Today, I kicked things off with a nice cup of tea, sat down at my desk, and had my last call as an employee at group.one. I’ve been a Senior Product Manager for group.one’s WordPress products for more than two years and had the pleasure of working with some of the most amazing people there, making some lifelong friends, and learning tons of stuff along the way.

Over the time I attended three WordCamp Europe’s with group.one (Athens, Torino, and Basel), organized 70 WordPress meetups and attended at least two dozen more.

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For some time now, I’ve been thinking about how to scale KrautPress up a little. Back in 2016, I started this wonky German WordPress magazine called KrautPress. Over the years, it saw many contributors come and go. Some wrote just a post or two; others were true powerhouses, churning out high-quality content left and right. I truly appreciated everyone contributing.

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While I took a few days off this week, the first copies of a very orange-colored book hit the shelves here in Germany. We celebrate the official release of our book “WordPress  6 – Das umfassende Handbuch” (The Comprehensive Guide). But let’s start from the beginning.

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It’s time for new impulses in the German WooCommerce community. After more than two years of pandemic and many standstills, we want to start a new Meetup. Since I started the first German-speaking WooCommerce Meetup in Frankfurt in 2016, the world has changed, and so has WooCommerce.

WooCommerce has grown tremendously as a tool for the independent sale of goods and services, has secured considerable market share, and has accumulated a veritable ecosystem of extensions.
So the number of users, developers, and agencies making a living with Woo is growing steadily, yet many areas still lack exchange among these groups. In the larger WordPress community, local meetups are an essential link between different groups. Around WooCommerce, however, Germany’s Meetup culture has not been able to gain a foothold.

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WordPress has allowed embedding third-party content in posts and on pages for ages. In the classic editor, it was possible to simply paste a link to a popular external service like Twitter, Soundcloud, YouTube, etc. Using a clever format called oEmbed, WordPress could retrieve the linked content from the respective platforms and embed it in its content. Today there are separate blocks for the individual providers in the block editor, but nothing has changed in the basic principle of this mechanism.

The whole thing is perfect for integrating videos, putting tweets in a larger context, or presenting your music. But as is often the case, there’s a downside to it. The negative side effects of embedded content are manifold.

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