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Women in Tech: Zhou Qunfei
The self-made billionaire is the founder of a major glass provider for smart devices.

How We Hire WordPress Developers
We’ve spent years honing our approach to hiring – and we’ve learned a lot of expensive and challenging lessons along the way.

Is WordPress hurtling toward a closed-source future?
How we can work together to reverse the troubling trends of the past year.
WordPress needs to start thinking like a platform again
Market share is a false idol. The goal of a platform isn’t just to take a larger slice of the pie, it’s to grow the entire pie.
Three of the best YouTube tutorials that teach WordPress development
Want to learn WordPress development but not sure of where to start? Here are 3 of the best WordPress development tutorials on YouTube right now.
Women In Tech: Cher Wang
Cher Wang is to be considered one of the most powerful and successful women in computer technology. She is a co-founder and chairperson of HTC Corporation and an integrated chipset maker of VIA technologies.
Jailbreaking WordPress, and the MemberPress renewal crisis
This week, I discussed license churn and the future of paid plugins in depth on Post Status.
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Contributors
- Women in Tech: Zhou Qunfei
Sammi Sim
- How We Hire WordPress Developers
Gavin Graham
- A pandemic pivot from SaaS to client work to startup
Roger Rosweide
- Would WordPress be better off by Joining the Block Protocol?
Leonardo Losoviz
- Squarespace: A Window Of Opportunity
Monét Davenport
- Rebuttal: How Patchstack is improving WordPress security
Robert Rowley
- Is WordPress hurtling toward a closed-source future?
Spencer Forman
- Multisite Is Dead, Long Live Multisite
Jonathan Bossenger
- The Elementor vs. Gutenberg Challenge
Ben Gillbanks
- The Journey to Better WordPress Diversity
Allie Nimmons