I'll be on The East Wing podcast with Tim Smith today at 2:00 p.m. central time. Tim has interviewed some pretty awesome people before, and I'm happy he asked me to be on. Check it out today or catch it later on iTunes. It's a more general web-centered podcast, but we'll certainly be talking some WordPress and probably even WordPress news.
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.
Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple, clarifying the value proposition, having a monthly payment option, accepting multiple currencies, and highlighting a…
Newfold acquires YITH, Hostopia. Wordfence stops FastOrSlow.com. DigitalOcean acquires CSS-tricks. Tips and tricks for WordPress devs.
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 Ocean. It’s pretty dang slick. There are a few UX kinks, but that’s me being…
WP Remote, the update and backup solution from Human Made, has announced their first commercial plan for their popular product. You can now pay $5 per month per site to get automated backups stored remotely. This sets them up as pretty direct competition to VaultPress, in my view. But the feature differences seem relatively clear….
If you’re using the popular File Manager plugin (700k+ installations), be sure it’s upgraded to the latest version. A recently discovered vulnerability allows “unauthenticated users to execute commands and upload malicious files on a target site.” 🎯 A patch was released this morning on September 1, 2020. Some WordPress managed hosting companies are scanning sites…
