Two new and compelling reasons to sign your team up for Post Status
Cory Miller
We’re giving you two new and compelling reasons to sign up your Team for a Club Membership at Post Status.
Video and podcast picks
Brian Krogsgard
📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…
My mistakes with product-founder fit
Cory Miller
I received Matt Medeiros' second email for Business 5000 this morning and the topic was Product-Founder Fit, and it inspired me. So thanks, Matt. He talks about "new ideas fever" that we all get. In my own fever, I've made…
Post Status Club Improvements
Cory Miller
Hey Club members, here are some highlights of what Brian and I are working on for you: The way I view business and improvements is just like software. Sometimes you have smaller releases and sometimes big releases, and always fixing…
Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive’s acquisition of All In One SEO
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode of Post Status Draft, I talk to Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive's acquisition of All In One SEO, the long-running SEO plugin by Michael Torbert, which boasts more than 2 million active installs.
Working on multiple things, and working with partners
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian and Cory talk about balancing multiple projects, and working with partners.
WP Fusion Drive
Brian Krogsgard
I always enjoy annual reflections from business owners in the WordPress space, but this one went above and beyond. Going into this level of detail is a rare and valuable source of insight.
Introducing a new chapter, with Cory Miller as Post Status partner
Brian Krogsgard
Cory Miller is now a co-owner and Partner of Post Status. He's purchased half of the business and will help run and grow it moving forward.
Joost de Valk has an analysis…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk has an analysis of CMS market share numbers from W3Techs. Joost's key findings are: WooCommerce's market share is three times as big as Shopify, but Shopify is growing. If current trends continue, Shopify, Joomla, SquareSpace, and Wix…
Ghost 3.0, the open-source blogging platform…
Dan Knauss
Ghost 3.0, the open-source blogging platform founded by John O'Nolan, was released this week. The headline feature is a "new business model," which aims to help writers use memberships and subscriptions to make a "sustainable living" as "independent publisher[s] in…
One theme to rule them all?
Dan Knauss
What does the future hold for WordPress themes, for theme developers and end users? Are we ready for a single master parent theme?
Fear and uncertainty for WordPress, with Matt Medeiros
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros talks to me about fear and uncertainty for WordPress. It's a wide ranging and casual conversation about various concerns present to many in the WordPress economy.
If you have heard the term…
Dan Knauss
If you have heard the term "serverless," but not much else, then John Demian's brief guide will help you get up to speed. John describes serverless hosting as "an event-based system for running code." In other words, services "create business…
Joe Watkins cuts right to the…
Dan Knauss
Joe Watkins cuts right to the point about the importance of funding open source projects your company relies on: Making monetary contributions or approaching your employer with a request to make monetary contributions to projects that your income or business…
Salesforce Ventures invests $300 million in Automattic, at a $3 billion valuation
Brian Krogsgard
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic's Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
Is Tumblr a social network?
Brian Krogsgard
Sharing without a strategy. Blogging without a plan. Connecting without an angle. Maybe that's how Tumblr shines?
