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Publish presentation announcements

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,…

The latest episode of How I…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

The latest episode of How I Built It features Cory Miller talking about various iThemes products and the philosophies that go into those products. And Joe also interviewed Carrie Dils, who is always so full of knowledge; she shares her…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

September 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on funding open source with marketing money to be insightful. Eric is involved in Read The Docs, a community supported site that hosts documentation for projects, and he relates how he is building an advertising…

Congratulations to Ninja Forms for their major…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Congratulations to Ninja Forms for their major release, version 3 (they annoyingly but cleverly named it "THREE" in all caps). It's a complete rewrite of the interface and codebase, built with Backbone, Underscore, and Marionette, along with using an interesting front-end templating system.…

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data analysis, and as another marketing opportunity for the new TLD. Data for Breakfast will feature posts about our data stack, trends in WordPress.com usage, and whatever currently tickles our data fancy. We’re data scientists…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Jetpack 4.3 Beta was announced today, and includes a new React-driven interface, as well as more integrated marketing pitches for the WordPress.com apps and paid upgrades. The new interface is an improvement, but there are several changes functionally. One I noticed…

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."

Joost de Valk was interviewed on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Joost de Valk was interviewed on the Marketing Nerds podcast, talking about SEO (shocker!) and WordPress plugins. The podcast is only 30 minutes long, so it's a quick investment. I rarely get to hear Joost on any podcast, so I…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2016

Hosting

ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…

Matt Medeiros has new plugin-focused site called PluginTut,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Matt Medeiros has new plugin-focused site called PluginTut, and the launch seems to have gone well. It recently posed this in-depth look at the Kanban plugin which creates a dashboard to manage content marketing for a site. Related: the author of the…

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

Nate Wright

May 26, 2016

BusinessPlanet

Balancing a lifestyle business -- and trying to grow it -- can be tricky, when you're not willing to give up your lifestyle for that growth. There are ways to grow your business without giving up the lifestyle you began it all for, right?

Trademarks, Woo, and you

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2016

Business

There's been talk lately about Automattic enforcing trademarks for the term "Woo", by sending takedown notices to websites utilizing the term in their domains and offering services or products associated with WooCommerce. Automattic has been sending letters, primarily to sites…

Thoughts on WooCommerce Connect

Brian Krogsgard

May 10, 2016

Last week, Automattic introduced WooCommerce Connect, a Jetpack-esque suite of tools for WooCommerce, where modules could utilize the processing power of WordPress.com to run particular elements of eCommerce websites. WooCommerce Connect requires Jetpack, and therefore also a WordPress.com account, in…

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

Brian Krogsgard

May 2, 2016

DesignHosting

A couple of months ago, Mark Uraine described the thinking behind what is now likely to be a new landing page at WordPress.org/get: For quite a while now, the meta team has been interested in improving the download and mobile pages…

Follow-up on Server Pilot

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2016

BusinessHosting

I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I'm still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now,…

Publish presentation announcements

The latest episode of How I…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on…

Congratulations to Ninja Forms for their major…

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

Using Kickstarter to fund open source

Joost de Valk was interviewed on…

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Matt Medeiros has new plugin-focused site called PluginTut,…

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

Trademarks, Woo, and you

Thoughts on WooCommerce Connect

A new “Get WordPress” landing page is in the works

Follow-up on Server Pilot

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