;re right, the big enterprise organisations still have a footprint, and a necessary footprint in there. However, I think the conversation gets interesting because, around the time of the pandemic, I think the mentality about the purposes of software and software solutions changed. And I say in yesteryear, oftentimes there were solutions that were built, and then people begin to look for, hey, how do we apply this? Where&#8217;s a problem? Let&#8217;s find a problem.</p>



<p>Today there are problems already, and so we build towards that. Which means that really what we need to do is look for opportunities to be much more agile and responsive, because we&#8217;ve identified a need. This is what&#8217;s strong within the open source community, and certainly whenever you think about the culture of WordPress, this is what makes them such a strong, and what I consider to be a viable opportunity and solution for us.</p>



<p>And so I specifically went because I appreciated that that culture was going to give me what I needed. That really agile opportunity for me to be responsive to solutions that were already needed, and thus the community could customise, highly customise, I should say, solutions for exactly what the problem happened to be.</p>



<p>[00:10:35] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> It&#8217;s interesting, in the UK about 15 years ago, children were being taught how to use Microsoft products. That was the curriculum. How do you create a Word document? How do you use a spreadsheet? Now it&#8217;s more, how do you program? How do you learn fundamentals of programming? How can you use Python? How can you use PHP and things like that? So there&#8217;s a real shift. And whilst it may not be pointing the finger directly at WordPress, it&#8217;s definitely moved in that kind of direction. And obviously the more open source things that you can put into the institutions, the more value for money you&#8217;re going to get out because you don&#8217;t have to pay these giant software licenses.</p>



<p>But getting to the topic at hand today, and I should just point out that both Aaron and Keith have done a presentation at WordCamp US, and I&#8217;ll link to that in the show notes, that kind of will outline the conversation that we&#8217;re having. But what was the problem in Georgia that you wanted to solve, that you needed WordPress for? So I&#8217;m just going to leave it as open as that. What were you trying to fix with WordPress?</p>



<p>[00:11:28] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Yeah, yeah, absolutely. It goes back to that first story I told that as, you know, education in and of itself is a communication based, people driven thing, right? And so as our teachers, the 300,000 teachers and staff across Georgia became socially distanced, they still had at their primary need to educate children. In order to do that, communication has to happen.</p>



<p>And you can imagine that natural communication between you and I sitting across the table is quite easy. When you put technology, or you need to put technology in there, there need to be some guardrails, there need to be some opportunities to allow for that growth that doesn&#8217;t necessarily kind of stymie what needs to happen.</p>



<p>We begin to kind of conceptualise on this idea of saying, hey, we&#8217;ve got now 300,000 staff members that are dispersed, socially distanced from one another, but they still need to communicate.</p>



<p>And so we concocted this idea that now has become what we call our community project, where we found a specific WordPress solution, coupled with some plugins that we used, that enabled us to really facilitate both synchronous now, and asynchronous conversations, that were content and topic specific. So that we could link together math teachers, or we could link together science teachers regardless of their location, geography, and enable that conversation to still happen.</p>



<p>So that site, literally again, we had no idea that it would grow the way that it did. We were probably anticipating that we would have literally linear year growth, but it became quite asymptotic. To this day we now have a WordPress instance of a community that has 88,000 viable ongoing conversations inside of that with about 500 people adding to that each week. 240 unique groups that exist inside of this platform. So it is truly this new technical society, if you will, that supports the communication needs of teachers across the totality of the state.</p>



<p>[00:13:18] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Given that this all was promoted by the pandemic, or at least that&#8217;s the takeaway that I got, was this a case of suddenly scrambling around for a solution that had to be implemented yesterday, more or less? And I&#8217;m curious because in the UK at the moment, and this has nothing to do with education, a lot of those solutions are now beyond their sell by date, if you know what I mean. You know, things were cobbled together ever so quickly, they worked for a period of time, they were sort of hanging together, and then it&#8217;s turned out that actually, probably with hindsight, if we&#8217;d have had six months lead time on this, we probably would&#8217;ve done something different.</p>



<p>But it sounds like what you have has stayed the test of time, has managed to keep going, and it wasn&#8217;t a cobbled together solution. It worked exactly as you&#8217;d expected, or has it been an iteration and an evolution?</p>



<p>[00:13:59] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> And that&#8217;s absolutely where interstates left Aaron, because the initial iterations of that were right. My team at the time didn&#8217;t necessarily have say WordPress engineers, or experts in that. I probably was the one, and I already had a day job being a CIO. And so we quickly outgrew what the initial iteration of that was, and began to recognise. That&#8217;s that serendipitous event where Aaron just happened to be doing a WordPress meetup, and I happened to be on that, and I recognised, just listening to him, I was like, I need that guy, and I need his team.</p>



<p>And so thus begin that union. And I remember our first conversations were like, listen, we&#8217;ve built something and we&#8217;ve outgrown it almost overnight. We need some real help, and we really need to begin to kind of strategise and strategically plan on this thing because, again, it&#8217;s not growing linear, it&#8217;s growing asymptotically, and so we need to plan for that.</p>



<p>And that&#8217;s I think really important point to be going back to that first question that we had about this idea of public private partnerships now, are critically important, because you see that expertise in a particular area who can listen to somebody whose expertise happens to be in this case education and saying, here&#8217;s where our problems at, here&#8217;s our soft spots. And he says, okay, this is what me and my team do, this is the way that we&#8217;re going to collaborate to build a solution that will meet the needs today, but ongoing with that in the future as well.</p>



<p>[00:15:15] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So maybe this question is going now to Aaron. We know that it&#8217;s got something to do with WordPress, we know it&#8217;s got to do with Georgia, and we know it&#8217;s got to do with education, but beyond that, what are the specific things that you&#8217;ve had to build? Is this like a portal for children? Is it a portal for the teachers to get together and communicate lesson plans? What have you had to build?</p>



<p>[00:15:33] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> There&#8217;s been I think a total of nine projects that we&#8217;ve done. The first project was the community project where they basically had a WordPress install on a server that just couldn&#8217;t handle the traffic, it grew overnight. We split that up into two different servers where MySQL&#8217;s on its own little thing, and nginx is on its own. That was just a quick little fix to split it up. We&#8217;ve moved it into the Azure framework since then.</p>



