WP Owls #30

This week: Full Site Editing, WP vs Wix, the remote team management, headless and much more …

Guest editor:

Oana Filip

I’m Oana Filip, community builder, and storyteller at Pixelgrade. We’re a software company with ten years of experience in crafting digital products that support people who want to impact their communities.

Time has arrived! Community is not an abstract concept anymore. The times we live in sped up the interest in building tribes. Now, more than ever before, many companies want to be community-led, which says a lot about where we’re heading.

From the author of Get Together, an excellent interview about the power of communities, what we’re missing, and what the future brings us. While there’s still a lot unknown, we have plenty of practices that prove to obtain outstanding results.

What to consider when starting a community

From Pixelgrade about how the context shapes the outcome, and why we need to encourage more conversations and less comments within the WordPress ecosystem. In such a crowded space, we need, maybe more than ever, to relearn how to dialogue (listen to each other) instead of talking alone and pushing our points of view. Pixelgrade created a system that brings communication where it belongs.

Improving the WordPress comment system to encourage conversations

From Christina Garnett about how you nurture a community of scale and why we have so much to learn from the football industry. The athletic world has many lessons to share when it comes to nurturing a tribe in a way that can scale and still remain authentic and relevant in the long haul.

Communities at Scale

From the guys at Uncommunity about the crossroad of community building and marketing and which does what. There’s a common ground between those two disciplines, but there is also a wide range of nuances that can make a difference. The goal is to bring complementary skills to the table and work together for the greater good.

Communty and Marketing have a natural overlap. Uncommunity #17

happy-african-american-woman-copywriter-working-freelance-project-from-home-businesswoman-using-laptop-searching-information-website-successful-business-online-training-courses-concept-scaled

Dan Maby describes the benefits of online events.

The Virtue of Virtual Events

It has been confirmed that Full Site Editing will be partially released in WP 5.8.

Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8

I was counting on the WP versus Wix topic not coming up this week, however, to no avail, as Robert Jacobi thoroughly analyzed the open letters of Matt and Avishai Abrahami.

Wix vs. WordPress, The Final Word

Advertisment

LMS created by e-learning experts

LearnDash

LearnDash is taking cutting-edge e-learning methodology and infusing it into WordPress. Trusted to power the learning programs for major universities, small to mid-size companies, startups, entrepreneurs, and bloggers worldwide.

Eric Karkovack also touched the subject aptly and calmly by pointing out mistakes in their behavior to both sides.

Wix Goes After WordPress: One User’s Take

Avishai Abrahami, the Wix’s CEO, decided to respond to Matt Mullenweg’s letter.

Dear Matt Mullenweg: Another Open Letter from Wix’s CEO, Avishai Abrahami

WP Media, the company responsible for the WP Rocket plugin, was bought out by group.One. So far it seems that WP Media will remain independent and most of us won’t find this transaction unfavorable in any way.

Big News: WP Media Is Joining group.ONE

Headless continues to be a hot topic, therefore, David Eglin points out when it is worth to think about headless and when to let go.

Don’t Lose Your Head: Evaluating Headless

Here’s the webinar by Buddy and Strattic on the deployment of static websites.

Deploy your static WordPress site automagically

Christoph Nakazawa described what we can do to better manage a remote team.

Inclusion in a Distributed World

In his last post Leonardo Losoviz answers many questions around the “GraphQL or WP REST API?” dilemma.

How and Where can GraphQL improve WordPress, complementing the REST API

Tom McFarlin has written a nice tutorial on how to store user information.

Using Constants and Input Fields to Store User Information

The guidebook on how to use WP_DEBUG_LOG appeared on the Delicious Brains blog.

Why You Should be Using WP_DEBUG_LOG in Your WordPress Development

Kaspars Dambis from XWP describes how to manage dependencies when creating your own Gutenberg blocks.

Managing Javascript Dependencies for WordPress Blocks

It’s been suggested on make.wordpress.org to consider FLoC (something that Google wants to replace 3rd party cookies with) a threat and to block it by default with the appropriate header.

Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

Evan Hildreth from WebDevStudios shows how to add meta fields to GraphQL.

Quick Tip: Add Custom Meta Fields to GraphQL