Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016
Brian Krogsgard
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
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
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
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
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
In this episode, Brian talks to Diane Kinney about web-based freelancing in the real world.
Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are…
Brian Krogsgard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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),…
Developers in the business of selling…
Brian Krogsgard
Developers in the business of selling plugins and themes should bookmark and read Josh Pollock's recent essay that no one wants plugins, but they want solutions. He touches on a few points, but here's an interesting quote: The future of…
