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The primary source of income comes from its extension bundles, which are priced monthly and billed yearly.  The website currently offers freelancer ($11/month), entrepreneur ($17/month), and elite ($30/month) pricing options.  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If you had asked my thoughts on it last December, I would have probably sided with a large portion of other WordPress users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What are you doing?</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WordPress is fine, leave it alone!</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stop forcing me to use this!</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here we are, twelve months later, and you know what? I LOVE IT.  And, I am not alone.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to writing content, I cannot <em>imagine</em> using the Classic Editor anymore. Sure, for a few paragraphs, the Classic Editor is fine.  However, when you need to make a 4,000+ word post, Gutenberg and the new block system make things a lot easier.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, the UI is a struggle for someone brand new to WordPress.  We have all heard the &ldquo;<em>Wait, I thought you said this was like Word?</em>&rdquo; line.  A good onboarding process would tackle that going forward.  For the rest of us, if you have not adopted Gutenberg yet, you should take another look at it.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The Need for a New Editor</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&rsquo;s be honest.  The Classic Editor was great for short posts, a couple of headlines and paragraphs, job done.  But, how often were you going into the Text tab to remove an extra line break, fix a shortcode, or cut and paste a section to somewhere else in the post?&nbsp; At best, it was a struggle.  Often, it was excruciating to get your post <em>just right</em> before publishing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not only will I <em>not</em> miss this, but I am pleased that new users will not be exposed to it anymore either.</p>\n\n\n\n<img />Classic Editor &ndash; Text tab in action\n\n\n\n<p>When I first heard of Gutenberg &mdash; before it was released in WordPress 5.0 &mdash; I installed the plugin and was immediately confused and slightly bewildered at the options. 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If you remove the comparison to page builders from your mind, you will find adapting to it is much easier.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>My peers and I regularly chat about Gutenberg and agree it is already great for writing.  The post creation process is a breath of fresh air.  Others have great stories from their clients about being able to produce content and edit it with ease, and the number of editor-related support requests is down, which can only be a good thing.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, many of us would not use it for designing pages. Instead, we still prefer to use one of the many page builders for that complete control.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gutenberg Phase 2 will allow editing of the site to areas outside of the main content (e.g., headers, footers, sidebars) and will creep further into the page builder category, which means we will have a strange blend of Gutenberg and page builders living side by side on many sites soon.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will it remove the complete need for themes? Who knows? 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At a guess, a good majority is probably the latter combined with some diehards. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, look at the graph below from the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/\" target=\"_blank\">Classic Editor plugin page</a>.</p>\n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\n<p>Growth is declining. That is not a movement of people who continue to install Classic Editor on new installs and refuse to adapt.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classic Editor adoption will likely continue falling, and perhaps the original date of it being supported until 2022 isn&rsquo;t that far-fetched after all (note: they have said they will continue to support it longer if needed).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the flip-side, the Gutenberg plugin has 200,000 active installs and a whopping two-thirds of reviews (2,003) are a paltry one star. However, many are merely unhelpful complaints (e.g., &ldquo;This is junk&rdquo; and &ldquo;Destroy it&rdquo;).  They do not tell the true story to novices.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can see from the graph below for the Gutenberg plugin, active install growth is up and continues to climb.  It is not at the same pace as the decline with the Classic Editor, but that is probably because it is bundled with WordPress now.</p>\n\n\n\n<img />\n\n\n\n<p>One thing people seem to forget is Gutenberg is a plugin in and of itself.  