Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Skip to Transcript ↓ This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the three top WordPress stories on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections! It seems the temporary loss of…
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Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
On September 29, changesets 12097 and 12098 were committed to the Meta Trac repository for wordpress.org by Scott Reilly (Audrey Capital). These changes remove the Active Install Growth chart from the plugin repository's "Advanced" section on individual plugins. The only…
Post Status Picks for the Week of July 25
Dan Knauss
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Syntax.fm: An interview with Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive, how WordPress and PHP are viewed by developers, and his charity efforts.The WP Minute: Amber Hinds shares her point of view on Equalize Digital’s first “exit.”WP…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
"The Hippie times are going to end at some point." —Bob Dunn In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has an honest and deep dive with Bob Dunn into the "versions" of the WordPress community — something Bob covered…
Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft
Olivia Bisset
BusinessComments
"This story reminded me that big company, big money doesn't mean just more profit but can also mean big contributions." —Aurooba Ahmed It's the first-ever Post Status WordPress News Draft! The initial group of news "avengers" in this episode are…
Pippin Williamson on the Sandhills Acquisition, Emerging Threats and Opportunities in WordPress — Post Status Draft 117
Dan Knauss
BusinessDraft
Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development Post Status CEO Cory Miller chats with Pippin Williamson, the Founder and Managing Director of Sandhills Development, about Awesome Motive's acquisition of his company. Pippin announced today that Awesome Motive has acquired his company —…
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition…
Dan Knauss
WordPress Community
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition of the following plugins from Lever Technology: PDF Embedder, Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, Google Apps Directory, Google Profile Avatars, and All-In-One Intranet. 🔌 LionSher has flown under the radar for a while…
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
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…
Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
Along with some other people, I have been intensely watching the active install growth charts on the WordPress.org plugin repository for a variety of plugins for the past few months. Since I’m involved with several different plugins to various degrees…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 16) — Syed Balkhi on Acquiring SearchWP
David Bisset
HostingPlanet
"Understanding who you are and who you are not goes a long way." In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Syed Balkhi about the acquisition of SearchWP by Awesome Motive. We get a little behind-the-scenes information…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
"I realized that I wanted [SearchWP] to be long term and stable...it deserved a team behind it." In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset talks with Jon Christopher about his sale of SearchWP to Awesome Motive. The two…
Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin…
Dan Knauss
Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin Rank this week. The SaaS app helps WordPress plugin developers track and improve their rankings in WordPress search results. 🔌 Syed Balkhi explained that his company was already engaged in plugin rank tracking of…
Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive…
Dan Knauss
Syed Balkhi, co-founder of Awesome Motive has another insightful year in review for 2020. This year Syed has included more personal information like falling victim to a scam, along with his travel adventures and experiences with burnout. Some highlights from…
PushEngage, the maker of push notification…
Dan Knauss
PushEngage, the maker of push notification software with "over 10,000+ customers in 150+ countries," has joined Awesome Motive. 🙌 Awesome Motive founder and CEO Syed Balkhi notes in the press release: "I first started using push notifications over 3 years…
Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions…
Dan Knauss
Smash Balloon and Duplicate Post Acquisitions Yoast SEO and Awesome Motive both made recent plugin acquisitions: 🔌 John Brackett and his whole team at Smash Balloon are joining Syed Balki at Awesome Motive. John is coming on board as a…
Video and podcast picks
Brian Krogsgard
Business
📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…
