Business

iThemes adding live, incremental backups to BackupBuddy

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2016

iThemes has managed and supported BackupBuddy for about as long as any commercial plugin on the market. It's a cornerstone product for them, and it's done very well over the years. With BackupBuddy 7.0, they are adding live, incremental backups…

Easy Content Types sold for $15,000

Brian Krogsgard

January 12, 2016

Business

I reported in mid-December that Easy Content Types -- one of Pippin Williamson's oldest commercial plugins -- was for sale. He has now announced that he sold the plugin to the owners of CodeInWP. The sale amount was $15,000 for…

Challenges managing a WordPress consulting business and doing client work — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

January 8, 2016

BusinessDraft

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk working in an agency and doing client work.

Invest in yourself week

Brian Krogsgard

December 28, 2015

Business

This is one of the best weeks of the year for you, and you may not know it. You probably have fewer support requests, clients calling, or otherwise demanding forces taking you away from focusing inward. I encourage each of…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2015

BusinessHosting

Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see…

Real feedback

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

Business

Ryan Sullivan has a great post about feedback: Since I’ve become a business owner, I’ve tried to go out of my way to leave feedback anywhere I can, and really try and give solid, actionable feedback to the people who specifically…

Envato getting into video app space

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

Business

In a bit of a surprise move, Envato is getting into the video mobile app space. With a clever video app that nicely highlights their VideoHive market, the new Envato Video app allows people to create simple marketing videos, straight…

Quartz is a business oriented news…

December 11, 2015

Business

Quartz is a business oriented news website owned by Atlantic Media, and it is also using WordPress on the backend, with a custom REST API to power much of their distribution (to apps, the website, newsletter, etc). Here's an analysis…

Envato is introducing a hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

BusinessDesign

It's easy to see some parallels between ThemeCloud and Envato Sites in terms of goals, but they are vastly different in execution. The basic goals for each is to make making websites easier. Envato has chosen to go with a fully…

Let’s finish with a couple of…

November 4, 2015

Business

Let's finish with a couple of publishing hot takes... Ben Thompson talks about how Grantland was a money pit for ESPN, but why it shouldn't have been. Text is a gateway drug, and Bill Simmons is already proving it with…

The dangers or selling under non-disclosure

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Business

Gilbert Pellegrom has written a post that somewhat tells the story of what happened with WP Updates. Most of you know that WP Updates was acquired, and as I previously reported, was under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the…

Envato is incorporating in the US

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2015

Business

Envato is expanding operations to the United States, with an official incorporation. Many large companies do this, where they are registered in their home country, and again in large business centers. The US is a huge business center for Envato…

Two AMAs to make you smarter

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2015

Business

Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

Business

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

What makes some companies in the open source software world different

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2015

Business

For a long time, I've debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement -- and I mean engagement…

WP Updates sold under non-disclosure, experiences outage

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2015

Business

WP Updates is a SaaS that allows plugin and theme authors to provide automatic updates to their customers. It is a third party distribution system that the author uploads their updated files to and WP Updates sends it to customers.…