Solving plugin dependency
Ryan McCue and Gary Pendergast have differing viewpoints on plugin dependency and how to solve … Read more
Enterprise selling
Selling is an art. And we are all sales people (I wrote that in 2013 … Read more
Five years of Yoast
Joost de Valk sent a newsletter this morning noting that Yoast has been in … Read more
Entrepreneurial gaps and value pricing
A post has been making the rounds, by Ellen Chisa, on the things taught … Read more
Transparency in WordPress businesses
I love seeing companies open up and share their business details. Income and transparency … Read more
Struggles developing a commercial WordPress plugin
From Iain on the Delicious Brains blog: Building software to sell is a tricky … Read more
Critical rendering path and front end performance notes
There is no fold, unless you’re talking about the critical rendering path, of course. … Read more
A couple more notes on the WooThemes acquisition
Thank you to all members for your patience on the newsletter, as I spent … Read more
An Automattic affiliate program?
In the comments of Matt Mullenweg’s announcement for the WooThemes acquisition, someone asked if … Read more
The growing pains of company blogging
Gregory Ciotti has some really good advice for getting through the growing pains on … Read more
Customizing WordPress media players
Brady Vercher has a really helpful post describing in detail how to customize WordPress’ … Read more
New committers for WordPress 4.3
With the WordPress 4.3 release cycle, three new people are getting guest commit access, … Read more
Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce
Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.
WordPress essentials, free for the next month from Lynda
Lynda’s WordPress Essentials course has been viewed 100,000 times. They are making it free … Read more
The slowness of the WordPress admin is a liability
The WordPress admin is not fast. In fact, due to a variety of reasons, … Read more
An argument to change WordPress plugin distribution
Josh Pollock has a lot of thoughts on WordPress plugin distribution on WordPress.org. WordPress.org … Read more
