WordPress News

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

WP101 has inked a deal with GoDaddy's Pro (WordPress) hosting product to complement their deal with Sidekick, to enable a significant amount of user training for GoDaddy customers. Both deals are part of an overall agenda from GoDaddy to enable…

You are valuable

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Design

The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

A podcast series on web design

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2015

Business

Matt Medeiros is doing a series on web design, and the business of it. In the fourth part, he interviews Carson McComas in regard to managing a $50,000 project. Carson worked on the eCommerce site I shared a while back.…

WordPress News with Beka Rice

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

DraftPlanet

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

Productivity in a design agency

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Design

Paper Leaf does mostly WordPress-centric design and development. Jeff Archibald shared an infographic with their productive breakdown: hours logged billable versus non-billable, projects won, etc. My favorite part was the breakdown of tasks in the hours that were logged. I've…

A theme shop year in review

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Business

Mike McAlister has shared an in-depth post recapping his first year as an independent theme shop, Array. Array sells themes on their website, but has also been on WordPress.com for a while. However, they also experimented with Creative Market. What…

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Hosting

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

WordPress News

WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt's mission to power 50% of the web.

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

DesignDraft

StoryCorps.me enables anyone to create and share powerful stories. Just launched as an iOS and Android app, the website that provides the app infrastructure is built on WordPress, utilizing the WordPress REST API. Here's how StoryCorps.me came to be.

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Andrew Nacin now works at the U.S. Digital Service, the federal government service that aims to "redefine public service for a new generation." Nacin continues his role as WordPress lead developer, but is stepping back from working on the project full time.

WordPress News with Julie Kuehl

Brian Krogsgard

March 27, 2015

DraftPlanet

Julie Kuehl and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews. This week we talk about Shiny Installs, host growth, finding your place, and the REST API.

Redesign versus realign

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2015

Design

Nathan Barry discusses the benefits of simple "realignments" in website design versus (potentially) unnecessary full redesigns. That’s something I’ve heard a lot: if something isn’t good enough, it’s time to redo it. Sometimes that’s necessary, but more often you should…

WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

Brian Krogsgard

March 25, 2015

Hosting

WP Engine and Pagely both had announcements on growth today. WP Engine announced that they raised $23 million dollars to enable them to hire faster and expand their product base. When I covered them as in late 2013, they were…

Happytables 3 is taking on Squarespace and Wix for restaurant websites with a brand new platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

The new Happytables is a slick setup, and they've invested more time and energy into a hosted WordPress solution than perhaps anyone but Automattic on WordPress.com. The difference here is they are going after a niche, and it's a huge one with a big need: restaurants.

WordPress News with Brian Richards

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

DraftPlanet

Brian Richards and I cover the week in WordPress news with a new short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews.