Business Member Spotlight: WS Form
We interviewed Mark Westguard of WS Form to learn about the business, what he values at Post Status & to learn his best business advice.
Post Status Notes #496
Lots of WordPress core, Gutenberg, and WordCamp news this week. Are off-forum .org support requests OK? Matt: Tumblr will be open sourced. What’s the WP Way?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 53) — Support Tips for Plugin Developers
Dave Rodenbaugh talks about setting expectations for support in the WordPress repository where users can download plugins for free.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 48) — Running a WordPress Business
When — and what — should you outsource to SaaS and open source? Learn this an more from Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io.
Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft
Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.
Post Status Comments (No. 3) — The State of the WordPress News
Matt Medeiros, Joe Howard, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Sarah Gooding discuss the WordPress news space with David Bisset and Dan Knauss.
WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance
Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.
Jono Bacon notices that GPL license…
Jono Bacon notices that GPL license usage has dropped (more than half since 2010) and asks why. His theory revolves around the increased growth of open source in business, and a “nervousness” around the GPL in the commercial world.
Matt Mullenweg’s stand for the GPL against Wix
You’ve probably heard about as much as you want to hear regarding Wix and the GPL issues surrounding their mobile app release by now. However, I want to help sift through the noise. First, some links: Matt Mullenweg’s open letter to Wix Avishai Abrahami’s (Wix CEO) response to Matt Tal Kol’s (Wix engineer) story about…
Leland Fiegel has a must-read roundup of GPL…
Leland Fiegel has a must-read roundup of GPL myths with easy to understand explanations. it’s nice to see these points detailed by a WordPress theme shop owner, and anyone producing products with the GPL license should give this a read over. I’ve spent a shocking amount of time researching various legal areas around WordPress, and Leland’s post is…
Easy Content Types for sale
Pippin Williamson is selling his Easy Content Types plugin, after five years of managing it under Pippin’s Plugins. Easy Content Types spent two years on Code Canyon before he moved it to his personal site. It still sells pretty well, and he states on the post, “the plugin has averaged 29 sales per month and…
The Creative Commons license is now compatible with the GPL
The Creative Commons license and the GPL have not always played too nicely together, as much to do with semantics as anything else. Now they do, but there are some things to consider, if you are trying to bundle a CC licensed library (or more likely, images!) inside your GPL licensed code. From Otto Wood:…
Discouraging public redistribution of commercial themes and plugins
Richard Best did a poll asking people a series of questions regarding redistribution of commercial themes and plugins. Since he did the work, I’d request you go to his site for the full poll results, but this paragraph alone is interesting enough for this post: A majority of those who took the poll – 76…
WordPress plugin repo forking policy clarified
Mike Epstein clarified a policy for the WordPress.org plugin repo this morning, based on some recent issues that cropped up (likely the Elegant Themes / LeadPages thing yesterday). Basically, GPL-compatible unchanged copies are not allowed as part of an “above and beyond” policy: While the GPL and it’s compatible licenses allow for forking, we have an…
Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin
Folks are making a bit of a fuss about a commercial plugin — Bloom, a lead generation and popup plugin — getting forked and released for free. It all started with an Elegant Themes tweet: Looks like @LeadPages took our plugin, replaced our logo in their “fork” and put it up for free on http://wordpress.org 🙁 LeadPages,…
A practical guide to the GPL
Richard Best has invested a lot to understanding the GPL, inside and out. He now has an ebook to help guide others on the GPL. Now, in a single place, you can find answers to all manner of issues relating to WordPress and the GPL, from the birth of WordPress and why the GPL applies,…
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