Help is out there if you or your organisation are wanting to transition off of dangerous and socially irresponsible (and sometimes downright evil) corporate web services! Regain autonomy of your data, and stop supporting #capitalistDestruction at the same time!
We can help you transition away from:
Substack
Twitter
Facebook/Instagram
Dropbox, iCloud, etx
Amazon/Audible
Google
Almost anything else!
You're in the right place already! Just pop up your hand and let us know what you need!
If you're not too concerned with the monetization aspects and into something clean & barebones, you could also consider #writeFreely (I use this myself).
WordPress celebrates 20 years tomorrow. It's grown from a comment on a blog post to a web spanning phenomenon. Thanks to an outstanding community and the freedoms of Open Source. Happy Birthday, WordPress! #WP20#WordPress
Video with captions https://vimeo.com/830357628
Are you a #php developer or a WordPress/Laravel/Symfony/Drupal developer?
Understanding the underlying language will make you more effective and considerably more flexible/employable.
Understanding the language helps you read the framework code and make sense of complex things. It lets you adopt new tech. And it empowers you to switch from one project to another without fear.
Security support for PHP v8.0 ends on 11/26/23. To keep your PHP-based website secure and up to date, test your website with v8.1 or v8.2 and upgrade your site now. You can find more info on supported versions at https://buff.ly/2XOqjiB#WordPress#Drupal#Joomla#Magento#PHP
Are there any designers / developers on here that specialize in #WordPress? We have some big ideas for our site, and would prefer to commission someone from the #Fediverse.
50+ sites are using my Detect Missing Adblocker WordPress plugin, which lets you warn your site's visitors if they don't have an ad-blocker installed.
Huge thanks to everyone who shared it over the past few weeks!
There's a few ad-blocking methods that the plugin can't handle yet, so if you have a bit of time and necessary skills, please have a look at these open issues:
The latest drama is that Automattic is about to sign a deal with OpenAI to train AI on WordPress.com and Tumblr content.
Everyone’s got very angry about it. Everyone also conveniently forgot to even mention that OpenAI probably already had crawled most if not all of WP and Tumbler.
Automattic also allows users to opt out and that fueled the Opt Out/Consent discussion that started a bit earlier. I’ll get to it later.
Just the day before (or it feels like it) Google signed a deal with Reddit to get all the data to train their AI.
Everyone’s got very angry about it. Everyone also conveniently forgot to even mention that Google of all corps probably already had crawled most if not all of Reddit. The $60M Google paid is a convenience fee to get a nice db bump instead of having to scrap and clean up all that text.
Reddit doesn't let user to Opt Out.
Last week (or it feels like it) one guy wanted to bridge public toots from Mastodon to bluesky.
Everyone’s got very angry about it. Everyone also conveniently forgot to even mention that people could read those toots just using a different client or a browser. All the bridge did was bring toots to a different audience and allowed them to engage with those toots.
The bride also allows people to opt out and that rekindled the Opt Out/Consent discussion that started a bit earlier. I’ll get to it later.
Some time last year a guy built a Fediverse search engine because discovery between instances is terrible.
Everyone’s got very angry about it. Everyone also conveniently forgot to even mention that most toots are indexed by big search engines anyway but because they rank low they just rarely surface in the results.
The search engine also allowed people to opt out and that kinda started the Opt Out/Consent discussion. I’ll get to it in a bit.
Some time later a completely unrelated thing happened. Discord decided that they won’t let people hotlink images uploaded to Discord.
Everyone’s got very angry about it. But also this time people didn’t forget to mention that you shouldn’t use discord for anything you don’t want to lose. Thing like lore, documentation and basically anything that can be useful 5 minutes after it was said better be somewhere else. The reason is Discord servers are private in the sense that you have to use a specific piece of software with an account to access it. Anything posted there is not accessible outside, including through a search engine.
