Monthly Roundup – October 2022

Hello!

October marked the beginning of our elaborate hiring drive spanning till December 2022. With an ambitious target of 100 hires and a new Express Campus process, we’ve set off on a major expansion. This drive also sees us return to in-person training from the fully-remote model in effect for the last two years.

We set the ball rolling with Gujarat, where we visited six institutes with about 2000 participants. The drive will continue into November, at Pune and Mumbai. For timely updates on our training & hiring programs, you can subscribe to our campus newsletter. If you’re interested in hosting our drive on your campus, shoot us a mail at campus@rtcamp.com.

Events

• WordPress Accessibility Day, a 24-hour virtual conference highlighting website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites happened on 2-3 November. rtCamper Kelin Chauhan gave a talk in one of the lightning sessions – demystifying the technical side of web a11y, and exploring how it fits into the big picture. If you’ve missed it, here are the recording & presentation slides.

• rtCampers Maitreyie Chavan and Rahi Prajapati will be speaking at WordCamp Nagpur, set to happen on 12 November. Maitreyie’s talk delves into careers and contributions in WordPress, and Rahi throws light on the importance of getting your designers ready for Gutenberg. It’s an in-person event, grab your tickets here. If you’re attending, do swing by our sponsor stall!

Insights

• WordPress 6.1 “Misha” is out, marking the third major release this year. Some interesting updates include – a new default theme with 10 unique community-made styles, block template parts in traditional themes, and fluid typography & spacing presets. This release puts our core contributions streak at 26.

• Web Almanac, the annual state of the web report by HTTP Archive is released (jump to the CMS section here). It reports an increase in WordPress adoption by 1.4%(mobile), and 0.2%(desktop) over 2021. It also hints at lazy-loading overuse in the ecosystem, and how it impacts LCP performance.

News from Around the Web

• The long-awaited Plugin Dependencies feature plugin is finally out for testing. Testing will be open until December 1, 2022. You can report found issues to the plugin’s repository.

• Easy Digital Downloads, a staple plugin we ourselves use on rtMedia, releases a bunch of huge updates with 3.1 – including 10 new core blocks, new core settings, and feature updates like email summaries & more.

• WooCommerce makes a major move to develop its own hosted, turnkey solution in collaboration with hosting partners – which will be first piloted on WordPress.com.

Water Cooler

Popular on our #watercooler Slack channel.

• Tremor – Build insightful dashboards in a breeze
• BlurHash – A compact representation of a placeholder for an image
• Roadmap to becoming a modern QA engineer

That’s all, see you next month!

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