WordPress News

GoDaddy reportedly in talks to acquire Host Europe Group, gaining 1.7 million customers

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Claire Ruckin is reporting for Reuters that GoDaddy is in talks to acquire the Host Europe Group, known as HEG. HEG describes themselves on their website: HEG is now one of Europe’s leading hosting providers, one of the largest domain…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

BusinessDesign

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

I enjoyed this post from Justin Sainton on…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

Business

I enjoyed this post from Justin Sainton on the self-asked question of, "What advice would you give your younger self?" He says: margins. Creating margins – and avoiding having no margins, or negative margins – is the key to improving your business…

Publish presentation announcements

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

BusinessHosting

I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,…

Why grow a service agency?

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2016

Business

Shane Pearlman is a partner and the CEO of Modern Tribe. In his ManageWP AMA, Ahmad Awais asked him a great question, and I really enjoyed his answer. Ahmad has observed that it's difficult to advance in the WordPress economy…

Loopconf postponed indefinitely

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Business

Force majeure is a term that you don't pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means "superior force" in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening…

The art of being a self-employed web consultant — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 24, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian talks to Diane Kinney about web-based freelancing in the real world.

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Business

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are working on a book devoting to making you become a better freelancer. Real World Freelancing covers, "client management, business strategies, processes & tools, marketing, mental health" and other subjects. You can signup to be notified…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Rejuvenating old software products, with Pippin Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian talks to Pippin Williamson, and they examine the efforts he and his team have made while breathing new life into Restrict Content Pro.

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2016

BusinessHosting

GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

BusinessSecurity

WP Media -- the team behind WP Rocket (a commercial caching product) -- are getting into the WordPress security sector. SecuPress hasn't yet launched, but they are starting early access trials for people that sign up through their home page.…

PayPal is still king of the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Business

PayPal is still king of the hill as a merchant provider. Jean Galea (from WP Mayor) has written this article to help you decide whether you should open a separate business account for each of your brands or products, or…

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a…

David Bisset

August 10, 2016

Business

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a detailed post about how his WordPress theming business took off. He talks about his first theme, Yamidoo Magazine, which at one point was making $10,000 per month in revenue alone. Pavel also talks about…

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

Daniel Bachhuber

August 2, 2016

BusinessPlanet

Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."

A bit of additional WooCommerce news:…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Business

A bit of additional WooCommerce news: Joel Bronkowski, one of the top leaders within WooCommerce -- technically as director of business development -- and mostly dealt with third party partnerships, has decided to leave Automattic. Surprisingly (to me at least),…