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Pagely shared their report on 2017…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Pagely shared their report on 2017 that includes what they've been up to and some previews of new things coming to Pagely. I'm a beta tester for some of them, and I'm happy to be a Pagely customer with these…

WP101 are ending lifetime licenses soon,…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

WP101 are ending lifetime licenses soon, meaning now's a great chance to get an excellent deal for what I consider to be the best 101 series tutorials out there for your clients.

Alex Mills recently did a complete…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Alex Mills recently did a complete rewrite from scratch of his popular Regenerate Thumbnails plugin using Vue.js and the WordPress REST API.

Andrew Chen writes about he’s learned…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Andrew Chen writes about he's learned after 10 years of professional blogging. I think the best advice of his is "focus on writing frequency over anything else" and "you’ll have a lot of time to figure out the intersection of…

WP Site Care has acquired WP…

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

WP Site Care has acquired WP Radius, a company that focuses on offering WordPress help and support primarily in smaller jobs and tasks for businesses (billed monthly). Ryan Sullivan notes that WP Site Care existing customer base will increase about…

WP101 is ending lifetime licenses soon,…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2017

WP101 is ending lifetime licenses soon, so now's a great time to get one. It's an excellent deal for what I consider to be the best 101 series of tutorials available for your clients.

Andrew Chen writes about what he’s…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2017

Andrew Chen writes about what he's learned after 10 years of professional blogging. I think his best advice is to "focus on writing frequency over anything else" and "you’ll have a lot of time to figure out the intersection of…

Three years of the WordPress user survey results

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2017

Andrea Middleton published three years worth of the WordPress user survey results on the main WordPress blog. I'll try and summarize the things that stand out. It's worth noting that some variation is expected year to year based on samples,…

The Gutenberg white paper

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2017

Human Made released a white paper covering everything about Gutenberg and the changes it will bring into WordPress 5.0. The white paper is excellent, but this is also an excellent sales tool. You enter your email address and get subscribed…

Helen Hou-Sandi offers some interesting thoughts…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Helen Hou-Sandi offers some interesting thoughts about treating ads as a fully integrated part of the content and what that might mean for a Gutenberg advertising block. While ad blocks could be a game changer for certain publishers, she points…

Still on the subject of Gutenberg,…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Business

Still on the subject of Gutenberg, Tony Perez shares his thoughts after watching Matt's State of the Word where Matt talks about the ways Gutenberg may affect the WordPress business ecosystem. For those most likely to see their niche market disrupted…

I really like how Kevin Hoffman…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

I really like how Kevin Hoffman transcribed the WordCamp US job board — by putting it into a markdown table. I hope all WordCamps adopt this, as it makes the job board more accessible and easier to read.

WP Elevation has a nice interview…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

WP Elevation has a nice interview with Bridget Willard about the benefits of WordPress networking and thoughts on women working in the WordPress space.

Tom McFarlin’s “musings” over the last…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Tom McFarlin's "musings" over the last decade in WordPress and the WordPress economy are worthwhile reading. I can't help but agree with Tom that it's a good thing to see more hosts going after developers and offering developer-centric tooling.

Scott Bolinger did an interview on HollerBox with Patrick…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

Scott Bolinger did an interview on HollerBox with Patrick Garman of Mindsize, and their conversation focused on scaling WooCommerce. Patrick brought up some unique problems that emerge when a site is taking ten orders a second or more. That's a great problem to have,…

The decoupled or “headless” CMS is…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2017

The decoupled or “headless” CMS is rising in popularity. Alyssa Cuda breaks down what that means for WordPress and showcases some examples of headless WordPress. Some of these sites were mentioned by Phil Crumm and Weston Ruter during the 2017…