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Managed WordPress hosting companies continue to grow: Flywheel is #344 on Inc. Magazine’s annual ranking of the United States’s fastest-growing private companies. It is also Nebraska’s fastest-growing company in 2018.
In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It’s worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion. They didn’t even note how much they raised. Nevertheless, Flywheel is definitely targeting a specific…
Many readers have likely heard by now that WordPress 4.2.1 is out (and probably already patched on your installs). The patch is in response to a zero day vulnerability reported by Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki. WordPress 4.2.1 includes a check on the number of characters in the content of comments to prevent truncation of the comment…
Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp India 2021 is still taking place — this is the final weekend, February 13-14. There is a WordPress “Mega Meetup” coming up on February 18th at 6:30 pm (ET). It will be focused on static sites, Elementor, and overall site performance. The speakers are Michelle Keefe, Maciek Palmowski, and Bud Kraus….
ServerPilot announced in June that they are launching a new hosting automation service called HostLaunch. It’s meant to be a “platform for operating a modern web hosting company.” It’s a “customer-facing portal for your users to create their own accounts, log in, purchase servers, and manage their PHP and WordPress applications on those servers.” HostLaunch…
Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 3! 🧪 Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. 📦 Follow updates about bringing back the Active Install Growth chart. 📈
In the latest WordPress acquisition, Sandhills is joining Awesome Motive. Pippin Williamson talks with Cory about WordPress: past and future.