<p>We&#8217;ve done some marketing sites to, I guess the PHP list is an application that we are using that we&#8217;ve internally converted, basically they have a LISTSERV. There&#8217;s an old school LISTSERV that the state was using and has nothing to do with WordPress, but I was like, well, we probably can help in that situation.</p>



<p>I picked this open source project, PHP list, and then realised later that it doesn&#8217;t have everything that we needed built in. So my team has built that application out. So that&#8217;s not necessarily WordPress, but I mean it&#8217;s open source and PHP. But we&#8217;ve done marketing sites to the culinary site.</p>



<p>[00:16:36] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> That&#8217;s interesting, culinary.</p>



<p>[00:16:37] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> So basically we have built, there was a need for the schools, how many cafeterias are there in Georgia?</p>



<p>[00:16:45] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Well, there&#8217;s 230 districts, there&#8217;s about 2,500 schools, so you can imagine. We&#8217;ll go with that number because every one of those schools is going to have a cafeteria. And that&#8217;s a nutrition program.</p>



<p>[00:16:54] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> Okay. So they don&#8217;t have, up until recently, they didn&#8217;t have a way to share recipes. And now there&#8217;s an application where anybody in the school can go in and set up a five day schedule with all the recipes that has all of the nutritional information about each vegetable, and meat, and all that. And so they can basically print that out, and say that, and use that for the school. And there was nothing like that out there. It&#8217;s not super complex what was built, but I mean, we&#8217;re using WordPress with custom post types, and WordPress gives us a lot of flexibility to build those things out.</p>



<p>[00:17:30] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it sounds like it&#8217;s mainly for staff. It&#8217;s not forward facing for children to access content. It&#8217;s like a CMS for bits and pieces that educators and people, I don&#8217;t know, it sounds like people working in the kitchens and things like that might need to use. So it&#8217;s not directly forward facing to the children, but it&#8217;s all of the minutiae of how to manage a school, and how to get teachers communicating with each other, that kind of thing.</p>



<p>[00:17:54] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Absolutely. And I think probably a value add is to say that we strongly believe, and I think all of us probably here do that the power is in the teacher. The power is in the school staff. They&#8217;re the ones that are doing the work. Our jobs are to provide services and support, certainly at a state agency as well. That&#8217;s probably a primary role for us.</p>



<p>And so specifically we were targeting solutions specifically for teachers, for the wraparound staff so that they could do the great work that they do. In this case, one of the things that was mission critical to us was trying to find out that we could use technology as a way to ultimately save them time.</p>



<p>There are a lot of mundane things that happen, a lot of reiterations of things that really technology, if we&#8217;re innovative, can take that time, and do that task, and give that back to either the teacher, or the staff member, or whatnot.</p>



<p>Again, here&#8217;s an opportunity where nutrition staff we&#8217;re probably laboriously sitting down spending countless hours looking at products that says, what are their nutritional values, and how do we pair that with this over here? And now what we&#8217;ve done is we&#8217;ve implemented a technological solution that literally does what normally would&#8217;ve required hours. We&#8217;re doing that in now mere minutes and seconds. That&#8217;s a win-win. That&#8217;s a huge win-win.</p>



<p>[00:19:03] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> So it&#8217;s reducing the amount of paperwork. It sounds like you&#8217;re moving away from a paper-based system into a more technologically, everything is data basically. And WordPress&#8217; motto if you like is democratising publishing, but this feels like democratising information, democratising education. And I can barely think of a better use of WordPress than education. It just ticks every single box, doesn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s perfect.</p>



<p>[00:19:28] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> We totally agree in that. And you know, again, that goes back to the very start of our conversation where it&#8217;s like, what was it about free and open source software? It was like, again, the opportunity for us to, from my world as a CIO in an education vertical, say, I see this problem, and then say, how do I with experts in this case, Aaron and team say, here&#8217;s my problem. I can pretty much verbalise that. And he says, okay, I understand that, I can wrap a solution around that, and we can do this working together in a very responsive fashion. That&#8217;s the win-win, I think from this.</p>



<p>And now for us, we&#8217;ve seen so many wins immediately, I don&#8217;t think that we&#8217;ve had any where we&#8217;re saying, oh, it was a good try, but no, that&#8217;s not going to work. It&#8217;s every one has been something that we&#8217;ve built on the previous one. And every one of those solutions has been incredibly effective.</p>



<p>You heard Aaron talk about the fact that we&#8217;ve got several projects. We&#8217;re in the midst now of taking our state website, and we&#8217;re going to bifurcate that because there&#8217;s information that&#8217;s destined for public stakeholders. There&#8217;s also information that&#8217;s really pertinent to our school districts and whatnot.</p>



<p>And so we&#8217;re, one more time we&#8217;re using WordPress in this instance to build a website that is unique and able to deliver for our public stakeholders the information that they find viable, and that they need.</p>



<p>It doesn&#8217;t have to be all so complex with other information that&#8217;s really destined for school leaders, or school district personnel, or teachers in this case instead. Now, through a bifurcated process, we&#8217;re able to deliver information that is necessary for the time for that specific individual. So this highly customised solution, suddenly WordPress has helped us achieve.</p>



<p>[00:21:00] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I know that there&#8217;ll be instances where WordPress will not be the best fit because there&#8217;ll be proprietary software, which is just superior. And there&#8217;ll probably be data protection concerns and things like that for, I don&#8217;t know, salaries, and payroll, and all sorts of things that I can imagine.</p>



<p>But would your intention be to get WordPress&#8217;s foot in the door for many more things in Georgia, or are you happy with where you&#8217;ve got to so far? Or would the idea be to keep going back to Aaron and say, actually, here&#8217;s another area where we might be able to squeeze WordPress into the mix.</p>



<p>[00:21:27] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> I&#8217;ll answer that by saying, a few years back when we began to kind of realise that, in the world of education, I say that technology changed from a gee whiz bank state to become mission critical. We recognised that that was a pertinent question to ask ourselves.</p>



