WordPress News

The New York Times explains how…

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2019

The New York Times explains how they built a proprietary "collaborative editing CMS" for their newsrooms. It's an impressive piece of software, but it's a shame how much cool engineering goes into closed systems. Would the Times sharing this effort…

WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance

Jonathan Wold

August 1, 2019

BusinessDraft

Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.

ServerPilot announced in June that they…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

Hosting

ServerPilot announced in June that they are launching a new hosting automation service called HostLaunch. It's meant to be a "platform for operating a modern web hosting company." It's a "customer-facing portal for your users to create their own accounts,…

Joshua Wold explains from a design…

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2019

Design

Joshua Wold explains from a design perspective how WooCommerce widgets are being converted into Gutenberg blocks. A lot more work goes into this than you might think!

Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Hosting

Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes the case that the WordPress hosting space may simultaneously be one of the most lucrative — yet underfunded — industries. 💸

Tidy Repo made a speed comparison…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Hosting

Tidy Repo made a speed comparison of 100 WordPress themes. The tests were limited to free themes in the WordPress repo, so popular commercial themes were not featured. Because of the variables involved — including your hosting and installed plugins…

Here’s an eye-opening study from Princeton…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Design

Here's an eye-opening study from Princeton University that analyzed over 53,000 product pages from 11,000 shopping websites. What they found was 1,818 instances of dark patterns, which are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering,…

Ionut Neagu reviews the redesign of…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2019

Design

Ionut Neagu reviews the redesign of Themeisle, including the pros and cons of the decisions that went into it. The design itself cost $10,000-$15,000. Commenting on that Ionut writes: While the design itself is something almost impossible to track the…

Preserving the Wilderness

Dan Knauss

July 12, 2019

BusinessPlanet

The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the "tech giants?"

Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Hosting

Everyone's Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…

WCEU 2019 in Review

David Bisset

June 28, 2019

PlanetWordPress News

WordCamp Europe 2019 hosted a record 3,200+ people, according to ticket sales. WCEU started with a contributor day on Thursday, June 20, followed by the two main conference days on Friday and Saturday.

WP Engine acquires Flywheel

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2019

BusinessHosting

WP Engine has acquired Flywheel -- which boasts more than 200 employees and $18 million in revenue. WP Engine is setting the stage for an IPO in the next couple years.

Introducing Team Membership

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2019

DesignHosting

Team Memberships are a new way to support Post Status and provide continuous education and excellent community insights for your entire organization.

For a few hours on Tuesday,…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

Hosting

For a few hours on Tuesday, June 11th, technical issues with WordPress VIP hosting resulted in some prominent and apparently "headless" sites showing the default WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme. 🧯

Chris Lema is hosting a virtual…

Dan Knauss

June 13, 2019

Hosting

Chris Lema is hosting a virtual summit for companies "trying to hit the one million dollar milestone" on June 18th. He is joined by Carrie Wheeler (COO, Liquid Web), Nathan Ingram (iThemes), Chris Teitzel (Founder/CEO, Lockr), and others. 💲