“I totally rely on [the community] now… it’s like an extended family… it means a lot to me and I’m glad that everybody’s hanging on in there with me.” —Nathan Wrigley

After the first Post Status WordPress News Draft went so well, we decided to do a more European timezone-friendly version. The group of news “avengers” that assembled in this episode are Winstina Hughes, Tammie Lister, Nathan Wrigley, Amber Hinds, Yvette Sonneveld, and Malcom Peralty — with David Bisset hosting. In three rounds of draft picks, this group assembled new and interesting picks of the most noteworthy or influential WordPress news stories of 2021.

Also: Video recordings of some of our members' single biggest news picks were included in this episode.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

Amber Hinds

1. WP Tavern: ACF Solicits Lifetime License Holders for Contributions, Urging Them to Purchase Annual Subscriptions.
2. Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog: The ADA Lawsuit Settlement Involving an Accessibility Overlay. (Murphy v. Eyebobs)
3. WP Tavern: WordPress Classic Editor Support Extended for at Least Another Year.
4. WP Tavern: Wix Takes a Jab at WordPress with Bewildering New marketing Campaign and Wix’s Negative Advertising Campaign Falls Flat with WordPress Developers and Professionals.

Yvette Sonneveld

1. WP Tavern: WordPress Community Team Proposes Using a Decision Checklist to Restart Local Events.
2. Joost.blog: WordPress Market Share Growth Slows Down.
3. Rian Rietveld: Accessibility Overlays: Common Sense and Nonsense.
4. WIRED: An Open Source License that Requires Users to Do No Harm.
5. The Guardian: Online Forums Provide Safe Haven for People Who Suffer from Mental Health Challenges During COVID.

Tammie Lister

1. Make.WordPress.org: Pattern directory update.
2. Matias Ventura: Theme.json horizon.
3. Kjellr.com: Experimenting .
4. Aino: Theme Update Guide.

Winstina Hughes

• Post Status Podcast 37 - David and Mary Job.

Nathan Wrigley

• WordPress.org: Openverse.
• Wordfest.com: Community.

Malcolm Peralty

• WP Tavern: Gravity Forms 2.5 Launches With an Overhauled UI and Focus on Accessibility.
• WP Tavern: ElasticPress.io Service Considers Next Move after Elasticsearch Abandons Open Source Licensing.
• WP Tavern: Elastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork.
• Wordfence: GoDaddy Breached – Plaintext Passwords – 1.2M Affected.
• WP Tavern: Delicious Brains Acquires Advanced Custom Fields Plugin.
• WP Tavern: ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements.
• WP Mainline: Why Can’t I Transform Two Paragraph Blocks and an Ordered List Block Into A Quote Block?

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• ZipMessage: Biggest News Story of 2021

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