Similar Posts

WordCamp Internet

ByBrian Krogsgard

I had a thought after seeing Brian’s tweet about his #WCATL presentation: “I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person.” Seeing as how most of Automattic (and the WP community at large) is distributed it led…

Underscores is introducing components for enabling specific types of websites

ByBrian Krogsgard

The team behind Underscores, the popular starter theme, is introducing a “Components” model, where you can generate a base theme with components that cater to a specific type of website: business, magazine, blog, etc. The project is still in early stages, according to Tammie Lister, a primary developer of Underscores Components. There is a fancy new…

First web interaction for small businesses

ByBrian Krogsgard

The great battle for the small business side of the web is for a customer’s first web interaction. Want to create a website? Where do you go? That’s the battle that every player wants to win: Automattic, GoDaddy, EIG, Envato. These are the heavy hitters on the WordPress side. They are competitors. They may also…

A chat with Barry Kooij, on running an indie plugin shop

ByBrian Krogsgard

Barry Kooij (pronounced “Coy”, America! I just learned it…) runs Never5, an independent plugin shop. He’s been running Never5 for a while, but went full time in July after the Woothemes acquisition to Automattic was made official. He has four plugins: Related Posts for WordPress Download Monitor WP Car Manager Post Connector I thought it’d…

Automattic has a product called WordAds…

By

Automattic has a product called WordAds that, until now, was only available to bloggers on WordPress.com. Now it’s available to Jetpack enabled websites using the new AdControl plugin. If you have a site with at least 1,000 views per month and want to do simple monetization on it, it might be worth a shot. It…