<p>And so we created a team called Knowledge and Resource Management, and that&#8217;s all that they do. Their job is to think about digital and data that&#8217;s constructed as a result of these technological processes. And think about, how does this enable us to better understand what we&#8217;re doing today, but also begin to think about what&#8217;s our innovation schedule as we kind of move forward?</p>



<p>And so that&#8217;s what they do is really sit down in advance. We as a leadership team, we sit down and we begin to kind of strategically plan. Obviously the student and the teacher, if you will, is at the center of our planning. Our job is to think about, how do we customise solutions that will help them better.</p>



<p>And at this point in time, it&#8217;s not ever that free and open source is just a, I&#8217;ve run out of tricks, let me go see if this thing can do it. It&#8217;s a vital part of the conversation during the strategic planning process. And if that&#8217;s the solution, that&#8217;s the solution. And it&#8217;s just like, we look at that on the same level and the same ground as we do, various other enterprise solutions.</p>



<p>The one thing that I believe that&#8217;s really important to note that we&#8217;ve proven here is that there could have been this perception of many that say, WordPress can&#8217;t obviously meet up to this enterprise need. Actually, we&#8217;ve kind of blown that out the water. We literally have staggering numbers. 88,000 and hundreds of thousands of people that hit the website, and those types of things. And we&#8217;re showing WordPress is absolutely capable of working in the enterprise. And so it needs to be considered a viable part of strategic plan if it&#8217;s the one that fits that need.</p>



<p>[00:23:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> One of the best things about WordPress is the fact that somebody&#8217;s very often built the very thing that you need. There&#8217;s a plugin that fits the bill. And I&#8217;m just wondering if that was the case in this scenario Aaron. Were you able to take pre-built things and thereby save the state a bunch of money because actually somebody&#8217;s already built the CMS, or the plugin that would handle the recipe side of things, or was this a ton of custom code right from the ground up?</p>



<p>[00:23:28] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> We used a lot of plugins at the beginning to get, I guess I can promote, we use Gravity Forms all the time. It gives us so much flexibility and it&#8217;s so easy to integrate. Hook into filters, and send information out.</p>



<p>So we&#8217;ll use a lot of plugins at the beginning, and then we have to, not always, but most of the time we have to tweak it a little bit. We need to add, oh, we need it to do this thing so we might write a plugin to hook in and modify the way Gravity Forms works. Or it might be a totally, this doesn&#8217;t exist, and we have to build it. But I mean, we always will vet plugins, make sure that they&#8217;re going to be safe, and secure, and give us the stability we need. And if it doesn&#8217;t, we&#8217;ll write it.</p>



<p>I would say every site that we build, we do use basic, common plugins. I mean, Yoast and things like that. I mean, just plugins that everyone uses. And then most of the time we have to do a little customisation.</p>



<p>[00:24:22] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Have you been talked to by the Georgia authorities in terms of, well, we use the term GDPR because that&#8217;s just the one that we&#8217;ve got, but it&#8217;s this overarching privacy legislation, which really gets its teeth into more or less everything that you do with websites. Is there anything like that that you&#8217;ve had to, I don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;ve had to build something custom because the plugin doesn&#8217;t seem to satisfy this privacy thing, or it doesn&#8217;t do this particular thing?</p>



<p>So in the UK the GDPR and things like that really do compel you to look really hard, especially when it&#8217;s public sector stuff. You&#8217;ve got to look really hard at the code and make sure, okay, it definitely isn&#8217;t keeping data. It definitely isn&#8217;t sending data somewhere else. I can a hundred percent vouch for it. It&#8217;s not a case of, yeah, I&#8217;ve used Gravity Forms before, that&#8217;s fine.</p>



<p>[00:25:05] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> I&#8217;ll just say GDPR. I know all of that stuff is coming, and more and more states are requiring it. I mean, one of the things I think about is accessibility. That&#8217;s becoming super important, and we always want to make sure when we build a site, specifically for the state, that we go through and we hit whatever level. There&#8217;s multiple levels of accessibility that we try to meet. And that, I would say that&#8217;s probably more important for us now than any type of GDPR stuff. But I know that&#8217;s coming probably in every state.</p>



<p>[00:25:34] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, so the accessibility piece. Well, you can&#8217;t build any of these things unless there is accessibility. And I don&#8217;t know what the WCAG standard is that you have to adhere to, but I&#8217;m guessing you have to be pretty mindful of the accessibility piece.</p>



<p>[00:25:47] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> Absolutely.</p>



<p>[00:25:48] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Yeah, and if I go back to that, it&#8217;s so important, and you heard me mention our Knowledge and Resource Management Team. Whenever the project for rebuilding the website happened. I&#8217;ll tell you that, we planned for more than a year before we ever even began to kind of think about code, because of that.</p>



<p>One of the things that&#8217;s really important for us today is, number one, again, you heard me say earlier, we&#8217;re producing digital data far more than we ever have in past. And as a result of that, you&#8217;re right, the game&#8217;s changed. We have to think about that. Think about where that&#8217;s going to reside.</p>



<p>Who were those data generated as a result of? If it&#8217;s a student, obviously we take great concerns because we&#8217;re considered to be the stewards of their data, right?</p>



<p>All that happened during project planning. And I remember us specifically, part of Aaron&#8217;s team sitting down with my team in that respect and saying, okay, we&#8217;re going to talk about this, we&#8217;re going to talk about the fabric that we&#8217;re going to build this on top of. We&#8217;re going to talk about any kind of security concerns, accessibility, those things. That&#8217;s part of the culture now. And I think that&#8217;s really a great question that you ask because I think that is of paramount importance.</p>



<p>Now, to Aaron&#8217;s point. Before a project ever starts, we should know all that in advance, right? We&#8217;re all going to sit down. And while there are unique needs per state, by and far, I think we&#8217;re all moving towards the same area. And that is that accessibility should be always covered. That&#8217;s just a non question, it&#8217;s got to be done.</p>



<p>The other&#8217;s really data privacy, those types of things. It&#8217;s going to be taken care of beforehand. And then at that point in time, now Aaron knows that we&#8217;ve taken care of that, so now as he begins to kinda look at the various plugins, he now has a little opportunity to begin to kinda look into the T&#8217;s and C&#8217;s of those plugins and say, hey, if there&#8217;s something unique about this, he&#8217;ll bring that question back.</p>



