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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

Demanding 😬. A user sent in over 34 support tickets to a product, and still left a 2-star review with lots of hair-splitting details: wordpress.org/support/topi...

For Us, Major Disappointments

For Us, Major Disappointments sagency (@sdagency) 1 month, 2 weeks ago As in my other reviews, if you are coming in from working with Gutenberg you will likely LOVE Kadence’s Pro Blocks. If y…

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

Check out the whole Fediverse conversation with Evan: youtu.be/8M_6jbcI3U0

The Fediverse and WordPress Should Be Better Friends

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

Evan Prodromou is often called the "Father of the Fediverse". He's spent years building open platforms.

Why does he enjoy working on open platforms? Because he loves seeing what creative people can do when they're not locked into siloed, limited platforms.

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

Good on @nerdpress.net for this move.

They support a ton of creators who produce great work. And it is work that could be incredibly valuable for AI tools.

But to get that value, the publishers need to get leverage, and this is the best bet right now:
www.nerdpress.net/blocking-ai-...

Blocking AI Bots with Cloudflare Enterprise

Because creators should be compensated fairly for their work.

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 2d

We had Rodolfi Melogi on the PublishPress podcast today, talking about his Checkout Summit event in Palermo in April.

Wish him luck: the call for speakers and sponsors ends this week🤞

Check out the conference details at checkoutsummit.com

Checkout Summit – The Global Conference for WooCommerce Experts

Hang Out with the WooCommerce Movers We’ve built WooCommerce plugins, optimized themes, complex flows, and entire businesses on WooCommerce — but we’ve rarely h

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

It's that time of the year in the WordPress world.

The Halloween spam is out-and-about in your WordPress dashboard 🎃☠️🤦‍♀️

Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

Check out the whole interview with Evan about his Fediverse work: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M_6...

The Fediverse and WordPress Should Be Better Friends

YouTube video by PublishPress

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

Evan Prodromou is often called "The father of the Fediverse". It's amazing how much overlap there is between the aims of WordPress and Fediverse. These two communities should work together more!

WordPress people should be using the Fediverse more, and Evan explains why:

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 3d

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 4d

There's a surprising number of niche WordPress events at the moment
- PressConf in Arizona
- LoopConf in London
- Enqueue in Sydney
- SomeConf in Minnesotta
- Checkout Summit in Palermo
I feel like I'm probably missing some more?

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 7d

Check out the whole PressConf story with 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 · 7d

PressConf 2025 was a big success. @raquelkarina.bsky.social has ideas for what could come next ...

Tickets are already available for PressConf 2026 ✅.

But what about Europe? Asia? Expanding beyond WordPress? 🤔

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 8d

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

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

YouTube video by PublishPress

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 8d

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 · 8d

👍 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 · 9d

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

YouTube video by PublishPress

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 9d

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 · 10d

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)

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Steve Burge @steveburge.com · 10d

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 · 10d

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...

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