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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of…

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lauzon, the interim CEO of Pressable, recently shared his reflections on his first year at the company. A year ago, Chris was leading a support team for Automattic, and now he's gained some really valuable experience turning a hosting company around.…

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

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Brian Krogsgard
Shifter is a "serverless hosting solution for WordPress." According to the website, it "seamlessly transforms your site into a series of static HTML files," and they aim to be both the generator and the host of the generated files. It's…

SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members

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Brian Krogsgard
SiteGround's team has been almost exclusively based out of their offices in Bulgaria until now. Lilyana Yakimova announced on their blog that they have hired 32 former support personnel from Site5, employees whom hail from 10 countries, including the United States. Site5…

Why grow a service agency?

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Brian Krogsgard
Shane Pearlman is a partner and the CEO of Modern Tribe. In his ManageWP AMA, Ahmad Awais asked him a great question, and I really enjoyed his answer. Ahmad has observed that it's difficult to advance in the WordPress economy…

Loopconf postponed indefinitely

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Brian Krogsgard
Force majeure is a term that you don't pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means "superior force" in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening…

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua…

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Brian Krogsgard
Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua Strebel reflects on seven years of the managed WordPress hosting industry that his team started, and also looks into the future. WP101 is also celebrating a birthday -- a whopping eight years -- and Shawn Hesketh says…

When you think about design, do…

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Brian Krogsgard
When you think about design, do you visualize IBM in your mind's eye? After reading this article from Anne Quito on how IBM is gearing up to become a large and sophisticated design company, maybe that will change. As I…

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are…

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Brian Krogsgard
Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are working on a book devoting to making you become a better freelancer. Real World Freelancing covers, "client management, business strategies, processes & tools, marketing, mental health" and other subjects. You can signup to be notified…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

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Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

More design fun: I love duotone,…

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Brian Krogsgard
More design fun: I love duotone, and Sean Hervo discusses its role in web design.  And if you like it too, Brody at AudioTheme has a post on how to do it, which I've noted here before, and use myself…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

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Brian Krogsgard
I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

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Brian Krogsgard
Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention recently after being disabled without warning, is now back online and on WordPress. A 10 year old blog post was what brought down the site. This is rightly being used as a prime example of why…
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