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> Some extracts: > >> Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X,YouTube, and even on the Wordpress.org site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses > >> During calls on September 17th and 19th, for instance, Automattic CFO Mark Davies told a WP Engine board member that Automattic would “go to war” if WP Engine did not agree to pay its competitor Automattic a significant percentage of its gross revenues – tens of millions of dollars in fact – on an ongoing basis. Mr. Davies suggested the payment ostensibly would be for a “license” to use certain trademarks like WordPress, even though WP Engine needs no such license. WP Engine’s uses of those marks to describe its services – as all companies in this space do – are fair uses under settled trademark law and consistent with WordPress’ own guidelines. Automattic’s CFO insisted that WP Engine provide its response to this demand immediately and later, on the day of the keynote, followed up with an email reiterating a claimed need for WP Engine to concede to the demands “before Matt makes his WCUS keynote at 3:45 p.m. PDT today.” > >> In parallel and throughout September 19 and 20, Mr. Mullenweg embarked on a series of harassing text messages and calls to WP Engine’s board member and also its CEO, threatening that if WP Engine did not agree to pay up prior to the start of Mr. Mullenweg’s livestreamed keynote address at 3:45pm on September 20, he would go “nuclear” on WP Engine, including by smearing its name, disparaging its directors and corporate officers, and banning WP Engine from WordPress community events. > > They... they have text message captures. In the pdf. Matt Mullenweg was trying to extort them ... by text messages. They seem to have the entire thing in the writting. > >> In the final minutes leading up to his keynote address, Mr. Mullenweg sent one last missive: a photo of the WordCamp audience waiting to hear his speech, with the message that he could shift gears and turn his talk into “just a Q&A” if WP Engine agreed to pay up > > They finish requesting Automattic to "preserve, and not destroy, any and all documents or information in their possession, custody, or control that may be relevant to any dispute between WP Engine and Automattic". They are going to war, big time. > > All this crap is just because they refuse to pay his protection money. And the guy has been stupid enough to put everything in writting.

Is there a plug in that changes the wordpress functionality to include post types that only have an image or a video with a short text? Or also just notes?

I manage a WordPress site hosted on SiteGround for a friend. The website keeps going down due to updates of some sort or another, and I'm trying to resolve this issue.

SiteGround forces major and minor auto-updates at least every 3 days (if available), and offers the option to autoupdate plugins (which I have on). Inside of the WordPress admin page, none of the plugins are set to auto-update, and I can see some offering to update individually/manually.

My question is this: what is the intended update model for WordPress? Should I just set everything to autoupdate to the extent possible? Although I'm facing issues now, my other software experiences tell me this is a bad idea. I'm used to "update when you want or need a new feature, but nothing will break if you don't", but is this just not how WordPress was designed?

Thanks!

When looking for plugins how do people sort through all the 'free' plugins that sound great but are actually 'fremuim' where all the key features are actually in a PRO version?

How do you locate the fully featured proper open source plugins that are well maintained and used?

As a middle ground, we could implement a solution for the bottom tier: small to medium sites and blogs. These sites don’t necessarily need a full-fledged MySQL database.

SQLite seems to be the perfect fit:

• It is the most widely used database worldwide
• It is cross-platform and can run on any device
• It is included by default on all PHP installations (unless explicitly disabled)
• WordPress’s minimum requirements would be a simple PHP server, without the need for a separate database server.
• SQLite support enables lower hosting costs, decreases energy consumption, and lowers performance costs on lower-end servers.

What would the benefits of SQLite be?

Officially supporting SQLite in WordPress could have many benefits. Some notable ones would include:

• Increased performance on lower-end servers and environments.
• Potential for WordPress growth in markets where we did not have access due to the system’s requirements.
• Potential for growth in the hosting market using installation “scenarios”.
• Reduced energy consumption – increased sustainability for the WordPress project.
• Further WordPress’s mission to “democratize publishing” for everyone.
• Easier to contribute to WordPress – download the files and run the built-in PHP server without any other setup required.
• Easier to use automated tests suite.
• Sites can be “portable” and self-contained.

Source and other links:

• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/12/lets-make-wordpress-officially-support-sqlite/
• https://make.wordpress.org/performance/roadmap-2023/#category-database-optimization
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/sqlite-database-integration/

I wanted to make a category on my blog, where I post either single images, or groups of a few images. I don't think they really would need a proper post, but I simply wanted a place to post images

I guess a gallery is the ideal way of doing this, but then they would all end up in one huge gallery instead of a feed of images.

Do you have any ideas on what would work best for this? It is basically an instagram type of feed, where I can share images without really too much fuss and where they are easy to browse

Maybe a feed from the image library instead?

This might not be new, I hadn't dealt with WordPress/WooCommerce in a while.

