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Business Roundup Week Ending August 4

Nathan Ingram

August 7, 2023

In the Face of Constant Change, What Do Freelancers Need From WordPress? Understanding changing standards, best practices, and user expectations is key for agency growth. WordPress’ fast pace of changes might be overwhelming for some freelancers, making effective communication about…

The WP Agency Journey with Bet Hannon of AccessiCart-Post Status Draft

Emilee

May 12, 2023

BusinessDraft

Bet Hannon, CEO of AccessiCart, talks with Cory Miller about her journey in starting an agency focused on accessibility and e-commerce in the WordPress space. She highlights the importance of accessibility, not only as a legal requirement but also as a means to enhance the user experience for all visitors. Bet emphasizes the need for WordPress professionals to continually educate themselves about accessibility and user experience best practices, collaborate with communities, and consider the diverse needs of users with disabilities. By prioritizing accessibility and optimizing user experiences, we can create inclusive websites that benefit all users.

WordPress Products in the Enterprise with Crowd Favorite-Post Status Draft

Cory Miller

May 4, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Cory Miller talks with Karim Marucchi, Pat Ramsey, and Alex Nitu of Crowd Favorite. They share their insights on scaling WordPress for the enterprise. Their discussion includes the challenges of managing large WordPress sites, tips for optimizing site performance and security, and advice for hiring and managing a WordPress development team.

Talking With Valet’s Ceo Kimberly Lipari About The Changing Value Of Websites To Organizations-Post Status Draft

Cory Miller

April 27, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Kimberly Lipari and Cory Miller discuss the ups and downs of building and selling WordPress companies. They share their experiences, including the challenges they faced and lessons learned. They also give advice to entrepreneurs and business owners looking to grow and sell their own WordPress companies.

Jesse Friedman on raising the WP hosting standard across the industry with WP.cloud-Post Status Draft

Cory Miller

April 20, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Jesse Friedman, Head of WP Cloud, joins Cory Miller to provide valuable insights and strategies for improving infrastructure and service to deliver superior hosting. They also highlight how managed hosting can help businesses focus on their core operations while leaving the technical aspects to the experts.

Business Roundup Week Ending February 10

Mike Demopoulos

February 9, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

https://domainnamewire.com/2023/02/09/godaddy-announces-layoffs/ GoDaddy, the world's largest domain registrar, announced layoffs yesterday. This move affected hundreds of employees who had relied on the company for their livelihoods. The releases come from GoDaddy shifting its focus to digital transformation and automation. These reductions…

A Definitive Guide to WP-Config, the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide, and Twenty Twenty-Three

Daniel Schutzsmith

October 14, 2022

PlanetTech

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: A delicious developer's advanced guide to WP-Config, the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide, and Twenty Twenty-Three looks amazing! Brian Gardner released a new FSE theme, Powder. Cool Tool of the Week: Lorem Picsum by David Marby and Nijiko Yonskai.

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2022

Notes

Nice to see Brian Coords getting involved with the WP Notifications feature plugin project — otherwise known as WP-Notify (Github). He's calling for testing and feedback on the proof-of-concept at this point. You can click this link and immediately spin…

Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

$635.5 billion…That’s "billion," with a “B.” Let's look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress's market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?

Post Status Notes #487

David Bisset

February 24, 2022

BusinessDesign

WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.

Pippin Williamson on the Sandhills Acquisition, Emerging Threats and Opportunities in WordPress — Post Status Draft 117

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2021

BusinessDraft

In the latest WordPress acquisition, Sandhills is joining Awesome Motive. Pippin Williamson talks with Cory about WordPress: past and future.

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 "Eckstine" was released this week, and so far it has been getting good reviews and feedback. The top three areas of focus were speed, search — with a new sitemap addition to core — and…

Kinsta Replay Brian Jackson reflects on…

Dan Knauss

January 2, 2020

Hosting

Kinsta Replay Brian Jackson reflects on the past year with Kinsta as it scaled to become a global WordPress hosting platform. Brian has some previews on what to expect in 2020 too. 🌏 12.7+ billion HTTP requests and 519+ terabytes…

Summer School 🏫 Jen McFarland and Brian DeConinck…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Summer School 🏫 Jen McFarland and Brian DeConinck put together a

Brian Jackson shared some data from…

Dan Knauss

March 8, 2019

Brian Jackson shared some data from the analysis of 13 billion log entries from thousands of WordPress sites hosted on Kinsta servers. There are a lot of valuable and fascinating takeaways summarized at the end. One surprise: "Windows 98 is…

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Mark Gavalda at Kinsta released some numbers from their in-depth performance benchmarks to see how different versions of PHP stack up against each other while running WordPress, Drupal, etc. There's a lot to unpack here, but something curious for most…