Beth Soderberg

I will no longer be posting on Twitter. Though I've valued it as a source to watch the assault on my beloved #WordPress community, I can't stay in unsafe spaces. Please find me elsewhere: Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/bethso… LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bethsoderbe…

🚨 NEW PLUGIN ALERT 🚨 Introducing the Block Usage Tracker for WordPress® The free plugin lists each block type used in posts, counting the total occurrences and shows direct links to each post where a block appears. This functionality helps teams optimize content, understand block usage patterns, and maintain consistency 🔥 ✅ Lists all active blocks across posts and their usage counts. ✅ Displays links to each page/post where blocks are used. ✅ Excludes duplicate links for better readability. ✅ Caches block usage data for efficient, optimized performance. ✅ User-friendly modal interface for viewing detailed block usage by post. Get it on GitHub 🤘💯 github.com/robertdevore/b… #NeverNotWorking #WordPress

The Figma library for WordPress has a new version which rocks: make.wordpress.org/design/2024/11…. It also is a step towards the true design system needed. Figma is a part of the system, but an important piece when updated regularly, so kudos to everyone involved.

@TacoVerdo Technically yes, but dems don’t have the votes to confirm her right now.

Just curious... Could this be done?

Just released version 1.0.1 of my new #WordPress privacy plugin. This version strips out data sent to WP.org for plugins that are hosted off-site. Currently wp.org receives information about every plugin on your system, including "private" and off-site ones. At this point, I'm only looking for devs to install this and help flush it out. But if you don't mind doing some testing, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to keep adding some privacy options over the next few days to limit that amount of data leakage that seems to be happening with a default install. You can find the plugin here if you want to test it out: github.com/wp-privacy/wp-…

kid wisdom: "want to know when forever ends? when the sun explodes"

@KristinCodesWP It's always longer than the others, but I have rarely seen it go beyond 5-6 hours.

I know no one in their right mind should be using Network Solutions these days but has anyone seen a DNS change there take 12+ hours to fully propagate? I know it says 24-48 hours, but with a low TTL, I've never seen it take more than a couple hrs.

I thought so much better of you, America.

This article about Masonry in CSS by @shadeed9 is fantastic. He created several examples, going through the code needed to create layout variations at breakpoints while still supporting older browsers. What would it be like to use each in the real world? ishadeed.com/article/css-gr…

Some people seem to have forgotten how bad a president Trump was, so I made a list of the 100 Worst Things About the Trump Presidency, in no particular order. Please share and add anything I missed. 🧵

If you have SSH access, no need to pay for image optimization plugins. You can simply write a bash script and convert images right on the command line. Here is how I did that recently for a large site on Kinsta: anchor.host/converting-wor…

Groups are immutable. When someone leaves the group, it’s not the same group minus one person. It’s a new group.

You know when folks say, 'Yeah, the Block Editor is great and all, but good luck making that look good on mobile!' Well, here's how you can fix it, all within the Block Editor 👇👇👇👇👇 Mobile Fix for Complex Layouts in the #WordPress Block Editor youtu.be/lTMo5yy2M_I?si…

We need more women involved in the WordPress community not less. WordCamp attendance skews 2x more men than women. Tara is one of those amazing community members who makes WC welcoming to women. See our interview with her on our second episode: womeninwp.com/podcast/episod…

@TaraClaeys @lelandf @tomfinley @TaraClaeys sending you a DM here about how we can best stay connected. IMO one can take away access to a shared communication platform, but you can't take me away from being connected to my people ;)

I consider myself a small player in WordPress but was part of the WordPressDC organizing team for many years and stayed connected to them on WordPress Slack. It looks like my account was deactivated. @bethsoderberg @lelandf @tomfinley share.zight.com/Kou8NX48

“I’ve been thinking about how difficult it is to gather and point people in the same direction. It’s invisible work that unaware leaders readily discount.”

@tomfinley @jeffr0 @scottkclark @sereedmedia Another consideration: the WordCamp organizer universe drastically dwindled as a result of the pandemic in 2020 and never bounced back to anything like the scale it was pre-pandemic.

Are you overwhelmed with the number of contributors you have to block from the “open” web? Do you want to spend more time studying kindness & less time tracking your perceived enemies? Now you can deactivate someone’s Slack AND their #WordPress dot-org account in one easy step!

@tomfinley right?! as a dopamine-seeker, totally love it! am so glad your new gig is going so well :)

I wish more of my recent (work) life was this way. Just hopped off a 13 min call with a client's tech person and the call was extraordinarily efficient. I love talking to technical people where the only issue is getting on the same page about what the goal is/how to collaborate.