WordPress News

Pippin Williamson talks about how he’s…

February 26, 2016

Pippin Williamson talks about how he's learned to be a little selfish, at least with regard to his business. Honestly I think the word selfish is too strong; it's smart is what it is. You have to stay focused.

More news from Pippin and team:…

February 26, 2016

More news from Pippin and team: they just released a brand new version of Recurring Payments for Easy Digital Downloads that massively improves the product, and they are taking a very cautious path for upgrades. While it maintains backward compatibility…

WooThemes has made the Stripe payment…

February 26, 2016

WooThemes has made the Stripe payment gateway free for WooCommerce. It makes me wonder what their commission is :)

This happened a while ago and…

February 26, 2016

This happened a while ago and I keep missing it, but it's great news for Pods: the partner program is fully funded, a year after launching. I'm really happy to see it, both for Pods itself and considering the work…

Dave Rupert shares how to make…

February 26, 2016

Dave Rupert shares how to make performant mp4 screen captures.

Mandrill ditches free plans, stacks onto paid Mailchimp

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2016

Business

Most of you know this by now, as it's been all over the web and a hot topic in Slack, but Mailchimp is ditching free Mandrill plans for transactional emails, and stacking Mandrill onto paid Mailchimp plans. But even if…

Google’s AMP launches, Automattic plugin integration ready

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2016

Google launched AMP in a pretty big way.

WordPress plugin directory redesign: great potential, great power

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2016

Sometimes I wonder if those who work on WordPress.org website projects realize just how powerful their decisions are. I think they do, though I'm also confident the direct commercial impacts of their decisions will never be their first consideration. The…

Social Marketplace is a theme and…

February 24, 2016

Social Marketplace is a theme and plugin combination that extends WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Vendors extension, to enable a pretty amazing looking marketplace option, where the marketplace owner can enable vendors, whom each can have their own store, dashboards, and…

Linode has finally followed up after…

February 24, 2016

Security

Linode has finally followed up after their security brew-ha-ha that you may remember affected WP Engine not long ago. It doesn't say a ton and follows a pretty standard follow-up / PR script, but it's at least some closure for…

Bill Erickson’s post on how long…

February 24, 2016

Bill Erickson's post on how long it takes to build a website is just top notch, all around. You can read that post and see exactly why he's so successful running his business, and is the cream of the crop…

10up has brought ElasticPress and WooCommerce…

February 24, 2016

10up has brought ElasticPress and WooCommerce together, and I can hear your big stores breath out a sigh of relief. According to the launch post, "ElasticPress WooCommerce can easily turn database queries that take 3-4 seconds into Elasticsearch queries that…