Growth in the French community
Jenny Beaumont
Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.
The Funnel Framework
Japh Thomson
There's a really interesting write up comparing the success of Microsoft in the Windows-dominant era versus Apple in the mobile era called The Funnel Framework. It's really on point at the moment, and also mentions some other examples you'll recognise.…
What the WordPress community can learn from Drupal
Brian Krogsgard
John Eckman has done a second annual post on what the WordPress community can learn from Drupal. It's quite good, and quite thorough. Here's his tl;dr version, but the whole post is certainly worthwhile: What can the WordPress community learn…
Singular community
Brian Krogsgard
John Eckman -- the CEO of 10up -- discusses whether there is a singular WordPress community, or a singular Drupal community. He notes that there is often very little overlap amongst communities, and WordPress and Drupal communities have pre-existing opinions…
OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms
Brian Krogsgard
OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.
Drupal and WordPress have sold us out
Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.
What to expect from PressNomics
Brian Krogsgard
PressNomics is this week. Here's a preview of some of the things I'm looking forward to. I can't wait to hang out with those of you going!
Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word
Brian Krogsgard
"Oh, my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way. Nice to meet you." After the WordPress co-founder welcomed the largest WordCamp San Francisco audience ever, he introduced himself and began this year's State of the Word -- the annual talk where…
Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more
Brian Krogsgard
Welcome to the seventh “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…
WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result…
Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…
Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In…
Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon CEO Zach Rosen announced this morning that they've raised $21.5 million in financing.I covered Pantheon, including an interview, just recently when they launched their WordPress product. As I said then, Pantheon is a very compelling product.Seeing this raise another…
The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity
Brian Krogsgard
Stream is a WordPress plugin by X-Team that allows site owners to track all activity on their website. The free version of the plugin was released in December of 2013, and this last weekend they announced their first commercial extensions.…
Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform
Brian Krogsgard
Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…
The evolution of 10up
Brian Krogsgard
The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…
