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Easy Digital Downloads is approaching $500,000 in annual revenue

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2014

One of my favorite things about Pippin Williamson is that he is an open book. He's always sharing what he's learning, what he's working on, and even how much money his products are making. In an excellent guest post he wrote…

X-Team splits in two

Travis Northcutt

May 29, 2014

WordPress News

Dave Rosen, CEO of X-Team, today announced on the X-Team blog that X-Team is being split into two separate companies "to remain focused and agile". X-Team International Pty Ltd will focus on "developer resourcing" (i.e. providing developers to other agencies and development…

Are WordPress themes a commodity?

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2014

WordPress News

Chris Wallace of UpThemes touches on niches and marketing in response to David Perel's recent article on the state of the WordPress theme industry. If you want to be successful in the WordPress theme industry, you need to have a…

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Fundify is a crowdfunding theme and plugin combination, that operates on top of Easy Digital Downloads. Created by Astoundify, the Fundify plugin is a free download on WordPress.org, and they monetized the product through a complimentary WordPress theme, sold on…

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They've moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by…

The state of the WordPress theme industry

David Perel

May 27, 2014

BusinessDesign

Editor's Note: This story is republished from Medium, with author David Perel's permission. David has a unique take on the industry and has some very poignant thoughts that I wanted to share with this audience. The times, they are changing.…

The ROI of blogging

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

DesignHosting

Ever wondered if your blogging efforts are worth it? Well, you can do like Groove did and calculate it yourself. Blogging may be more expensive than you think. Here's their setup: Aside from my own time spent on the blog…

On being (or not being) a “dev”

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2014

Development

Zé Fontainhas has written a post that needed writing, and we need to read it. Too often, we pre-judge people's capabilities based on false assumptions. Being a contributor to non-developer centric aspects of WordPress doesn't make someone not a developer.…

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

Travis Northcutt

May 21, 2014

WordPress News

The Theme Foundry today announced Make, a free theme that "takes the drag and drop page builder from Basis to the next level." The fact that Make is a free theme is notable, as most of The Theme Foundry's themes…

Dre Armeda leaves Sucuri, replaced by Tony Perez as CEO

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2014

WordPress News

Dre Armeda exits Sucuri, Inc., and Tony Perez is the new CEO.

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

WordPress News

Jetpack 3.0 has just shipped with a major overhaul of the admin area. I've long desired change, and Jetpack has finally made quite a significant one. The settings page is still very heavily Jetpack branded, but the interface for activating,…

Automattic Senior Vice President Raanan Bar-Cohen moving to Resolute Ventures

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

WordPress News

After seven years with the company, Raanan Bar-Cohen is leaving Automattic for Resolute Ventures, he announced today on his blog. Raanan is a Senior Vice President of Commercial Services at Automattic, and one of its earliest employees. He seems to…

Disqus potentially adding affiliate links to users’ content, opted out or not

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2014

WordPress News

Disqus has a partnership with VigLinks, a link skimmer that automatically adds affiliate links to content. VIgLinks itself offers this service to anyone, but Disqus now bakes it into their system as a "feature" to help "publishers to receive compensation for traffic…

Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pantheon CEO Zach Rosen announced this morning that they've raised $21.5 million in financing.I covered Pantheon, including an interview, just recently when they launched their WordPress product. As I said then, Pantheon is a very compelling product.Seeing this raise another…

WordPress statistics for the top 500,000 websites, kinda

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2014

HostingWordPress News

A website called Hacker Target has posted a roundup of cute graphs with usage statistics for WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting for the top 500,000 on the internet. The results are fun to look at, but you should consider them…

Ninja Demo, formerly Demo WP Pro, is now live

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2014

WordPress News

A few weeks ago I covered Demo WP Pro, a service by the folks behind Ninja Forms to help WordPress product creators create demo sites for their users. Since then, they've launched and rebranded to Ninja Demo. The rebranding was…

Easy Digital Downloads is approaching $500,000 in annual revenue

X-Team splits in two

Are WordPress themes a commodity?

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

The state of the WordPress theme industry

The ROI of blogging

On being (or not being) a “dev”

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

Dre Armeda leaves Sucuri, replaced by Tony Perez as CEO

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Automattic Senior Vice President Raanan Bar-Cohen moving to Resolute Ventures

Disqus potentially adding affiliate links to users’ content, opted out or not

Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing

WordPress statistics for the top 500,000 websites, kinda

Ninja Demo, formerly Demo WP Pro, is now live

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