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CSS Tricks Sale Price: $4M

Acquired in January, CSS-Tricks founder Chris Coyier, who was also a member here, ran that publication for 15 years before capitalizing on search traffic to sell to Digital Ocean β€” for $4 million (USD). They Got Acquired got that number and a few others from Chris recently: 88 million pageviews 91,000 newsletter subscribers 6,500 articles,…

Exiting β€” and Reentry, Block Themes, GitHub Actions, and Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on WordPress
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Exiting β€” and Reentry, Block Themes, GitHub Actions, and Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on WordPress

The Post Status podcast picks of the week include two takes on selling businesses, going back to work for someone else, and then… Chris Coyier and Corey Maas tell their stories. β€’ Daisy Olson has the lowdown on block themes. β€’ Raquel Landefeld on the power of community. β€’ Press the Issue launches a solidly journalistic WordPress podcast with Allie Nimmons investigating the pandemic’s impact on WordCamps for the first episode.

Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress…

Chris Coyier wonders where headless WordPress will land. πŸ›¬ After acknowledging some of the benefits and how different groups are approaching it, he reaches this conclusion: β€œThere’s just a heck of a lot more WordPress site owners who aren’t developers than those who are, I reckon, so that alone will keep headless WordPress from being…

BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment…

BRIAN’S NOTES ✏️ Request for Comment on Comments Previously we’ve mentioned Jeremy Felt‘s ideas for how WordPress comments should work. They’re really good, simple steps forward, and this is how we should be thinking about a core feature that ought to make WordPress shine.β˜€οΈ Now Chris Coyier has shared his comment wishlist for WordPress, and…

Chris Coyier has a new and…

Chris Coyier has a new and lengthy but highly consumable essay on the subject of “The Widening Responsibility for Front-End Developers.” Chris touches on the increasing burdens of the role as well as its joys: “Being a front-end developer puts us on the front lines between the thing we’re building and the people we’re building…

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