WordPress News

8Bit is shutting down

Brian Krogsgard

August 21, 2013

8Bit, the maker of the Standard Theme, is shutting down. The four founders of 8Bit are all significantly involved in various parts of the large WordPress ecosystem. You can follow John, Tom, Jared, and Chris going forward. The Standard Theme…

Tips for marketing WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

August 21, 2013

Business

I see a lot of WordPress products and product websites as a consultant. I also get "pitched" a pretty decent amount, requesting me to check out someone's new product to blog about here. Because of this experience seeing and judging…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

BusinessDesign

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

The freelancer’s guide to long term contracts

Curtis McHale

August 14, 2013

Business

This is a great ebook for anyone looking to get in to long term contracts with clients. Eric walks you through the benefits and pitfalls of the practice. He is a seriously smart dude.

Career advice for developers

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Business

Cory Miller gives some career advice for programmers. Cory has been in the web business for a long time, and as the owner of iThemes, has significant authority in this arena. If you're a web developer and looking for some…

Weekly company fee for core WordPress contributions

Mario Peshev

August 12, 2013

Business

Here's an interesting idea to sponsor WordPress experts from smaller agencies and companies for contributing back to the WordPress project.

StudioPress releases Genesis 2.0 with HTML5 and microdata goodness

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The StudioPress team has announced the launch of Genesis 2.0. This is a huge update for them, and they've been working on it for months. Genesis 2.0 is responsive, and all child theme updates and future child themes will also…

Anonymity is bullshit

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

I'm a little fired up. Tonight, I saw an open-ended and, honestly, silly post from Torque about a strange WooCommerce extensions shop called WP Avengers. WP Avengers, as it turns out, is a group of essentially anonymous folks who claim…

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

BusinessDesign

Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

Robert Neu

August 2, 2013

Business

I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

Running a Viable Freelance Business

Curtis McHale

August 2, 2013

Business

After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.

Tips for developers adopting a legacy WordPress site

Curtis McHale

July 29, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Greenfield projects are the dream of most of developers. We have no legacy code to deal with. Just a clean WordPress install and whatever tools we decide best accomplish the goals of the client. Unfortunately you’re not always going to…

Thoughts on WordPress affiliate programs

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

Business

Tom McFarlin gives some great thoughts (that I happen to agree with fully) about WordPress affiliate programs. The key is remembering as an affiliate that every product is not for every person. And if you're an affiliate just for the…

Interview with wpMail.me and Cozmos Labs founder Cristian Antohe

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Troy Dean, of Video User Manuals, has a new interview up on his CommPress business podcast that features Cristian Antohe. Cristian is a consultant, and also the curator of wpMail.me, a great WordPress newsletter. The interview has quite a few…

WP Push specializes in push notifications for WordPress apps

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

Business

I ran across this one thanks to Pippin Williamson mentioning it. WP Push is a highly focused extension market that creates push notification functionality for WordPress plugins and apps. They've got them for Jetpack, the bb's, various eCommerce software, and…

Obox releases SalesGenius, a reporting app for Envato markets

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

Business

Obox has been in the theme and plugin business for many years. But they've recently released a web app called SalesGenius that has a variety of tools built in to measure and report sales information for Envato markets. The product…