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Learning and Pulling Together

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Dan Knauss
This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas' featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in "voluntary standards." Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too — by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we're learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.

To Heck with Black Friday, I’m Raising My Prices! — Post Status Draft 127

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Dan Knauss
This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement: "While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll be narrowing our target audience and focusing mainly on medium-large publishers and online businesses; working with them more closely and providing a high level of customization and support." What motivated Lesley's decision? Where does she expect it to take her company? How can plugin owners find enterprise agency partners? Listen to this episode of Post Status Draft and find out.

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22

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Daniel Schutzsmith
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus

Ana Silva explains native personalization and…

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Dan Knauss

Ana Silva explains native personalization and other features of the newly released Altis 4 on the Human Made blog. ✨ Personalization is the biggest missing feature several major consultants have told us WordPress needs in order to compete with other…

WP Remote has been acquired from…

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Dan Knauss

WP Remote has been acquired from maekit by BlogVault. Here's what that will mean for existing customers. The original WP Remote tool and features were built by Human Made and acquired by maekit in 2017.  BlogVault's announcement says the current…

Human Made has announced a new…

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Dan Knauss

Human Made has announced a new iteration of their "next-generation digital experience platform (DXP)," Altis 2. Altis 2 features A/B testing, a new publication checklist workflow, enhanced privacy and GDPR compliance, cloud improvements, and more. If you are still new…

Human Made has built a “Publication…

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Dan Knauss

Human Made has built a "Publication Checklist" plugin that "provides a framework for building out pre-publication checks with [the] flexibility to fit your [WordPress publishing] workflows." 🔌

The Gutenberg white paper

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Brian Krogsgard

Human Made released a white paper covering everything about Gutenberg and the changes it will bring into WordPress 5.0. The white paper is excellent, but this is also an excellent sales tool. You enter your email address and get subscribed…

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…

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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…

On the heels of Tachyon just…

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Brian Krogsgard

On the heels of Tachyon just over a month ago, Human Made has released another interesting tool to the public. It's called Cavalcade, and it's a horizontally-scalable WordPress jobs processing solution. It was built to address the limitations of wp-cron. Cavalcade…

Human Made has made its staff handbook…

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Dan Knauss

Human Made has made its staff handbook public. The handbook shows how the company is organized, and it documents all their work–related guidances and human resources policies. This could be a great blueprint for other companies looking for a successful model. I would…
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