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WordPress websites and businesses acquisitions

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Oli Dale has done a pretty thorough roundup of the history of WordPress websites and businesses that have been purchased. I'm a little disappointed that so many people do not reveal the price of their transactions. I know there is…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDraft
Matt Medeiros is a WordPress entrepreneur and podcaster from a town between Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Matt is also a co-founder of Slocum Studios, a web consultancy. One of Matt's podcasts is the Matt Report, where he interviews…

Brace yourselves, WordSesh 2 is coming

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he's announced the…

WordPress 3.7 RC1 released

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Brian Krogsgard
Make WordPressWordPress News
WordPress 3.7 RC1 has been released, which means the official release of WordPress 3.7 is near. Auto-updates have been refined a bit, and based on some tweets I saw from Andrew Nacin and reports of Beta testing, they are very…

Lessons learned trying to convert customers and monetize

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Groove is a support software that markets itself for SaaS and eCommerce services. It looks pretty nice, kind of like a Help Scout Plus, maybe. I read a post on their blog about 7 lessons they learned to reach $30,000…

Plugin readme file generator

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
GenerateWP has released a plugin readme file generator. This is the 17th tool released by GenerateWP, yet another user-friendly tool for WordPress developers that allows you easily create valid readme.txt files for your plugin.

WordCamp Europe rewound

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
The WordCamp Europe team has put together a "buzz" list of wrap-up posts and responses to WordCamp Europe. I've heard nothing but positive feedback, and it's really fun being able to read these experiences and see just how impactful an…

Don’t update your theme

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Konstantin Obenland talks about the concept of the Underscores (_s) theme being unversioned, and how theme authors shouldn't worry too much about updating their themes based off of _s every time _s updates. It's a dilemma I've struggled with myself.…

Let’s learn in Cape Town

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordCamp Cape Town is November 7th, and I'm really excited to have an opportunity to take part. The timing worked out perfectly, and it will be an excellent chance to learn, get to know people, and achieve some things for…

Rewrite rules made easy

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Brian Krogsgard
Development
Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very…

How to be a good product support provider

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Pippin Williamson shares his story of learning to be good at supporting his products. Pippin highlights one of the hardest challenges, that a good support person is both good at problem solving and good at being empathetic with the customer.…

Partner spotlight: The Theme Foundry

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Brian Krogsgard
DesignWordPress News
It was just over three months ago that I redesigned Post Status, re-focused the site's purpose, and partnered with The Theme Foundry. Today, I'd like to share that The Theme Foundry has opted to continue the relationship for another quarter.…

( intuition + investigation ) > memorization

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Lance Willett is the theme team lead at Automattic, and in this post he describes the power of intuition and investigation, and how much more powerful these characteristics are than memorization. If you are passionate and curious, you can achieve…

GoDaddy has acquired Media Temple

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
In a shocking move (to me), GoDaddy has acquired fellow hosting company Media Temple. According to the post on TechCrunch, Media Temple's 225 employees will continue to manage its 125,000 customer base as a separate entity. GoDaddy has apparently been…
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