<p>I have a data privacy officer and say, hey, what&#8217;s going on with this? Is this something that&#8217;s in congruence with state law in Georgia, or is this something that we need to look at from that? So prior planning has enabled us to really be able to make sure that whenever we begin to write code, that we&#8217;re very aggressive, very responsive, and we&#8217;ve kind of already taken care of the hiccups if you will.</p>



<p>[00:27:41] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Financially, does free and open source software like WordPress, does that impress the bean counters, the accountants on your side of things? Is it a fairly compelling argument to go to them and say, look, we could pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for this thing over here, but look, we&#8217;ve got this WordPress thing and the software itself is completely free, there&#8217;s a bunch of plugins that are a few hundred dollars? I&#8217;m guessing there&#8217;s some fairly compelling argument.</p>



<p>[00:28:03] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Yeah, that&#8217;s a great question. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s probably a growing question. I don&#8217;t know that it&#8217;s gotten to the point now where like all the accountants come to me and say specifically this versus that. But I will say that, as a state chief, I&#8217;m ethically and from an advocacy standpoint, responsible for ensuring the good stewardship of tax dollars because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m spending.</p>



<p>That is factored into every conversation that we have to say, is this a good spend, and are we going to get the solution based on the strategic initiative that we needed to address? And so that really is a part of my team. When we begin to sit down and strategically plan, we have identified that there&#8217;s a need. And then we begin to say, what&#8217;s the best way for us to get there?</p>



<p>It&#8217;s just now, as I said earlier, WordPress isn&#8217;t one of those things that we consider whenever we&#8217;ve run out of options. Now, it&#8217;s really a part of the ongoing conversation to say, we&#8217;ve proven that this could be a viable solution. If this is the viable solution, this is the path that we&#8217;re going to take. And by the way, we found out that this is a very cost efficient way for us to do something and still get efficacy when we&#8217;re done with that.</p>



<p>[00:29:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And do you speak to people who have the equivalent job to you in the other states?</p>



<p>[00:29:10] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Absolutely.</p>



<p>[00:29:11] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> And they found this conversation to be of interest, and have they looked favorably on what you are doing in Georgia?</p>



<p>[00:29:16] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Yeah, I will say that there&#8217;s a couple of states that we now have really begun to kind of work as a group to really showcase the opportunity for us to kind of expand our own vision and say, don&#8217;t think that the big box, aisle seven, row three solution is just the only way to go. But instead, maybe Chief Information Officer should also be considered to be Chief Innovation Officer now.</p>



<p>And we should just begin to kind of look and say, our job is to figure out the best way to solve that problem, or provide that solution, not look for an opportunity to buy something that maybe fits that. Maybe, or maybe not, or maybe 70%. But instead say, no, let&#8217;s figure out the way to solve that problem over there. Open source, free open source solutions could very well be a very viable, and we&#8217;ve proven that it could solve enterprise level problems.</p>



<p>[00:30:05] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I&#8217;m just going to a quote something from the blurb of the presentation that you&#8217;ve both been involved in at WordCamp US, and it says the following. In the past three years, Georgia established a community focused site for statewide education staff using a strategic set of plugins and custom modifications within WordPress to produce the functionality needed. And I think we&#8217;ve covered that.</p>



<p>Once that site was launched, it opened the door for multiple additional WordPress sites under the GADOE, which I&#8217;m presuming is the Georgia Department of Education umbrella. Including continuing education events for staff across the state, a better menu builder with state approved recipes for cafeteria staff, and rebuilding the main GADOE site using a headless WordPress setup with Next.js.</p>



<p>So the bit that I want to focus on there is the words multiple additional WordPress sites. And this is probably squarely aimed at Aaron. How are you tying these multiple sites together? Is this like a, we&#8217;ve got a WordPress site over here, and another one over here, and another one over here. Or are we dealing with multi-site? Is it all connected in some way? Have you got single sign on so that the teachers can get in with one set of user credentials? How&#8217;s it all hanging together?</p>



<p>[00:31:11] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> So right now we have multiple websites that are WordPress, they&#8217;re not multi-site. It&#8217;s not multi-tenancy or anything like that. We have individual WordPress instances on individual virtual servers on Azure.</p>



<p>That gives us a little control to be able to scale it up and down. I&#8217;ve had environments before where we&#8217;ve had multiple WordPress sites, and the way the infrastructure is built, it is, if you only need to scale up one, it has to scale up everything. And I like the fact that we have it split up individually, allows us to scale up and down.</p>



<p>There isn&#8217;t anything that is unique, except for the headless WordPress site. That infrastructure is going to be different than all of the kind of more like marketing WordPress sites.</p>



<p>[00:31:59] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Maybe the one thing I&#8217;ll add is that, one of the things that we&#8217;re certainly, we don&#8217;t expect anybody to understand the technology behind that. What we were looking for early days, and again, what Aaron&#8217;s team have been helping us build is this idea to purposely, if you will, almost bottleneck the way that people get access to resources that we find.</p>



<p>We could probably all agree on is that if you build the best resource on planet Earth, it&#8217;s still valueless if nobody can find it. And that&#8217;s been a challenge for us in the past is that we&#8217;re a large organisation, you can tell we have these siloed teams within the department, and they all produce resources. But unless you know, you didn&#8217;t necessarily know where to find those. You didn&#8217;t know how to go about that.</p>



<p>We began to say, this is an opportunity again for technology to help us save time of that individual. So we begin to say, we&#8217;ve got a very successful event, the community project. We have 80,000 people that are visiting that. That&#8217;s slightly more than 50% of our teachers, but we still got some room to grow.</p>



<p>And, hey, there&#8217;s these other things like strategic grants that we provide, or maybe policy and guidance. Maybe there&#8217;s some professional learning events, and if people don&#8217;t know that we do all these things, they&#8217;re for nought.</p>



<p>So we said, why don&#8217;t we figure out ways to hone that together and we begin to use, for instance, the communities, dare I say storefront, as a way to provision those, so that those are immediately visible. So now somebody that could be a public stakeholder, or a practitioner, educational practitioner comes to the site to log in, but they say, oh, I see that there are new things up here, let me click on those. And now it&#8217;s just simply the convenience of us reusing something that they&#8217;re vastly familiar with already, as a way for us to share more resources with them.</p>



