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Here are some other recent links…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Here are some other recent links to share regarding Gutenberg: If you haven't seen Morten Rand-Hendriksen talk at WordCamp US, I would highly recommend it. He also has two articles on LinkedIn: one high level post on what we need…

Still on the subject of Gutenberg,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Still on the subject of Gutenberg, Tony Perez shares his thoughts after watching Matt's State of the Word where Matt talks about the ways Gutenberg may affect the WordPress business ecosystem. For those most likely to see their niche market disrupted…

Modern Tribe appears to be getting…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Modern Tribe appears to be getting into the "Calendar as a Service" business as it previews Lumin. Lumin is an "online calendar for users of WordPress and non-WordPress-based sites." In order to maintain its current WordPress calendar plugin and the…

How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at…

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, explores what makes software development "hard." One of his sources claims that over 40% of software projects fail! The insight Jesse draws from all this failure is expressed in the "One Skull Rule."…

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period for distributed host testing, a framework for any hosting company to run the WordPress the PHPUnit test suite on their infrastructure, and then report the results back to WordPress.org. SiteGround and WP Engine are…

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017 WordPress Hosting Survey, with 4700 responses. Some of the more interesting tidbits, at least to me: - GoDaddy was the most popular host, accounting for 15.3% of all responses, with the majority of them…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
There's been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this "in a big way." David thinks the new editor will add such…
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