Using Kickstarter to fund open source
Daniel Bachhuber
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."
A bit of additional WooCommerce news:…
Brian Krogsgard
A bit of additional WooCommerce news: Joel Bronkowski, one of the top leaders within WooCommerce -- technically as director of business development -- and mostly dealt with third party partnerships, has decided to leave Automattic. Surprisingly (to me at least),…
Scaling WordPress — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk scaling WordPress, and what to do when you think you might’ve reached WordPress’s limits.
Pantheon has raised $29 million to…
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon has raised $29 million to invest more into their WordPress and Drupal hosting platform, with a Series C round, totaling $57 million to date. As is noted in the article, and said to me by a Pantheon employee, they…
Developers in the business of selling…
Brian Krogsgard
Developers in the business of selling plugins and themes should bookmark and read Josh Pollock's recent essay that no one wants plugins, but they want solutions. He touches on a few points, but here's an interesting quote: The future of…
Leader.Team is a new business podcast…
Brian Krogsgard
Leader.Team is a new business podcast from Cory Miller and Matt Danner. I like that their goal is keep it shorter than most podcasts (15-25 minute) so that it's easily digestible.
StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use…
Brian Krogsgard
StackPath has acquired MaxCDN. If you use MaxCDN, it doesn't seem you will be effected in the short term, though based on what I'm reading today, a move upmarket might be in the works down the road. StackPath was started by…
Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…
Brian Krogsgard
Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…
ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing
Brian Krogsgard
ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…
Tailor is a stunning example of…
Brian Krogsgard
Tailor is a stunning example of a free WordPress page builder, using the foundations of the customizer. It's made by Andrew Worsfold, who interestingly also works at ZenDesk. I just saw this, and it's the most WordPress-looking builder I've seen…
Medium and WordPress — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress.
Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock’s…
Brian Krogsgard
Some developers will appreciate Josh Pollock's article covering PHP design patterns and architectures. He also covers common patterns employed in WordPress.
WordCamp Europe takeaways
Brian Krogsgard
After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…
WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna, was a massive success
Brian Krogsgard
I was thrilled to take part in WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna. The event was highly successful, and I got to meet many members of the community I hadn't met before. Here are some pictures.
Setting a web performance budget helps…
Brian Krogsgard
Setting a web performance budget helps affect site performance; they are values you set that should not be exceeded in the design and development of a site. Brian Jackson shows what's involved in putting one together.
A new major version of Gravity Forms…
Brian Krogsgard
A new major version of Gravity Forms (2.0) was recently released. It's a substantial milestone with focuses on new features and enhancements, under the hood improvements, the API, their add-on framework, and enhanced security hardening.
