WordPress News

A Half-Trillion Dollar Market WP Engine…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

A Half-Trillion Dollar Market WP Engine has published a search study that pegs the WordPress economy at nearly $596.7 billion (USD) as of 2020. It's expected to grow to $635.5 billion by the end of 2021. 😲 Collaborators for this report…

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin Rank this week. The SaaS app helps WordPress plugin developers track and improve their rankings in WordPress search results. 🔌 Syed Balkhi explained that his company was already engaged in plugin rank tracking of…

Jilt has announced they have stopped…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jilt has announced they have stopped taking new accounts, and they will be shutting down on April 30, 2022. Existing customers will be able to use Jilt's service and support until that time. 🛒 I spoke with Beka Rice and…

The WPMarmite team has published a…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

The WPMarmite team has published a survey whose results are based on asking 127 WordPress theme shops how they have been embracing the Gutenberg block editor with an eye to the future of Full Site Editing in WordPress core. The…

Eric Karkovack shares his thoughts on…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Eric Karkovack shares his thoughts on how the more prominent developers and companies are holding more sway in the WordPress ecosystem. 🐟 🐠 🦈 Responding to concerns about the monopolistic potential in consolidation that draw comparisons to Amazon, Google, and…

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

Jason Coleman was interviewed by Starter Story. Their conversation focused on how Paid Memberships Pro averaged $100k per month in revenue and is on track to grow an additional 25-50% this year. Over 100,000 sites run Paid Memberships Pro, but…

WordPress 5.8 is adding WebP support.…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

WordPress 5.8 is adding WebP support. 🖼️ As Adam Silverstein notes, as long as your server supports WebP, you should be able to upload .webp files and use them like you would any other image. Developers can also fine-tune the…

Elementor continues to roll out new…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Elementor continues to roll out new features, and this week it introduced new Video Playlist and Hotspots Widgets.

PHP turned 26! 🎂 On June…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

PHP turned 26! 🎂 On June 8, 1995, Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf introduced the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 1.0 scripting language on Usenet's comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Rasmus’s announcement (now in Google Groups) is still online.

WordCamp Europe 2021 has concluded its…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

WordCamp Europe 2021 has concluded its three-day run. It seemed to be received well as an online event. Organizers reported that 3,290 people registered (with 1,841 logged in at once) from 121 countries. 🌐 Among the 48 speakers, Matt Mullenweg…

Anne McCarthy shows off the list…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Anne McCarthy shows off the list view, a recent improvement to the Core Editor that was originally imagined for the Site Editor. The goal of the list view is to “make it easy to bounce between the exact pieces of…

It’s rare to see an experimental…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

It’s rare to see an experimental WordPress theme used to explore new approaches to design, so I enjoyed Kjell Reigstad sharing how he used Blockbase (a parent theme for block themes) to create an intentionally "glitchy" theme. Warping text and…

Two new additions to the Codeable…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Two new additions to the Codeable team are Mike Demopoulos (as Expert Community Development Lead) and Christie Chirinos (as Partner Community Development Lead). Congrats to them both. 🙌

Allie Nimmons has written a guide…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Allie Nimmons has written a guide to good project proposals, starting with the discovery call and ending with cost estimates and additional services. 📝 Allie notes that “your proposal is not a contract” so you should establish terms unique to…

Ebonie Butler, a developer at Yikes…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Ebonie Butler, a developer at Yikes Inc., was featured on HeroPress in an older post I found this week. It's appropriately titled "Believe in Yourself," as Ebonie has to face various challenges. If you need to get inspired this week,…