Interviews

W3TC, Placester, and Frederick Townes

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Brian Krogsgard
Placester is a Boston-based startup that gears toward real estate agents, and they've recently raised $50 million in a Series D round -- bringing their total fundraising to $100 million. Why should you care? Well, two reasons. Placester uses WordPress…

LoopConf in review

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Brian Krogsgard
LoopConf 2, hosted in Salt Lake City, was a great WordPress developer-focused event. Post Status was there, taking pictures and video. Here's our review.

GoDaddy gobbles up WP Curve

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Brian Krogsgard

GoDaddy continues to gobble up talent in the WordPress space. They've acquired WP Curve, and say they intend to keep it a standalone service. WP Curve is a WordPress support service, offering "unlimited small fixes" that starts at $79 per…

Another good episode of How I…

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Brian Krogsgard

Another good episode of How I Built It, with Joe Casabona, is out. This week he interviews Joost de Valk about growing Yoast and how it has changed from a products company to a products and services company, with a big…

Let’s go to podcast corner: HowIBuiltIt…

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Brian Krogsgard

Let's go to podcast corner: HowIBuiltIt is a new podcast from Joe Casabona who interviews product owners and developers to see how they built specific products. The first official episode is with Jason Coleman, creator of Paid Memberships Pro. I recorded an episode…

Cory Miller graciously shares a PDF…

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Brian Krogsgard

Cory Miller graciously shares a PDF document that might help some to realize how much time is left in the year and what to do with it (in his words – how to “finish 2016 strong”). In addition, if you…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

A podcast series on web design

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros is doing a series on web design, and the business of it. In the fourth part, he interviews Carson McComas in regard to managing a $50,000 project. Carson worked on the eCommerce site I shared a while back.…

WordPress News with Beka Rice

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Brian Krogsgard
Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

WordPress News with Julie Kuehl

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Brian Krogsgard
Julie Kuehl and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews. This week we talk about Shiny Installs, host growth, finding your place, and the REST API.

WordPress News with Brian Richards

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Brian Krogsgard
Brian Richards and I cover the week in WordPress news with a new short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews.
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