It is updated frequently, whereas the majority of users only see changes to it when there is a WordPress core update.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you can see past the fields of one-star reviews and install the plugin, you will be rewarded with more frequent updates to the experience. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, version 7.0 recently added in the Navigation block as stable, allowing users to quickly create a menu of links. 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While the document is merely a starting point for the conversation, it is a set of ideas that will likely forever reshape the WordPress landscape.  It is paradigm-shifting.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, theme authors can glimpse what their future holds.  Since the inception of Gutenberg, many have asked for more technical details.  Particularly, they wanted to know whether themes would be reduced to a stylesheet or a stylesheet and a few PHP files.  <em>What would themes look like architecturally?  Would themes exist at all?</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>The document, while open for changes, makes a strong case about the structure of themes going forward.  It is clear that much forethought has gone into the proposal.  It matches the direction of the experimental site-editing feature in Gutenberg that has already been set in motion.  Even though it is subject to change, there seems to be a finality to the overarching idea.  The writing has long been on the wall.  Now everyone can see the wall.  The missing piece is figuring out how to bring the idea to fruition.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2>What is Full Site Editing?</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Before understanding how themes of the future might work, you must first understand the direction that Gutenberg is headed.  The end goal for Gutenberg, and eventually WordPress, is for users to have the ability to customize every aspect of their site via the block system.  Currently, the block system primarily handles editing post content.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>To move to full-site editing, every piece of dynamic data about a site must be a block.  For example, a site title block must exist as a placeholder for the site title.  Users should be able to place it anywhere they desire to output the title, such as in the header.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>This has left theme authors with a reasonable question:  If users can move these blocks anywhere, where do themes fit into the picture?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is easy to see how themes would become little more than a stylesheet that styles every WordPress block while also handling other necessary styles like typography and vertical rhythm.  Even then, it makes one wonder if themes, at least in how we have come to know them, are necessary at all.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2>The Proposed Theme Structure</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposed structure does not look much different from current WordPress themes.  The big difference is that theme templates would become &ldquo;block templates&rdquo; and &ldquo;block template parts.&rdquo;  These templates would be HTML files rather than PHP files.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is where the structure currently stands.</p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>theme\n|__ style.css\n|__ functions.php\n|__ block-templates\n    |__ index.html\n    |__ single.html\n    |__ archive.html\n    |__ ...\n|__ block-template-parts\n    |__ header.html\n    |__ footer.html\n    |__ sidebar.html\n    |__ ...</code></pre>\n\n\n\n<p>From a templating perspective, it appears relatively <em>normal</em> for a WordPress theme.  The files simply have a different type and are organized in specific folders.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the difference is how the HTML templates would work.  They would essentially become placeholders for blocks.  Users would also have the ability to edit or completely overwrite individual templates via the WordPress admin.  Because templates are made up of blocks, no code would be necessary on the user&rsquo;s part.  They could simply point and click to insert or remove blocks with their mouse.  </p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, block templates within themes would be unique starting points for users to build their sites.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are two noteworthy items about the proposed system:  themes are still themes and end-users can become theme builders.</p>\n\n\n\n<h3>The Essence of a Theme Remains the Same</h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When you cut through everything else, WordPress themes have always been HTML and CSS.  The PHP aspect of theming basically mixes PHP function calls (i.e., template tags) within some structured HTML markup.  If you look at most themes going through the official WordPress theme directory, you will find that the underlying markup is mostly the same.