Episode Transcript
It's the WP minute. This episode is brought to you by easy support videos, support your WordPress users by placing videos right in the WordPress admin. Find it. At easy support videos.com. You know, the drill, everything I mentioned here will be linked up in the newsletter and the blog post. Check out the WP minute.com for the links. Jet pack gave us all a boost by pushing out a force update, patching a vulnerability in the carousel feature. Tony Perez illustrated his point of view on how the force updates in the hands of bad actors could be a risk for the software. Brandon Craft part of the Jetpack team tweeted that the force update was justified by the Metta and security team. Since 18% of Jetpack sites were affected. Sarah Gooding also covers the incident on the WordPress Tavern. Business buzz. If the WordPress economy were a country, it would rank 39th in the world. According to an IMF list of countries by GDP, in partnership with research from Vanson Bourne and the Institute of management studies at Goldsmiths university of London, WP engine put together a report on the size of the WordPress economy chiming in somewhere of 500 in 96.7 billion to rounded off is the estimated size of the WordPress economy. The WordPress economy is projected to increase 6.5% in 2021, bringing its total value to 636 billion acquisitions of a smaller scale. And Polson has sold plug and rang to automotive. A quote from Saya. At bulky. As soon as I started using it, I fell in love. This is an essential tool for all of WordPress plugin owners who are looking to grow their plugin business. One of the biggest takeaways from in, from running such a young company, the biggest benefit I've seen is since starting the app is all the learning I've done. Jilt is shutting down on April 30th, 2022. Since sky verge was acquired by GoDaddy back in September, 2020. Well, it's hard to say goodbye. We're excited about our next chapter at GoDaddy. AB testing for WP has changed hands. Gaia Kessler announced that J J J J trip John James Jacoby. Is the new owner of the plugin. Thunderstruck by element or Paul. Charleton also known as WP tuts on YouTube, publish a scaling review of element or 3.3 stating he wants the page builder to fix some of the issues surrounding the initial three dot X release. Meanwhile element or has opened up a waiting list for their upcoming cloud solution, which the vendor from WP weekly reports will be starting at 1990 a month. From the grand bag Over on BeaverBuilder blog, you can review three ways to accept Bitcoin on your WordPress website. Catch my interview with Brad to Nard on the acquisition of ACF. I interviewed Lindsay Halsy of Pathfinder SEO and Matt report. And check out Justin Tadlock peace honoring the life of UHG wealth. Papa. That's it for today's episode. If you enjoyed, please share it on your social media. Leave us a review on apple podcast or pod chaser. Don't forget to share, share, share this episode with others. Jump on the mailing list at the WP minute. Dot com.