Just in time for the weekend, we have the latest WP news for you again: The first WordCamp Osnabrück was a complete success, WordPress is increasing its PHP minimum requirement and the Gutenberg ecosystem continues to grow. There's also a new SEO video series from Moz and Raidboxes now offers email inboxes.
WordCamp Osnabrück: The BarCamp format comes of age
Last weekend we were at WordCamp Osnabrück. One thing is for sure: the bar for subsequent camps is now pretty high! The WCOS was something very special for us anyway: firstly, because it was the first WordCamp in the "neighborhood". And because Leefke and Johannes were involved in the organizing team. You can find out how you can help organize a WordCamp and which sessions you should definitely check out in our WCOS recap.
New: secure and spam-free mailboxes for your business
Since last week the time has come: our Raidboxes mailboxes are live! From now on you can manage all your websites, domains and email inboxes directly from your RB dashboard. Since we cooperate with Mailbox.org, we can offer you particularly secure and professional business mailboxes. This means: an extremely powerful spam filter, all emails can be fully encrypted and German servers with triple redundancy. You can find more information here.
WordPress
90 Gutenberg plugins
On Gutenberg Times you will find a list of 90 useful plugins for the Gutenberg editor. Among them are entire block collections, individual blocks for specific purposes (e.g. Block Gallery), plugins for e-commerce, for the connection of third-party providers (e.g. Google Maps), for layout & design as well as plugins that provide specific tools for the Gutenberg editor (e.g. JSON Content Importer).
New PHP minimum requirement for WordPress
As announced at the end of 2018, WordPress has now ended official support for PHP 5.2 to 5.5. In December of this year, the PHP minimum requirement will be raised from 5.6 to PHP 7. Sites with PHP 5.5 or lower will still receive security updates, but will not be able to update to the latest WP version. More about this here.
Business
Holacracy = self-determination in the workplace?
In his podcast "I love Mondays", Tim Chimoy interviewed our Managing Director and CFO Johannes on the topic of holacracy. If you want to know whether our managing directors sometimes miss the hierarchy and their status and you wonder how much self-determination holacracy really brings, listen in!
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Performance
The most important SEO knowledge in one hour
The colleagues from Moz take you by the hand in their new video series "The One-Hour Guide to SEO" and teach you important SEO basics. A new short video in the series is released every Friday. Part I is about your SEO strategy and Part II is about keyword research. We're excited to see what happens today!
