WordCamp Miami

#WordPress 6.3 is out. 🔥 Help me thank lead @matias_ventura and the 650+ contributors (205+ first time contributors! 52+ countries! and their partners, family, pets, coffee/tea providers, therapists, and friends that supported them. :-) wordpress.org/news/2023/08/l…

Happy #WordPress (6.3) release day to those who celebrate.

If you know anyone effected by layoffs in #WordPress and want to know more about @AwesomeMotive (jobs or culture) privately DM me. I’ve had discussions w/ folks in the past and i’ll be happy to be open and honest. awesomemotive.com/careers/

Good grief. If you have a WordCamp ticket (including @WordCampUS) and can’t go… sell it at most for what you paid for it. It’s a feel-good #WordPress community move. #WCUS

#WordPress Proposal: Criteria for Removing “Beta Support” from Each #PHP 8+ Version (via @hellofromTonya) make.wordpress.org/core/2023…

“OptinAble” is a free #WordPress plugin "for collecting email subscribers and boosting your website conversions”. optinable.com

Big entry into AI in the #WordPress space: @automattic annnounced that @Jetpack gets "Jetpack AI Assistant” available for WP.com and Jetpack powered sites. jetpack.com/blog/introducing…

Number of times "Machine Learning" has been mentioned so far: 3+ Number of times "AI" has been mentioned: 0 #WWDC #WWDC23

“#WordPress force installs critical Jetpack patch on 5 million sites”. bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…

Proposal: establishment of a formal #WordPress Sustainability Team make.wordpress.org/project/2… "Awareness… of carbon emission, guidance for event organizers, Creation and promotion of eco-friendly themes and plugins."

#WP20 perspective (“popular” #WordPress plugin debuts). 2003- WP 2005- Akismet 2006- WP Super Cache 2007- @yoast SEO, All In One SEO, NextGEN 2008- Duplicate Post 2009- Events Cal 2010- ACF,UpDraft+ 2011- Jetpack, GA for WP 2012- EDD 2013- @WPRocket 2016- @elemntor @wpforms 1/2

Some #WP20 perspective: PHP - 1995 JavaScript - 1995 Flash - 1996 CSS3 - 1999 Blogger - 1999 PHP Nuke - 2000 Drupal- 2001 Movable Type - 2001 👉 #WordPress - 2003 Flickr - 2004 Squarespace - 2004 Joomla - 2005 Shopify - 2006 jQuery - 2006 HTML5 - 2008 Magento - 2008 Ghost - 2013

Recommend giving this recent video of @Dries @photomatt @mikelittlezed1 a watch. Histroic in terms of these three never been in person together before. #WordPress and open source covered. #WP20 youtube.com/watch?v=QYhIItlP…

In honor of #WP20 I did “memory draft” podcasts i did w/ some great #WordPress people. Here’s one produced by @TheWPMinute (thanks to them). thewpminute.com/wordpress-20… Guests included @speckyboy @jeffr0 @raemoreywrites @kennethspeaks.

#WP20 shoutout to EARLY #WordPress supporters - many joined the WP community not aware/assumed were always around: @wpcandy @wptavern @goGreenGeeks @WPCodePoet @iThemes Manage WP @WP101 @wpbeginner @crowdfavorite @pippinsplugins @mediatemple @Krogsgard WooThemes Copyblogger

Keeping this short and sweet. Before the weekend, I wanted to thank not only @mikelittlezed1 @photomatt for starting #WordPress 20 years ago… …but all those that have made an impact on it since, those who are making impacts on it today. Here’s to another 20. 👍🏻 #WP20

Here’s two #wp20 episodes via @wptavern (thx to @pollyplummer @wpbuilds): wptavern.com/podcast/wordpre… wptavern.com/podcast/wordpre… Thx to @karmatosed @aurooba @renewabelle @maestro_stevens @meherbala @krafit @nullbytes for being great guests and sharing awesome #WordPress moments. 2/2

New AI #WordPress plugin on the @wpfrontpage list: GPTEverest: a "WordPress AI assistant”. wpfront.page/list/ai-plugins…

Armchair WordCampers: Follow some #WordPress action at @WordCampBuffalo today w/ @thisismyurl @courtneyr_dev @chrissiepollock @dcook @jason_coleman @tiffany @michelleames @Erin_Go_Blog @topher1kenobe @maestro_stevens and more! buffalo.wordcamp.org/2023/ #wcbuf