Great reporting and case studies from the Tavern.

The three of us (Alex, David, and Fred) had the pleasure of being on last week’s WP Tavern podcast. We discussed what we’ve learned about teaching and learning WordPress development, and why we believe the WPShout Pro Community solves learning challenges that nothing else quite addresses.

Innovative usage of what Gutenberg is really good at.

I really liked the WordPress term glossary put out by Bridget Willard and the WordPress marketing team a few months back. This project seems to have no relationship to that other than a similarity of intent. What’s really cool about the WPGlossary.net from the Anders Norén is that it comes with a slick interface for searching and is just really pretty.

Happy Labor Day! SiteGround has bumped its sign-up discounts up to 70% for all shared hosting products through September 9th. If you’ve been needing hosting for a new project, or wanting to change hosting for yourself or a client, now’s the time.

Secure your work, then copy the methods.

I realize this is local news, but we’re trying to make sure we sell out WordCamp Denver this year, which requires some exceptional effort. So if you’re near Denver, Colorado, and don’t have plans for Saturday July 28, you should come to WordCamp Denver. As I write this (Tuesday afternoon) I only see three spots in our Sunday workshops open! But we’ve still got plenty of tickets for Saturday 😊

I was recently for the WP Builds podcast. Nathan Wrigley was a warm and welcoming host, and we spent a lot of time talking about WordPress security.

WordSesh was the first (at least to my knowledge) WordPress-focused virtual conference. The last one ran in 2016, and since than I’ve from time-to-time heard pining for its return. Brian Richards from WPSessions is doing just that: bringing it back.

I get like four emails a day about the GDPR, and because we’re not Facebook, Google, or an ad network, it doesn’t seem world-shaking to what we do. But I wanted to know a bit more, and so I Googled for “ELI5 GDPR,” “ELI5” being short for “Explain Like I’m Five,” Reddit’s awesome format for simplifying complex topics.