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Automattic invests $30 million in email startup
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"Email is the de-facto standard for communication at work - for asynchronous discussions, taking decisions and closing deals," tweets Turakhia. "But in 2021, great business email is hard to come by. We still use the same email products that were designed for personal use - at work."
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Dr Omkar Rai, Director General of Software Technology Parks of India, tweets the investment is a "… laudable step towards disrupting the email software market and delivering an alternative to the existing email service providers."
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Simple Feature Requests announces new owners
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It's certainly the year for acquisitions. Kemp's WooCommerce extension business Iconic was acquired by StellarWP, web host Liquid Web's software business, back in June.
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Meanwhile, 2021 also seems to be the year for acquiring a plugin business, transforming it into an almost different product, and outraging users, according to WPTavern's Justin Tadlock. He highlights the recent example of Termly acquiring the GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner plugin, a free and simple tool for adding and styling a consent banner, and turning it into a $180-a-year SaaS product.
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New diversity training programs announced
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Group lead Jill Binder tweets the Allyship program is "… not just for organizers, but anyone in our WordPress community who wants to champion this kind of environment, now or in the future."
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The group has been helping WordPress meetups and WordCamps attract and develop more diverse speakers since 2017. According to Binder, in 2020 alone, the group quintupled its impact by reaching 71 cities in 17 countries, and participants reported a 20% increase in public speaking confidence. For more, Binder publishes monthly impact reports.
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Developers encouraged to contribute to Learn WordPress
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Chandler adds, "[Learn WordPress] could do wonders for easing the burden for new and existing developers getting to grips with WordPress… WordPress releases are still being contributed to by hundreds of volunteers but if the software is to benefit from fresh blood and perspectives or even encourage them, then lowering the barriers to entry wherever possible should become some sort of a priority."
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Call for feedback on theme.json
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Theme.json allows developers to configure both existing editor settings like enabling custom colors and adopting new ones as they are released. Since it's a new feature and an early step towards a comprehensive style system for the future of WordPress, McCarthy says she wants to learn more about how folks are using the tool and what should be included in WordPress core in the future.
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Looking back on the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web
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On Aug. 6, we wish a happy 30th birthday to the World Wide Web. It was on this day that the world's first public website went live. And in the next three decades, the number of websites exploded, from one to the hundreds of millions online today.
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That first website is still live and actively maintained by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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Yep, we love the World Wide Web. So much that we got it a gift we're unwrapping on the big day (be sure to drop by). We also thought it would be fun to look back at how far we've come since those first dial-up modems chimed to life and transported us to our favorite bulletin-board sites.
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Many of us have never known life without the World Wide Web. In those dark days, lit only by incandescent light bulbs, life was a series of small but agonizing inconveniences.
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In other WordPress news...
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- WooCommerce Payments is now available in four more countries: Spain, France, Germany and Italy. WooCommerce content marketer Laura Nelson also announced this week the native payment solution now allows store owners to accept payments in multiple currencies. The update comes after WooCommerce Payments became available for stores in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Canada in July.
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- WPTavern's Justin Tadlock looks at how TeslaThemes has rebranded to WPRealEstate, shifting its focus to the real estate market. After several years running a generic theme shop and trying to "serve a lot of niches," founder Erick Danzer tells Tadlock he decided the business would do better focusing on one specific niche.
- Security company Wordfence is urging WordPress Download Manager users to update to the latest version after disclosing two vulnerabilities to W3 Eden, the plugin's developer. The plugin has over 100,000 active installs, according to WordPress.org.
- Are full-page patterns still the missing piece in block WordPress theme development? WPTavern's Justin Tadlock says the block system could potentially solve one of the biggest hurdles of theme development: inserting default/demo content for a full page into the editor. Brian Gardner, who founded StudioPress and the Genesis Framework and is soon launching his new theme project Frost, comments, "Justin, as always, your insight is on point and highly prophetic. (At least in terms of what we are building with Frost.) It's starting to feel like you are eavesdropping (not really) on our conversations because every time I see a new post like this, I'm like, ‘Exactly, which is why we are building what we are building.'"
- The WordPress Core Team has put a call out for CSS contributors to help implement custom properties in WP admin. Penske Media Corporation-sponsored contributor Lara Schenck says the team has been working for over a year to devise how to implement a solution to allow extended flexibility of color schemes. The team has decided to replace the current color scheme implementation with the custom properties outlined in ticket #49582 and is running a series of work sessions to help folks — especially new contributors — get involved.
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