Lesley Sim

WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...

Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

Post Status Team Blog

Post Status has been a haven for kindness and generosity, but it's thanks to our members, readers, listeners, colleagues, and friends that the work we do together and the fun we have is good, meaningful, and regenerative for our community. On that note, this is my last post in my role as editor at Post Status...

Learning and Pulling Together

Dan Knauss

November 11, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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.

Moving and Not Moving With the Crowd

Dan Knauss

October 28, 2022

BusinessPlanet

This week's WordPress business highlights for Post Status: Lesley Sim is pivoting Newsletter Glue to an upmarket clientele. A discussion starter about WordPress UX. Do we need a curated plugin ecosystem, more open standards, and easy access to current expert consensus points in key knowledge areas? Time to bail out of Twitter? PayPal? Katie Keith tells her HeroPress story.

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

Dan Knauss

October 28, 2022

DraftPlanet

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.

Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You

Dan Knauss

October 3, 2022

FeaturesPlanet

United States national security interests are poised to become more invested in and engaged with open source projects classified as public infrastructure. From Log4j to the Securing Open Source Software Act, how did it all come together in 2022, and what may lie ahead?

Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?

Gluing Things Together

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessDesign

This week Dan and I talked with Post Status member Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue about refining our tedious and time-consuming newsletter workflow here. (I’ve been doing it for the last couple of weeks and it’s a bear!)

Putting it together, together

Dan Knauss

July 22, 2022

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

Today Cory took the lead on the Post Status newsletter release and joined Dan in co-authoring the introduction to it, which we usually share here. Some thoughts on newsletter integration, Newsletter Glue, Newspack, and the challenges facing plugin owners at WordPress.org in trying to determine the true size of their potential customer base.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of June 19

David Bisset

June 24, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

A chat with Matt at WCEU • Glam That Plugin • BlackPress Slack meetup • SSG vs. WordPress for landing pages • The Web Designer's Tech Stack • A Medeiros rant on the WordPress vibe

The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Elusive WordPress Way

Dan Knauss

April 29, 2022

BusinessDesign

There are significant differences in the ways plugin owners think about and operate their businesses. This is an opportunity to learn and grow together.

Fall of the Zamir: A Hate Symbol Enters and Exits WordPress.org

David Bisset

March 25, 2022

PlanetSecurity

How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 46) — Contributor Recognition and Certification with Lesley Sim

David Bisset

February 16, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Lesley Sim thinks special badges on WordPress.org could incentivize core contribution if they earned developers a boost in plugin rankings.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 45) — The Block Protocol, Tumblr, and Complexity with Lesley Sim

David Bisset

February 10, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

What is the Block Protocol and why does it matter? What's the significance of Matt taking over at Tumblr? And is WordPress way too complicated?

Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft

Olivia Bisset

December 30, 2021

BusinessComments

Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.