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Part of a team building WordPress publishing plugins with over 1 million users: PublishPress, Metaslider, TaxoPress, and Logtivity.
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We welcomed @raquelkarina.bsky.social on the PublishPress podcast and she explained how the finances work for an event like Press Conf. Where does the revenue come from? What are the costs? And where to plants fit into all of this? 🪴😲
👍 Strongly agree.

These AI moves are giving me added enthusiasm for the work we're all doing in open source.
We were lucky to have @raquelkarina.bsky.social on the PublishPress podcast, telling the PressConf story.

PressConf is the best WordPress business conference but the talks are never recorded. Raquel explains why 👇
I'm noodling with this idea: a much better version of the Reusable Blocks screen.

Reusable Blocks could be such a 💯🚀 feature in WordPress, but they're hidden right now (they're not even normally called Reusable Blocks)
He says they are still planning to add real-time collaboration to the WordPress core. And then we got sizable update on the project's progress 👏 So if you're interested in real-time collab, check out this (very technical) update on the progress: github.com/WordPress/gu...
Sync Engine and Real-Time Collaboration · Issue #52593 · WordPress/gutenberg
This is the overview issue for the collaborative editing project as defined on this post. The goals are multiple here: Allow multiple users connected to the same WP-Admin to collaborate together on...
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So here's an update on real-time collaboration in WordPress.

I posted yesterday about the new plugin and technical approach coming from a team at WordPress VIP.

Jacob Smith from VIP posted a very helpful reply to my post on Linkedin.
Sync Engine and Real-Time Collaboration · Issue #52593 · WordPress/gutenberg
This is the overview issue for the collaborative editing project as defined on this post. The goals are multiple here: Allow multiple users connected to the same WP-Admin to collaborate together on...
github.com
TLDR: I think this means that real-time collab will be available as a plugin for advanced users, but will not make the WordPress core.

Honestly, I think that's 100% fine. Not everyone needs real-time collab and it's an enormous technical challenge to add it to WordPress core.
Using WebSockets is a significant technology change from previous attempts at this. Most low-end hosting companies don't support WebSockets.

Here's some background from when I started writing about real-time collab in WordPress back in 2019: publishpress.com/blog/google-...
The plugin is here: github.com/Automattic/v...

Here's what you'll need to use it:
- A separate WebSocket server
- A custom version of the Gutenberg plugin
- At least PHP 8.2
We quietly saw some big news about the future of WordPress and Gutenberg.

I've seen several mentions in the last few days about the new real-time collaboration plugin from WordPress VIP.

It's a substantial and important change to the previous plans ⬇️
Fresh from a very successful WordCamp Canada this weekend 🇨🇦, we've a new podcast episode featuring @raquelkarina.bsky.social telling the PressConf story, and talking about how to hold events that people love:
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The PressConf Story: How Raquel Manriquez Launched the Best WordPress Business Conference
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We welcomed Than from @humanmade.com
and Zeshan from Green Street News on the PublishPress podcast.

They told us how they moved over 40,000 articles to their new WordPress site, using local LLMs to categorize all those new posts.
There's a huge new release of the MetaSlider Lightbox plugin today.

It's super-easy now to create a full-screen display for your images, videos, galleries, slideshows and more 🌟

wordpress.org/plugins/ml-s...
How do WordPress sites scale from quiet periods to incredibly busy times?

We welcomed Than from Human Made and Zeshan from Green Street on the podcast.

They explained how Altis hosting helps handle huge surges of traffic:
Yes, that's the way it was a couple of weeks ago when I last tested
Kudos to the WordPress forums team.

Someone posted asking for help on a nulled version of MetaSlider. The team just shut them down immediately:
Kimberly Lipari has just launched a new WordPress resource called "The Modern Webmaster".

She's building resources for normal people who find themselves running a WordPress site for the first time.