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the block template system, this idea doesn&rsquo;t change.  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Internet was introduced to our small town pretty late and we got acquainted with this technological phenomenon very late. However, internet instantly found its place in my daily routine and I was fascinated by it.  After surfing the internet for a year, I was little by little encouraged to find out what a website is and how it works. Thus, I familiarized myself with the first programming language, that is, HTML and began learning it and given my enthusiasm, I mastered it in less than 10 days.</p>\n<p>I was increasingly attracted to the internet and the issues pertinent to it, and soon enough I was drawn to various internet technologies. In less than a year, I was able to learn PHP, CSS, and HTML and relying on my limited knowledge, I began testing different systems and scripts.</p>\n<h3>Introduction to Blogging</h3>\n<p>During those same years, I worked with various blog systems, one of which was B2 system. A little while later, while conducting tests, doing installations, and having fun, I encountered a system which was quite similar to B2. I installed it. Then, I entered its various parts.  I found its management system, templates and codes quite appealing and easy to work with. Thus, I began translating it into Persian for my personal purposes, and in less than a week, I turned most of its various parts into Persian and they were ready to be used. Yet, due to certain reasons, I failed to install this system on my host or test it online. But I kept the system on my computer and I worked with it and enjoyed it. Yes, that system was one of the first versions of WordPress.</p>\n<p>Prior to working with WordPress, I had worked with various systems and scripts, and I was primarily accustomed to Joomla. However, simplicity, convenience, and interesting environment of WordPress drew me towards this system and I kept working with it.</p>\n<p>I was by nature shy and reticent; therefore, I was not that active in any groups or forums –this was the case in my personal life as well as on the web. Consequently, during the first few years of my activity in the field of WordPress, I hardly ever participated in WordPress forums or local groups.</p>\n<h3>Getting Involved</h3>\n<p>However, one of my friends who was active in the field of Persian WordPress, invited me to collaborate with one of the Persian WordPress support forums and this was a new beginning for me in the area of localization of WordPress.</p>\n<p>My keen interest in working with WordPress as well as helping others work and become more familiar with it made me spend a lot of time daily in the Persian WordPress forum. Nevertheless, due to the shortcomings and needs of the Persian WordPress community, we also created another support website. Following the creation of this new website, many users were attracted to it and gradually we got a lot of feedback from the Persian WordPress community. So, we became further involved with the Persian WordPress community and the scope of our activities expanded.</p>\n<p>It was during these years that I got my first formal job offer in the field of WordPress and I launched the first WordPress website for a client and received money in return for my services.  This experience highly motivated me and helped me envision my future as a WordPress developer. Meanwhile, with the help of some of my friends, I started a small web design and development company which was supposed to focus on coding and programming electronic components, but my keen enthusiasm for web development drew the entire team to focus on web design and development. Due to my numerous activities in the field of WordPress and my growing recognition as a WordPress activist, over the course of a few years, virtually all of our company activities centered on WordPress as the main basis of our work, and now we are one of the active supporters of WordPress in Iran.</p>\n<h3>Transformations</h3>\n<p>Over the years, WordPress transformed my personal and professional life. My personal life was changed in the respect that from a shy, quiet and inactive guy, I turned into an energetic, active person interested in discussions and participation in social events. Along the way, I also met great and influential people, including my future spouse.</p>\n<p>We organized various gatherings and meetups in the field of WordPress. We held WordPress seminars. 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And I am really glad that on that day I became familiar with WordPress and started working with it and am still involved with it up to this day, because not only my life changed as a result, but also I managed to educate so many people and help them transform their lives in a way that WordPress played a major role in their lives and contributed to their further success.</p>\n<h1 id=\"fas\">ساختن یک زندگی وردپرسی در ایران</h1>\n<p>من اولین کامپیوتر خود را وقتی ۱۹ ساله بودم خریدم ولی چندین سال قبل از آن  در سن 15 سالگی به کلاس آموزش کامپیوتر و دوره آموزشی کار با DOS رفتم  و بدون داشتن کامپیوتر و با تمرین روی کاغذ توانستم نمره کامل رو در آزمون نهایی کسب کنم.