Page.ly, the oldest managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired BlogDroid. BlogDroid is a newer player in the WordPress managed hosting market. According to Page.ly’s blog post, it was an all cash deal for the acquisition.
Ivan Lopez has released a new commercial WordPress plugin called AB Press Optimizer that’s aiming to be the de facto WordPress A/B testing solution. If you’ve never experimented with A/B testing, you’re missing out. I’ve seen results from theme and plugin sellers that are staggering, based on relatively small changes. There are some pretty good…
10up President & CEO Jake Goldman and 10up Lead Audience & Revenue Strategist have released a report/PDF that discusses, in depth, the impact of ad blocking for publishers. The data is based on some of their own large publishing clients, as well as larger web trends, and it’s pretty fascinating. They also discuss what they…
Prolific North has published an interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little that’s a very interesting story of the earliest days of WordPress. If you haven’t been around the platform for long, you may not know much about Mike. He owns his own consulting agency in England now, but in 2003 he forked b2 with Matt…
Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven’t posted since the last week in review. Trust me, that’ll change this week. There are already a lot of posts lined up for…
Get new perspectives on last years’ biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.
Admin Restriction is a plugin that disables installing, updating and removing plugins and themes, and disables updating the WordPress Core for all users except for the Administrator user with ID 1.
