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Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
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Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

ByDan Knauss

This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the WordPress stories and topics that are on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections. There’s a single throughline in this episode — what works, what doesn’t, and what will take WordPress businesses forward in the product, agency, and hosting spaces.

Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions…

ByDan Knauss

Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions Yoast SEO and Awesome Motive both made recent plugin acquisitions: 🔌 John Brackett and his whole team at Smash Balloon are joining Syed Balki at Awesome Motive. John is coming on board as a partner, and they’re expanding with five new positions open now. Smash Balloon has been around…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP
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Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP

ByDavid Bisset

Jon Christopher recently sold SearchWP to Awesome Motive. Learn what motivated Jon to make the sale, and get his view of search in WordPress core.

Video and podcast picks

ByBrian Krogsgard

📹 Here’s my video pick of the week: There’s an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two videos (part 1 and part 2 + slides) from the last WordCamp US on how…

Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive…

ByDan Knauss

Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive has another insightful year in review for 2020. This year Syed has included more personal information like falling victim to a scam, along with his travel adventures and experiences with burnout. Some highlights from the WordPress-related items: The Awesome Motive team is fully distributed and composed of 140+ remote…

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin…

ByDan Knauss

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 their own, “but the PluginRank.com tool is way more powerful than what [Awesome Motive] had…