WordPress News

The Funnel Framework

Japh Thomson

June 22, 2015

There's a really interesting write up comparing the success of Microsoft in the Windows-dominant era versus Apple in the mobile era called The Funnel Framework. It's really on point at the moment, and also mentions some other examples you'll recognise.…

WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names

Japh Thomson

June 22, 2015

The WordPress Foundation is an entity setup by Matt Mullenweg to help the WordPress open source project, and part of this includes protection of trademarks for WordPress, WordCamp, and others related. Part of registering a trademark requires active protection, and…

A future API

Ryan McCue

June 19, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.

Questions to ask when building a team

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2015

A few of the manager at Web Dev Studios discuss some of the questions you should ask when you're building out a team. While that’s a simple foundation to start from, there are also some key questions to ask and…

What you need to know about HTTP/2 and some other things I don’t understand

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2015

Security

Do you ever enjoy reading something even though you know your knowledge barely scratches the surface of what's being discussed? I do. Reading anything written by Zack Tollman is a delight to me, and in this case I wouldn't say…

So you want to sell plugins

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2015

Josh Pollock gives some advice for aspiring plugin developers on WP Kube. He says a lot of good things. I liked this part the best: Writing a maintainable plugin, and maintaining it is not easy. Start where the stakes are…

Two big 4.3 commits

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

I don't often talk about specific commits to WordPress pre-release, but two went in today that are familiar topics, and it's worth noting their inclusion in WordPress Trunk. First, changeset 32814 includes the third part of the shared terms issue…

Giving it a go, Barry Kooij forgoes a job at Automattic to focus on products

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

As readers know, Automattic acquired WooCommerce, and Automattic has a strict no paid side projects policy, as I mentioned in the post about Mike Jolley selling WP Job Manager. Barry Kooij has been selling plugins for a while now. He…

Enterprise hosting options

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

Hosting

Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…

WooCommerce Memberships released

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

The WooCommerce Memberships extension has been released, and was developed by the team at SkyVerge. Memberships have historically not been very easy with WooCommerce, and this will undoubtedly be a popular extension. I'm using Memberships on Post Status already to manage…

Deals

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

I'm super pleased to finally be launching Deals. Post Status Deals are in collaboration with the site Partners, where they have graciously offered all members significant and exclusive discounts for their products and services. Redemption for deals is based on…

Stepping up reporting in WordPress eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

June 16, 2015

Business

If I could give this post 1,000 +1's, I would. Brianna Norcross is operations manager at Reaktiv Studios and she is super obsessive with the numbers and good reporting. In her experience, and I wholeheartedly agree, WordPress eCommerce plugin reporting…

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

Brian Krogsgard

June 16, 2015

Design

Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…

O2 is finally out, but no longer a focus for Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

For so long, people wanted to get their hands on O2, the long promised successor to P2. Alas, O2 ran out of oxygen at Automattic, and is no longer a focus for the company. As noted by Sarah Gooding at…

Customizer code examples on GitHub

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

The theme review team is putting Customizer code examples on Github, according to an announcement today: The first area to tackle is example Customizer code, which currently includes examples for adding panels, sections, settings, basic core controls, specialized core text…

Google Analyticator sold to SumoMe, the team behind AppSumo

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

Business

Troy Dean -- of WP Elevation and Video User Manuals -- was until recently also the maintainer of Google Analyticator, the WordPress analytics plugin with 400,000+ active installations. Troy sold Google Analyticator to Noah Kagan and SumoMe. SumoMe is directly related…