Pressgram, an Instagram for WordPress Kickstarter app proposal, lost its primary backer today. Matt Mullenweg had backed the project with the highest $10,000 support level, and retracted it after learning the app would not be open source. John Saddington, who is behind Pressgram, responded to the news on the project blog.
In this post on Code Poet (which is an Automattic site or “shindig”), the author links to a tutorial hosted on http://wp.tutsplus.com, which is an Envato property and prominently promotes ThemeForest. How does this jive with the recent brouhaha involving banning ThemeForest authors from presenting at WordCamps?
I read today that the popular 1 Pixel Out player has a vulnerability. The “Audio Player” plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository, and the PowerPress plugin (a very popular podcasting plugin) has removed the 1 Pixel Out player from its list of players. If you are using an old version of PowerPress, or…
Gilbert Pellegrom has written a post that somewhat tells the story of what happened with WP Updates. Most of you know that WP Updates was acquired, and as I previously reported, was under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the sale. They only had about a hundred customers, but the service went down under the…
Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.
Joshua Strebel — the CEO of Pagely — shares his view of the current state of the WordPress economy, and why he is confident in both its strength and future.
How to make a user experience that doesn’t suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That’s understandable, but it’s Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.
