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Liquid Web announced the launch of…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Liquid Web announced the launch of its managed WooCommerce hosting, which has been in the works for some time. It will be interesting to see how other hosting companies respond. The hosted solution space — especially for eCommerce — is just…

The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1)…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Design

The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1) is out with another healthy list of improvements and additions. As Matias Ventura reports, the update iterates further on aspects of the design and writing flow with enhancements like lighter up/down movers. It also…

Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

January 19, 2018

DraftHosting

In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss self-hosted vs managed ecommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness.

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2017

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2017

PlanetSecurity

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2017 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2017

BusinessDesign

In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.

John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related…

Brian Krogsgard

October 13, 2017

Security

John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related security improvements going into WordPress 4.9, including a change of email confirmation process.

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

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…

If you’re looking for podcasts about…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Design

If you're looking for podcasts about design and front-end development, then you will appreciate this list from UXcellence.

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

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…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

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…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

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…

If you’re looking for some good,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

BusinessSecurity

If you're looking for some good, recent podcasts, you might want to check out this interview with Brad Williams over at Robojuice. It's an hour-long show focused on security and the question of whether WordPress is secure enough for Microsoft. The…

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Security

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security company called Patchman, which doubles the number of active sites they’ll have on their network. Patchman patches (good name!) vulnerabilities on the server, based on scanning files and identifying known vulnerable software. This is…

Free speech, privacy, and the web

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2017

HostingPlanet

Web-based hosts, platforms, and businesses need a plan for how they'll handle issues around free speech and privacy rights for their users and customers.

Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

BusinessHosting

In 2015 Envato invested $1.5 million dollars into Pressed -- the white-label WordPress hosting service -- for a one third stake in the company. Now they've fully purchased ownership in the business, and the majority of the Pressed team is…

Liquid Web announced the launch of…

The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1)…

Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce — Draft podcast

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2017

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

If you’re looking for podcasts about…

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period…

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

If you’re looking for some good,…

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security…

Free speech, privacy, and the web

Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution

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