</p>\n<p>در همان سالها بود که اینترنت کم کم وارد شهر ما شد، بله تعجب نکنید درشهرکوچک ما اینترنت خیلی دیر وارد شد و ما خیلی دیر با این پدیده آشنا شدیم اما اینترنت به سرعت جای خود را در کارهای روزمره من باز کرد و من شیفته آن شدم بعد از یک سال کار کردن با اینترنت من کم کم ترغیب شدم که بفهمم سایت چیست و چگونه کار میکند و با اولین زبان یعنی HTML آشنا شدم و شروع به یادگیری آن کردم و با اشتیاق فراوانی که داشتم آن را در کمتر از ۱۰ روز یاد گرفتم.</p>\n<p>من هر روز بیشتر جذب اینترنت و موضوعات مرتبط با آن می شدم و به سرعت به سوی تکنولوژی های مختلف اینترنتی کشیده شدم. یک سال هم طول نکشید که توانستم HTML / CSS / PHP را یاد بگیرم و با همون دانش اندک، شروع به تست سیستم و اسکریپتهای مختلف کردم.</p>\n<h3>مقدمه‌ای برای شروع</h3>\n<p>در همان سال‌ها من با سیستم‌های وبلاگی مختلفی کار کردم که یکی از آن‌ها سیستم b2 بود. کمی بعدتر در همین تستها و نصب‌ها و بازیگوشی ها  با سیستمی مواجه شدم که بسیار شبیه b2 بود. آن را نصب کردم سپس وارد بخش‌های مختلف آن شدم، سیستم مدیریت، بخش قالب و کدهای آن و بسیار برایم ساده و جالب و جذاب به نظر رسید و به همین دلیل شروع به فارسی کردن آن برای کارهای شخصی خود کردم و کمتر از یک هفته بخش‌های مختلف آن را تا حدود زیادی فارسی و آماده استفاده کرده بودم. اما به دلایل خاصی موفق نشدم که آن را بر روی هاست خود نصب و به صورت آنلاین تست کنم. ولی آن سیستم را بر روی کامپیوتر خود نگه داشتم و با آن کار می کردم و لذت می بردم. بله آن سیستم یکی از اولین نسخه های وردپرس بود.</p>\n<p>من قبل از کار با وردپرس با سیستم ها و اسکریپت های مختلفی کار کرده بودم و بیشترین اسکریپتی که با آن انس گرفته بودم جوملا بود اما سادگی و روانی و محیط جذاب مدیریت وردپرس باعث شد که من به سمت وردپرس کشیده شوم و کار با آن را ادامه دهم.</p>\n<p>من ذاتا آدم کم حرف و خجالتی بودم و به همین دلیل خیلی در گروه ها و انجمن های خاصی فعالیت نمی‌کردم و این هم شامل وب و هم شامل زندگی عادی من میشد به همین دلیل تا چند سال اولیه فعالیت من در وردپرس، خیلی در انجمنهای تخصصی و یا گروه های محلی آن  فعالیتی نداشتم.</p>\n<h3>شروع مشارکت</h3>\n<p>تا اینکه یکی از دوستان من که از فعالان وردپرس در زبان فارسی بود من را دعوت به همکاری در یکی از انجمن های پشتیبانی وردپرس به زبان فارسی کرد و این شروعی دوباره برای من در زمینه محلی سازی وردپرس بود.</p>\n<p>علاقه زیاد من به کار با وردپرس و همچنین کمک به دیگران برای کار و آشنایی بیشتر با وردپرس باعث شد که من روزانه زمان زیادی را در انجمن وردپرس فارسی صرف کنم. اما با توجه به کمبود ها و نیازهایی که جامعه فارسی داشت ما یک سایت پشتیبانی دیگر را نیز ایجاد کردیم با ایجاد سایت جدید کاربران زیادی جذب ما شدند و کم کم ما بازخوردهای زیادی را از جامعه فارسی گرفتیم به همین دلیل بیشتر درگیر جامعه فارسی وردپرس شدیم و دامنه فعالیت های ما نیز گسترش پیدا کرد.</p>\n<h3>دگرگونی</h3>\n<p>در همین سال‌ها اولین پیشنهاد کاری رسمی من در زمینه وردپرس رسید و من اولین سایت خود را برای یک مشتری با وردپرس برپا کردم و در قبال آن مبلغی را دریافت کردم که این موضوع باعث شد انگیزه زیادی در من شکل بگیرد و مسیر حرکتی آینده خود را در وردپرس ببینم. همزمان، با کمک چند نفر از دوستان خود یک شرکت طراحی و برنامه نویسی کوچک را تاسیس کردیم که روند آن قرار بود بر کدنویسی و برنامه نویسی برای قطعات الکترونیکی باشد اما اشتیاق فراوان من به طراحی وب باعث شد که نظر کلیه جمع نیز به سمت کدنویسی و طراحی وب کشیده شود. با توجه به فعالیت‌های زیاد من در وردپرس و بیشتر شناخته شدن من به عنوان یک فعال وردپرسی، در طی یک بازه زمانی چند ساله، کلیه فعالیت های شرکت ما نیز به سمت وردپرس کشیده شد و مبنای اصلی کارهای ما وردپرس شد و هم اکنون ما یکی از حامیان فعال وردپرس در ایران هستیم.</p>\n<p>طی سالیان مختلف وردپرس زندگی شخصی و کاری من را تغییر داد. زندگی شخصی من را از این جهت تغییر داد که از یک آدم خجالتی و کم حرف و کم فعالیت به یک آدم فعال، پر انرژی و علاقمند به بحث و گفتگو و حضور در اجتماعات تبدیل شوم. در این مسیر با افراد بزرگ و تاثیرگذار منجمله با همسر آینده خود نیز آشنا شدم.</p>\n<p>اجتماعات و میتاپهای مختلفی را در زمینه وردپرس راه اندازی نمودیم. سمینار های وردپرسی برگزار کردیم. انجمن ها و گروه‌های مردمی مختلفی را در جهت افزایش نفوذ وردپرس و آموزش آن به افراد تازه کار راه اندازی کردیم و به همین دلیل تغییرات زیادی در روحیه و خلقیات و شخصیت کلی من ایجاد شد.</p>\n<p>همچنین تا قبل از تغییر روند کلی شرکت ما به سمت وب و علی‌الخصوص وردپرس، شرکت درآمد خاصی نداشت و بسیار کند رشد می کرد اما پس از تغییر رویه و راه اندازی بستر اصلی شرکت بر روی وردپرس روند سالانه ما به شدت رشد کرد و هم از نظر اندازه و هم تعداد کارکنان و هم از نظر سطح دستمزد و حقوق پیشرفت چشمگیری در شرکت ایجاد شد.</p>\n<p>این را هم اضافه کنم که من فارغ التحصیل در رشته مهندی نساجی هستم. اما رشته تحصیلی من با رشته و علاقمندی کا ی من کاملا از هم جدا و نامرتبط هستند. چون من از جوانی آرزو و شوق کار کردن در زمینه کامپیوتر را داشتم و حتی تحصیل در رشته ای نامرتبط هم سبب نشد که دست از آرزوی قدیمی خود بردارم  و حتی همزمان با تحصیل در رشته نساجی، در زمینه کامپیوتر و در شرکت خود مشغول به کار بودم.</p>\n<p>حالا ۱۶ سال از اولین برخورد و کار من با وردپرس می‌گذرد و وردپرس تقریباً در همه زمینه های مختلف زندگی من نفوذ کرده و باعث تغییر من در زمینه شخصی، روحی و کاری و کسب و کار  من شده است و از این بابت بسیار خوشحال هستم که آن روز توانستم با وردپرس آشنا شده و شروع به کار کنم و تا به امروز نیز درگیر آن باشم.