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Smashing Magazine has an overview of…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

Smashing Magazine has an overview of eCommerce platforms, with calculated "Customer Satisfaction” ratings. WooCommerce scored a 90% (#4 on the list). Steve Benjamins writes that according to feedback its pros were customizability, and the strength of the plugin and broader…

If you use or develop in…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

If you use or develop in BuddyPress, you might be interested in the latest results from the annual survey. What most stood out for me is that 45% of those responded have only been using BuddyPress for a year or…

Speaking of survey results, the Editor…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

Speaking of survey results, the Editor Experience Survey results are in. 2,563 responses anonymous results in total. You should read the results and the analysis, but here's some tidbits: Not surprisingly, most filling out the survey identified with being a…

One highlight of PressNomics for me…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

One highlight of PressNomics for me was meeting Katya Bazilevskaya. She cofounded a publishing company that grew to more than 120 people, and she spun off a couple of years ago to build Setka -- an editor experience catered for…

Matt Mullenweg stopping angel investing, closing SF Automattic office

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

I finally listened to the Stack Overflow podcast with Matt Mullenweg. In the second half of the show, I learned a couple of things I didn’t know: Matt said, “something had to go,” when he got back to being involved…

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…

Crate wants to help you escape license key hell

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Business

Crate turns your WordPress site into a plugin repository to improve release management between environments and automate Composer support for commercial plugins. That's the promise of Brady Vercher's idea that he's calling Crate. This is something that I would really,…

The WooCommerce team has recently developed…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

The WooCommerce team has recently developed an end to end testing suite. How it works is particularly interesting - it uses ChromeDriver, which simulates a real user by moving the mouse around, clicking on things, and filling out forms. The…

Deployer is a self-described, “tiny service…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Deployer is a self-described, "tiny service to sync your WordPress plugin code from Github to WordPress.org." It looks really promising, and creator Arūnas Liuiza addresses several of the issues they've seen with past solutions to manage this. I'm curious if anyone…

Launched in 2013 in The Netherlands,…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Launched in 2013 in The Netherlands, De Correspondent is funded solely by its members: 56,000 of them, who pay about $63 a year because they believe in the kind of journalism that is done by its 21 full-time correspondents and…

I enjoyed this post from Drew…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

I enjoyed this post from Drew Bell (an Engineer at Postlight, a digital product studio based in New York City) about managing expectations and his analogy to managing a restaurant. You'll have to read the bit about the "two lights",…

Ulrich Pogson writes about a recent…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Ulrich Pogson writes about a recent meeting with himself, Jose Castaneda, and Carolina Nymark with Matt Mullenweg to talk about "the future of the theme repository on WordPress.org." The meeting was held to establish a plan so improvements can be…

There’s been much written about Brexit,…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

There's been much written about Brexit, but here's a thorough guide by Heather Burns to what Brexit will mean for digital industries. As you can imagine, many things will change: she covers e verything from government digital strategy, to taxation,…

Google recently launched opensource.google.com, a new…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Google recently launched opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source. The site features Google's programs, organizations they support, and a comprehensive list of open source projects Google has released.

Poedit 2 was recently announced, with…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Poedit 2 was recently announced, with some impressive new features and enhancements after two years of development. One of it's biggest new features that would be of interest to the WordPress community is the direct WordPress connectivity. Instead of working…

Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Scott Taylor writes an extremely in-depth piece on what you need to know about caching if you are using WordPress. Scott covers why network requests are slow, the importance of batching HTTP requests, and a nice lengthy bit on how…