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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 6h

Hear the whole PressConf story from Raquel here: youtu.be/_cO9JFmAdUQ

The PressConf Story: How Raquel Manriquez Launched the Best WordPress Business Conference

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 7h

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? 🪴😲

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 11h

👍 Strongly agree.

These AI moves are giving me added enthusiasm for the work we're all doing in open source.

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 1d

Check out the full PressConf story with Raquel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cO9...

The PressConf Story: How Raquel Manriquez Launched the Best WordPress Business Conference

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 1d

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 👇

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

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)

Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

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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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

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

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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.

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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-...

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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 ⬇️

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cO9...

The PressConf Story: How Raquel Manriquez Launched the Best WordPress Business Conference

YouTube video by PublishPress

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