Missing WPWeekly podcast, YoastGate, and 2020 plans!

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4 responses to “Missing WPWeekly podcast, YoastGate, and 2020 plans!”

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   John

   December 12, 2019

   No one cares if Yoast asks for money. We only expect them to play by the same rules as anyone else. It wasn’t a “mistake”. It was a calculated decision. They make 10M a year (5 million plus installs * 2% of the base using Premium) so they aren’t exactly panhandling for change on the street corner. Leave the banner on their plugin admin screen, not sitewide. That is against the plugin repo rules.

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      Paul Lacey

      December 31, 2019

      The stuff about the utm on the ad was an eye opener! I could imagine lesser plugins being pulled from the repo for this.

      Also… At Dickiebirds we used to donate to RSPB (Royal society for the protection of birds) each month in 2019. I wasn’t in approval of the bird shooting for fun aspect of the banner .

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   Paul Lacey

   December 31, 2019

   Your journey with Notion very much resonated. I bought a lot of apps last two years… Could be rephrased as wasted a lot of money.
   I had this app called Infinite (similar to Notion). Just yesterday I exported all data to a little known app called Google docs (much better simpler fit) and gave my app to somebody I knew that was asking about buying it. Gave it him for free.

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   Paul Lacey

   December 31, 2019

   About 2020 Theme and future of such themes. Yes, I agree that much of the traditions in WordPress are just that – traditions. I wouldn’t use a WP default theme as they tend to launch as a showcase and rather than improved and evolved, they just make a completely new one the following year.

   For a new user, installing WordPress and given a theme where you can “almost” build a versatile site, yet can’t really do so (by design), makes it almost pointless to carry on making a default theme in such a way each year.

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