Matt on Acquisitions and Work in WordPress
Dan Knauss
Do mergers increase or decrease opportunity? Matt Mullenweg spoke with Michelle Frechette about the economics of WordPress after SOTW.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 30) — Does WordPress Need To Have A Superior Writing Experience?
David Bisset
Post Status Excerpt, Cory and David discuss some recent conversations in the WordPress community: Is the WordPress writing experience bad for "serious writers?" Does WordPress have to excel in this area, or is it fine to have third-party writing tools that feed into WordPress?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 23) — Farewell To Andrea — but not the Classic Editor
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss Andrea Middleton's departure, the Classic Editor's persistence, Frontity's acquisition, and Jonathan Wold joining Post Status.
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
After Automattic announced it was buying…
Dan Knauss
After Automattic announced it was buying Pocket Casts last week, Joe Casabona explained why he thinks this is a great move. 🎙️ Personally, I think it’s nice to see Automattic taking ownership, and I don’t think this particular move will…
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya…
Dan Knauss
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources…
Video Picks đź“ş Here is my…
Dan Knauss
Video Picks 📺 Here is my video pick this week: Gio Lodi, Mobile Software Engineer, on Life at Automattic: I recently stumbled upon a video playlist from early 2020 (before the pandemic truly hit the US) of short videos "introducing"…
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.
Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has…
Dan Knauss
Automattic acquires Day One Automattic has acquired Day One, a free journaling app that has won multiple Apple design awards and is available for most major devices, systems, and browsers. According to Paul Mayne, founder and CEO, work on the…
Jetpack receives a forced update
David Bisset
A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?
The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at…
Dan Knauss
The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at Automattic is focused on hiring designers, onboarding new designers, and fostering the growth and development of the design team. Monika Burman wrote a great piece about their culture and community-building programs, which aren't often…
Automattic has posted an example of…
Dan Knauss
Automattic has posted an example of a plugin that uses Jetpack Connection as a dependency to establish a connection to WordPress.com. 🔌
CC0 Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress
David Bisset
Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project.
Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain…
Dan Knauss
Hello CC0! Creative Commons Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress 📸 Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project. Eventually, this will make over 500…
Automattic via WooCommerce has invested in…
Dan Knauss
Automattic via WooCommerce has invested in PeachPay, a one-click checkout solution for WooCommerce. 🍑 Robert Jacobi estimates the investment at more than $450,000. Robert also had a chat with David Mainayar, co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of PeachPay. David shared…
On the morning of April 19th…
Dan Knauss
On the morning of April 19th (Monday) Automattic released a new plugin called Jetpack Boost on the WordPress.org repo. The plugin is focused on performance and SEO issues users might have with their sites. 🚀 Boost has three "performance modules:"…
