WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more →
Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners
Dan Knauss
Natasha Golinsky has launched a Facebook group for women who own creative agencies: Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners. https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1574916297179144192
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Daniel Schutzsmith
Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg, Atarim's cofounder and CEO, explains how he "cracked" the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings to both companies and their customers — and he anticipates more deals like this in the year ahead.
Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12
Dan Knauss
WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe's Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe
Ask a #WordPress Question: As a Senior Developer with little WordPress experience, how can I best showcase my WordPress skills to clients?
Dan Knauss
Sometimes we get questions — because we have a form for WordPress Questions. Go ahead, ask away!
This one is from Jordan at DamnGood.tech.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 67) — What Does Professionalism Mean in WordPress?
Dan Knauss
Dan and Eric discuss their top picks for WordPress news stories of the week and the topic of professionalism. What is it — what does it mean for us in the WordPress community, and how does it relate to a healthy open source project and business ecosystem?
Atarim and MainWP Partner Up
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg and Dennis Dornon have teamed up to bring MainWP's site management tool inside the Atarim agency dashboard. https://twitter.com/vitopeleg/status/1557395997973684225
Shiny New Releases
Dan Knauss
Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro
Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22
Daniel Schutzsmith
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus
Freelancers: What are your rates?
Dan Knauss
Mailchimp & Co's 2021 Benchmark Report on freelancers using Mailchimp said "the top 10% charge $197 per hour." The 2022 Report did not post data about rates but indicated they had generally gone up. The same was true in the…
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 15
Dan Knauss
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Shop Talk Show: Andrew Walpole and Alex Riviere from Traina talk about their WordPress experience but also how they want to go further with more tools.Matt Report: A nice chat with Yaw Owusu-Ansah with a…
Digital Marketing as the “Edge” in Recession
Cory Miller
I asked How Is “Recession” Talk Affecting Your Clients? in our Agency Owners channel because I was curious what those on the frontlines working with clients are hearing and seeing. Hendrik Luehrsen said “clients are actively pushing the envelope to…
Barriers to Contributing
Dan Knauss
Small teams face frustrating barriers trying to make their contributions count TL;DR: Small teams have common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future. Making efficient use of their time and team members is hard when tooling and communication can…
Laura Nelson on WordPress and Email Marketing — Post Status Draft 122
Cory Miller
Laura Nelson and Cory Miller talk about creating content for email marketing.
Announcing the Post Status Index
Cory Miller
Professionally, if I named one key element to my success it would be my relationships. I can trace every “big” or “successful” thing I’ve done to mutually generous healthy friendships. That’s also the key to Post Status being what it…
