Post Status Excerpt (No. 25) — Doing “The Right Thing” and Mailchimp Acquisition Thoughts
David Bisset
David and Cory discuss how hard it is to do "the right thing" and deal with tough, negative feedback as a result.
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?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 19) — How Can New Developers Get Started In WordPress?
David Bisset
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how new developers might be able to get a footing with a career in WordPress. (The first step might be more social than technical in nature.)
Webinar: Interview with Brian Casel of ZipMessage
Karen Johnson
Brian Casel's startup, ZipMessage, is a platform for asynchronous video conversations where anyone (like your clients and colleagues) can respond with a video of their own.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 17) — Acquisition Tracker, WordPress 5.8 and #ClickPublish
David Bisset
As Post Status tracks acquisitions, we're seeing WordPress history from a business perspective. Cory and David discuss its significance and the 5.8 release.
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…
Dan Knauss
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities — and how to prevent them. 🔒
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.
Tony Perez’s approach to WordPress security…
Dan Knauss
Tony Perez's approach to WordPress security is not about complex configurations but three key tenets. These include 1) limiting access to the server stack to known and trusted sources, 2) limiting file access and knowing what is modified and introduced,…
The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also…
Dan Knauss
The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also known as m0ze) who is a long-time contributor to the WPScan vulnerability database. Vlad shares thoughts on the state of WordPress security today: “By itself, the WordPress engine is quite safe… but WordPress CMS…
Will Morris discusses HTTP headers —…
Dan Knauss
Will Morris discusses HTTP headers — what they are and how to add five security headers to a site.
This week WP Engine announced the…
Dan Knauss
This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…
Jetpack receives a forced update
David Bisset
A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains.
Are you ready for “WordPress: The College Years?”
David Bisset
As WordPress turns 18, here are some of the lesser known historical milestones that have stuck with me.
