Notes – KrautPress

In yesterday’s post for our plugin advent calendar, we featured @dvk’s Plugin Koko Analytics. If you’re running a #WordPress site and are interested in GDPR-compliant usage tracking, this might be for you.

https://kraut.press/2024/koko-analytics/

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Is WordPress still WordPress?

Simon Kraft

· 10. December 2024 · 1 minute to read

In an essay, our guest author, Hendrik Luehrsen, pondered whether WordPress’s current strategy of adding more and more features to WordPress core is sustainable.

WordPress isn’t WordPress anymore

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SSO for Makeing WP Slack

Simon Kraft

· 21. October 2024 · 1 minute to read

The Making WordPress Slack Workspace now requires SSO with your WordPress.org account. As of now, there is no official statement regarding this change. 🤔

Slack
Singe Sign-on enabled

Your Workspace Administrator at Making WordPress has enabled Single sign-ons (SSO for short!) for your workspace.

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New Executive Director announced

Simon Kraft

· 8. October 2024 · 1 minute to read

After @josephahaden left Automattic last week, Matt Mullenweg now announced Mary Hubbard as the new Executive Director of the WordPress Project.

See Matt’s post on WordPress.org

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Security changes for Plugin and theme Authors

Simon Kraft

· 4. September 2024 · 1 minute to read

In a couple of weeks, starting on October 1, theme and plugin author accounts on WordPress.org will require two-factor authentication.
In addition, it’s now possible to add a separate SVN password.

– make.WordPress.org/plugins