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Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

Dan Knauss

August 25, 2022

DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."

WordPress.com has changed a lot

Dan Knauss

August 25, 2022

BusinessHosting

This is managed WordPress hosting — and has been all along I've been delinquent with posting on my .blog blog on WordPress.com for about a year, so when I bought into the Pro plan after the first recent price change…

Growing as a leader and setting your team up for wins

Dan Knauss

August 24, 2022

BusinessCareers

James Giroux writes so much good stuff on his own blog, I can't keep up. I am accumulating a list of things he's tackled that are unusual to see written about in any depth in the WordPress community, especially by…

Freelancers: What are your rates?

Dan Knauss

August 21, 2022

BusinessNotes

Mailchimp & Co's 2021 Benchmark Report on freelancers using Mailchimp said "the top 10% charge $197 per hour." The 2022 Report did not post data about rates but indicated they had generally gone up. The same was true in the…

Languages of Contribution and Creation

Dan Knauss

August 19, 2022

BusinessFeatures

The Creator Economy owes a lot to WordPress, but that doesn't mean WordPress is valued or even understood by Creators as an open source project and community. Are the stories we tell and the words we use compelling to newcomers and the younger generations we need to succeed us? Is the story and language that got WordPress where it is adequate to take it where it wants to go?

Overcoming Barriers to Contributing

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

As a followup to my earlier post on common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future — especially for small teams — I was looking through the WordCamp US schedule and noticed Chris Lubkert's session: How Your Small Business…

SaaS, Plugin, or Both?

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

The perennial question — to SaaS or not to SaaS? Both? WordPress-centric product and marketing, or not so much? Danielle Di-Tommaso and Josh Barling from Acsell join Vito Peleg from Atarim to talk about their experiences in these scenarios with…

Who is Winning in the Woo Marketplace?

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

Ellipsis has published some new data and analysis that addresses the question, "Who is winning in the WooCommerce marketplace?" Their conclusions: In comparison to WordPress, WooCommerce has been a lot stronger this year.70% commission on sales makes the WooCommerce Marketplace…

Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?

Make It Go Viral

Michelle Frechette

August 16, 2022

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

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.

WordPress at a Massive Scale

Olivia Bisset

August 16, 2022

BusinessDesign

Cory Miller talks with Lead Solutions Engineer at WordPress VIP, Sean O'Shaughnessy. Learn about WordPress hosting at a massive scale with some blind case study examples.

Space, Assertiveness, Little Bets, and Love

Cory Miller

August 12, 2022

BusinessCareers

# The Importance of Space Michelle Frechette is on a much deserved vacation this week, but before she left she wrote this great reflection on the various aspects of getting appropriate space for yourself: “It's altogether easy to understand, and…

On the Web Publishing Tool Race

Cory Miller

August 12, 2022

BusinessDesign

What if it's not between open and closed but centralized and decentralized?

Rethinking WordPress Products Pricing Models

Cory Miller

August 12, 2022

BusinessNotes

Jon Christopher wrote about how he’s rethinking the pricing model for his OrganizeWP product, and he got some good conversation going in Slack about it. Here's what he's doing: "licenses for updates and support will be sold for each major…

New Voices

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2022

BusinessPlanet

WordPress needs more and better conversations. Respect, cooperation, and appreciation for each others’ roles even across differences and real disagreements — is it possible?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need

Dan Knauss

August 11, 2022

BusinessCareers

This week, Ny relates some personal experiences where pay transparency was lacking and the impact it can have on workplace cultures. This leads into a discussion of pay transparency in the hiring process — how it matters to everyone but especially job seekers who are black, indigenous, and other people of color.

Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

WordPress.com has changed a lot

Growing as a leader and setting your team up for wins

Freelancers: What are your rates?

Overcoming Barriers to Contributing

SaaS, Plugin, or Both?

Who is Winning in the Woo Marketplace?

Make It Go Viral

WordPress at a Massive Scale

Space, Assertiveness, Little Bets, and Love

On the Web Publishing Tool Race

Rethinking WordPress Products Pricing Models

New Voices

Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need

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