Hi, {{first_name|friend}}. 👋
Welcome to Issue #141 of Loop WP!
Last week, contributions to WordPress were on the table again, and I wanted to share some thoughts on “contribution”.
This week, we briefly discuss the final results of my poll on contribution and share some positivity in the WordPress community.
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Contributing to WordPress
My poll on X has now finished, and the results are as follows:
Have you or your team reduced contributions to the WordPress project as a result of other people's behaviour in the recent drama?
— #Simon Harper ☕💻 (#@SRHDesign)
8:17 AM • Jan 12, 2025
Last week, I set the context for the poll, looked at the initial results and discussed some potential implications (while the poll was still open).
🤔 With the overwhelming majority of voters saying they’ve either stopped contributing or are considering it, should this be a wake-up call to Matt and the powers at Automattic?
Challenging myself to “Rise Up”
So, {{first_name|friend}}, remember last week I tried to finish last week’s newsletter more positively?
As a reminder:
🏈 I think it’s time to “Rise Up”, a nearly 15-year-old slogan for my favourite American Football team that is a rallying cry for individuals, a team and a city to “rise up” together.
🎉 I want to continue that positivity this week, and I'd like to share some of my favourite WordPress newsletters worth reading.
(If I've missed your favourite WordPress newsletter, reply, and I'll include it next time.)
Celebrating the WordPress Community
I subscribe to all of the newsletters below via email or RSS (if offered), and for most of these newsletters, I’ve been a very happy subscriber for several years. 👇
Brian Coords
This is one of my longest newsletter subscriptions in the WordPress community. Semi-regular updates and explorations on WordPress. Subscribe at briancoords.com.
🏆 It is one of my top three WordPress newsletters
Ollie WP
The Ollie WP newsletter delivers quality WordPress tutorials and tools directly to your inbox for the Ollie theme and more.
Ollie is a brilliant and insightful newsletter written and curated by Mike McAlister.
The Friday Chaser
Kyle Van Deusen of “The Admin Bar” offers a weekly newsletter called the Friday Chaser, which features news, tips, and conversations about WordPress.
Kyle has built a large Facebook community, which is tightly linked to the newsletter and adds value to both.
The Repository
The Repository is a free weekly roundup of news in the WordPress ecosystem. It features the latest headlines and tweets every Friday.
This is your newsletter if you want huge and in-depth weekly WordPress News.
🏆 It is one of my top three WordPress newsletters
The WP Minute
The WP Minute is a weekly podcast & newsletter covering the most impactful WordPress news.
With multiple writes comes lots of fresh stories and perspectives.
The WP Weekly
The WP Weekly is a weekly email newsletter for WordPress Professionals bringing the best bits like new features, plugins, resources, tips, tools, core updates, and community buzz.
I always learn something new with this newsletter.
The WP World
The WP Weekly is a weekly email newsletter for WordPress Professionals bringing the best bits like new features, plugins, resources, tips, tools, core updates, and community buzz.
🏆 It is one of my top three WordPress newsletters.
Within WordPress
A weekly opinionated WordPress newsletter from Remkus de Vries.
Remkus’ knowledge and expertise translate straight across, and it is a very enjoyable, insightful, and actionable read every week.
Woo Weekly
Woo Weekly is a newsletter dedicated to WooCommerce that arrives in inboxes every Wednesday, delivering tutorials, snippets, and valuable how-to guides.
Rodolfo is well known and respected in the community for his knowledge and contributions to the WooCommerce (and WordPress community) for over 14 years.
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Weekly WordPress News, Tips & Black Friday Deals
This week's excellent and insightful WordPress News & Tips:
Most Would Disagree - “If I build a restaurant next to your park, I’m contributing to the park, right? Because my restaurant makes more people walk through your park.” (Matt Mullenweg)
Wow! - Stellar WP launched Stellar Pay, a brand new Stripe plugin for WooCommerce, and it looks amazing! (Stellar WP)
WooCommerce 9.6 - Fresh new tools and modernizing classics. (WooCommerce)
Milestone - Advanced Query Loop reaches 2,000 installs. (Ryan Welcher)
$520k - A huge donation of over half a million dollars to the WP Community Collective. (GoDaddy)
Pull Request - Enable DB auto-update by default. (WooCommerce)
This is cool! - Optimizing functions.php to Improve WooCommerce Site Performance. (Rodolfo Melogli)
Elementor Roadmap - First Look At The NEW Elementor AI Site Planner. (WP Tuts)
Product Assistant - Create AI Chat Agent for WooCommerce with n8n. (Brendan O’Connell)
Acquisition - Welcome GTmetrix to the WP Rocket family. (Group One)
Organisation - Tips and Tools for Managing Your Freelance WordPress Business. (The WP Minute)
Tutorials - Pull WordPress from Prod to Local with WP-CLI Bash Script. (Brian Coords)
If you have a question about this email or WordPress, reply, and I will answer you as soon as possible.
👋 Until next time,
