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David Bisset

January 8, 2021

Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

WCUS 2020 Cancelled

David Bisset

July 31, 2020

HostingWordPress Community

WordCamp US 2020 Online has been officially cancelled. In addition to this announcement, the lead trio of WCUS organizers — Angela Jin, Kim Lipari, and Kathy Drewien — answered some of the questions many people will have about their decision.

Introducing a new chapter, with Cory Miller as Post Status partner

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2020

BusinessDraft

Cory Miller is now a co-owner and Partner of Post Status. He's purchased half of the business and will help run and grow it moving forward.

A Teenage Woman’s Perspective On The State of The Word

Olivia Bisset

November 8, 2019

PlanetWordPress Community

Olivia Bisset reflects on WordCamp US and the State of the Word, from her perspective as a teenager and new member of the WordPress community.

The importance of tinkering

Brian Krogsgard

October 19, 2018

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Justin Tadlock was the first person I really connected with in the WordPress community -- sometime back around 2008, if I recall correctly. I stumbled upon Theme Hybrid as someone looking to make a website, and I was off to…

An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2018

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.

Introducing a new way to find high quality WordPress jobs

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2017

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

The Post Status Job Board is a great place to find and list quality WordPress jobs. Whether you're recruiting excellent candidates or are seeking your next job opportunity, it's the place for you.

W3TC, Placester, and Frederick Townes

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

WordPress Community

Placester is a Boston-based startup that gears toward real estate agents, and they've recently raised $50 million in a Series D round -- bringing their total fundraising to $100 million. Why should you care? Well, two reasons. Placester uses WordPress…

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report…

April 8, 2016

WordPress Community

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report is out, and reports 4,500 tickets from 9 WordCamps (with Miami topping the list with 1300+ tickets). Andrea reports that WordCamp applications coming in at an average rate of 13 per month -- and…

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

DesignPlanet

A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It'll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It's an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.

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.

The future of Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2014

DesignPost Status Team Blog

I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…

The WordPress community summit is back

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…

Syed Balkhi, of WP Beginner, enters the commercial theme market with ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

ThemeLab has been around since 2007, started by Leland Fiegel. Leland released dozens of themes on ThemeLab, most of which were free. He also wrote a consistent blog and was generally an active member of the WordPress community. Over time…