WordPress News

The New York Times explains how…

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2019

The New York Times explains how they built a proprietary "collaborative editing CMS" for their newsrooms. It's an impressive piece of software, but it's a shame how much cool engineering goes into closed systems. Would the Times sharing this effort…

WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance

Jonathan Wold

August 1, 2019

BusinessDraft

Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.

Preserving the Wilderness

Dan Knauss

July 12, 2019

BusinessPlanet

The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the "tech giants?"

WP Engine acquires Flywheel

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2019

BusinessHosting

WP Engine has acquired Flywheel -- which boasts more than 200 employees and $18 million in revenue. WP Engine is setting the stage for an IPO in the next couple years.

Ryland Goldstein nicely summarizes the core…

Dan Knauss

June 13, 2019

Business

Ryland Goldstein nicely summarizes the core problems with Medium. Most people think it's the "paywall," but that is an optional feature selected by authors. The real reason why "Medium sucks," says Ryland, comes down to "slimy business tactics" and "terrible…

Introducing the WordPress Deal of the Week: Save more, get better exposure

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2019

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

The Deal of the Week is an opportunity for companies to reach the Post Status audience, and for readers to save money.

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.

Nevena Tomovic, business development manager at…

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

Business

Nevena Tomovic, business development manager at Human Made, is asking for your feedback in a survey that "aims to identify essential skills for a modern digital career, as perceived by the diverse WordPress community." Nevena is planning on presenting the…

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

BusinessHosting

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size of major WordPress versions over the past decade and how they've grown over 600%. We've gone from 5.38 MB and 603 files to 38.0 MB and 1,713 files. Dumitru also looks at the sizes…

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts I've enjoyed recently: Matt Medeiros interviewed Craig Hewitt and Dave Rodenbaugh of RogueStartups. They discussed how business owners operating within the WordPress ecosystem and the SaaS world view "the economy of plugins" as opposed…

“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

Dan Knauss

April 18, 2019

BusinessDesign

Rich Tabor is taking CoBlocks and his other work to GoDaddy, where he'll continue to development experiences for using WordPress with Gutenberg.

Justin Tadlock explains how to build…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Business

Justin Tadlock explains how to build a compelling business or agency landing page with Gutenberg and his newly released Exhale WordPress theme, which I really like.

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Business

Thomas Griffin is closing a chapter in his life as a developer and takes time to share some unusually open reflections on his personal growth. Many business owners start with the pure passion of "just coding a plugin." Later, with…

Today is International Women’s Day — a…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Business

Today is International Women's Day — a good day for listening to stories by fantastic women. That's something you can always do at HeroPress where Amena Mabrouk is the latest contributor. Amena shares how the WordPress community helped her learn and…

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.