Live from Publish: Challenges facing the WordPress Economy — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Joe are live at Post Status Publish, and answer questions from the conference audience.
Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution
Brian Krogsgard
In 2015 Envato invested $1.5 million dollars into Pressed -- the white-label WordPress hosting service -- for a one third stake in the company. Now they've fully purchased ownership in the business, and the majority of the Pressed team is…
The future of the WordPress economy, and why I’m not worried
Joshua Strebel
Joshua Strebel -- the CEO of Pagely -- shares his view of the current state of the WordPress economy, and why he is confident in both its strength and future.
WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce has — at least for now — decided to end renewal discounts for extension sales. This is a smart business move and the right thing to do, even if it could've been rolled out better. Matt Mullenweg said in…
An entrepreneurial journey around eCommerce, with Patrick Rauland — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Patrick Rauland discuss the state of eCommerce today, both from a product perspective, and for store owners.
Here’s a nice read from Jules…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a nice read from Jules Forrest on the CSS Tricks blog: how she built the backend of the Women Who Design website. Tools including using the Twitter API, Autolinker (a new one or me), Node, Firebase, and JavaScript. I also encourage you…
Rebecca Gill announced the Web Savvy…
Brian Krogsgard
Rebecca Gill announced the Web Savvy Marketing Genesis theme business has been sold to 9Seeds.
Much more interesting than a regular…
Brian Krogsgard
Much more interesting than a regular Jetpack upgrade is how (as I predicted) Jetpack is bringing "professional themes" to the plugin, effectively making it a full-on marketplace. I am very, very interested in how that's going to work, specifically in…
Success in business is not just…
Brian Krogsgard
Success in business is not just what you know but who you know. "Great programming doesn’t equal great sales," according to Chris Lema. He suggests ten practices he has found helpful to leverage the power of networking. Some of my…
Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Joe Casabona discuss learning WordPress, as well as teaching it, including the things they find most important to learn.
Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine…
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine feature called "Flexible Workflows." As the name suggests, Flexible Workflows allows teams to design their own development and deployment workflows. Some teams might want only a staging and production environment. Others might want a…
Rainmaker goes service only, sells partial stake to Nimble Worldwide
Brian Krogsgard
Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it's moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder -- Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hosted…
WordPress in higher education, with Rachel Cherry — Draft Podcast
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, Brian is joined by Rachel Cherry, an experienced WordPress developer, including in the realm of using WordPress in higher education. She also organizes a WordPress for higher-ed conference, WPCampus.
Is “Mobile First” really “Desktop Worst”?…
Brian Krogsgard
Is "Mobile First" really "Desktop Worst"? Oliver Brooks (Creative Director at Metalab) explains his dislike for the unnecessary use of mobile menus in desktop browser views: Mobile First should not be taken as an opportunity to over-simplify and, by the…
Adam Soucie has a nice start…
Brian Krogsgard
Adam Soucie has a nice start to a series of articles on accessibility over at Flywheel's design blog, The Layout. He begins with perceivability as defined by WCAG standards because, "if a visually or hearing impaired user can't perceive a…
“Data is useless without the ability…
Brian Krogsgard
"Data is useless without the ability to visualize and act on it." Andrew Coyle writes about the ingredients of a successful data table user interface design. He presents a nice list of design structures, interaction patterns, and techniques.
