Des Traynor helps us appreciate that not all good products make good businesses, and that you can make a great product, but still fail as a business.

Many times as a developer you take great strides to learn a skill or technique only to discover how much you still have to learn. It can be a humbling experience, but Tom McFarlin has some nice thoughts that reflect how…

Drew Jaynes points out some lesser-known improvements in WordPress 4.6. The "Sites" icon in Multisite is a good one, and the ability to deprecate hooks is a pretty big deal. I'm going to have to start sending Drew my release posts so I…

The WordPress support forum redesign is coming along nicely. Here’s a progress report on the backend updates from Jennifer Dodd, while Mark Uraine shows off some preliminary mockups.

Charitable is celebrating their first anniversary as a WordPress plugin, and Eric Nicolaas reflected on the past year. They made over $20,000 in revenue, and starting from zero isn't easy. Selling a product is a slow and steady process that takes patience. It can challenge your…

Rami Abraham tale on what it's like transitioning from client services to products is super good. He recently joined the product team behind products like EDD and AffiliateWP after a tenure doing service work, and this post is really informative.

Don't forget, WordSesh starts this Saturday (at 00:00 UTC). Some talks are still being determined, but from what's currently on the schedule, it's looking to be another fine event with familiar faces from the WordPress community.

Automattic's .blog extension is now open for trademark holders to shell out $250 to apply for their domain. Also, design.blog is a new blog on they are launching, and dave.blog (Dave Weiner) is repping it already, and Matt Mullenweg's photo-blog…