A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
Equity and the Power of Community
While WordPress as an open source project may not be capable of refactoring unjust judicial systems or overwriting structural inequality, this does not mean that we, the WordPress community, are powerless. WordPress can’t dismantle white supremacy, but the WordPress community can invest in underrepresented groups (whose experiences cannot be substituted for) and hire them equitably. WordPress can’t eradicate prejudice, but the WordPress community can hold space for marginalized voices in our community.
Launching the New Monitive
On June 18th, the 25th Thursday of 2020, and the International Picnic Day, the new Monitive will be officially launched. The main purpose of this new Monitive is to provide a website monitoring service that’s blazing fast, easy to use for everyone and a stepping ground towards contributing to a better, brighter Internet — one site a time.
PHP Marks 25 Years
This week the web is celebrating 25 years since Rasmus Lerdorf released version 1.0 of his “Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools).” PHP is now used by 78.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language W3Techs can detect.
