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Isobel Weston revisits the accomplishments of…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Isobel Weston revisits the accomplishments of EasyWP, Namecheap's managed WordPress hosting service that launched in 2017. It's great to see how they're giving back to the community. EasyWP is active as a sponsor of WordCamps all over the world. 🏕️

Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Leonardo Losoviz describes how to implement a GraphQL server with components in PHP. He starts by defining components, and then he describes "the architectural design of the GraphQL server in PHP GraphQL by PoP, which uses components as a data…

Upcoming Events 📆 There is a…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Upcoming Events 📆 There is a free webinar today (January 29th) on the subject of WordPress's Full Site Editor and themes. It will be hosted by Carolina Nymark, Ari Stathopoulos, Anne McCarthy, and Birgit Pauli-Haack. WordCamp India 2021 will take…

The WP Buffs has made its…

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Dan Knauss
Business
The WP Buffs has made its first acquisition: WP EZI. 👏 Allie Nimmons explains how this came about and what's next: "...WP Buffs purchased WP EZI for 5-figures. This included 65 active subscriptions and 343 total customers... WP Buffs won’t…

A good, free theme is hard…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
A good, free theme is hard to find Post Status' Slack space sprouted some conversations this past week worth noting in our #club channel. One, in particular, started about the WordPress.org recommended hosting page and led into this observation about…

Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales in 9 Months In a Pandemic It can be done — it has been done — by Ana Nunez, founder of TheVidaBars.com. Come listen in as Cory talks to his business partner Ana about…

Built by WordPress — .com that is

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David Bisset
BusinessDesign
Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

Joe Buffs posted a year in…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Joe Buffs posted a year in review for WP Buffs covering "biggest screw-ups of the past year" as well as the "biggest successes." The company had total revenue of $1,031,928, up almost 300% from around $376,000 in 2018. It's great…

Sally Strebel, co-founder of Pagely, opens…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Sally Strebel, co-founder of Pagely, opens up space via HeroPress for a lot of insight and reflection based on her experiences with sexism in the corporate world — even at WordCamps: "I had to make the conscious choice to decide…

Suzanne Scacca shares some thoughts on…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Suzanne Scacca shares some thoughts on how to design a simple UI when you have a complex solution: if the backend is very complex, it may "infect" the frontend. If it's "too complicated to navigate or too convoluted to understand,…

The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s…

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Dan Knauss
Design
The next iteration of WordPress components/Gutenberg’s design is currently being explored under the codename “G2 Components.” There is a roadmap here and an open issue about how to best approach integrating this into Gutenberg. This is certainly the cutting edge…

Anything involving the open-source business model…

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Dan Knauss
Business
Anything involving the open-source business model makes interesting reading — and this piece from Joe Morrison (Aazavea) about the end of Mapbox GL JS as open source didn't disappoint. ⚰️ Joe claims open core is dead: "I still believe open…

This article by David Gilbert of…

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Dan Knauss
Design
This article by David Gilbert of Random Wire on Japanese web design has gone around for a while and is worth a read if, like me, you haven't seen it yet. 🗾 David asks why Japanese websites are so "different"…
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