WordPress News

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2014

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…

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

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

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,…