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How to build a Gravity Forms add-on

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

In an effort to showcase how Gravity Forms can be used as a platform, Rocket Genius developer Steven Henty has created a quite in-depth tutorial on how to create a Gravity Forms add-on. With over one million WordPress sites running…

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

BusinessDesign

In mid-April I wrote that Press75 was for sale on Flippa. That auction ended without a sale, with bids for up to $45,000. Today, the Minneapolis based Westwerk is announcing that they have bought Press75 from Jason Schuller. It's my…

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They've moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by…

The state of the WordPress theme industry

David Perel

May 27, 2014

BusinessDesign

Editor's Note: This story is republished from Medium, with author David Perel's permission. David has a unique take on the industry and has some very poignant thoughts that I wanted to share with this audience. The times, they are changing.…

The ROI of blogging

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

DesignHosting

Ever wondered if your blogging efforts are worth it? Well, you can do like Groove did and calculate it yourself. Blogging may be more expensive than you think. Here's their setup: Aside from my own time spent on the blog…

On being (or not being) a “dev”

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2014

Development

Zé Fontainhas has written a post that needed writing, and we need to read it. Too often, we pre-judge people's capabilities based on false assumptions. Being a contributor to non-developer centric aspects of WordPress doesn't make someone not a developer.…

Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pantheon CEO Zach Rosen announced this morning that they've raised $21.5 million in financing.I covered Pantheon, including an interview, just recently when they launched their WordPress product. As I said then, Pantheon is a very compelling product.Seeing this raise another…

WordPress statistics for the top 500,000 websites, kinda

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2014

HostingWordPress News

A website called Hacker Target has posted a roundup of cute graphs with usage statistics for WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting for the top 500,000 on the internet. The results are fun to look at, but you should consider them…

WooThemes is investigating alleged website vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2014

BusinessHosting

Some WooThemes customers are alleging that their credit cards suffered from fraudulent charges after purchasing items from WooThemes’ website. The point of vulnerability is unknown at this time. The number of affected customers is unknown. The following is what we know:…

Hyper-VVV on Windows

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2014

Development

Believe it or not, some WordPress developers code on Windows. This can cause problems with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) using VirtualBox if Hyper-V is also enabled. I've taken the time to implement a VVV setup on top of Hyper-V to reap…

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

HostingSecurity

A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

Results of the first WP-CLI user survey

Travis Northcutt

April 29, 2014

Development

Daniel Bachhuber has just published the results of the first WP-CLI user survey. The results should provide some guidance for Daniel and others working on the project, as they shed some light on how people are using WP-CLI, and perhaps some…

Version 1 of the WordPress code reference is online

Travis Northcutt

April 28, 2014

Development

In case you missed it last Friday, Siobhan McKeown announced that version one of the new WordPress code reference is now live. The code reference provides for easy exploration of core functions, classes, methods, and hooks, as well as the…

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

HostingWordPress News

I have called it the future in the past, and it seems the future is here. I've always wondered why more people haven't created their own little hosted WordPress platforms. In my view, there could be a hundred WordPress.com style…

Demo WP Pro helps you create demo sites for WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

BusinessHosting

The folks behind Ninja Forms are working on a new plugin, called Demo WP Pro. Demo WP Pro is pretty meta, as it's intended for people that sell WordPress related products. The plugin allows you to create demo sites available for users…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

How to build a Gravity Forms add-on

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

The state of the WordPress theme industry

The ROI of blogging

On being (or not being) a “dev”

Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing

WordPress statistics for the top 500,000 websites, kinda

WooThemes is investigating alleged website vulnerabilities

Hyper-VVV on Windows

The cost of running a WordPress website

Results of the first WP-CLI user survey

Version 1 of the WordPress code reference is online

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

Demo WP Pro helps you create demo sites for WordPress products

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

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