Barn2 Plugins

Moving and Not Moving With the Crowd

Dan Knauss

October 28, 2022

This week's WordPress business highlights for Post Status: Lesley Sim is pivoting Newsletter Glue to an upmarket clientele. A discussion starter about WordPress UX. Do we need a curated plugin ecosystem, more open standards, and easy access to current expert consensus points in key knowledge areas? Time to bail out of Twitter? PayPal? Katie Keith tells her HeroPress story.

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Over, Under, Around, and Through

Dan Knauss

October 14, 2022

BusinessPlanet

This week Alex Denning (Ellipsis) draws on Iain Poulson's historical, high-level plugin data at WP Trends to offer some thoughtful, somewhat contrary, but practical and grounded perspectives on the value of Active Install Data. At the WP Watercooler and elsewhere, a realization seems to be setting in that the data is not open source and not the property of the WordPress community. Like last week's episode of Post Status Draft with Katie Keith of Barn2 Plugins, Till Krüss (Object Cache Pro, Relay) offers a lot of lessons this week about less travelled paths to success in the plugin business even as a very small company or company of one. Performance, testing, and support are key, interrelated parts of Till's success and probably the most important ones to borrow in your own life and work if they resonate.

Going from Agency to Products: The Story of Barn2 — Post Status Draft 125

Dan Knauss

October 4, 2022

DraftPlanet

From client services and agency work to a successful product business — Katie Keith tells Cory the Barn2 Plugins story in this episode of Post Status Draft.

Barn2 Releases WooCommerce Product Filters

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Notes

Although there have been some recent enhancements in WooCommerce in this area, product filters have not been a strong feature. If you've struggled with that missing feature, you'll be glad to know Barn2 Plugins has rolled out WooCommerce Product Filters.…