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Brian Gardner summarizes a recent Genesis Shapers meeting, which involves many well-known influencers in the WordPress community. At the latest meeting, the group discussed the challenges posed by Google AMP and its importance to those who are using Genesis to build sites for clients. Most participants said they hadn’t seen much demand for AMP.
WPEngine released the results of its first global Genesis community survey to which 1,687 people around the world responded. 📊 Some key stats: 54% of those responded lived in the U.S. versus 46% internationally. (88%) of survey respondents own or co-own their businesses with an even higher percentage (90%) identifying themselves as the “technology decision…
This is part of our ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of WordPress. Dean Burton When I first discovered WordPress, I was messing around trying to build my own website, which at the time was an attempt to move an online community I had on Facebook over to a blog and eventually to sell/promote products….
Genesis Shapers team member and developer Nahuai Badiola has announced the launch of OsomPress, a new theme shop for Genesis child themes. OsomPress’s flagship theme product is the Uprising Theme. Uprising allows you to add attractive built-in block patterns and block collections to group page sections and layouts that share their appearance. 🎨
Brian Gardner shares his thoughts about the acquisition of StudioPress to WP Engine. In the end, StudioPress “was bigger” than Brian’s personal reasons not to move forward. “Sometimes you have to let go to grow….For as many reasons as there were not to sell StudioPress, there were plenty more to sell StudioPress.”
In this episode, Kimberly Lipari and Cory Miller discuss the ups and downs of building and selling WordPress companies. They share their experiences, including the challenges they faced and lessons learned. They also give advice to entrepreneurs and business owners looking to grow and sell their own WordPress companies.
With the release of Thesis 2.0, there’s been a resurgence of the comparison between these two WordPress frameworks.
