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Upcoming Events 📆 A Business Value…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Upcoming Events 📆 A Business Value Crash Course led by Cory Miller and Jeff Meziere on April 7th will help business owners work through some key steps to assess value and plan their next move. There's an impressive amount of…

Harmony Romo shares a general overview…

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Dan Knauss
WordPress Community
Harmony Romo shares a general overview of the financial health of the WordPress Foundation and its subsidiary, WordPress Community Support (WPCS), as of the beginning of 2021: "Due to the many cancellations in 2020, the program did lose money. However,…

Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently,…

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Dan Knauss
HostingSecurity
Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently, first in the hosting space: InMotion Hosting announced its acquisition of RamNode.com, a provider of "affordable and high-performance" unmanaged VPS Hosting." Mike Demo comments on the deal: "InMotion now has an EU data center…

Bob Dunn, based on survey results…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Bob Dunn, based on survey results and feedback from his outstanding podcast guests, tells us how 2020 played out for WooCommerce businesses. Some businesses did better than others, and some store owners saw trends like "people requesting free or discounted…

Alex Denning took a deep dive…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Alex Denning took a deep dive into the advertising campaigns of some WordPress businesses, inspired in part by recent events involving Elementor and Bluehost. Alex looks at the different ads WordPress businesses are running and considers why they might be…

Atlas SShRugged 🤷‍♂️ Right before the…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Atlas SShRugged 🤷‍♂️ Right before the DE(CODE) 2021 conference, WP Engine founder and CTO Jason Cohen announced WP Engine's new Headless WordPress service, which is called Atlas. A new developer relations team "with focus on headless WordPress" — Matt Landers,…

A rising tide lifts all hosts…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
A rising tide lifts all hosts 🛥️ More WordPress news on the hosting and eCommerce front: GoDaddy has launched new WooCommerce extensions, which according to the press release are from GoDaddy's recent acquisition of SkyVerge. These extensions "increase the value…

Brad Dickason argues speed and responsiveness…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Brad Dickason argues speed and responsiveness are the ultimate "killer features" that ultimately made the iPhone a success at launch. Speed in checkouts, in virtual reality, and design tools are examples Brad uses. With any product, we should keep in…

🎨 Lukas Oppermann writes about the…

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Dan Knauss
Design
🎨 Lukas Oppermann writes about the more and less well-known benefits of design systems: "Knowing the benefits can be useful when you try to convince your management that a design system is not a waste of money. Or when you…

Andrea Middleton shares what she feels…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Andrea Middleton shares what she feels are some missed business opportunities in the WordPress space. Because WordPress is open source, any solution or features a third-party developer sells can be added to WordPress Core. That means it's important for third-party…

WordPress 5.7 — What you need…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
WordPress 5.7 — What you need to know A lot of information aimed at developers was shared this week about the upcoming release of WordPress 5.7, which is scheduled to be released on March 9, 2021. 📅 The most important…

How Am I Bluehost to Live…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…
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