GlotPress is a translation tool, built on BackPress. bbPress used to be on BackPress, if you need a refresher. BackPress is like an underbelly of WordPress-ish functions, but it’s quite old and no longer maintained. GlotPress has had some maintenance over the years, but that’s about it. The team decided to move it to be…
WordPress 4.2.4 was released and auto-updated in the last 24 hours, thankfully to seemingly little attention (other than perhaps a bit of update fatigue). And that’s a good thing. According to the announcement post, the release addresses six different issues. The most interesting thing I learned with this release is from a comment Gary Pendergast…
Jenny Beaumont did a survey of 124 professional WordPress service providers in May and has published the results. 77% of the people she surveyed offer long term maintenance for their clients, and they offer a variety of services, using a variety of tools. The rates they charge are a bit too diverse to be useful in…
iThemes Sync has a decent amount of competition between ManageWP, Jetpack Manage, and others that offer site management services that allow you to manage and update themes, plugins, and WordPress core. But they’ve recently come out with a feature that is new and intriguing to me — a report generator to send to your clients…
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but have you thought of what that means to you if you know how to work…
I’ve been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He eventually started monetizing it, and still does to this day. In all, Pat has five…
Rami Abraham compares our bodies to our websites, in that they need preventative maintenance. I could not agree more. However, much like preventive maintenance on a website, what’s really important are not the staccato occurrences of a two-week long vacation once per year, but your on-going attention to having recurring, healthy practices that minimize the impact…
WordPress 4.1.1 was released today with props for twenty one WordPress contributors, including the late Kim Parsell. The updates will roll out over a twelve hour period. According to lead developer Dion Hulse, over 99% of updates in the first five hours were done so automatically. Twenty two tickets were closed in 4.1.1.
Audit WP had a short, but interesting life span. Started by Rob Neu and Jacob King, the site launched in February, and today it’s been acquired by WP Site Care. They made an early splash after their launch when Jacob wrote a provocative post about WP Engine’s SEO policies. Aside from that, they set out…
Eventually, you have to talk about cost. If you’re a consultant, as I am, you’ve been asked how much your services cost. And you have to make some decisions: What services am I providing? How many hours do I think this will take me? How much is this worth to the client, from a business…
Finally, finally someone has done it. They’ve combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with “the most important functionality built in.” There aren’t loads of tiny upsells like other hosted services (I’m looking at you, WordPress.com), and there are only two plans. It…
I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for spending $113,000 on upgrades and maintenance for three websites. I have no opinion on Australian…
Editor’s Note: This story is republished from Medium, with author David Perel’s permission. David has a unique take on the industry and has some very poignant thoughts that I wanted to share with this audience. The times, they are changing. Having been in the WordPress Theme industry since 2009, I think I have a rare…
All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It’s being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One of the items updated was to address the processing of pingbacks. The fix is identical…
WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There are a few players in this space. And I’m not talking about tools for managing…
WPSell.net is a site that helps people get support and development services for eCommerce websites. David Rojas launched the site in April of this year, after working with Cart66 as a support technician and seeing that there “were a lot of folks that simply needed help getting their shopping cart(s) setup, configured and running properly.”…
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