</p>\n<p>زیرا علاوه بر اینکه زندگی من تغییر کرد، توانستم افراد زیادی را نیز آموزش داده و به آنها کمک کنم تا زندگی‌ آنها نیز تغییر کند و وردپرس شاکله زندگی آنها را تشکیل داده و باعث موفقیت بیشتر آنها شود.</p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<div class=\"rtsocial-container rtsocial-container-align-right rtsocial-horizontal\">\n<div class=\"rtsocial-twitter-horizontal\">\n<div 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The first Action allows developers to deploy plugin updates directly to the WordPress.org plugin directory by tagging a release on GitHub.  The second Action handles readme file and asset updates. </p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 14, GitHub <a href=\"https://github.blog/2019-11-14-powering-community-led-innovation-with-github-actions/\">announced the public launch</a> of their GitHub Actions feature.  GitHub Actions are a way for developers to automate workflows from their Git repositories.  Actions can also be shared with others, reused across projects, and forked like any other public repository.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, there are over 1,300 GitHub Actions with more being added every day.  At least <a href=\"https://github.com/marketplace?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=actions&query=wordpress\">nine of the current Actions</a> are related to WordPress, including an Action to <a href=\"https://wptavern.com/rtcamp-releases-github-actions-for-automated-code-review-deploying-wordpress-and-slack-notifications\">deploy WordPress by rtCamp</a>, but there will certainly be more to come in the future.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With GitHub Actions out of beta, it opens the door for companies like 10up to share their custom workflows and for others to build upon them.  It will also be interesting to see what Actions other developers within the WordPress ecosystem release.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10up team initially <a href=\"https://10up.com/blog/2019/introducing-github-actions-for-wordpress-plugins/\">launched their custom Actions</a> for WordPress in March 2019, which was during GitHub Actions beta period.  &ldquo;Everybody has been very positive,&rdquo; said Helen Hou-Sand&iacute;, director of open source initiatives at 10up and WordPress lead developer.  &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had a number of people report bugs, request enhancements, and contribute code and documentation. That&rsquo;s been a really great measure of adoption and attention for me &mdash; having people give thoughtful critical feedback and help us improve this tool for everybody.&rdquo;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hou-Sand&iacute; is interested in seeing other ideas for adding workflows or potentially new Actions from the community.  &ldquo;An example of something we&rsquo;ve just started doing without writing a whole new Action is generating hook documentation and deploying that to GitHub Pages, which eliminates the need to generate locally, commit manually, and decide on where to host things,&rdquo; she said.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;Development was actually smoother than I anticipated,&rdquo; said Hou-Sand&iacute; of creating and testing the team&rsquo;s GitHub Actions.  &ldquo;Maybe because I spent a fairly long time planning and obsessing over potential issues and chose to use Bash.&rdquo;  For testing, she was able to use an inactive plugin repo on WordPress.org.  &ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure I could have come up with a method to test completely locally, but being able to use actual environments without repercussions was helpful.&rdquo;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 10up team has already been deploying plugin updates with the Actions.  Hou-Sand&iacute; said that she does not think about this in terms of saving time, even though the team is already tagging releases via GitHub.  </p>\n\n\n\n<p>&ldquo;What it&rsquo;s really done for us is, along with well-documented release processes, made it so that anybody can jump in and get a plugin updated or released without worrying about modifying commit permissions or their personal knowledge of SVN,&rdquo; she said.  &ldquo;This makes it much easier to get releases out especially when it&rsquo;s an urgent bugfix.&rdquo;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Deploying and Updating WordPress Plugins</h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of the GitHub Actions created by 10up help ease the pain of deploying plugin updates to the official WordPress plugin directory.  They are designed to streamline plugin release management and simplify the process of getting code out to end-users.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>WordPress plugin authors must use Subversion (SVN) to commit and tag plugin releases in the directory.  Often, this is an issue because Git is the most-used version control system.  Some developers have no experience with SVN, and the number of developers unfamiliar with it will likely only grow as Git continues to gain popularity.  