<p>So the technology behind the scenes, obviously we&#8217;re working to make sure that those work tandem. And you talk about SSO and those types of things, those are strategically part of what we&#8217;re doing. But ultimately, right now, the whole idea continues to be, how do we get critically important information rapidly to that stakeholder that needs that? And that&#8217;s the reason why they came to visit that site, right? And so that&#8217;s, again, what we&#8217;re driving towards.</p>



<p>[00:33:58] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> I know that I said this earlier, but I can barely think of a better example where technology, WordPress, meets humanity, education. It&#8217;s just this perfect, perfect relationship. And it just encapsulates everything which is wonderful about, well, open source software, but in this case, we&#8217;re at a WordPress event and we nerd out on WordPress. So it just seems like the perfect way to use that technology.</p>



<p>And think that&#8217;s all of the questions that I&#8217;ve got. I just applaud you for what you&#8217;ve been doing. And obviously the fact that you&#8217;re here talking about it at an enormous WordPress event means that you must both be pretty proud of what you&#8217;ve done as well. So congratulations.</p>



<p>[00:34:35] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Well, thank you. Aaron and I both will tell you that I think one of the other attributes, one of the strong features of the open source community is that we recognise that we&#8217;re a culture and we need to share. And if you have successes, you&#8217;re right, there are a lot of children outside of Georgia that need to be educated. And if we found a solution and it works, we should talk about that. And here&#8217;s an opportunity to say to another state, or another organisation that&#8217;s in this business to say, here&#8217;s a great opportunity that has been very successful for us. Look and study the partnership that&#8217;s happened from private to public from that instance.</p>



<p>And we don&#8217;t mind talking about that. We&#8217;re certainly proud that we&#8217;ve done something that is a viable solution. But at the same time, I think we also have that responsibility to share what&#8217;s been working. And if there have been pitfalls that we hit along the way, or soft spots that we needed to iterate around, we should be willing to talk about that.</p>



<p>[00:35:24] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Yeah, I know we&#8217;ve talked about the technology a lot in this podcast episode, but underlying the whole thing feels like there&#8217;s morals. There&#8217;s just like a real moral basis to what you&#8217;re doing. That just feels really nice.</p>



<p>And also you mentioned state boundaries, and it feels like this conversation goes beyond that even. You know, there&#8217;s no reason why what you are doing couldn&#8217;t be applicable in Canada, or the UK, or Poland, or Australia, or any other place you mentioned. So it&#8217;s a big conversation for sure.</p>



<p>[00:35:48] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> I would love to see this conversation become global because, again, I think that any educator is in the business. They trained to do that thing of educate children, not educate children in this specific spot, but just say to educate children.</p>



<p>We as technologists have had a responsibility to figure out ways, in this case, for me, because of that&#8217;s my vertical, to figure out technological solutions that will support them.</p>



<p>Well, my technologist peers, irregardless of location, I know that they desire to do the same thing. So I want to share with them. And I know that they&#8217;ll do the same thing with me, and we do. We have a very collaborative, non-competitive partnership that exists. And you&#8217;re right, it&#8217;s not bound by state, it&#8217;s not bound by nation, but instead, it&#8217;s like all of us saying, let&#8217;s link together, let&#8217;s figure out how we solve this problem if one exists, because we all desire to do the same thing. Ensure that every kid, irregardless of location, gets an opportunity to be successful.</p>



<p>[00:36:42] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Technologically important stuff that kind of gets out of the teacher&#8217;s way. Yeah, that&#8217;s perfect. Thank you Aaron, and thank you Keith for chatting to me today.</p>



<p>[00:36:50] <strong>Keith Osburn:</strong> Absolutely. Thank you, Nathan.</p>



<p>[00:36:51] <strong>Nathan Wrigley:</strong> Appreciate it.</p>



<p>[00:36:51] <strong>Aaron Reimann:</strong> Yeah, thank you very much.</p>
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<p>On the podcast today we have <a href="https://clockworkwp.com">Aaron Reimann</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithosburn">Keith Osburn</a>.</p>



<p>Keith is the Chief Information Officer and Deputy Superintendent for Tech Services at the Georgia Department of Education. With a rich background in both education and technology, he’s been instrumental in driving tech innovation within the state’s education system. Aaron runs Clockwork WP, a WordPress agency, and boasts extensive experience in web development dating back to 1996. Together, they’ve been leveraging WordPress to tackle some of Georgia’s most pressing educational needs.</p>



<p>We start off by discussing the financial advantages of using WordPress to achieve cost efficiencies compared to pricier alternatives. Keith shares his insights into how Georgia has successfully rolled out community-focused sites and specialised platforms for the state’s educational staff.</p>



<p>The conversation moves on to their collaboration with other states, advocating for open-source solutions to solve enterprise-level problems. We get into the infrastructure choices, including dedicated Azure servers for individual WordPress instances, ensuring better control and scalability.</p>



<p>We also touch on their strategic approach to resource discoverability and user engagement, highlighting significant traffic and potential for growth through grants and professional learning events. Aaron and Keith elaborate on the importance of accessibility, GDPR compliance, and the role of collaboration in addressing security and legal concerns.</p>



<p>One standout part of this episode features the culinary site they created, aimed at helping Georgia schools manage cafeteria recipes and nutritional information, streamlining a previously manual task and saving significant time for school staff.</p>



<p>Towards the end we discuss the cultural shift towards open-source platforms, emphasising the flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and community-driven spirit of WordPress in education.&nbsp;</p>



<p>If you’re curious to learn more about how technology can enhance educational systems and promote global collaboration, this episode is for you.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Useful links</h2>



<p><a href="https://clockworkwp.com">ClockworkWP</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.learndash.com">LearnDash</a></p>



<p>&#8216;<a href="https://us.wordcamp.org/2024/session/wordpress-in-education/">Custom WordPress Solutions for Educational Initiatives</a>&#8216; &#8211; WordCamp US presentation</p>



<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV">LISTSERV</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.gravityforms.com">Gravity Forms</a></p>



