Essential Skills in the Remote WordPress Workplace
Courtney Robertson
Where do you need to have accounts in the web tech community? What tools, knowledge, and skills will you need in any remote WordPress-related role?
Figuring Out What You Want to Do in the World of WordPress
Courtney Robertson
Discover what you really want to do in your career. Identify and acquire the minimum skills and tools you need to master.
How to Get a Job in WordPress
Courtney Robertson
In their debut conversation for Get Hired, Cory and Courtney discuss the kinds of jobs that are available in WordPress and where to find them.
The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging
Dan Knauss
Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?
Cash on the Mail In 2017,…
Dan Knauss
Cash on the Mail In 2017, WPForms acquired WP Mail SMTP, and recently a Pro version was announced. The Pro features include integration with Outlook 365 and Amazon SES, along with email logging and notification management. If you are looking…
Taking a new product from concept to launch
Brian Krogsgard
When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…
Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils -- a self-employed entrepreneur -- about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.
Today is the last day to get a pretty cool Mailchimp course
Brian Krogsgard
So, Post Status is terribly manual. Almost nothing is automated. In seeking to change that, I decided to buy a Mailchimp automation course from Paul Jarvis, called Chimp Essentials. Hat tip to Jenny Beaumont for being the first to recommend…
Jetpack is testing direct email marketing for Automattic products
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic is testing email marketing to WordPress.com users who have accounts linked to Jetpack, in order to market Automattic products like VaultPress and Akismet. It's the first time I've seen them make use of the WordPress.com <-> Jetpack connection; previously the…
Mandrill ditches free plans, stacks onto paid Mailchimp
Brian Krogsgard
Most of you know this by now, as it's been all over the web and a hot topic in Slack, but Mailchimp is ditching free Mandrill plans for transactional emails, and stacking Mandrill onto paid Mailchimp plans. But even if…
Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints
Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.
A straightforward guide to create an online course
Brian Krogsgard
Paul Jarvis has written an excellent and thorough post about how he built an online course that has generated well over $100,000 in revenue in the last year. He walks through using WordPress, Memberful, and Mailchimp to build a membership…
The WordPress REST API
Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.
A new look and a new domain
Brian Krogsgard
The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.
Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments
Brian Krogsgard
Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…
The cost of running a WordPress website
Brian Krogsgard
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…
