Marketing

Joost de Valk publicly announced he…

Dan Knauss

June 13, 2019

Joost de Valk publicly announced he is stepping down from his role as Marketing Lead, a position he held for about six months. Joost will return to Yoast in the role of Chief Product Officer. Joost gave more than one…

Introducing the WordPress Deal of the Week: Save more, get better exposure

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2019

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

The Deal of the Week is an opportunity for companies to reach the Post Status audience, and for readers to save money.

🎙️ I had a decent amount…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

Design

🎙️ I had a decent amount of time to listen to podcasts this week, including a few that are new to my rotation. Here are the best "new to me" podcasts I've found: WPandUP's #PressForward podcast had an episode with…

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.

🎙️ Here are some podcasts I’ve…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

🎙️ Here are some podcasts I've been listening to lately: Matt Mullenweg started a new one called "Distributed," which aims to explore "the benefits and challenges of distributed work." The first episode is an interview with Stephane Kasriel, CEO of…

An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Dan Knauss

May 3, 2019

BusinessHosting

Reyes Martínez directs Digital Marketing and Communications at Frontity. She gave us some background and answered a few of our questions about the company and the project.

Joost de Valk brings us up…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2019

Joost de Valk brings us up to speed about the things he's been doing since he was appointed Marketing and Communications Lead for WordPress. Quick wins included updating the roadmap page, removing mentions of jQuery and other libraries from the features…

Building Multidots, with Anil Gupta

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2019

DraftPlanet

In this episode I talk to Anil Gupta about his journey and philosophies building Multidots -- a company doing enterprise web development work all over the world with more than 100 employees.

After being appointed Executive Director of WordPress,…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

After being appointed Executive Director of WordPress, Josepha Haden posted a personal introduction and asked for feedback on the main strengths and weaknesses of core contributors. Joost de Valk also wrote about his new position as Marketing & Communications Lead.

Matt Mullenweg announced two new roles…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Matt Mullenweg announced two new roles in the WordPress project this week: Josepha Haden will assume the role of "Executive Director." Josepha will "oversee and direct all contributor teams in their work to build and maintain WordPress." Joost de Valk…

Some prominent sites have moved to…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Some prominent sites have moved to WordPress recently. 🧳 Basecamp's popular blog Signal v Noise switched to WordPress from Medium, noting that "three years ago [Medium] was a wonderful place and community for our kind of writing." David Heinemeier Hansson says…

FlyWheel has set up a Local…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

FlyWheel has set up a Local Dev Fund for people (primarily developers) who want to improve their workflow using Local, Flywheel's local development application. Starting in early 2019 and over the following three years, grants between $1,000 and $10,000 will…

The Make WordPress Marketing Team published…

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

The Make WordPress Marketing Team published a case study of the redesign of Rolling Stone magazine's website and its migration to WordPress. Handled by WordPress-focused engineering firm XWP and hosted by WordPress VIP, it's interesting to read about the unique…

The Plugin Economy interviewed Nathan Singh,…

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2018

Business

The Plugin Economy interviewed Nathan Singh, who at the start of 2018 acquired Envira Gallery and Soliloquy Slider from Thomas Griffin and Syed Balkhi. Nathan, a relative newcomer to the WordPress space and community, goes on to relate his thoughts…