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It’s nice to see Sucuri is…

April 21, 2016

It's nice to see Sucuri is offering SSL certificates to their customers at no charge with LetsEncrypt. With WordPress.com adopting SSL everywhere and ways you can currently installing a LetsEncrypt SSL on hosts like SiteGround, DreamHost, and Bluehost, I'm wondering…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

Hosting

This afternoon, I spent a few minutes playing with Server Pilot, after seeing is mentioned in Slack for at least the fifth time. Server Pilot offers a control panel and an API for managing WordPress installs on top of Digital…

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

April 15, 2016

Hosting

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally deleted his entire hosting customers' websites (1500+ customers). Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

Hosting

Chris Lema recently shared his opinion on some hosting companies to avoid. Spoiler: generally he doesn't care for hosting companies owned by EIG. You've probably never even heard of many of the companies in the list -- though you've probably all heard of…

A Day of REST is going to Boston

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

HostingPlanet

The second A Day of REST conference will be in Boston, Massachusetts. The event will cover the WordPress REST API in-depth, with talks and workshops from leaders in the community. It will be co-organized by Human Made and Post Status.

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has raised a $4 million Series A round. They last raised $1.2 million over a year ago. The TechCrunch article states that FlyWheel has about 40,000 paying customers.

Medium is releasing “Medium for Publishers”…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Medium is releasing "Medium for Publishers" which provides publishers a "free CMS", a standalone URL, ability to host promoted posts, and paid memberships functionality. It's being branded by some as a WordPress competitor, which is ridiculous. With Medium, you are still…

If you’re someone who designs emails…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you're someone who designs emails or just appreciates a good email design when they see it, then you might want to check out the latest in a "best of email" post from Jason Rodriguez. I mean, who doesn't appreciate…

If you have grumbles about the…

April 8, 2016

Design

If you have grumbles about the WordPress.org plugin repo in terms of its design and user experience, you might want to check out some wireframes recently done by the plugin team. So far, I like the general way things are…

The aftermath of the Panama Papers…

April 8, 2016

Security

The aftermath of the Panama Papers is going to be happening for a long time, but a few sources that are trying to figure how exactly the link happened have been recently mentioning a three-year old install of Drupal. A…

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on…

March 31, 2016

Security

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on communication, especially when it comes to developers informing their users about the status of their projects. Developers give little thought to how they would handle emergencies -- such a security breach -- until it…

From “Feature Plugins” to “Feature Projects”

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2016

Design

I've been looking forward to a post like this. Helen Hou-Sandí has written about an evolution of the feature plugin model. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve had successful feature plugins that were merged into core, efforts…

The WordPress design team is looking…

March 21, 2016

Design

The WordPress design team is looking for feedback, which is part of the early exploratory research for revisions to the Plugin Directory. If you have ever used an app store or installed an extension in any major browser... they would…

WordPress Hosting — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2016

DraftHosting

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk all about WordPress hosting, including the different types of hosting that are available, our technical preferences, and some of the non-technical issues that surround hosting in the WordPress world.

Yet another survey for the WordPress recommended hosting page

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Hosting

In discussing the Pressable story, a few folks have asked me about the WordPress recommended hosting page, and if Automattic's ownership of Pressable will affect that page. The answer is that I don't think so, but I don't know for sure. However,…

Review Signal has changed the algorithm…

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Hosting

Review Signal has changed the algorithm used to rank web hosts. A number of hosts were affected, and I thought you may like to see how. I believe Kevin does a terrific job with this site and it's the only…

It’s nice to see Sucuri is…

Server Pilot on top of Digital Ocean

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

A Day of REST is going to Boston

Managed WordPress hosting provider FlyWheel has…

Medium is releasing “Medium for Publishers”…

If you’re someone who designs emails…

If you have grumbles about the…

The aftermath of the Panama Papers…

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on…

From “Feature Plugins” to “Feature Projects”

The WordPress design team is looking…

WordPress Hosting — Draft podcast

Yet another survey for the WordPress recommended hosting page

Review Signal has changed the algorithm…

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