Although things have been a little quieter over the holidays, we have of course brought you the WP news from the last two weeks: Google has rolled out the long-announced mobile-first index, Caspar Hübinger takes an in-depth look at the AMP project and Florian Brinkmann explains how WP-CLI can make you more productive. We also show you how to implement Holacracy in your company.

Holacracy in action - 5 steps to a high performance team

We "abolished" the executive floor at Raidboxes back in 2016. Since then, we have been successfully using the holacracy form of organization. We are convinced that many companies would also benefit from this, as holacracy significantly promotes the personal responsibility, productivity and personal freedom of every employee.

The role structure ensures clear responsibilities and creates agility at the same time. Our co-founder Johannes explains what makes this form of organization so successful and how you can implement holacracy in your company in five steps.  

WordPress

WP-CLI boosts your productivity
With the WP-CLI command line interface, various tasks can be completed much faster than in the backend. Instead of executing actions with several clicks, a single WP-CLI command is often enough. WP-CLI is also pre-installed in the Raidboxes SSH environment to save you even more time during development. Florian Brinkmann shows you how to automate your plugin, theme and core updates with WP-CLI .

Why Gutenberg? And why now?
Tevya Washburn explores the question of why a "disruptive innovation" like the Gutenberg editor is such an important step for WordPress in his article in the WP Tavern. If you're interested in the various settings for the new WP editor, it's also worth taking a look at the more than 50 comments on Washburn's article.

Practical WordPress glossary for WP newcomers
As an experienced WP developer or web designer, it's very easy to forget how many terms in the WordPress ecosystem are "WP jargon" that non-specialists may not even understand. To make it easier for WP beginners to get started, the WordPress marketing team has created a downloadable WP glossary that briefly explains the most important WP terms.

Performance

Google launches mobile-first indexing
As announced in 2016, Google has introduced the mobile-first index. But that's no reason to panic! Our colleagues from SEMrush explain what has really changed and how you can optimize your mobile site. The most important takeaway: "Don't let the disproportionately high amount of chatter about mobile distract you from the financial importance of desktop users."

Google AMP - Hate it or love it
In his extensive article, Caspar Hübinger takes a critical but fair look at Google's "Accelerated Mobile Pages" (AMP). Although Google has set itself the goal of accelerating the mobile web with its AMP project, this technology brings with it a number of (moral) problems. The overriding criticism is the increasing power and dependence on Google.

Web design

GDPR and Google Fonts - how to play it safe
Many WP themes make use of the free Google Fonts. As soon as a page with Google Fonts is called up, these fonts are loaded via the Google server. As data is transferred to Google when this is done, some website operators are concerned about the GDPR compliance of Google fonts. Jonas Tietgen from WP Ninjas shows you how to get around this problem by loading Google fonts via your own server.