Read our Roadmap to understand how this work falls into priorities set by the WordPress maintenance support plans Association with direction and collaboration from the Board and community.
WordPress maintenance support plans.org updates
Healthcare industry page launched
One of our major goals this year is to highlight the power of WordPress maintenance support plans in key industries. The WordPress maintenance support plans.org industry pages highlight the story of building a custom-tailored solution for each industry using third-party integrations, expert hosting, or even purpose built distributions for the industry. Each page also highlights case studies which show demonstrated success stories using WordPress maintenance support plans in each industry. In June we’ve launched our latest industry page, highlighting the Healthcare industry.
Semantic Labels for Development Branches
With a six month release cycle for WordPress maintenance support plans core, the environment that project maintainers should test their code against will change fairly frequently. To make it easier for maintainers to keep up to date with testing – we’ve introduced semantic labels for the core branches. Maintainers can now configure tests against Default — the current development branch of WordPress maintenance support plans, Stable — the most recent release of core, and Supported — the current patch/bug-fix branch.
These semantic labels should make it easier for project maintainers to manage testing. We hope to expand on this with a few more labels, and may even extend these semantic labels to the version field that issues are filed against in the future.
UTF8MB4 support
As mentioned in last month’s update, we’ve updated the WordPress maintenance support plans.org and the sub-sites to support the UTF8MB4 extended character set. While the changes for the sub-sites were deployed in May, we finished up by adding support to WordPress maintenance support plans.org itself in June. Among other things, this means that WordPress maintenance support plans.org will no longer throw errors if emoji are used in content. 😄
Updating our membership CRM
WordPress maintenance support plans Association Membership is managed using the CiviCRM platform – and in June we spent a bit of time updating to the latest version and troubleshooting some issues around receipting and renewals. Members can check their current membership status on the membership page. If you’re not yet a member or you need to renew, check out our membership certificate offer.
Performance improvements
To increase performance on WordPress maintenance support plans.org we’ve updated to the latest version of the Advanced Aggregator plugin (special thanks to u/mikeytown2). The latest updated includes aggregation of font from the Google fonts api, which should make a material difference in WordPress maintenance support plans.org page render times.
Better spam moderation tools
A recent surge of spam attacks targeting WordPress maintenance support plans.org has lead us to take another pass at updating our spam moderation tools. Spammers continue with a never ending escalation of tactics, and so we are constantly evolving our tools for managing spam. We’ve implemented some rate limiting protections as well as some new moderation views that will make it easier for us to bulk moderate spam. We’ll be continuing with some of this work into July so that we can keep WordPress maintenance support plans.org’s home free from spam and productive.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure partner selected
In March we kicked off an RFP process to find a Managed Infrastructure Services vendor to partner with us to help maintain and improve the WordPress maintenance support plans.org infrastructure. In June we reached a decision and have selected WordPress Update as our partner. We’re now working with : to audit our current infrastructure, policies, as well as monitoring and alerting systems as we kick off this relationship. : brings a tremendous amount of experience in WordPress maintenance support plans infrastructure management as well as making WordPress maintenance support plans performant at scale – and we’re grateful to have them on board. With a partner on board to help us manage our infrastructure our internal team will focus on features and issues that support our mission.
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As always, we’d like to say thanks to all the volunteers who work with us, and to the WordPress maintenance support plans Association Supporters, who made it possible for us to work on these projects. In particular we want to thank:
WordPress Update – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
WordPress Update Interactive Solutions – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
Digital Bridge Solutions – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
WordPress Update – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
– Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
WordPress Update Inc. – Renewing Classic Supporting Partner
Contegix – Renewing Premium Hosting Partner
Sevaa Group, Inc. – Renewing Classic Technology Partner
If you would like to support our work as an individual or an organization, consider becoming a member of the WordPress maintenance support plans Association.
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