Pingdom has released a WordPress plugin that allows Pingdom users to use their Real User Monitoring service within WordPress. It’s even available to users with free Pingdom accounts. h/t Ryan Hellyer
Rahul Bansal is the Founder and CEO of rtCamp — an enterprise WordPress VIP agency based in India and the USA.
The folks at Orbtr launched their new plugin this weekend at WordCamp Atlanta. I spoke with them for a while, and I think their product is promising. Imagine it as a Hubspot-esque product, but all within the WordPress dashboard. It handles email marketing, landing pages, tracking etc. I also like that it integrates with some other products…
Yesterday, I analyzed ThemeForest and Envato’s new Hosted program for getting hosting alongside your theme. Vova Feldman has a really interesting blog post that’s a good companion to what I wrote, which dives into the financial opportunities that still exist on ThemeForest. In short, he concludes that the “gold rush” is not over. However, it…
Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.
The great battle for the small business side of the web is for a customer’s first web interaction. Want to create a website? Where do you go? That’s the battle that every player wants to win: Automattic, GoDaddy, EIG, Envato. These are the heavy hitters on the WordPress side. They are competitors. They may also…
Josepha Haden Chomphosy on the future of WordPress (SEJ) and Do the Woo‘s series of visionary WordPress thinkers are worth a listen. Taking a long view is important when there’s so much short-term thinking.
