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You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

April 15, 2016

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally deleted his entire hosting customers' websites (1500+ customers). Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the…

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked…

April 15, 2016

Business

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked about open source business models in a short episode the other day. Automattic isn't mentioned, but the conversation around investing in community influencers, winning over developers, and building out a sales team is pretty…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

Hosting

Chris Lema recently shared his opinion on some hosting companies to avoid. Spoiler: generally he doesn't care for hosting companies owned by EIG. You've probably never even heard of many of the companies in the list -- though you've probably all heard of…

Managing products is about focus

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2016

Business

I have to hand it to Jeff Chandler, he's pretty good at raising a ruckus when he's annoyed with a plugin. Yesterday, I guess he reached his boiling point with Edit Flow, the quasi-abandoned plugin by Automattic for managing an…

Understanding reference transactions and PayPal

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2016

Business

During my WooConf talk, I discussed a little bit about PayPal, why it's useful as an eCommerce checkout option, and why site owners with subscriptions need Reference Transactions enabled. The common question after that was: what they heck are Reference Transactions?…

WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.5, "Coleman", has just been released. The release includes new inline editing features, custom logo support, customizer enhancements, and some under the hood changes that you'll like.

A Day of REST is going to Boston

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

HostingPlanet

The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has raised a $4 million Series A round. They last raised $1.2 million over a year ago. The TechCrunch article states that FlyWheel has about 40,000 paying customers.

Medium is releasing “Medium for Publishers”…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Medium is releasing "Medium for Publishers" which provides publishers a "free CMS", a standalone URL, ability to host promoted posts, and paid memberships functionality. It's being branded by some as a WordPress competitor, which is ridiculous. With Medium, you are still…

If you’re someone who designs emails…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you're someone who designs emails or just appreciates a good email design when they see it, then you might want to check out the latest in a "best of email" post from Jason Rodriguez. I mean, who doesn't appreciate…

If you have grumbles about the…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you have grumbles about the WordPress.org plugin repo in terms of its design and user experience, you might want to check out some wireframes recently done by the plugin team. So far, I like the general way things are…

The aftermath of the Panama Papers…

April 8, 2016

Security

The aftermath of the Panama Papers is going to be happening for a long time, but a few sources that are trying to figure how exactly the link happened have been recently mentioning a three-year old install of Drupal. A…

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report…

April 8, 2016

WordPress Community

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report is out, and reports 4,500 tickets from 9 WordCamps (with Miami topping the list with 1300+ tickets). Andrea reports that WordCamp applications coming in at an average rate of 13 per month -- and…

WordPress Questions & Answers — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian answer listeners' WordPress questions, from topics like Multisite, to understanding taxonomies versus posts, the state of the WordPress importer, and more.

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on…

March 31, 2016

Security

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on communication, especially when it comes to developers informing their users about the status of their projects. Developers give little thought to how they would handle emergencies -- such a security breach -- until it…

From “Feature Plugins” to “Feature Projects”

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2016

Design

I've been looking forward to a post like this. Helen Hou-Sandí has written about an evolution of the feature plugin model. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve had successful feature plugins that were merged into core, efforts…