WordPress News

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

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…

Manage transients from the WordPress admin

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2014

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson released a new plugin over the weekend called Transients Manager. You'll never guess what it does, but I'll go ahead and tell you: it lets you manage transients through the WordPress dashboard. The way this plugin works is…

Tips on providing efficient product support

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2014

Business

Steven Gliebe did a considerable amount of research when he realized he may be ready to hire support help for his theme shop, Church Themes. So, he asked others in the industry for advice. One of his primary takeaways was…

WooThemes is investigating alleged website vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2014

BusinessHosting

Some WooThemes customers are alleging that their credit cards suffered from fraudulent charges after purchasing items from WooThemes’ website. The point of vulnerability is unknown at this time. The number of affected customers is unknown. The following is what we know:…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did…

Why unlimited or lifetime product plans are sometimes good

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2014

Business

Syed Balkhi talks about product life cycles, churn, and marketing in his post about the psychology of unlimited or lifetime product pricing. At one point or another, you’ve probably wondered should I implement unlimited in my business? Is unlimited really…

Hyper-VVV on Windows

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

Development

Believe it or not, some WordPress developers code on Windows. This can cause problems with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) using VirtualBox if Hyper-V is also enabled. I've taken the time to implement a VVV setup on top of Hyper-V to reap…

Building the new WP Job Manager website

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

WordPress News

Mike Jolley (lead developer of WooCommerce), builds the WP Job Manager plugin on the side. He's a wizard like that. The plugin is very slick, and has gained popularity consistently since its launch. There have been over 55,000 downloads to…

Automattic has raised $160 million for a $1.16 billion company valuation

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has raised $160 million, led by Insight Venture Partners, Kara Swisher and Liz Gannes report in Re/code. A new fundraising deal has been rumored since mid-April, but just confirmed. This latest round puts Automattic at a $1.16 billion valuation. I'm no expert…

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

HostingSecurity

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…