Not too long ago I talked…
Not too long ago I talked about how some folks are doing quite well freelancing on Codeable. Nathan Ello shared his path to $100k.
Pippin Williamson talks about how he’s…
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:…
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…
WooThemes has made the Stripe payment gateway free for WooCommerce. It makes me wonder what their commission is :)
This happened a while ago and…
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…
Mandrill ditches free plans, stacks onto paid Mailchimp
Brian Krogsgard
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
Google launched AMP in a pretty big way.
WordPress plugin directory redesign: great potential, great power
Brian Krogsgard
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On the topic of “Decisions, not…
On the topic of "Decisions, not Options", Aaron Jorbin has some stuff for you to read.
What’s Next in Computing is a…
What's Next in Computing is a post by Chris Dixon that has nothing to do with WordPress, but I was fascinated and you will be too.
Github is growing up, in a…
Github is growing up, in a way, and for fun "culture", that kinda sucks.
