WordPress News

WordPress and the new European Union VAT (Value-Added Tax) rules

Brian Krogsgard

January 15, 2015

The new European VAT rules rolled out at the beginning of January, and they really complicate selling digital goods to Europeans. I have done a ton of research and reading, and this is the most straightforward post I could make from it to try and wrap up the state of the EU VAT rules for WordPress business owners and eCommerce shops.

GravityView raises the bar for WordPress video advertisements

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Okay, maybe it doesn't raise the bar the way you think I mean. But this is worthwhile. I'm pretty busy building the new Post Status infrastructure, but not too busy to post this. GravityView is a WordPress plugin by Zack…

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They've learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Website micro services provider, Elto, is shutting down for now

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Elto, formerly Tweaky, is a micro services provider, for lack of a better term. They started with $25 tweaks, which until they shut down services today, worked it's way to a $199 minimum. WordPress is a high focus vertical for…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

Contribution as culture

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2014

BusinessHosting

This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

Business

WordPress.com has released what appears to be their first ever video ad, and it's quite mobile centric. The ad portrays a number of users using the WordPress mobile app to snap and blog pictures. It's only 16 seconds, and is…

The anatomy of a security breach, and how to do good in a bad situation

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

BusinessPlanet

On Tuesday, iThemes posted an announcement that they had suffered from a security breach of their website and servers. The attackers had reached the servers which stored customer information, including email addresses, IP addresses, full names, and yes, passwords. iThemes…

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Today, iThemes and Crowd Favorite are announcing a partnership where they will collaborate to take iThemes products to a more enterprise-level market. Practically, this means that Crowd Favorite will contribute developers and other resources to help iThemes better structure and…

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon introduce mandatory support and renewable packages

Brian Krogsgard

August 25, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Envato has announced a change in support terms for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon, which creates a requirement for authors to provide six months of support, and offers buyers "support packs" for renewing support. Support has not historically been required, but nearly…

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Audit WP had a short, but interesting life span. Started by Rob Neu and Jacob King, the site launched in February, and today it's been acquired by WP Site Care. They made an early splash after their launch when Jacob…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

The case for doing small website projects

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Last week I posted about how much custom WordPress websites should cost. If you read that post, you know that it depends. Generally the feedback was fantastic, but many readers took from that post that they should raise their prices.…

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2014

BusinessPlanet

ChurchThemes was started by Frankie Jarrett in 2011. Frankie is now the Head of WordPress Product at X-Team, makers of Stream -- a product I reviewed a few months ago. Frankie also talked about Stream and ChurchThemes on the Matt Report recently.…