Business Roundup Week Ending July 26
Nathan Ingram
What Can WordPress Agencies Learn from the Crowdstrike Meltdown? Google Makes a U-Turn on Third-Party Cookies. WooCommerce Announces Roadmap for 2024 and Beyond. And More!
Business Roundup Week Ending July 19
Nathan Ingram
DNS Hijacks Target Squarespace Domains, Awesome Motive Acquired BuddyBoss, Cwicly is Back (?), and More!
Business Roundup Week Ending July 12
Nathan Ingram
10 Billion Reasons to Strengthen Your Agency's Security Practices On July 4, a file containing almost 10 billion stolen passwords was leaked on a popular hacking forum. Called RockYou2024.txt, the file includes credentials from old and new data breaches of…
Business Roundup Week Ending July 5
Nathan Ingram
Polyfill Supply Chain Attack Rattles WordPress Security, Cloudflare Fights Back Against Evasive AI Scrapers, Mastering the Changing SEO Landscape, and More!
Business Roundup Week Ending June 28
Nathan Ingram
A Final Goodbye to Google Universal Analytics, Claude 3.5 Sonnet Raises the AI Bar, Google Dials Back (Poor) AI Search Overviews, and More!
Business Roundup Week Ending June 21
Nathan Ingram
Finally! An Accessibility Ruling from the US DOJ, Adobe Sued for Fees and Practices, How to Deal with Crawler Spikes, and More!
How to become a founder
Joost de Valk
I became a founder when I started Yoast. However, I did not feel like a founder until I left Yoast. If you work in the company you founded, then your job is the role you have. I was CEO and,…
The startup trick doesn’t exist
Marieke van de Rakt
It only happens once in a blue moon: You’ll tweak one single thing in your messaging, your check-out, or your email list and that change is the trick. It changes everything, skyrocketing your sales indefinitely. A lot of startups spend…
Business Roundup Week Ending March 1
Nathan Ingram
Criticism Over Automattic's AI Content Deal, The Text File that Runs the Internet, Google Local Services Ads Bug, and More...
Our Evolving Roles & Team at Post Status
Cory Miller
We're sharing some news about some exciting changes and growth on our team at Post Status to support you and the WordPress Community.
Business Roundup Week Ending February 23
Nathan Ingram
2 New Speed-Focused Plugins from the WP Performance Team, Google Workspace Price Increases, Reddit Sells Data for AI, and More!
Changes in the plugin business in the last 15 years
Joost de Valk
Note from Joost: Marieke and I have decided to start taking turns writing this weekly column, to even better reflect the multiple worlds within WordPress. So, this week, it's me! When I started building plugins in 2006, premium plugins did…
Business Roundup Week Ending February 16
Nathan Ingram
The Content Marketing Apocalypse, Facebook Ads Carrying Malware, Google Gemini AI Replaces Bard, and More!
About employees, job titles, and professional growth
Marieke van de Rakt
In 2019, I wrote a blog post titled Why your name should be your job title. At the beginning of Yoast, when we hired our first employees, I hated job titles. I also hated job descriptions. I found them so…
Finding the WordPress Nash Equilibrium
Marieke van de Rakt
I am a huge fan of John Nash. Do you know him? The movie A Beautiful Mind was about his life. John Nash won a Nobel prize for his work on economics. His work focuses on game theory and explains…
Business Roundup Week Ending January 19
Nathan Ingram
The unexpected attack vector responsible for most WordPress hacks in 2023, Can block editors and page builders coexist, ChatGPT under fire, and More!
