A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
Finding WordPress in the Post-Print News Era
Right now the landscape of news media seems to be moving towards hosted platforms for enterprise customers. WordPress could be more strategically positioned to capture this industry by making it easy to launch a fully open-source powered newsroom for publications of any size. A community-supported online news/magazine distribution could establish WordPress as the go-to CMS for newspapers entering the digital-only era.
New Academy Courses: Announcing the BEST WordPress Multisite Course on the Web
Enrollments are now open for three new courses in The Academy: WordPress Multisite Masterclass, WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, and (by popular demand) our CEO James Farmer’s hugely successful Dream Small, Market Big & Don’t Do It This Way course on how to start an internet business is back for another run.
If you’re a WPMU DEV member, you can enroll in any – or all! – of these courses for free!
Shiny Updates Approved for Partial Merge Into WordPress 4.6
The Shiny Updates project was approved for partial merge during an additional meeting designated for reviewing improvements added within the last week. A decision was expected last week but was delayed after contributors discovered that the plugin required three more audits to be ready for merge. Drew Jaynes completed a documentation audit and Dominik Schilling completed a security review and found no issues.