Currently (v8.8.2) in a new WooCommerce installation the "Checkout" page is created using blocks, like so:

``` <!-- wp:woocommerce/checkout-payment-block --> <div class="wp-block-woocommerce-checkout-payment-block"></div> <!-- /wp:woocommerce/checkout-payment-block -->

(...) ```

The problem

This might introduce breaking changes to the plugins and themes you normally use. For example, I couldn't add a new field - programatically or using a plugin.

The fix

Remove the blocks and revert to using the shortcode:

[woocommerce_checkout]

I want to run a Wordpress site, where users can sign up and publish their own blog/journals. Its for a niche hobby, where each user can sign up, and start sharing their experiences and updates they do with their hobby.

My initial plan is to have a main front page feed with updates from all uses, but also a page for each user to group their posts. Also options to follow each user and intergration to ActivityPub.

How would you suggest I did this? Do I need any plug in, or would a vanilla installation work fine for it?

I want to make an online store but don’t want to pay $$$$ for Shopify. I looked into woocommerce and it looks exactly like what I want but hosting companies seem to charge extra for woocommerce options. I have deployed my own Wordpress in the past and know enough about front and back end to work things out on my own. Can I just get one of the standard Wordpress option and install woocommerce on it or does it need something extra in the backend that justifies the extra cost?

Also who do you recommend that is cheap and still fairly reliable. It’s a small shop for handmade customized items.

> Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.

Is it possible to publish posts on Lemmy from your Wordpress blog? If this post appears in the @wordpress@lemmy.world community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

https://www.informapirata.it/2024/01/02/is-it-possible-to-publish-posts-about-lemmy-from-your-wordpress-blog/

If this post appears in the @wordpress community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

Source

If this post appears in the @wordpress community then this hypothesis will be confirmed!

Source

Let me clarify that with that it's great for writing blog posts, but layout? Geezus it sucks.

Hi all, I recently started my own ecommerce store with Woocommerce and I'm wondering if there is a free backup solution? So to backup my store, database - everything - in case something goes tits up. I have a NAS drive which could be used for storage. Any ideas? Thanks

The new extended character limitation in VS is great, but that doesn't mean the #blogging era is over! 🙅

Our #ad-free blogging platform has recently been updated to the latest @wordpress , which comes bearing gifts! 🎁

Did you know you can share your #blogs to the #Fediverse as well?

Explore all the features and get #writing!👇

https://vivaldi.com/blog/power-up-your-blogging-skills-vivaldi-community-blogs/

I'm about to move a wp site installed with a one-click installer, but want to make a "proper" installation at the new host. Are there any special issues with such a transfer I should be aware of? @wordpress \#wordpress

I did so much networking that I need to go back and catch up! LOL

If you ever get a chance to make it to a WordCamp (regional or national) do so. It's so much fun and educational.

Hi everyone I'm in the market for a new web host.

Ideally the host should have a CPanel for dns, subdomains, sql etc etc etc and the possibility for a staging site is most desirable.

Shared Linux is fine. In the past I've used namecheap and 20i.

Any tips would be great, thank you!

Morning,

I would like to create a niche wordpress site that import RSS feeds, create posts from it, and create a newsletter from the posts created.

So a user would subscribe to my newsletter about posts created from RSS feeds about Topic1. Another user would subscribe to my newsletter about Topic2, etc. But they will also be able to go and read the posts on my website with links to the original news articles.

The purpose would be for a user who is an accountant, to come to my website, click on the accountant option newsletter and only receive news for accountants.

The attorney would do the same, and only receive news for attorneys, etc.

What addons would be the best to use....and free.

Thanks!

Hey all,

I'm trying to migrate my site from one domain to another. I'm not the host on the original domain, so I just want to export the website somehow and reupload to the new host. I've tried the Jetpack, All-in-one Migration and WPVivid plugins, all which haven't worked, probably because my site works with a few plugins and is around 200 Mb. Any tips would be appreciated.

I'm looking for a service which can host my wordpress site. Any recomendations? Cheap and secure is what I'm after.

Pfupfert es euch auch so, bei @TaskCards und Padlet auf 2 Pinnwände beschränkt zu sein, keinen Import/Export zu haben und damit auch kein #OER machen zu können? Eigentlich braucht es nur ein bisschen @wordpress und horizontales Scrolling z.B. mit Stackable. #FediLZ #WordPress #TaskCards #Padlet

The Gutenberg Social Media button plugin doesn't allow you to add your own. Any suggestions?

Hi guys, so me and my mates got a website running for "internal use", like sharing pictures, recipes, events and stuff like that. We tried The Events Calendar, but the synchronisation only works if the site is public. Do you guys have any ideas what we could use? Maybe a google calendar that we synchronize with the website or something?

Just curious what kind of plugins people are using regularly. Personally, I like these ones:

Dashboard customization

• Admin and Site Enhancements (ASE)
• Happy Files

Performance

• WP-Optimize
• Freesoul Deactivate Plugins

Form: WS-Form

Multilingual: Polylang

Security: FluentAuth

Analytics

Currently deciding between these two:

• Independent Analytics
• Burst Statistics

Code Snippets: WPCodeBox

Events: VS Event List

Block plugins

• Block Visibility
• Pattern Manager

SEO: The SEO Framework

Public beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/1LHlA8uA