An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.
WordPress and Blockchain
Brian Krogsgard
It's time to discuss blockchain technology from the perspective of the WordPress ecosystem, to discuss threats, opportunities, and generally discover how this emerging sector could impact WordPress.
Automattic acquires Atavist
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic has acquired Atavist, a "publishing and story-telling platform" for an undisclosed amount. The Wall Street Journal mentioned in its coverage that Atavist has 200,000 users, but reportedly only a small percentage pay for premium features. Atavist employees will join…
If you go by the metrics…
Brian Krogsgard
If you go by the metrics from W3Techs, WordPress recently hit 31% of the web and almost 60% of CMS market share. According to the same chart, Squarespace and Shopify have also seen small gains.
Although not directed related to WordPress, the…
Brian Krogsgard
Although not directed related to WordPress, the acquisition of Magento Commerce by Adobe for $1.68 Billion (USD) — significantly less than Adobe's Q1 2018 net revenues — is big news in the eCommerce community. Magento Commerce is the cloud version of Magento…
Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced…
Brian Krogsgard
Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for his relatively new and recently rebranded WordPress-focused business, PublishPress. PublishPress provides an extensible base of useful features for any multi-user editorial workflow. If it reminds you…
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
Three years of the WordPress user survey results
Brian Krogsgard
Andrea Middleton published three years worth of the WordPress user survey results on the main WordPress blog. I'll try and summarize the things that stand out. It's worth noting that some variation is expected year to year based on samples,…
Helen Hou-Sandi offers some interesting thoughts…
Brian Krogsgard
Helen Hou-Sandi offers some interesting thoughts about treating ads as a fully integrated part of the content and what that might mean for a Gutenberg advertising block. While ad blocks could be a game changer for certain publishers, she points…
The decoupled or “headless” CMS is…
Brian Krogsgard
The decoupled or “headless” CMS is rising in popularity. Alyssa Cuda breaks down what that means for WordPress and showcases some examples of headless WordPress. Some of these sites were mentioned by Phil Crumm and Weston Ruter during the 2017…
The importance of automated updates for all the things
Brian Krogsgard
I logged into my personal site today. It was the first time in a while. I realized while doing so that I haven't blogged much on that site this year. As soon as I logged in, I was confronted with…
This comparison between WordPress and Craft…
Brian Krogsgard
This comparison between WordPress and Craft CMS from Matt Shaw is interesting, if nothing more than just to compare user experiences. Matt does give his personal nod to Craft in areas like its simplistic admin section and use of custom…
Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…
Brian Krogsgard
Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn's presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and…
The future of the WordPress economy, and why I’m not worried
Joshua Strebel
Joshua Strebel -- the CEO of Pagely -- shares his view of the current state of the WordPress economy, and why he is confident in both its strength and future.
Lara Hazard Owen reports on Nieman…
Brian Krogsgard
Lara Hazard Owen reports on Nieman Lab about the new Wikitribune, a project by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder) to, "combat fake news." This project, because it's a wiki-based concept, got me thinking about what role a platform plays in the…
David Hayes examines what facets of…
Brian Krogsgard
David Hayes examines what facets of WordPress’s ecosystem led to its marketshare and overall success. Among the reasons, David lists that WordPress "did start early" (when there weren't a thousand CMS options to choose from) and credits Matt Mullenweg for…
