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First of the Independents

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn't the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.

Member Spotlight: Tom Greenwood

Michelle Frechette

September 21, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

Tom Greenwood is the co-founder and Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, a sustainability-focused WordPress agency.

Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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

Salary Transparency: Why Not?

Piccia Neri

September 16, 2022

BusinessCareers

On the Post Status job board, like many others, most of the WordPress employers who use it don’t include salary ranges on their job listings. Should they? Piccia Neri asked them all why they do or don't practice salary transparency. She also put the question to agencies, freelancers, the WordPress community, developers, and designers on Twitter. Find out what Piccia learned and why she thinks salary transparency should be a universal practice where it hasn't yet become a legal obligation.

Writing is a Challenging But Needed Profession in WordPress

Eric Karkovack

September 2, 2022

BusinessCareers

The WordPress project, software, and community are equally important. They all play a role in ensuring growth, progress, and success. A sizeable economy of users, builders, and business owners depends on it. That’s why staying informed is vital. And so much of the reporting and learning opportunities come from unofficial sources. We need more people within the WordPress community who are interested in writing and more places to amplify their voices.

The $500 Website

Dan Knauss

September 1, 2022

BusinessDesign

A decade ago, Chris Butler's survey and report for Newfangled provided other agencies with the numbers that meaningfully define their market. WordPress agencies and freelancers could use something similar today.

Member Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger

Michelle Frechette

August 30, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

As a WordPress Code Instructor Jonathan Bossenger gets to work with the Training team and the WordPress community in creating technical educational content for Learn WordPress.

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 26, 2022

BusinessDesign

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

WebP by Default is NOT on hold

Dan Knauss

August 24, 2022

Notes

This is a good call, I think, but I can't recall a story like at it at The Tavern where core contributors' corporate sponsors/employers got named so much.

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 15, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 18, 2022

DesignDevelopment

This week Daniel shares some resources for creating React Apps using Gutenberg Data, static WordPress sites with Eleventy, and a Figma to FSE workflow. Also a reminder to test and give feedback on fluid typography — and one cool tool: Programming Fonts.

WordPress at a Massive Scale

Olivia Bisset

August 16, 2022

BusinessDesign

Cory Miller talks with Lead Solutions Engineer at WordPress VIP, Sean O'Shaughnessy. Learn about WordPress hosting at a massive scale with some blind case study examples.

Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

The boundaries between WordPress .com and .org have never been very clear. That may change as the WordPress mobile app sheds features the Jetpack app will gain.

WordPress VIP + SalesForce Marketing Cloud

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

NotesWordPress News

According to Elisa Brown at WordPress VIP, they’ve just announced a partnership and integration with SalesForce Marketing Cloud. It’s the only one of its kind and makes activating your content in WordPress to build email campaigns easier. Yes!

The Unsung Hero of Indie Journalism

Blake Bertuccelli

July 20, 2022

FeaturesPlanet

Since its arrival in 2019, Automattic's Newspack hasn't attracted much attention within the WordPress community, despite a decent amount of coverage by WP Tavern and some from Post Status. It's been largely unreported on beyond its role as a flashpoint…

Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

$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?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 62) — The Open Web Universe with Matt Mullenweg

Olivia Bisset

July 6, 2022

BusinessDesign

David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.