The Enterprise
Tech jargon and analysts with acronyms. Buzzwords and ranking voodoo. Where does WordPress fit in the enterprise tech industry? A guide for the genuinely curious or perplexed.
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Daniel S. Pumpkins’ 🎃 Post Status Halloween TechHorror Roundup
It’s our Halloween roundup of ghoul tools, but we’re not going to show you anything scarier than David Bisset‘s dev dad joke tweets. Just Blocks Made of Humans, a totally non-scary image creation AI — as long as you do not install the Performance Loab plugin. Also in our cauldron: hairy, scary Block Styles and the classic so-lean-it’s-skeletal ingredient, Balsamiq. 🦇
WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more →
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using a page builder. WordPress comes in at the bottom of the pack, however, when it…
Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12
Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.
Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy
$635.5 billion…That’s “billion,” with a “B.” Let’s look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress’s market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?
It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite
It’s still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on “WordPress Lite” and “Create Once, Publish Everywhere.”
Getting to ‘Yes’ on Plugin “License Hell”
Is there a win-win solution for plugin owners fighting churn and their professional WordPress customers, like agencies and freelancers?
10up has released a Convert to…
10up has released a Convert to Blocks plugin to support “safe migrations” to the block editor.👍 How it works: “The plugin works upon activation, with no configuration needed and does nothing until an editor needs to update or edit an existing piece of content. If a page or post is not already formatted using blocks…
I really like the site redesign…
I really like the site redesign at WPBuffs. Joe Howard explains why it was needed and what went into it in terms of time and costs. 👷♀️ Joe says 90% of the redesign came together in about two months using Elementor, and the entire cost came in at around $20k (USD) for “new branding (logo,…
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Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic’s business, and more.
Jason Cohen, founder and CTO of…
Jason Cohen, founder and CTO of WPEngine, gave an interview on a recent OSTraining podcast about Gartner‘s Magic Quadrants. Jason explains why his company deserves to be listed alongside Adobe and Oracle — and why you should stop using the phrase “Managed WordPress” for WPEngine.
Although not directed related to WordPress, the…
Although not directed related to WordPress, the acquisition of Magento Commerce by Adobe for $1.68 Billion (USD) — significantly less than Adobe’s Q1 2018 net revenues — is big news in the eCommerce community. Magento Commerce is the cloud version of Magento which shares about a quarter of its code with the open source Magento Community Edition…
A study jointly commissioned by WP…
A study jointly commissioned by WP Engine and Manifesto surveyed over 300 enterprise-level IT and marketing decision makers in the US. and UK. A few key points stood out: Adobe Experience Manager won the popularity contest, but it was followed closely by WordPress, which is highly favored as a “secondary CMS.” Keep in mind this…
Adobe has launched Typekit Marketplace –…
Adobe has launched Typekit Marketplace – a place to find and purchase fonts. Once purchased, the fonts are added to your personal library on Typekit and are synced to your applications through Adobe’s Creative Cloud. One of the feature highlights is the licensing – all Typekit fonts are offered under a license that both web…
Envira Gallery doubles sales, discusses future
Recently, I talked about NextGEN and the route they are taking with a hosted product, via their new Imagely brand. In a recent blog post by Syed Balkhi, you can see that they are working on similar photography-specific functionality with Envira Gallery, but are sticking with a self-hosted only option: In the past months, we…
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