I enjoyed this post from James Governor about how Amazon AWS is fighting the "must hire young" movement in tech. This made me think about the WordPress workforce in ten years or so. Since we can expect an increase in older…
Introducing a new way to find high quality WordPress jobs
Brian Krogsgard
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
It's my pleasure to formally introduce the Post Status WordPress job board. It actually went live two weeks ago, but I wanted to give it time to work out any kinks before broadly promoting it. Now, I think we're ready…
Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role
Brian Krogsgard
Design
John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…
JavaScript for WP course update and enrollment details
Brian Krogsgard
Business
If you have been interested in the JavaScript for WP course, administered by Zac Gordon, then now is the time to sign up. The course has been under development for several months, and is now available for registration. The course…
Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle
Nate Wright
BusinessPlanet
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Nate Wright. Nate is a WordPress developer and solopreneur. He runs Theme of The Crop, a niche WordPress theme company geared toward restaurant websites. You can learn more about Nate on his…
Follow-up on Server Pilot
Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…
Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some…
Alex Turnbull at Groove shares some tips on hiring that he's learned while scaling his team. Quite applicable to remote teams or hybrid remote teams in the WordPress space.
The team at Yoast is looking…
The team at Yoast is looking to add to their WordPress core contributions, and have three projects specifically they would love help on. They are also interested in hiring a full time developer contributor for core work, if you think…
Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more
Brian Krogsgard
DraftHosting
I had the opportunity to interview Matt Mullenweg about an ambitious project that included more than a year and a half of development to create an all new WordPress.com interface, both for the web and a desktop app. The project…
Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios…
Client feature section, woot woot! WebDevStudios built a hiring site for Uber. This is a nice marketing example of WordPress, for a huge brand. 10up Client and overall neat organization StoryCorp got featured on Google's homepage for their Thanksgiving Listen campaign. I can't…
Million dollar products
Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Kyle Neath isn't a fan of Unicorn culture in tech-land. He would like to see more people aim to create what he qualifies as family businesses, and aim for smaller (more niche) customer bases, provide better service, build companies that…
Freelance WordPress writers, and other tips for promoting products
Brian Krogsgard
A recent post on WPKube goes fairly in-depth on how to promote new WordPress products. Overall, it's a pretty thorough guide, even if I don't think every aspect of the guide is the best route. What I found interesting was…
Hiring techniques
Brian Krogsgard
Mario Peshev has a super thorough post on his blog that outlines a number of techniques for outsourcing and hiring remote talent. He discusses pros and cons of hiring industry experts, building up junior developers, and teaching interns. He also…
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…
The growing pains of company blogging
Brian Krogsgard
Gregory Ciotti has some really good advice for getting through the growing pains on your company blog over on Help Scout. Blogging for a corporate entity is damn hard. Most organizations have a hard time with it, if they even try.…
