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Earlier this week Cory Miller sat…

ByDan Knauss
Earlier this week Cory Miller sat down with Dr. Sherry Walling to discuss her tips and advice for managing fear, anxiety and uncertainty. Some highlights: Get some big deep breaths — Four slow seconds in, four slow seconds out. 😤 Refocus on gratitude — What are you thankful for? 🙏🏻 Have your inner voice of…

Join me on the DradCast tonight

ByBrian Krogsgard
Tonight, I’m joining Dre Armeda and Brad Williams as guest host on the DradCast. The DradCast is a really fun evening podcast about WordPress. Each week, they have a guest host, and this week I’m the lucky guy. Dre does amazing work at Sucuri and Brad does equally impressive work at WebDevStudios, so I’m really…

A trend in theme shops closing affiliate programs

ByBrian Krogsgard
Jonathan Dingman poses interesting questions on his WP Force blog. Why do WordPress theme companies struggle with so much fraud compared to other industries? And I’d rephrase his second question just a bit – as I think it’s obviously a trend that theme shops are closing affiliate programs. I’d ask just how big is this…

Andrea Middleton shares what she feels…

ByDan Knauss
Andrea Middleton shares what she feels are some missed business opportunities in the WordPress space. Because WordPress is open source, any solution or features a third-party developer sells can be added to WordPress Core. That means it’s important for third-party businesses not to monetize access to their software. Instead, they should: “…monetize something that makes…

Harmony Romo shares a general overview…

ByDan Knauss
Harmony Romo shares a general overview of the financial health of the WordPress Foundation and its subsidiary, WordPress Community Support (WPCS), as of the beginning of 2021: “Due to the many cancellations in 2020, the program did lose money. However, many vendors offered balances on account which can be used towards future in-person events. WPCS…

It’s time to ditch download counts on WordPress.org and get real stats

ByBrian Krogsgard
I’m grumpy today. Clickbait journalism annoys me, and WordPress security related clickbait journalism especially annoys me. Ars Technica, PC World, ZD Net, and TripWire are just a few sites that reported over a million WordPress sites were susceptible to being hacked after a vulnerability was discovered by Sucuri. Except, you know, that it’s not true. The…