WordPress News

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

The dangers of pricing in WordPress business models

Brian Krogsgard

April 30, 2014

Business

Tom McFarlin warns against the unsustainable practice of WordPress theme and plugin providers selling lifetime support. But although the amount of money that the business is making increases over a short time, there’s not a solid amount of cash flow.…

BackupBuddy Gold and unlimited updates

Travis Northcutt

April 30, 2014

Business

This week, the iThemes launched "BackupBuddy Gold" - a new pricing tier for their BackupBuddy plugin. They already had a $150 tier, which included a license to use the plugin on unlimited sites, as well as support and updates for one year.…

Results of the first WP-CLI user survey

Travis Northcutt

April 29, 2014

Development

Daniel Bachhuber has just published the results of the first WP-CLI user survey. The results should provide some guidance for Daniel and others working on the project, as they shed some light on how people are using WP-CLI, and perhaps some…

The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Stream is a WordPress plugin by X-Team that allows site owners to track all activity on their website. The free version of the plugin was released in December of 2013, and this last weekend they announced their first commercial extensions.…

WP App Store has a new owner

Travis Northcutt

April 29, 2014

WordPress News

Joining the slate of recent mergers and acquisitions in the WordPress world, Brad Touesnard announced today that he has sold WP App Store to Iain Poulson. Brad is responsible for the excellent WP Migrate DB Pro plugin, and as a result no longer had the…

Version 1 of the WordPress code reference is online

Travis Northcutt

April 28, 2014

Development

In case you missed it last Friday, Siobhan McKeown announced that version one of the new WordPress code reference is now live. The code reference provides for easy exploration of core functions, classes, methods, and hooks, as well as the…

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2014

WordPress News

Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build "Snowfall", the New York Times' famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into…

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

HostingWordPress News

I have called it the future in the past, and it seems the future is here. I've always wondered why more people haven't created their own little hosted WordPress platforms. In my view, there could be a hundred WordPress.com style…

Demo WP Pro helps you create demo sites for WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

BusinessHosting

The folks behind Ninja Forms are working on a new plugin, called Demo WP Pro. Demo WP Pro is pretty meta, as it's intended for people that sell WordPress related products. The plugin allows you to create demo sites available for users…

From the other side, selling ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

WordPress News

Leland Fiegal posted an incredible wrap-up blog post about his journey with ThemeLab and about selling it to Syed Balkhi, as I reported just a bit ago. I love seeing something with this much detail, that's so frank and honest.…

Syed Balkhi, of WP Beginner, enters the commercial theme market with ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

ThemeLab has been around since 2007, started by Leland Fiegel. Leland released dozens of themes on ThemeLab, most of which were free. He also wrote a consistent blog and was generally an active member of the WordPress community. Over time…

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

There's a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structured around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose which themes get featured on the WordPress…

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released an interesting new tool, called Postbot. Postbot is a webapp, at Postbot.co, which allows WordPress.com authenticated users to upload photos in bulk and schedule them as posts. There is, of course, a fun little gif. Once I…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

Tips for a better eCommerce website

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2014

Business

I've seen it many times. A business owner goes to a consultant, and they want an eCommerce offering for their products. They may even have some functionality in mind that they'll need. But have they considered the things that will…