WordCamp Asia Wrap-up
WordCamp Asia exceeded expectations. From the organizers, volunteers, speakers, and attendees, it was an event worthy of praise.
The Magic of Cooperation Between ‘Competitors’
Years ago, my friend Josh Strebel gave a talk titledĀ “Cooperation over Competition”Ā and it resonated deeply with me.Ā In fact, some of my first and best friends in WordPress were my “competitors.” (Hey Brian and Jason!) I’m very thankful that connection, cooperation and collaboration is already happening every day here in Slack, through DMs, in public, private channels and beyond. It’s…
Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t
Post Status has been a haven for kindness and generosity, but it’s thanks to our members, readers, listeners, colleagues, and friends that the work we do together and the fun we have is good, meaningful, and regenerative for our community. On that note, this is my last post in my role as editor at Post Status…
The Obstacle is Our Way ā Together
Never waste a good crisis.
Agency Owners: Let’s Talk
WordPress agencies are key players in the WordPress ecosystem. They’re working on the frontlines building the Open Web with WordPress for their clients. That’s essential to sustained and vibrant growth for everyone with a stake in WordPress and Open Source. I’ve had some great conversations with our Post Status Agency Owner members in the past few…
Agency Owners: If You Could Ask Anyone Anything…
If you could ask anyone anything related to your work as an agency ā who would it be OR more importantly what would you want to ask?
A World of Ideas
Three quick things I want you to know about: Post Status, like WordPress, is a global community. And weāre making progress toward serving our entire community step by step. On Fridays now, you can join our European Member Huddle hosted by members Jason Rouet andĀ Evangelia Pappa.Ā If you have Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, share those…
Two Key Questions We Need To Answer
What are the best things the WordPress community can do to better support plugin developers and founders? Recent discussions around the Active Install data being removed from WordPress.org forces us to respond to this question if we believe a healthy third-party plugin market is essential to WordPress, as I do.
What Can We All Do to Better Support Our Plugin Developers?
The recent discussions around the Active Installs data being removed from the WordPress Repo prompted a couple of questions I think we need to answer as a bigger WP community and particularly our members at Post Status. As someone who lived in the WordPress product space for 10+ years and had free and paid plugins…
Drinking from the Firehose
You can read all of this week’s newsletter . And if you want everything without the cuts, head over to poststatus.com/the-week
First of the Independents
Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn’t the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.
5 Days Without a Shower
Accessibility at WCUS, at least for me, was frustrating at best, and tear-inducing at my lowest point. We need to do better as a community.
It’s Not the Code, It’s the Humans
At our Post Status Member Huddle before WCUS, the volume of the room was an indication of all of this as it consistently got louder and louder with people just happy to see each other.
Welcome Elementor!
Iām really pleased to announce Elementor as our newest Global Sponsor at Post Status. I got to meet Itamar Ronen and team at WCEU this summer and enjoyed hearing what they are doing. Additionally, I keep hearing so many great things coming out of Israel with tech, where Elementor is based, and like CloudWays, they…
Make It Go Viral
It’s the ultimate marketing goal: something you create “goes viral.” As marketers, we watch things gain popularity quickly- seemingly overnight – and dream of anything we do having that same level of success.
On the Web Publishing Tool Race
What if it’s not between open and closed but centralized and decentralized?
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