Business

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2019

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.

Nevena Tomovic, business development manager at…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

Business

Nevena Tomovic, business development manager at Human Made, is asking for your feedback in a survey that "aims to identify essential skills for a modern digital career, as perceived by the diverse WordPress community." Nevena is planning on presenting the…

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

BusinessHosting

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size of major WordPress versions over the past decade and how they've grown over 600%. We've gone from 5.38 MB and 603 files to 38.0 MB and 1,713 files. Dumitru also looks at the sizes…

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts I've enjoyed recently: Matt Medeiros interviewed Craig Hewitt and Dave Rodenbaugh of RogueStartups. They discussed how business owners operating within the WordPress ecosystem and the SaaS world view "the economy of plugins" as opposed…

“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

Dan Knauss

April 18, 2019

BusinessDesign

Rich Tabor is taking CoBlocks and his other work to GoDaddy, where he'll continue to development experiences for using WordPress with Gutenberg.

Justin Tadlock explains how to build…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Business

Justin Tadlock explains how to build a compelling business or agency landing page with Gutenberg and his newly released Exhale WordPress theme, which I really like.

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Business

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter in his life as a developer and takes time to share some unusually open reflections on his personal growth. Many business owners start with the pure passion of "just coding a plugin." Later, with…

Today is International Women’s Day — a…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Business

Today is International Women's Day — a good day for listening to stories by fantastic women. That's something you can always do at HeroPress where Amena Mabrouk is the latest contributor. Amena shares how the WordPress community helped her learn and…

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

Just another migration story

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2019

BusinessDesign

This past week it was necessary for me to spend time migrating a website and helping deploy a new design for it. It was a frustrating and humbling experience that also reminded me just how much of a challenge these…

Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Business

Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains Inc., recaps 2018 with an eye to his company's goals, business practices, and products. It was a busy year apparently and, in Brad's assessment, their most productive.

Remembering Dean Allen

Dan Knauss

January 10, 2019

BusinessDesign

Dean Allen's vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.

With 2018 behind us and the…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Business

With 2018 behind us and the new year begun, many people are posting "Year in Review" or "Looking Ahead" reflections. 🎊 It takes some time to think through these surges in the community's collective learning, but it's well worth it.…