Links of the Week

Orbit Media Studios: What are Core Web Vitals?

Cloud7: SiteGround stops signing up new clients in Kenya due to new local regulations

Scaleway: Digital Europe needs to draw inspiration from the founders of ECSC

WP Tavern: A Laptop and a Dream: Your Home Office Should Meet Your Needs

Signal: The Instagram ads Facebook won’t show you

GoDaddy Pro: Expand 2021 Recap

XWP: How Enterprise Tech Companies Invest in WordPress and Why

cloud7: Contabo opened new data center in Singapore

TechCrunch: ActiveCampaign raises $240M

Cloudways: Million Tree Challenge

Dries Buytaert: Section 230: repeal reform or reprioritize?

WP Tavern: Themes Set Up for a Paradigm Shift

cloud7: Wix launches mobile app: Spaces by Wix

Omnisend: How Apple’s iOS 14 Update Impacts Email Marketing

Cloud7: Hostinger launches Patchstack WordPress Security

Omnisend: The 6 Best List-Building Tools for 2021

WP Tavern: Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8

Bottle Rocket Media: 4 Projects Solopreneurs Shouldn’t Have to Take on Solo

BBC: Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home?

Kim Doyal: Pricing & Side Hustles

WP Tavern: Yes Comments Are Still Relevant But We Need a Better System

Cloud7: Web hosting services market to reach $183.05B by 2027

JAMstacked: Tons of JAMstack stuff

WP Tavern: FSF Doubles Down on Stallman Reinstatement

open collective: Funds for Open Source

Mike Demo: The y.at Auction Stream

Torque: Voting for Torque’s 2021 Plugin is Still Going!

WordPress VIP: The 5 Agile CMS Trends Reshaping the Digital Landscape

WP Tavern: Extendify Acquires Editor Plus, Improves Block Editing

WP Engine: Understanding eCommerce Trends: Microservices Architecture

GoWP: Why should you outsource the development of your WordPress.com website?

Torque: WordPress Plugin Madness 2021

Torque: Voting for Torque’s 2021 Plugin Madness Now Open

Scaleway: It is time to strengthen our EU data sovereignty

Hosting Journalist: Interview, CEO CloudFest

WP Trends: (new monthly newsletter by Iain Poulson)

cPanel: Join cPanel at CloudFest 2021 Online

Boston Globe: Heed the science and abolish daylight saving time (personal favorite!)

The Verge: Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right

WordCamp Central: WordCamp India 2021 – A recap

The Next Web: Here’s how to pick the right VC in this ‘high deal’ market

BBC: Why popular YouTubers are building their own sites

The Prepared: Why YKK zippers are the brown M&Ms of product design

SaaStr: Google Says Cloud Will Triple Again in Next 5 Years

Nexcess: Introducing StoreBuilder, Get Started with WooCommerce Faster

Reaction: What Business Owners Need to Know About Web Core Vitals

Torque: DE{CODE} 2021 Looked to the Future of WordPress

Jason Fried: Ditch the elevator pitch

Do the Woo: Celebrating 100 Episodes on Do the Woo Podcast with an AMA

The Next Web: You SHOULD wave at the end of video calls

Jason Fried: The only metric that matters to me

Torque: Business Jargon to Know When Starting an Online Business

Michelle Frechette: Tattoo for Big Orange Heart

Do the Woo: Load Testing and WooCommerce