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The Pressware shop is open, and ready to cater to WordPress publishers

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

Tom McFarlin is a veteran of the WordPress product space. Today he's announced that his company, Pressware, has opened a shop for selling WordPress products. Pressware's first product has been out for a while now; the Mayer theme has been…

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

June 23, 2014

DesignSecurity

Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

The WordPress community summit is back

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

To say the theme marketplace is undergoing a transition is probably an understatement. We've seen many shops sell or change focus over the past year. A few have maintained their place in the market or even grown some, but it's not easy…

PressNomics 3, the economics of WordPress conference, is January 22nd – January 24th

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Dates have just been announced for the next PressNomics. PressNomics' third edition will be held in Tempe, Arizona, January 22nd through January 24th. The first two iterations of this conference, which is essentially the official unofficial WordPress business conference, were…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…

Made with WP: conversations with people who make things with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

WordPress News

Chase Livingston and Chase Clemons host a number of podcasts on The Dispatch. Chase Livingston is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic and Chase Clemons does support for Basecamp. Made With WP is one of the shows Chase & Chase produce.…

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2014

Development

New Relic has some advice for programming concepts to learn for newly graduated software engineers. While they target degreed engineers, I think these topics are quite practical for anyone that considers themselves a programmer or developer. Some of my favorites:…

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2014

BusinessDesign

The Lucid Theme shop was run by Jon Bellah until today. He still maintains the Lucid brand, but he's sold his themes to UpThemes. When I inquired with Chris Wallace, founder of UpThemes, about why they made the acquisition, he said,…

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

HostingWordPress News

Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In…

How to build a Gravity Forms add-on

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

Development

In an effort to showcase how Gravity Forms can be used as a platform, Rocket Genius developer Steven Henty has created a quite in-depth tutorial on how to create a Gravity Forms add-on. With over one million WordPress sites running…

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

Business

WordPress.com VIP has a fancy new stats page. Of course I immediately wanted to know how it stacks up to WordPress.com stats as a whole. Here's the math: WordPress.com VIP: 2,441,299,137 pageviews in the last 30 days All WordPress.com: 14,512,740,573*…

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

BusinessDesign

In mid-April I wrote that Press75 was for sale on Flippa. That auction ended without a sale, with bids for up to $45,000. Today, the Minneapolis based Westwerk is announcing that they have bought Press75 from Jason Schuller. It's my…

The Pressware shop is open, and ready to cater to WordPress publishers

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

The WordPress community summit is back

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

PressNomics 3, the economics of WordPress conference, is January 22nd – January 24th

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Made with WP: conversations with people who make things with WordPress

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

How to build a Gravity Forms add-on

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

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