Chris Lema on Liquid Web Acquiring LearnDash
Dan Knauss
Chris Lema talks about the latest WordPress acquisition: LearnDash is joining Liquid Web. Will it become the leading LMS turnkey solution?
A Strategic Partnership Framework for WordPress Businesses
Jonathan Wold
A good strategic partnership can quickly surmount the challenges of distribution facing WordPress plugin authors and SaaS businesses.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 24) — Entrepreneurial Resilience: Relying On Others
David Bisset
What can help WordPress professionals weather the storm of being an entrepreneur in challenging times?
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya…
Dan Knauss
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources…
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…
Dan Knauss
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…
Can small, independent WordPress makers still make it?
David Bisset
Is it still possible to make a living as a small WordPress company, freelancer, or solopreneur? The community says yes!
Post Status Excerpt (No. 16) — Syed Balkhi on Acquiring SearchWP
David Bisset
Syed Balkhi talks with David about his acquisition of SearchWP, his vision for the plugin, and he calls for developers to stay mission-focused.
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.
FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…
Dan Knauss
FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex Denning and Iain Poulson have officially launched FlipWP, which is being labeled as a “new private acquisition marketplace for WordPress.” 💸 Iain, fresh from his sale of Plugin Rank to Awesome Motive, notes in…
Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields
Cory Miller
Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about the company acquiring the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.
Delicious Brains acquires Advanced Custom Fields
David Bisset
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
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…
Kevin Ohashi shared the results of…
Dan Knauss
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…
Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux
Karen Johnson
Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.
Javier Casares makes the case for…
Dan Knauss
Javier Casares makes the case for why hosting companies should install the PHP-intl extension. Instead of hacks, "we gain the possibility to use a lot of functions that can make our life easier" and "improve the way we develop to…
