WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing how Twitter has been a big part of the WordPress community space for more than a decade. With the fate of the platform up in the air, many WordPressers are staking out new Internet territory. Whether it’s Mastodon, Tumblr, Reddit, Slack, or Discord, we’ve got lots of options, but where is everyone going and what does moving medias mean to the WordPress community?

Show Notes: https://wpwatercooler.com/wpwatercooler/ep435-wordpress-takes-flight-community-in-a-post-twitter-world/

• Jan Boddez
• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler Jill Binder will be joining us to talk about the #WPDiversity initiative. As part of the Diverse Speaker Training Group on the WordPress.org Community Team, Jill has been hosting an ongoing series of workshops around the world, focusing on new speaker training and diversity awareness for WordCamp organizers.

Also joining us is Oneal Rosero WordPress Community Volunteer for Diversity Team and Training Team. Oneal contributes 5 hours per week to Community, Documentation, Support, Test, and Training.

We’ll talk about their past successes, future plans, and the current state of speaker diversity in WordPress.

• More about Jill Binder https://jillbinder.com
• More about Diverse In Tech https://diversein.tech
• #WPDiversity handbook: https://tiny.cc/wpdiversity
• More about Oneal Rosero https://trooperdad.com/

Panel:

• Jill Binder – https://jillbinder.com
• Oneal Rosero – https://trooperdad.com/
• Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog
• Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com
• Jason Cosper – https://jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’ll be discussing the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release and what we have seen so far in the release candidate.

• Beta 1 Feature Freeze: September 21, 2022 – Testing and Bug Fixes
• Release Candidate 11: October 4, 2022
• Dry Run: October 28, 2022
• WordPress 6.1 General Release: November 1, 2022

Links:

• What’s New in WordPress 6.1: Fluid Typography, Improved Template System, New Site Health Checks, and Much More!
• Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for creativity and control

• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler we will continue our discussion with John James Jacoby and Matt Cromwell from EP23 of Dev Branch about the WordPress plugin repo’s Active Install Growth Chart. In this episode, we’ll focus on the effects of the removal of the chart on the community, including how the data was used by the wider WordPress ecosystem and the community’s response to the removal.

• #6511 new enhancement – Bring back the active install growth chart
• Podz Response om trac ticket – Matt-Bomb “Matt Mullenweg is very happy to have you help make WP what it is and now he will be keeping the entire pie for himself”

Panel:

• Jason Cosper
• Jason Tucker
• John James Jacoby
• Matt Cromwell
• Otto
• Sé Reed

This week on WPwatercooler were discussing the major problem of microaggression.

• Enough with this woke stuff: and other racist speech you can unlearn masterwp.com
• Reverse Racism Is Not Real – underrepresentedintech
• Workshop: How to Be An Ally – allienimmons.com

Jason Tucker – https://jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – https://sereedmedia.com John Locke https://lockedownseo.com

This week on the show were celebrating 10 years of producing WPwatercooler. We’ll look back at some of the highlights, our past guests, and the various topics we’ve discussed on the show.

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on the show we are going to be discussing the contributor day that happened just after WordCamp US 2022 in San Diego. Joining us this week is a returning guest Courtney Robertson who is a web design dev advocate at GoDaddy Pro and WP Training team co-rep. Courtney was recently on EP21 – Post Formats Status and EP14 – Developing WordPress Developers of Dev Branch

• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/
• https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/webp-in-core-for-6-1/
• https://github.com/orgs/WordPress/projects/33
• https://make.wordpress.org/latest
• https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/#:~:text=was%20built%20for.-,decisions,-%2C%20not%20Options
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/rollback-update-failure/
• https://github.com/afragen/git-updater
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-plugin-dependencies/

Courtney Robertson – courtneyr.dev Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re discussing WordCamp US 2022 happening during our recording. Sé Reed is on location sharing with us her experience there.

• More Ztrip? – Soundcloud
• WordPress Faces
• WordCamp Sessions

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re going to be discussing the WordPress Photo Directory which consists of free, high-quality, CC0-licensed, community-submitted photographs. We’ll be speaking with Katie Richards, Marcus Burnette, and Topher DeRosia on the upcoming directory launch.

• WordPress Photos – Make
• WordPress Photo Directory
• https://profiles.wordpress.org/zengy/
• https://wordpress.org/openverse/
• https://wordpress.org/photos/author/jenniferbourn/
• https://www.deepstack.ai/
• https://wordpress.org/photos/t/worldphotographyday22/
• https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/33462fcf29/
• https://tineye.com/
• https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/70461c4deb/
• https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/6686212c18/

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Katie Richards Marcus Burnette – mburnette.com Toper DeRosia – heropress.com

This week on WPwatercooler we’re going to be discussing the WebP file format and native support for it in WordPress. With support for WebP being added in 2021, it is now merged into core with the intention of being the default image format for WordPress moving forward. We’ll be discussing this with Jon Brown of 9seeds, a longtime friend of the show who is overdue for a return visit. He was last on “EP316 – Discussing a hard week in WordPress” back in April of 2019.

Jason Tucker – jasontucker.blog Steve Zehngut – Zeek.com Sé Reed – sereedmedia.com Jason Cosper – jasoncosper.com Jon Brown – 9seeds.com