“Betrayed by #WordPress”

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hirozed.me/betrayed/

“The very language that allowed WordPress to take a significant chunk of the total websites, is now a second-class citizen.”

#PHP #javascript

Time to share a #WordPress side project.

wpfront.page is a “front page newspaper” for (hand!) curated WP content and news sources. Beta & not up to full speed yet. Kicking tires during #WCAsia.

News, blogs, jobs, podcasts, and social. Also Twitter & Mastodon posts. t.co/VuNOb7pUub

Currently looking for new opportunities. Feel free to reply or DM me if you know of any. 🙂🙏 #wordpress

Someone recently asked how to #optimize a #WordPress website. Let’s begin 🧵:

1. Don’t use anything created by Syed Balkhi;
2. If you sell stuff via WooCommerce, best to create a separate WordPress installation (until they hire me to fix their shit);

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Who’s hiring amazing #WordPress devs these days?

Throwing it out to my #WordPress peeps, I was laid off today from the agency I was with.
I’ll explore what’s next over the next couple days, but if anyone out there needs a frontend dev, please hit me up. 15 years in WP. I have good references from current, but projects dried up.

Any #WordPress folks using Advance Custom Fields (@acf) important security update FYI. Backported support for those using ACF 5.

advancedcustomfields.com/blog/ac…

Been working on this one for quite a while… A proposal to officially support #SQLite in #WordPress. There have been requests for that for 17 years 😱
Let’s make it happen! 🥰
make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/…

I’m looking for some part-time #WordPress development work. Could be a single project, or retained. Over 10 years WP experience. I’ve built dozens of plugins, and dozens of themes. DMs welcome, retweets appreciated!

Resume:
alexstandiford.com/resume

A Backend Engineer Learns to Build Block Editor Blocks, Part 1 tommcfarlin.com/learning-to-buil…

🧱 Here’s my introduction into getting into #BlockEditor development for #WordPress coming from a backend background. Hope you dig it.

Part 1 of N. 🤓 t.co/x5sV32gi2c

Can we please talk about the fact that #WordPress themes are not about “colors & fonts”, but are what shapes the markup being generated on the frontend – the super-power that allowed WP to remain relevant across multiple iterations of the web.

=> theme.json is not a replacement.

I’m looking for a partner “back-end” #WordPress engineer to work with me in a 20 hrs/week contractor position at Cornell University College of Business. The deadline to apply is this week, June 16. Please share around. Link with details and how to apply: drive.google.com/file/d/10nVaJ35…

At @CoderPad we’ve got these Call to Action components spread across the site. Here is how we make them in #WordPress and keep track of where they are used.

WordPress 5.9 is available for download! Named after international jazz vocalist Josephine Baker, this release represents the work of more than 600 contributors and comes with a host of new tools. #WordPress wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josep…

It’s Wednesday, and on Wednesday we help awesome people find awesome jobs in #WordPress.

Comment below with any open positions in your company or that you know about. (I’ll list a bunch, too.)

Together, we make our community stronger.

#workwednesday #wordpressjobs t.co/pecKP8HIbl

Seeking guests to interview on @GetHiredWP about jobs in the #WordPress ecosystem. One who does the job AND one who hires those roles. #WordPressJobs

Retweets appreciated. Career areas 🧵👇🏻 t.co/JQ0b9sRUVz

Hey #wordpress friends, I’m looking for a new gig, who’s hiring?

We ❤️ the web! If you do too then come join us. Southampton or remote (UK).

You’ll:

– work with #WordPress, @TimberWP, Lumberjack & @wp_acf
– balance visual design, a11y, performance & technical SEO
– contribute to open source
– be part of a great team

rareloop.com/role/web-developer/

We are hiring! If you are a #WordPress developer looking for a new challenge / want to work with the brightest brains in WordPress then join us at @atomicsmash

bristolcreativeindustries.com/jo…

As big proponents of web performance, we’re so happy to hear that the next major release of #WordPress will natively support WebP! make.wordpress.org/core/2021/06/…