WordPress News

Liquid Web has acquired iThemes

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2018

Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.

Managing product renewals

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Business

There was an interesting conversation over the last few days in the business channel on Post Status Slack, where members discussed the merits and potential pitfalls of various renewal strategies. Joe Guilmette kicked it off describing how auto renewals for…

Pippin Williamson was interviewed on…

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2018

Business

Pippin Williamson was interviewed on one of my favorite blogs -- Indie Hackers. He talked about how he created his business and has turned it into one generating nearly $200k in revenue per month. Also from Pippin's team, they…

As is his tradition at the…

Brian Krogsgard

January 19, 2018

Business

As is his tradition at the end of each year, Pippin Williamson wrote out his 2017 year in review. He covers his price changes, revenue, the closing of the EDD marketplace, and other significant milestones for his company. I wish…

The first WordPress conferences of 2018…

Brian Krogsgard

January 19, 2018

Business

The first WordPress conferences of 2018 will soon be upon us. Two to point out: LoopConf is happening from February 21 to 24 with a solid speaker lineup. It's back in the same venue at Salt Lake City, Utah. If you're…

Awesome Motive has sold Soliloquy and Envira Gallery in a multi-million dollar sale

Brian Krogsgard

January 19, 2018

Business

Awesome Motive -- the company behind OptinMonster and WPForms -- has sold two of their products in a multi-million dollar deal. Soliloquy and Envira Gallery were first products by Thomas Griffin, who partnered with Syed Balkhi and is now the…

Pippin Williamson has discontinued memberships on…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Business

Pippin Williamson has discontinued memberships on his website to provide free and open access to his tutorials. The product side of his business has grown enough that he can't consistently produce new tutorials and provide code reviews, so he's opening up…

Here are some other recent links…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Business

Here are some other recent links to share regarding Gutenberg: If you haven't seen Morten Rand-Hendriksen talk at WordCamp US, I would highly recommend it. He also has two articles on LinkedIn: one high level post on what we need…

Still on the subject of Gutenberg,…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Business

Still on the subject of Gutenberg, Tony Perez shares his thoughts after watching Matt's State of the Word where Matt talks about the ways Gutenberg may affect the WordPress business ecosystem. For those most likely to see their niche market disrupted…

Modern Tribe appears to be getting…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Business

Modern Tribe appears to be getting into the "Calendar as a Service" business as it previews Lumin. Lumin is an "online calendar for users of WordPress and non-WordPress-based sites." In order to maintain its current WordPress calendar plugin and the…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2017

BusinessDesign

In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

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.

How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2017

Business

Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

Business

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, explores what makes software development "hard." One of his sources claims that over 40% of software projects fail! The insight Jesse draws from all this failure is expressed in the "One Skull Rule."…