If You See Something, Say Something This week I posted an observation. I observed that with 20 speakers announced for WCEU (at that point) that there were only about 25% women and even fewer non-white people. I hoped for more…
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Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
AI and WordPress is AI and All of Us In a recently blog post, Kathy Zant wrote about using AI for new headshots, and how that caused her to think about how we perceive ourselves versus how we might perceive…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
A Community Gift Last week I launched a new website as a gift to event organizers, podcasters, bloggers, and speakers in the WordPress community. It's an online database of WordPress speakers including what topics they present on, what time zones…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 14
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status and Atarim Summit Post Status is partnering with Atarim to bring you an amazing Web Agency Summit. Atarim is doing the heavy lifting (it's shaping up to be an amazing event with awesome speakers and virtual areas to…
Business Roundup Week Ending April 14
Mike Demopoulos
BusinessThe Week in Review
WordPress Turns 20 Resource Hub We are calling all WordPressers! It's been 20 incredible years of coding, creating, and dreaming. WP has grown from a blog platform to power an ever-growing percentage of the world's websites -- let that sink…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 7
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Podcasting in WordPress I heard from Topher DeRosia today that WPPodcasts has amplified over 11,000 WordPress podcast episodes. That's a lot of hours worth of listening to content centered around WordPress. And that's not a bad thing. I've heard the…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 24
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
It's Not About Luck "If you’re going to tell me about all the good luck I’ve had to get to where I am, then are you also going to talk about the bad luck I had to overcome to get…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Events are Back WordCamps, summits, and other conferences are back! In the last few years the roster of WordCamps on WordCamp.org have been sparse, to say the least. As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and…
First of the Independents
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
It's a great time for WordPress agencies and product companies of any size Ever since the spike in big acquisitions of (mostly product-based) WordPress companies last year the space has had a "last of the independents" mood as (mostly product…
Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
BusinessThe Week in Review
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership 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…
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
It's great to see more great WordPress agencies and hosting companies teaming up, especially when they're both Post Status members! Atarim and Rocket.net is a killer partnership that's delivering the first WordPress hosting and visual collaboration platform for agencies. Giving…
Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Founders Invest in Atarim Just before WCUS, Vito Peleg announced Atarim has completed its first funding round led by Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt, the founders of Yoast SEO, which was acquired by Newfold Digital a year…
Atarim and MainWP Partner Up
Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
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
SaaS, Plugin, or Both?
Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
The perennial question — to SaaS or not to SaaS? Both? WordPress-centric product and marketing, or not so much? Danielle Di-Tommaso and Josh Barling from Acsell join Vito Peleg from Atarim to talk about their experiences in these scenarios with…
Cart and Inner Blocks for WooCommerce
Bob Dunn
DevelopmentPlanet
WooCommerce 6.5 beta 1 is out, so it's time to start testing. In addition, WooCommerce Blocks 7.4.0, 7.4.1, and 7.4.2 (release notes) introduce the new Cart and Checkout Inner Blocks. Now you are able to insert Woo blocks in the…
