WordPress News

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

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),…

Leader.Team is a new business podcast…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Business

Leader.Team is a new business podcast from Cory Miller and Matt Danner. I like that their goal is keep it shorter than most podcasts (15-25 minute) so that it's easily digestible.

Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Business

Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

BusinessDesign

After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna, was a massive success

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2016

BusinessPlanet

I was thrilled to take part in WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna. The event was highly successful, and I got to meet many members of the community I hadn't met before. Here are some pictures.

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

BusinessDesign

I did an email based interview with Andy Wilkerson -- owner of Parallelus and acquirer of UpThemes -- to learn more about the decision to purchase the small theme shop. Here it is (I added links where it helps): Why…

If you build emails for your…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Business

If you build emails for your business or for clients, then it might be worth it for you to review these "email trends" of 2016. I don't think there's anything on this list that is new or life-changing, but there…

Hacked sites are never fun, and reading…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Business

Hacked sites are never fun, and reading tales like this one from Tim Butler gives great insight as to how hackers gain access, since it seems the ways are limitless. In this case, I enjoyed how Tim was able to locate…

How Hari Ravichandran built Endurance, the company behind Bluehost, HostGator, and dozens more

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2016

BusinessHosting

For all the things I've read about EIG and the portfolio of companies they control, I never knew the backstory. In this Forbes India interview, I learned how Hari Ravichandran spent most of his $8,000 of savings during the .com…

Wordfence is getting into the “forensic”…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2016

Business

Wordfence is getting into the "forensic" and malware cleaning business for WordPress sites. The service is a pretty logical extension of the plugin, and they're charging $179 to clean sites, or $120 for Wordfence Pro customers.

JavaScript for WP course update and enrollment details

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2016

Business

If you have been interested in the JavaScript for WP course, administered by Zac Gordon, then now is the time to sign up. The course has been under development for several months, and is now available for registration. The course…