In this panel discussion, Michelle Frechette poses questions asked by the Post Status community about the benefits and how-to’s of sponsoring WordCamps. On the panel are Taco Verdonschot (Yoast), Katie Keith (Barn2), Drew Griswold (StellarWP), and Lincoln Islam (WPFunnels). Transcript…
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An Interview with Patrick Posner: WCEU and More
Michelle Frechette
BusinessPost Status Podcasts
In this episode, Michelle Frechette, Director of Community Relations at Post Status, talks with Patrick Posner, Founder and Developer at Simply Static, about the importance of being open and approachable, creating opportunities for others to join conversations, and making space…
Post Status Draft – Veteran Executive Lyndi Zavy On Hiring & Leadership Burnout
Cory Miller
BusinessDraft
Transcript ↓ Cory Miller, CEO of Post Status, interviews Lyndi Zavy, Founder and CEO of Rivers and Roads, about the topic of burnout and leadership. They discuss the importance of self-care and how leaders often neglect their well-being while trying…
Emilia Capital Gets Creative with WCEU Sponsorship
Michelle Frechette
BusinessDraft
In this episode, Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk from Emilia Capital discuss their investment process with Michelle Frechette. They talk about evaluating potential investments, providing feedback, and the importance of finding a good fit. Their investments in…
Business Roundup Week Ending March 31
Mike Demopoulos
BusinessThe Week in Review
Web Developer Services Market 2023 Size and Forecast to 2031 Market Watch reports on a new report by Industry Research. -(Powered by Absolute Reports) on the state of the web developer market. It also talks about how COVID-19 and the…
Business Roundup Week Ending March 17
Mike Demopoulos
BusinessThe Week in Review
Equalize Digital Receives Pre-Seed Investment from Emilia Capital Equalize Digital recently received a pre-seed investment from venture capital firm Emilia Capital. (Partners Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt from Yoast fame) The investment will help accelerate their mission…
Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
On September 29, changesets 12097 and 12098 were committed to the Meta Trac repository for wordpress.org by Scott Reilly (Audrey Capital). These changes remove the Active Install Growth chart from the plugin repository's "Advanced" section on individual plugins. The only…
Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Founders Invest in Atarim Just before WCUS, Vito Peleg announced Atarim has completed its first funding round led by Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt, the founders of Yoast SEO, which was acquired by Newfold Digital a year…
Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images
Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…
Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report
Cory Miller
BusinessNotes
Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…
Misogyny in WordPress is Real
Michelle Frechette
FeaturesPost Status Team Blog
I love the WordPress community, but a few of you are assholes. When I began using WordPress, it felt a bit fairytale-like — almost like being in the Land of Oz — as if I'd stumbled across a place where…
9 Things I Learned from WordCamp Europe 2022
David Bisset
BusinessFeatures
Some WCEU Highlights I watched WCEU remotely by live stream, so these reflections have nothing to do with the in-person experience. I'm sure there is much to share about the social opportunities, the parties, and the safety protocols that couldn't…
Does Market Share Matter?
David Bisset
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
This week brought some attention to WordPress's market share, at least as it gets reported by W3techs. For the first time, the WordPress market share appears to have declined — by 0.4% since February this year. David noticed this as…
📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What…
Dan Knauss
📆 Upcoming Events Headless webinar: What is headless and why does everyone seem to want it?: On July 20th, Joost de Valk (founder of Yoast) and Miriam Schwab (CEO and co-founder of Strattic) will be holding a free webinar focused…
Joost de Valk shows how the…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk shows how the new Algolia implementation in Yoast SEO Premium can improve site search results. 🔎
What should be included in the…
Dan Knauss
What should be included in the 2021 HTTP Archive Web Almanac’s chapter on CMSes? Joost de Valk would love to hear your thoughts about this — because he is authoring that chapter! The 2020 version is still available online.
