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How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2017

Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some…

WP Remote has finally been acquired,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

WP Remote has finally been acquired, by Maekit. It seems a good fit for Maekit, who has robust plans for the future of WP Remote. I’ve followed and covered WP Remote as long as it has existed. It’s a pretty…

WP Remote has finally been acquired…

Dan Knauss

August 23, 2017

WP Remote has finally been acquired -- by Maekit. It seems a good fit for Maekit, who has robust plans for the future of WP Remote. I’ve followed and covered WP Remote as long as it has existed. It’s a…

WordPress 4.7.4, a maintenance release, is…

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2017

WordPress 4.7.4, a maintenance release, is now available. It includes 47 enhancements and bug fixes.

In WordPress core development, user trust…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

In WordPress core development, user trust is considered paramount. Aaron Jorbin illustrates this with a post quoting several WordPress core contributors, including a response from Helen Hou-Sandí's to a suggestion made in Slack to rewrite WordPress core. Aaron illustrates that…

Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors

Brian Krogsgard

December 14, 2016

Hosting

Envato has expanded the hosting program they began piloting last December, which I covered at the time. Now it's expanded from two theme shops to twelve, including several of the most popular authors on the platform. Envato Hosted is now…

Recurring revenue is a very good…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Recurring revenue is a very good reason to offer your clients maintenance service, and Brad Touesnard walks you through how you might be able to go about doing this. Among other good pieces of advice, Brad points out you can…

Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Mergebot is finally out of the bag. Brad Touesnard has been talking about it for quite some time on his Apply Filters podcast, but they've now posted on the Delicious Brains blog more about the why and how of MergeBot.…

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

Daniel Bachhuber

August 2, 2016

BusinessPlanet

Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, "A more RESTful WP-CLI."

Pressmatic wants to be the new standard for local WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2016

Clay Griffiths -- co-founder of Headway Themes, which he's run since 2009 -- has a new unaffiliated venture, called Pressmatic. With Pressmatic, Clay hopes to set the new standard for local WordPress development. Pressmatic is a GUI-driven utility for creating…

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

April 15, 2016

Hosting

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally deleted his entire hosting customers' websites (1500+ customers). Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the…

Managing products is about focus

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2016

Business

I have to hand it to Jeff Chandler, he's pretty good at raising a ruckus when he's annoyed with a plugin. Yesterday, I guess he reached his boiling point with Edit Flow, the quasi-abandoned plugin by Automattic for managing an…

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a…

February 4, 2016

Security

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a security and maintenance release. It should be a no-brainer update for everyone (and is probably updated on most of your sites by now, automatically). It affects all versions of WordPress and updates are out…

Challenges managing a WordPress consulting business and doing client work — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

January 8, 2016

BusinessDraft

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk working in an agency and doing client work.

WordPress security release, and 4.5 development kicks off

Brian Krogsgard

January 6, 2016

DesignSecurity

It was the first truly busy day in WordPress core land since the release of WordPress 4.4. Two big things happened: A maintenance and security update was released in WordPress 4.4.1, and the security component affected all versions back that can…

How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins

WP Remote has finally been acquired,…

WP Remote has finally been acquired…

WordPress 4.7.4, a maintenance release, is…

In WordPress core development, user trust…

Envato Hosted expands with revenue share for authors

Recurring revenue is a very good…

Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

Pressmatic wants to be the new standard for local WordPress development

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

Managing products is about focus

WordPress 4.4.2 is out with a…

Challenges managing a WordPress consulting business and doing client work — Draft podcast

WordPress security release, and 4.5 development kicks off

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