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BackupBuddy Gold and unlimited updates

Travis Northcutt

April 30, 2014

This week, the iThemes launched "BackupBuddy Gold" - a new pricing tier for their BackupBuddy plugin. They already had a $150 tier, which included a license to use the plugin on unlimited sites, as well as support and updates for one year.…

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

BusinessDesign

AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that's an absolute titan in a broad range of…

Cheers to the GPL

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2013

WordPress News

This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y'all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were "In Open Source We Trust" and "Cheers to the GPL." So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through…

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

WP Weekend Phoenix details emerge

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

WordPress News

I guess we can call it a trend now. For the second time in as many weeks, a WordCamp has been "forked". WordCamp Phoenix has been a tremendously popular event in past years. I know at least one year they…

WooThemes integrates with Creative Market

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Creative Market hit the scene pretty quickly earlier this year as a 100% GPL theme marketplace. Now, WooCommerce has announced that they have made some of their themes available on Creative Market.

100% GPL Option Now Available, Plus WooThemes Arrives at Envato!

Japh Thomson

March 25, 2013

WordPress News

We’re happy to announce today that authors on ThemeForest and CodeCanyon can now choose to license their WordPress items through a 100% GPL option. To help us launch this new feature, we’re excited to have one of the most well…

Envato to offer 100% GPL option for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2013

WordPress News

You're probably familiar the GPL controversy of late between WordCamps and Envato. Well, this solves that. After looking at author survey results, Envato is going to offer an option for authors to choose a 100% GPL license. The survey results…

Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2013

Design

Genericons is a 100% GPL icon font by Automattic. It's in use with twenty thirteen, and I'm excited about it. It looks like a great option for most themes that need fairly few, simple icons. I'll be bundling this with…

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

It was brought up recently that a couple of theme shops were selling commercial themes on both Theme Forest and WordPress.com. In light of recent GPL Drama, that caused some confusion about licensing allowances. StudioPress almost immediately took their themes…

Envato is reviewing their licensing

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2013

Business

Collis Ta'eed has posted on WP Daily again, to say that Envato is doing a survey of their authors to gauge interest in a 100% GPL option for sellers. I can't imagine how Collis could've written this post in a…

Who Owns WordPress? Or How to Make Money in a GPL Universe

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

WordPress News

In light of the recent WordPress GPL debate it is worth taking a look at who really owns WordPress, how this is impacted by the GPL, and how you can make money while still staying through to the open principles…