WordPress News

Post Status Excerpt (No. 13) — WordPress Economy Study, Trying Gutenberg Again

David Bisset

June 17, 2021

More acquisitions! Is the WordPress market worth $500-600 BILLION? Cory and David discuss these topics and Gutenberg's barriers to winning back users.

Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields

Cory Miller

June 9, 2021

DraftHosting

Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about the company acquiring the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.

Jilt has announced they have stopped…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jilt has announced they have stopped taking new accounts, and they will be shutting down on April 30, 2022. Existing customers will be able to use Jilt's service and support until that time. 🛒 I spoke with Beka Rice and…

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter Story. Their conversation focused on how Paid Memberships Pro averaged $100k per month in revenue and is on track to grow an additional 25-50% this year. Over 100,000 sites run Paid Memberships Pro, but…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹 Here is my video pick of the week: WordCamp Europe 2021 Gutenberg Demo: A

Jetpack receives a forced update

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

Make WordPressPlanet

A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?

Delicious Brains acquires Advanced Custom Fields

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

BusinessHosting

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web inked a deal to acquire Iconic.

An excellent business-related discussion in Post…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

BusinessHosting

An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, "How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?" 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition

David Bisset

June 2, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains.

Post Status Comments (No. 1) — Monetization of WordPress Plugins

David Bisset

May 28, 2021

BusinessComments

Episode #1 features a conversation in Twitter Spaces on May 28, 2021 on the subject of monetization of WordPress plugins.

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of his latest (2021) WordPress Hosting Benchmarks — and he has hauch a new website dedicated to his annual reports. WooCommerce hosts get their own section and separate benchmarks. Plans from different hosting companies are…

Tom Parandyk has a short summary…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

Tom Parandyk has a short summary of ten years of design engineering research with eight "first principles of software design." 🎱

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the first iteration of responsive menus in the navigation block and new design tools to support the existing ones in blocks. Now you can insert block patterns from the WordPress.org Pattern Directory too. ✨

The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at Automattic is focused on hiring designers, onboarding new designers, and fostering the growth and development of the design team. Monika Burman wrote a great piece about their culture and community-building programs, which aren't often…