<p><a href="https://yoast.com">Yoast</a></p>



<p><a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/">WCAG</a></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"Nathan Wrigley";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:44;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:1:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:42:"HeroPress: WordCamp Romania is in 2 weeks!";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:29:"https://heropress.com/?p=7602";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:127:"https://heropress.com/wordcamp-romania-is-in-2-weeks/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wordcamp-romania-is-in-2-weeks";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:8116:"<img width="1024" height="409" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/CleanShot-2024-10-29-at-10.41.15@2x-1024x409.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="WordCamp Romania homepage logo" /><p>I wanted to go to this one, I really did, but it didn&#8217;t work out. Part of the reason I was looking forward to it is that I&#8217;d have to take the train for the last leg, check out where camp is:</p>




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<p class="kt-adv-heading7602_6ca196-3d wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">Bucharest is where almost all international flights end, and then we take the train north.</p>



<p>Not only is there the train ride, but one of the suggested places to stay is <a href="https://www.booking.com/hotel/ro/acasa-la-dracula.ro.html?aid=319855&label=hotel-39765-ro-cfjwiiOygxGzFLBpvqBuOQS162137109835%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2%3Aac%3Aap%3Aneg%3Afi%3Atikwd-5822505327%3Alp9198061%3Ali%3Adec%3Adm%3Appccp%3DUmFuZG9tSVYkc2RlIyh9YairvxL4WE14mgHolLc6Uug&sid=fca1247c45a99ae47dc280df49abc67f&dest_id=900040727;dest_type=city;dist=0;group_adults=2;group_children=0;hapos=1;hpos=1;no_rooms=1;req_adults=2;req_children=0;room1=A%2CA;sb_price_type=total;sr_order=popularity;srepoch=1722522300;srpvid=427d655b58f60848;type=total;ucfs=1&">The House of Dracula Hotel</a>. </p>



<a href="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/501808726.jpg" class="kb-advanced-image-link"><img width="1024" height="682" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/501808726-1024x682.jpg" alt="House of Dracula Hotel" class="kb-img wp-image-7610" /></a>



<p>Who doesn&#8217;t want to stay there?</p>



<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7602_acd0dc-d2 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">The Speakers!</h2>



<p>As tradition suggests, the speaker lineup is excellent. Here are just a few examples.</p>


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<a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/alexandra-badita/" class="kb-advanced-image-link"><img width="300" height="300" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/alexandrabadita.webp" alt="Alexandra Bădiță" class="kb-img wp-image-7612" /></a>
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<h3 class="kt-adv-heading7602_aafd10-e4 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/alexandra-badita/">Alexandra Bădiță</a></h3>



<h4 class="kt-adv-heading7602_afe42b-1d wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">Turning Stories into Brands: A Blueprint for Women Entrepreneurs on WordPress</h4>



<p>Alexandra Bădiță, a storytelling and journaling expert, encourages women entrepreneurs to leverage the art of storytelling for brand-building. With over eight years in digital marketing and a Master’s in Journalism and Advertising, she empowers women to transform their narratives into impactful brands.</p>
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<a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/horia-neagu/" class="kb-advanced-image-link"><img width="300" height="300" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1588956758031.webp" alt="Horia Neagu" class="kb-img wp-image-7615" /></a>
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<h3 class="kt-adv-heading7602_92c2db-85 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/horia-neagu/">Horia Neagu</a></h3>



<h4 class="kt-adv-heading7602_fd6374-f3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">Turning the Age-Old WP Civil War Into a Win-Win</h4>



<p>For as long as we can remember, <strong>developers</strong> and <strong>SEOs</strong> have been locked in a seemingly endless tug-of-war. From conflicting priorities to communication gaps, the tension between these two crucial roles has been referred to as the <strong>“WP Civil War.”</strong> But what if there was a way to turn this age-old rivalry into a powerful partnership?</p>
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<a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/madalin-milea/" class="kb-advanced-image-link"><img width="300" height="300" src="https://heropress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/1586460837322.webp" alt="Madalin Milea" class="kb-img wp-image-7618" /></a>
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<h3 class="kt-adv-heading7602_b8c74d-34 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading"><a href="https://romania.wordcamp.org/2024/speaker/madalin-milea/">Madalin Milea</a></h3>



<h4 class="kt-adv-heading7602_b9231c-82 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">Managing Stress for a Healthier Work Experience</h4>



<p>Madalin is all about helping you find that sweet spot between work and life. In his session, he’ll dive deep into how you can <strong>maintain a work-life balance</strong>, identify your stress levels at work, and discover tools to help manage and improve your well-being. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking about:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list">
<li> Work-Life Balance: Finding the Right Mix</li>



<li> Identifying Stress Levels at Work</li>



<li> Tools for Improvement: Surveys and Focus Groups</li>



<li> Productivity Tips for Remote Workers</li>
</ol>
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<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7602_495e47-cd wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">The Venue</h2>



<p>The Poiana Brasov Leisure &amp; Entertainment Center is a delightful place full of fun things, including a video arcade, pool tables, hiking and biking areas and most importantly, session rooms!</p>



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<h2 class="kt-adv-heading7602_1b0325-87 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading">Talk to me!</h2>



<p>If you go to WordCamp Romania I&#8217;d love to talk with you about it.  We can do a text chat, or a video chat and we can talk all about it.  You can email topher at this site&#8217;s domain, or leave a comment!</p>



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<p><strong>This version of the WordPress software is under development</strong>.<strong> Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites.</strong> Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC2 on a test server and site.</p>



<p>Reaching this phase of the release cycle is an important milestone. While release candidates are considered ready for release, testing remains crucial to ensure that everything in WordPress 6.7 is the best it can be.</p>



