WordPress News

The WordPress swag store, finally revamped

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

The WordPress swag store -- or more accurately perhaps, the Automattic swag store with WordPress stuff in it -- has finally been revamped, and now runs WooCommerce. Now under the domain mercantile.wordpress.org, the new store looks nice, and has some new…

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Brian Krogsgard

November 24, 2015

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

Automattic has released an open source WordPress.com Mac app

Brian Krogsgard

November 23, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Calypso is an ambitious Mac app from Automattic to bring the WordPress publishing and site management experience to the desktop.

UploadWP, a small WordPress blog, sold…

November 19, 2015

UploadWP, a small WordPress blog, sold for $12,500 on Flippa. /shrug

HelpHub (the new WordPress support landing…

November 19, 2015

HelpHub (the new WordPress support landing page) has wireframes, and they want your feedback.

Congratulations to Drupal 8 on shipping.…

November 19, 2015

Congratulations to Drupal 8 on shipping. May the odds ever be in your favor (I say in my most evil of Capital voices).

Morphing SVG… Awesome CodePen demo.

November 19, 2015

Morphing SVG... Awesome CodePen demo.

Sami Keijonen’s new Munsa theme looks…

November 19, 2015

Sami Keijonen's new Munsa theme looks nice, and I guarantee it's well coded.

DradCast is back, with Cory Miller…

November 19, 2015

DradCast is back, with Cory Miller as the first guest of Season 3.

Layers Pro is Obox’s big monetization…

November 19, 2015

Layers Pro is Obox's big monetization strategy for their popular (and free) Layers page building theme. I bet it'll be super successful. They've got a lot of folks using Layers.

The role of blogs at The New York Times

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2015

I really enjoyed a throwback piece on Nieman Lab today, where Joseph Lichterman reminisced with some New York Times folks about the earliest blogs at the Times (which have run on WordPress since their inception). Blogs have had a roller coaster…

A look at some plugin repo statistics

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2015

Luca Fracassi has done some interesting analysis on the WordPress plugin repository, specifically around the frequency of new plugin additions and updates over a period of years. Some of the takeaways: There are 40,000+ plugins today (Nov 2015) in the…

DreamHost CEO Simon Anderson is leaving after disagreements with board

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2015

Hosting

In the world of hosting, there are the big players (like EIG and GoDaddy), lots of tiny companies, and a couple of handfuls of companies in-between. DreamHost is a tweener, that's not huge, but not small, and has a fairly WordPress-centric platform.…