A new hosted platform has arrived called, ChurchPr.es. WP Daily goes into more detail of their setup, but I’m a bit surprised they are calling it hosting. I’d think they’d market themselves as website providers. Either way, surely just one of many to come this year.
WordCamps are awesome. No doubt about it. But from a business perspective, how do you justify attending out of town WordCamps as a freelancer, employee, small business owner, etc? I would love to hear the perspective of people that have been traveling to WordCamps for a while. Have you found them to be worth the…
Kyle Chayka has an interesting thinkpiece in The Nation about the ways content management systems have shaped and will continue to influence the business and politics of media organizations. With public opinion turning against social networks while “the market grows for digital-subscription technology and upscale advertising infrastructure, more media companies will need new CMSs.”
“WordPress as a platform is putting us on the enterprise path. But what got us here is what makes us irrelevant,” says Magne Ilsaas, CEO and Founding Partner of Dekode. Magne wants to start an overdue conversation about three big risks — and opportunities — for WordPress agencies: 1) A lack of spaces for professional conversations and knowledge-sharing, including professional events, meetups, and mastermind groups catering to enterprise WordPress. 2) Successful agencies that use WordPress extensively with little or no community involvement whose work would benefit from enterprise WordPress peer networks. 3) An over-emphasis in WordPress agencies on short-term engineering solutions to the exclusion of long-term business solutions. What’s often left out is design, user experience, and most of all the capacity to play a strategic advisory role in partnership with clients.
Hacked sites are never fun, and reading tales like this one from Tim Butler gives great insight as to how hackers gain access, since it seems the ways are limitless. In this case, I enjoyed how Tim was able to locate the exploit. The problem was linked to a Gravity Forms exploit, although the exploit was fixed…
Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see an overview of plans from one of the theme pages, with options for $10, $20, or…
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic’s Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
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I think an all-in-one sort of solution for niches is a good idea. Not everybody wants to deal with the technicalities of installation and hosting. Pick a domain, choose a theme, pay monthly and have someone hold your and a bit. That sounds useful.
I agree with you Brian – calling it hosting is probably not the wisest choice. Their choice of TLD goes along with that – if you want to serve a historically non-technologically savvy market, you should cater to them with your domain name, your offering, and your copy.
I think hosted & managed WordPress offerings for verticals like this is a great business model and we’ll likely see many more of them this year.