<p>You can test WordPress 6.7 RC2 in four ways:</p>



<table><tbody><tr><th>Plugin</th><td>Install and activate the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-beta-tester/">WordPress Beta Tester</a> plugin on a WordPress install. (Select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).</td></tr><tr><th>Direct Download</th><td>Download the <a href="https://wordpress.org/wordpress-6.7-RC2.zip">RC2 version (zip)</a> and install it on a WordPress website.</td></tr><tr><th>Command Line</th><td>Use the following <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/cli/">WP-CLI</a> command:<br /><code>wp core update --version=6.7-RC2</code></td></tr><tr><th>WordPress Playground</th><td>Use the <a href="https://playground.wordpress.net/#%7B%20%22preferredVersions%22:%20%7B%20%22php%22:%20%228.0%22,%20%22wp%22:%20%22https://playground.wordpress.net/plugin-proxy.php?build-ref=218cf8089bb18bbb3f4f118d3f79a8a57e26f7a6%22%20%7D,%20%22features%22:%20%7B%20%22networking%22:%20true%20%7D,%20%22steps%22:%20%5B%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22login%22,%20%22username%22:%20%22admin%22,%20%22password%22:%20%22password%22%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22importFile%22,%20%22file%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22url%22,%20%22url%22:%20%22https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wpaccessibility/a11y-theme-unit-test/master/a11y-theme-unit-test-data.xml%22%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22importFile%22,%20%22file%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22url%22,%20%22url%22:%20%22https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WordPress/theme-test-data/master/themeunittestdata.wordpress.xml%22%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22query-monitor%22%20%7D,%20%22options%22:%20%7B%20%22activate%22:%20false%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22create-block-theme%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22debug-bar%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22health-check%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22test-reports%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D,%20%7B%20%22step%22:%20%22installPlugin%22,%20%22pluginZipFile%22:%20%7B%20%22resource%22:%20%22wordpress.org/plugins%22,%20%22slug%22:%20%22user-switching%22%20%7D,%20%22progress%22:%20%7B%20%22weight%22:%202%20%7D%20%7D%20%5D%20%7D">6.7 RC2 WordPress Playground instance</a> (available within 35 minutes after the release is ready) to test the software directly in your browser without the need for a separate site or setup.</td></tr></tbody></table>You can test the RC2 version in four ways.



<p>The current target for the WordPress 6.7 release is <strong>November 12, 2024</strong>. Get an overview of the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-7/">6.7 release cycle</a>, and check the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/">Make WordPress Core blog</a> for <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/tag/6-7/">6.7-related posts</a> in the coming weeks for further details.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">What&#8217;s in WordPress 6.7 RC2?</h2>



<p>Get a recap of WordPress 6.7’s highlighted features in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wordpress-6-7-beta-1/">Beta 1 announcement</a>. For more technical information related to issues addressed since RC1, you can browse the following links:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list">
<li><a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/commits/wp/6.7?since=2024-10-22&until=2024-10-29">GitHub commits for 6.7</a> since October 22</li>



<li><a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&changetime=10%2F22%2F2024..10%2F29%2F2024&milestone=6.7&col=id&col=summary&col=milestone&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&order=id">Closed Trac tickets</a> since October 22</li>
</ul>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How you can contribute</h2>



<p>WordPress is open source software made possible by a passionate community of people collaborating on and contributing to its development. The resources below outline various ways you can help the world’s most popular open source web platform, regardless of your technical expertise.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Get involved in testing</h3>



<p>Testing for issues is critical to ensuring WordPress is performant and stable. It’s also a meaningful way for anyone to contribute. <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/10/01/help-test-wordpress-6-7/">This detailed guide</a> will walk you through testing features in WordPress 6.7. For those new to testing, follow <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2024/02/15/help-test-wordpress-6-5-beta-1">this general testing guide</a> for more details on getting set up.</p>



<p>If you encounter an issue, please report it to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">Alpha/Beta area</a> of the support forums or directly to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/newticket">WordPress Trac</a> if you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report. You can also check your issue against a list of <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/tickets/major">known bugs</a>.</p>



<p>Curious about testing releases in general? Follow along with the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/">testing initiatives in Make Core</a> and join the <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/core-test/">#core-test channel</a> on <a href="https://wordpress.slack.com/">Making WordPress Slack</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Search for vulnerabilities</h3>



<p>From now until the final release of WordPress 6.7 (scheduled for November 12, 2024), the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/security/2024/02/12/welcoming-2024-with-wordpress-6-5-beta-1/">monetary reward for reporting new, unreleased security vulnerabilities</a> is doubled. Please follow responsible disclosure practices as detailed in the project’s security practices and policies outlined on the <a href="https://hackerone.com/wordpress">HackerOne page</a> and in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/about/security/">security white paper</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Update your theme or plugin</h3>



<p>For plugin and theme authors, your products play an integral role in extending the functionality and value of WordPress for all users.&nbsp;</p>



<p>Thanks for continuing to test your themes and plugins with the WordPress 6.7 beta releases. With RC2, you’ll want to conclude your testing and update the <em>“Tested up to”</em> version in your <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-your-readme-txt-works/">plugin’s readme file</a> to 6.7.</p>



<p>If you find compatibility issues, please post detailed information to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/forum/alphabeta/">support forum</a>.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Help translate WordPress</h3>



<p>Do you speak a language other than English? ¿Español? Français? Русский? 日本? हिन्दी? বাংলা? You can <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp/dev/">help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages</a>. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Release the haiku</h2>



<p><em>Six point seven’s dawn,<br />RC2 sweeps bugs away,<br />Sites stand firm and strong.</em></p>



<p><em>Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post:</em> <em><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/jorbin/" class="mention"><span class="mentions-prefix">@</span>jorbin</a></em>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 29 Oct 2024 17:08:31 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:14:"David Baumwald";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:47;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:37:"Matt: Kindness and Techcrunch Disrupt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:23:"https://ma.tt/?p=129406";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:42:"https://ma.tt/2024/10/kindness-techcrunch/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:1290:"<p>Back in June I recorded an episode with <a href="https://kindness.org/why-kindness/">Jaclyn Lindsey on the Why Kindness podcast</a>, for their awesome non-profit <a href="https://kindness.org/">kindness.org</a>. You can listen to it through Pocket Casts here:</p>



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<p>This is <em>kind</em> of funny because I&#8217;m obviously in the midst of the big battle with Silver Lake and WP Engine. I am a huge proponent of kindness, but sometimes you have to stand up for what&#8217;s right if someone is taking advantage of you.</p>



