The iDoneThis blog profiles WooThemes and their distributed work culture. The author also learns about their processes, the recruiting advantage of distributed teams, their commitment to transparency, and growing pains.
James Laws writes about what to consider when determining whether a new plugin feature should be a paid add-on or not. At NinjaForms, they balance a number of criteria, but in the end he says it comes to a gut decision. That said, he advices to think through these questions: If you want to have…
Steven Gliebe did a considerable amount of research when he realized he may be ready to hire support help for his theme shop, Church Themes. So, he asked others in the industry for advice. One of his primary takeaways was the following: When a theme or plugin seller has success, their increased support burden will…
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.
It makes sense, given Yoast SEO’s recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available later in September. Drupal has a smaller community overall but I bet one that will…
By now I’m sure you’ve all heard of Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. This is a hugely successful exit for GitHub, and another interesting pickup for Microsoft. Unfortunately I can’t find the tweet anymore, but I appreciated what I saw someone say about GitHub, in that it is a successful exit…
Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some were delisted. Some were discontinued. Easy Digital Downloads also purged some of the plugins they…