Even with those who do understand SVN, switching between version control systems can hinder workflows, particularly with larger teams.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With so many WordPress plugin developers using Git, it makes sense to use tools that are a part of their daily workflow rather than jumping into a system only used during releases.  That is where both of these GitHub Actions developed by 10up can help.  </p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adding Actions to a repository is a fairly straightforward process.  All repositories have a new &ldquo;Actions&rdquo; tab.  Developers can create new workflows directly from the Actions page for their repository.  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We like to share some of the interesting podcast stats tidbits we come across. So, in this edition of <a href=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/category/statistics/podcast-stats-soundbites/\">Podcast Stats Soundbites</a>, we’ll dive in to a question we hear pretty frequently: how popular is MP3 vs. M4a for podcasting? Here’s the data!</span></p>\n<p><b>Latest episode by format for podcasting all time (~800k shows):</b></p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7565\" src=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.40.15-AM-300x253.png\" alt=\"Latest episode by format for podcasting all time (~800k shows):\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.40.15-AM-300x253.png 300w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.40.15-AM-768x648.png 768w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.40.15-AM.png 848w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" /></p>\n<p><b>Podcasts which released at least one episode in 2019 (~360k shows):</b></p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7566\" src=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.39.09-AM-300x245.png\" alt=\"Podcasts which released at least one episode in 2019 (~360k shows):\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.39.09-AM-300x245.png 300w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.39.09-AM-768x628.png 768w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.39.09-AM.png 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" /></p>\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first glance, and in popular opinion, it appears more podcasters have opted for the m4a format over mp3 in recent years. But as we dig deeper into the data, you’ll see that’s not the case: m4a adoption has been relatively constant at ~5% market share since we started monitoring it in 2007.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For some context, though, keep in mind that m4a format has had its share of limitations, most notably lack of device support. These limitations still exist, but in less that 1% of devices currently available. What’s that mean for podcasters? It means less than 1% of your audience might run into an issue with m4a. </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which got us wondering: what’s driving the recent surge in popularity for m4a? When you dig in, it appears to be Anchor.fm, a free podcast platform that tries to make podcasting simpler by&#8211;among other things&#8211;forcing all podcasters to use m4a.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anchor.fm, which uses a “freemium” model, appears to have chosen m4a due to it’s small file sizes. If we remove Anchor.fm users as an outlier, true m4a usage is much lower. As a podcaster, when you choose to edit your audio </span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and</span></i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> maintain the quality of the audio yourself (excluding anchor.fm) the distribution is much different</span></p>\n<p><b>Percentage of m4a usage in the podcasting market:</b></p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7567\" src=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.55.11-AM-300x215.png\" alt=\"Percentage of m4a usage in the podcasting market\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.55.11-AM-300x215.png 300w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.55.11-AM-768x552.png 768w, https://blubrry.com/podcast-insider/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-11.55.11-AM.png 972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" /></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason we removed Anchor is that they have a higher than average turn-over and quite a low show success rate. In the past 3 months, only 12% of podcasts with 10 or more episodes (~13,500) have produced new episodes. In other words, nearly 9 out of 10 podcasts on Anchor.fm either leave the service or abandon their podcast altogether.</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given such a high churn rate, we thought it’d make sense to look at m4a adoption <em>without</em> Anchor.fm. When you you remove them, m4a adoption is till only 4.3%.</span></p>\n<p><strong>Other formats</strong></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More interesting is the “other” formats. 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