<p>I&#8217;m continuing to do some select press, and will be <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/wordpress-co-founder-matt-mullenweg-is-joining-techcrunch-disrupt-2024/">appearing in a conversation with Techcrunch&#8217;s Editor-in-Chief, Connie Loizos, at 10:30AM on Wednesday in San Francisco at their Disrupt conference</a>. It&#8217;s an amazing conference! Over 10k people from all over the world, just started today. I&#8217;m glad they were able to work me into the schedule, I think it will be a timely conversation. We may even have an announcement to make. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" /></p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:06:02 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4:"Matt";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:49;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:71:"WPTavern: WP Engine Files Injunction, Hearing Set for November 26, 2024";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=178456";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:80:"https://wptavern.com/wp-engine-files-injunction-hearing-set-for-november-26-2024";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5462:"<p>WP Engine filed a motion on October 18, 2024 for a preliminary <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.17.0.pdf">injunction</a> in a Northern California court, seeking restored access to WordPress.org and a reversion to conditions as of September 20, 2024. The hearing is set for November 26, 2024.</p>



<p>The Injunction filed claims that Matt and Automattic have “engaged in a self-proclaimed “nuclear” war aimed at destroying WPE’s business because WPE dared to stand up and speak out against Defendants’ extortionate demand for tens of millions of dollars annually for a purported “license” WPE does not even need.” </p>



<p>It went on to say that Matt and Automattic’s action included “blocking WPE’s access to business resources including those used to service its customers, blocking WPE’s customers from accessing important security updates, making a litany of false and disparaging statements, and even expropriating one of WPE’s most popular software products as its own. Facing this onslaught of retaliatory actions, WPE had no choice but to file suit to protect its business, its employees, its customers, and the entire community in which it operates.”</p>



<p>The injunction also mentions that WP Engine has suffered losses as&nbsp; “the data show a 14% increase in cancellation requests, 333 fewer new contracts than expected from the “sales-assisted” channel, and a 29% drop in new customers from the “self-service” channel.”</p>



<p>In <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.437474/gov.uscourts.cand.437474.33.0.pdf">response</a>, Automattic and Mullenweg stated, “This case is not about Plaintiff’s access to WordPress… this case instead is about WordPress.org – a website owned and run by Defendant Matt Mullenweg individually, for the benefit of the community he loves. WordPress.org is not WordPress. WordPress.org is not Automattic or the WordPress Foundation, and is not controlled by either. To the contrary, as Plaintiff itself acknowledges, WordPress.org is Mr. Mullenweg’s responsibility.”</p>



<p>It continues, “Mr. Mullenweg has no contracts, agreements, or obligation to provide WP Engine access to the network and resources of WordPress.org. WP Engine points to no terms, conditions, or permissions that entitle them to such access. Nevertheless, WP Engine, a private equity-backed company, made the unilateral decision, at its own risk, to build a multi-billion dollar business around Mr. Mullenweg’s website. In doing so, WP Engine gambled for the sake of profit that Mr.Mullenweg would continue to maintain open access to his website for free. That was their choice.”</p>



<p>On his blog, Matt <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/10/first-amendment/">published</a> this about WP Engine, “They say this is about community or some nonsense, but if you look at the core, what they’re trying to do is ask a judge to curtail my First Amendment rights.” he also said, “I will refrain from personally commenting on the WP Engine case until a judge rules on the injunction. I will continue to exercise my First Amendment rights to promote others’ speech.”</p>



<p>This has drawn much concern from the WordPress community. Jeff Chandler (WP Tavern founder) <a href="https://x.com/jeffr0/status/1849189230594908579">tweeted</a>,  “The words in this document can not be over emphasized enough to current and future WordPress builders. These statements generate shock waves to the core of what has been built and maintained over the last 21 years. Honestly, I don’t see Matt doing these things to any other plugin or business in the future. But the fact that he has done it at all means it’s a risk that has to be accounted for.”</p>



<p>AspirePress published <a href="https://aspirepress.org/if-wordpress-org-is-not-for-the-community-then-we-will-be/">If WordPress.org is not for the community, then we will be</a> while web developer Brian Coords <a href="https://x.com/briancoords/status/1849094116531126751">tweeted</a>, “WordPress/.org is not WordPress&#8221; is a good reminder that only the code is open source. When you build something online, you should treat all platforms and distribution channels as someone else&#8217;s sandbox and plan accordingly.”&nbsp;</p>



<p>Andrew Palmer (entrepreneur and co-founder of Bertha AI) shared another point of view in his <a href="https://x.com/arniepalmer/status/1849370561782129073">tweet</a>, “Do you really want someone else running WordPress? If so, be careful what you wish for. Have a look at the open source projects that are no longer Open Source and let me know. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formerly_open-source_or_free_software”">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formerly_open-source_or_free_software”</a>. </p>



<p>Katie Keith (CEO of BARN2 Plugins) <a href="https://x.com/KatieKeithBarn2/status/1847271162977358077">tweeted</a> about the injunction, “I hope it brings some stability to the WordPress ecosystem, as people won&#8217;t be constantly wondering what will happen next <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/72x72/1f91e.png" alt="🤞" class="wp-smiley" />.”</p>



<p>The dispute has now attracted broader media attention, with coverage from outlets including <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2y7eyp3zpo">BBC News</a>.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Mon, 28 Oct 2024 03:14:11 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:7:"Jyolsna";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}s:4:"type";i:128;s:7:"headers";O:48:"WpOrg\Requests\Utility\CaseInsensitiveDictionary":1:{s:7:"*data";a:9:{s:6:"server";s:5:"nginx";s:4:"date";s:29:"Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:32:34 GMT";s:12:"content-type";s:8:"text/xml";s:13:"last-modified";s:29:"Wed, 20 Nov 2024 07:15:29 GMT";s:4:"vary";s:15:"Accept-Encoding";s:15:"x-frame-options";s:10:"SAMEORIGIN";s:16:"content-encoding";s:2:"br";s:7:"alt-svc";s:19:"h3=":443"; ma=86400";s:4:"x-nc";s:9:"HIT ord 1";}}s:5:"build";i:1727736619;s:21:"cache_expiration_time";i:1732131154;s:23:"__cache_expiration_time";i:1732131154;}