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Patrick Rauland shares his personal hesitations…

November 18, 2015

Patrick Rauland shares his personal hesitations about Automattic's "no side income" rule. I know a number of WooThemes folks struggled with this decision. I love seeing Patrick share his experience.

“React Toolbox is a set of…

November 18, 2015

"React Toolbox is a set of React components that implements Google Material Design specification." I know, so much React stuff lately, but I bet you're going to click it.

Some napkin math on the value…

November 18, 2015

Some napkin math on the value of email for publishers. Hint: it can be yuuuge.

Huge Lashbrooke has released a free…

November 18, 2015

Huge Lashbrooke has released a free add-on for Seriously Simple Podcasting, called Seriously Simple Stats. This should be paid, as it's very useful, and could save you hundreds of dollars per year if you can avoid other services for podcast…

Envato is introducing a hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

BusinessDesign

It's easy to see some parallels between ThemeCloud and Envato Sites in terms of goals, but they are vastly different in execution. The basic goals for each is to make making websites easier. Envato has chosen to go with a fully…

The WordPress Importer is getting some love

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

I'm going to give Ryan McCue a big hug next time I see him. The WordPress Importer is key to a tonne of different workflows, and is one of the most used plugins on the repo. Unfortunately, the Importer is…

MOJO Marketplace (owned by EIG), introduces ThemeCloud, for quick-start WordPress websites

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

Hosting

ThemeCloud is a new strategy from MOJO Marketplace, a subsidiary of hosting behemoth EIG, that aims to enable quick-start WordPress websites. The offering sits somewhere in the middle between a hosted solution and managed hosting. The biggest pitches are access…

Weekend Reads & Notes

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2015

I thought it’d be fun to…

November 13, 2015

I thought it'd be fun to turn footnotes into a big glob of weekend reads today, because it's Friday and I can.

Tracey Rotton makes a good case…

November 13, 2015

Tracey Rotton makes a good case for WordPress certifications. It’s a great conversation to have. I just a) don’t think Automattic or the foundation are really good options to run such a thing, and b) think that running an official…

Dave Matthews shares some notes about…

November 13, 2015

Dave Matthews shares some notes about wp_options and how to optimize them for speed. Some default options attributes could be costing you a little bit of performance.

Tanner Moushey has another great post…

November 13, 2015

Tanner Moushey has another great post on burnout, encouraging you to take time for yourself. I like the emotion of the title, When You Need Work, But You're Exhausted.

We can put this in “new…

November 13, 2015

We can put this in "new to me" territory. But if you just want to manage a Google calendar, and have that sync directly to WordPress, Simple Calendar may be for you. A new version just came out.