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Plasso is an online subscription service…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
Plasso is an online subscription service that enables payments and membership functionality using the Stripe platform. Tom Mcfarlin wrote about Plasso's recently released plugin and themes for WordPress -- which WordPress veteran Jason Schuller had a hand in. Plasso is…

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

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Sami Keijonen
BusinessDesign
Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
The three focus areas for WordPress core for 2017 have been assigned leads. The focus areas are replacing the WordPress major release cycle, as described in the State of the Word, and expanded on in my interview with Matt Mullenweg.…

New WordPress.org homepage is “unstuck”

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
The new homepage for WordPress.org is live. It's a working prototype, and I like the way Matt put it on his blog: "What’s on the page today actually isn’t that important, even though it’s better in many ways, the key…

Make WordPress Hosting is the newest…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Make WordPress Hosting is the newest Make WordPress sub site. Mike Schroder writes that the purpose of the site is so, "individuals with hosting experience can collaborate on best practices and tools for the WordPress community’s benefit." The site is…

After a private beta period, the…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
After a private beta period, the Cookbook plugin is now available for everyone. It's a commercial recipe plugin by WP Site Care and Feast, and it looks really nice. It's also a good case study in single product marketing design…

Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers -- and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with…

Hendrik Buchwald has done a fascinating…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Hendrik Buchwald has done a fascinating breakdown of security vulnerabilities in plugins, with analysis of detected vulnerabilities by type and by how many lines of code are in the plugin. Surprisingly, their software didn't pick up vulnerabilities in the "vast…

Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato’s…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato's new Hosted program for getting hosting alongside your theme. Vova Feldman has a really interesting blog post that's a good companion to what I wrote, which dives into the financial opportunities that still exist…

We have yet another big hosting…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
We have yet another big hosting acquisition:  United Internet -- owner of 1 & 1 and more -- has acquired Strato for €600 million. Strato did about €125 million in revenue last year. The current rate of consolidation is pretty…

Stripe Atlas is a program for…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Stripe Atlas is a program for easily creating a business. It came out a while ago, and I know at least a couple Post Status members have used this already. It can be especially helpful if you're trying to create…

Easy Digital Downloads has raised prices,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Easy Digital Downloads has raised prices, pretty much across the board, for extensions. For most extensions, they've increased prices between 30% and 50%, though a few were more than that. It'll be really interesting to see how the changes affect…

Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Envato has expanded the hosting program they began piloting last December, which I covered at the time. Now it's expanded from two theme shops to twelve, including several of the most popular authors on the platform. Envato Hosted is now…
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