While all this was going on quite a few people in seemingly unrelated fashion were expressing dissatisfaction with interactions they were having on Mastodon. Specifically they were angry about certain types of replies they were getting. The replies were not threatening or insulting but they were not welcome in a way that I’m having trouble articulating. The most common case I saw is someone would post something open-ended or state a problem they have and they would get a bunch of suggestions how to possibly solve it or people sharing their experience either affirming the problem or otherwise.
Some people got very angry about this. They also conveniently forgot to even notice that this is a non-standard arrangement and they want to Opt Out of the more common case provided by the platform.
So finally we’re at the Opt Out. There’s a lot of different takes but the main thrust is that things should be Opt In instead of the other way around. And I agree. Where I don’t agree is that you all Opt In when you post stuff publicly on the internet. Once you do you set your thing free into the world. You resign control over it. You do not expect to opt in to every single read on your blog. If you want to control who access what you write you don’t post it on the internet in public, you send it in private. Consequently you do not retroactively revoke access. You all know that internet never forgets. You can’t unpublished things on the internet. It was already copied, screenshotted, and archived. And you didn’t know what happens to it unless you’re told.
Wollt ihr mir helfen? Ich würde mich über einen #Boost :BoostOK: sehr freuen - danke vorab :)
Als ausgebildeter IT-Systemkaufmann war ich selbstständig mit der Erstellung einfacher Internetseiten (HTML/CSS/WordPress) und als "ebay-Verkaufsagent".
In zahlreichen vertrauensvollen Gesprächen mit Privat- und Firmenkund*innen konnte ich optimale Lösungen entwickeln und ggf. in #WordPress schulen.
Die eine oder andere schöne Erfahrung blieb mir aus dieser Zeit guter Erinnerung :)
Mein Spezialgebiet:
Online-Kundenservice ( #CustomerCare / #SoftwareSupport ), vom Onlineshop und über ebay und Amazon, bis hin zum Support spezialisierter Branchen-Software; #B2C und #B2B, auf Deutsch und #Englisch (B2-C1), per Ticket-System, Mail und telefonisch.
In diesem Bereich (o.ä.) würde ich auch gern weiterhin meine Stärke der Kommunikation mit Kund*innen ausspielen.
@alex just released v0.9.0 of the Enable-Mastodon-Apps Plugin for #WordPress This is such a big release that also includes our changes from the #CloudFest#Hackathon!
Read the news that #Tumblr and #WordPress will sell your data you host on their platforms to train #AI? You aren't happy with that? Why not switch to a self hosted version at https://uberspace.de. We have a ton of easy to follow guides to install your favorite software, WordPress too: https://lab.uberspace.de/ 🚀
#a11y question: For this new #Mastadon#WordPress plugin I am working on that displays your Mastodon feed , would you like all the posts as headings or just a list? #accessibility#WCAG
Fellow #WordPress developers building websites, I beg you. Please learn about must-use plugins, and every time you think about adding a special hook to your functions.php file, think for a moment – is what you’re adding going likely going to want to continue to be used when you change themes? If so, put it in your must-use plugin instead of the theme. You’ll save yourself so many headaches when you change the theme in the future.
Important sidenote: "Unless funding is found to continue maintaining WordPressCS and its dependencies, the future is bleak and maintenance will be halted."
Is your employer using the WordPressCS, or are you running a business and are you using it, donate to/sponsor the project, or its maintainers. #WordPress needs it.
The last one is a payed service and has nothing to do with the open source captcha solution by the european union (despite the name nearly similar name)
“…the other big problem in Gutenberg development moves so fast we’re already talking about collaborative editing before screen reader users have a fair experience to edit by themselves. And don’t you all think that’s a little bit backwards? Because I sure do.”
The #WordPress Coding Standards project is at risk of being halted without more volunteers/funding. @chris and I will be talking to @jrf_nl, the maintainer of WPCS, about the recent release of WPCS 3.0 and the project's future.
While we'll be talking about this specific tool, I think this will be interesting for anyone who'd like to learn about what it's like maintaining a crucial #OpenSource project, and how to keep these projects thriving.