Matt: Selling Your Company

I would like to offer some free business advice to people who are considering selling something they’ve created. First, if the buyer insists you don’t talk to any other bidders, you are being screwed. They only do this because they don’t want you to find the market-clearing price. Do you think when Microsoft called LinkedIn […]

How I Display WooCommerce Reviews Anywhere in WordPress (& Boost Sales)

Hiding your best WooCommerce reviews on product pages is like keeping your top salespeople in the back room. When reviews are scattered or hidden, most visitors never see them. And that means missed chances to earn trust and make sales. By showing your reviews on your homepage and other key pages, visitors can see real […]

Matt: New Headphones

Not doing a full What’s In My Bag yet, but I do want to highlight I’ve been really enjoying the Sennheiser HDB 630 Wireless Over-Ear Headphones. Hat tip: Philip Kaplan aka Pud. ​ 

Matt: WordPress Everywhere

As we announced and TechCrunch covered, my.wordpress.net has soft-launched. What this means is you need to fundamentally shift how you think about WordPress. From the beginning, WordPress has always been open source, giving you freedom, liberty, autonomy, and digital sovereignty. Open source is the most powerful idea of our generation. For the past few decades, […]

Open Channels FM: The Evolution of Hosting Security Standards and the Impact on Emerging Technologies

In today’s episode it’s time to take a look into the world of ethical hosting and the ever-evolving challenges of internet infrastructure. Joining co-hosts Dave Lockie and Robert Jacobi is David Snead, director of the Secure Hosting Alliance (SHA) and a longstanding advocate for better standards in web hosting. In this conversation, they explores what […]

WordPress.org blog: Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress

For nearly two decades, WordPress has been known for a simple, powerful idea: that anyone should be able to get online and start creating with minimal friction. The famous five-minute install captured that spirit for an earlier era of the web. Today, we’re introducing my.WordPress.net, a new take on that idea designed for a new […]

#208 – Behind the Scenes at the CloudFest Hackathon

Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: 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 a firsthand look at the CloudFest Hackathon. If you’d like to subscribe to […]

WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9.4 Release

WordPress 6.9.4 is now available! WordPress 6.9.2 and WordPress 6.9.3 were released yesterday, addressing 10 security issues and a bug that affected template file loading on a limited number of sites. The WordPress Security Team has discovered that not all of the security fixes were fully applied, therefore 6.9.4 has been released containing the necessary […]

WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9.2 Release

WordPress 6.9.2 is now available! This is a security release that features several fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. You can download WordPress 6.9.2 from WordPress.org, or visit your WordPress Dashboard, click “Updates”, and then click “Update Now”. If you have sites that support automatic […]

WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9.3 and 7.0 beta 4

WordPress 6.9.2 was released earlier today and addressed 10 security issues. A few users have subsequently reported an issue where the front end of their site was appearing blank after updating to 6.9.2. The issue has been narrowed down to some themes using an unusual approach to loading template files via “stringable objects” instead of […]