Iain Poulson

Announcing FlipWP 🚀 The private acquisition marketplace for WordPress. Together with @AlexDenning, I’ve just launched @flip_wp, a service to connect sellers of #WordPress businesses with buyers looking to specifically acquire WordPress companies. flipwp.co

@callumchapman @IntentMode Great, I’d love it to sit on top of todoist not replace it

@polevaultweb @IntentMode Thanks Iain! No important functionality yet unfortunately, although it's on the list to look into!

I built a productivity app because I couldn't focus long enough to use the ones that already existed. Today it's live — on the App Store and the web. @IntentMode. A focus-first task manager.

Check out our DE{CODE} session "The ACF Update That Makes Your Content Machine-Readable" on May 6th! @polevaultweb and @rob_stino will dive into the latest with ACF and how to use it to make your site and its content machine-readable. Register here: wpengine.registration.goldcast.io/events/f3b71a8…

@JUVOJustin @wp_acf Hey Justin, are you referring to the field Instructions?

@polevaultweb can we make @wp_acf return the field "description" in the rest api schema as description? WordPress core meta fields to that as well. Would simplify schema generation a lot.

This is a big one! 🙌

@_osull @wp_acf @steveschoger @WordPress Thanks for the reply! Totally get it - zero-config wins for agencies. We've been thinking about how to make the Icon Picker more out-of-the-box friendly. Would love to chat about what you've learned building this. DMs open!

@polevaultweb @wp_acf @steveschoger @WordPress The hook method is great for developers who want full control, but for agencies wanting a drop-in solution it adds friction. Happy to chat if there’s ever appetite to bundle more icon sets natively.

Open Icons for ACF is live on the WordPress Plugin Directory. A free icon picker field for ACF. 324 Heroicons, clean SVG output, no external dependencies. @wp_acf @steveschoger @WordPress #WordPress #ACF #OpenSource #WPDev

ACF already powers content modeling and creation - helping with content discovery felt like a natural next step. Your fields define the structure; we're making that structure visible to search engines and AI. It's experimental for now, and we're not looking to become an SEO plugin - just bridging the gap where it makes sense. 🚀

@bgardner @wp_acf The move to output schema is an interesting one. Getting into SEO territory now.

Advanced Custom Fields (@wp_ACF) version 6.8 is now available! 🚀 This release brings three powerful features: WordPress Abilities API integration, automatic Schema.org structured data, and new WP-CLI commands for managing ACF JSON. (Link in reply.)

@bennimack @wpackagist @wpengine @outlandish @typo3 @packagist @fair_pm Hey Benni, sorry we couldn't get you connected to some of our WP Engine folks at CF. I'll DM you to start chatting!

@wpackagist @wpengine Hey @outlandish we at @TYPO3 are in the process of bringing our plugin/extension concept closer to the #composer and @packagist standards. I'm currently at the #CFHack26 #CFHack to adopt @fair_pm as well - Happy to exchange ideas. Who'd be the main person to talk to? #OpenSource

WPackagist has been acquired by @wpengine. For over a decade, Outlandish built and maintained this service. Now WP Engine is carrying it forward - with the same commitment to the developer community in the WordPress ecosystem.

@jonathan_dejong I hear you, it wasn't the ideal place due to how it got displayed multiple times during a command run - but all gone now x.com/polevaultweb/s…

@polevaultweb Right. And it is important every developer knows this immediately and every time we run composer in our CLI/CI why? I've seen it ~10 times just today. I thought the narrative was that nothing was going to change with this shift in ownership..

And it only took less than 24h for this to pop up on every composer run: "Info from wpackagist.org: WPackagist is now maintained by WP Engine. Learn more at wpengine.com" Which I'm sure is a permanent message that will just shift to marketing. Prove me wrong🤡

@retlehs This has now been removed, I think most people know about the acquisition now 😅 github.com/wpengine/wpack…

@retlehs As you will know, the majority of WPackagist users will predominantly interact with the service via the CLI, not the website - so this is a good place to alert them of the change of ownership

FYI Composer repos can include an ‘info’ field in packages.json that displays messages to every developer on install/update. Any repo maintainer could use this to push ads, upsells, or whatever else directly into your terminal wp-composer.com will never do this

@soderlind @wpengine Outlandish are working with GitHub to remove that program! We appreciate your long term support!

@wpengine I can then discontinue my sponsorship 😇

We've acquired WPackagist. If you use Composer to manage WordPress plugins and themes, you probably already know it. Now it's part of the WP Engine family. WPackagist enables developers to install and manage WordPress plugins and themes using Composer, the PHP dependency manager. Millions of requests every week with thousands of developers relying on it daily. It's essential infrastructure for modern development on WordPress software. WPackagist joins Local, ACF, WP Migrate, and WP Offload Media in our developer tools lineup. We believe that ensuring the stability and reliability of critical developer infrastructure is essential to the WordPress ecosystem. Big thanks to @outlandish for building and maintaining @wpackagist for over a decade. We're proud to carry it forward. Read more: wpengine.com/blog/wp-engine…

👉 flipwp.co

Another FlipWP listing added to the @flip_wp site today and emailed to registered members 🙌

I’ve had a lot of fun testing this out!