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Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

This is a preview of the first part of my upcoming article on Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress. Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They are…

Grudge match over thesis.com

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson do not get along. I'll refer to Siobhan McKeown's chapter in the WordPress history book on Thesis for those that want to learn the specifics. Last year, Automattic bought thesis.com from a third party. The issue…

WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names

Japh Thomson

June 22, 2015

The WordPress Foundation is an entity setup by Matt Mullenweg to help the WordPress open source project, and part of this includes protection of trademarks for WordPress, WordCamp, and others related. Part of registering a trademark requires active protection, and…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Happy 12th birthday, WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

WordPress turned 12 today. Version 0.7 of WordPress was released May 27th, 2003, after Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked the stagnated b2. Matt Mullenweg had cake: He also talked to Jeff Chandler on WP Tavern to mark the occasion.…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

Adii Pienaar raises half a million for Receiptful from Matt Mullenweg, Collis Ta’eed, and more

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

WooThemes co-founder Adii Pienaar -- who sold his shares in late 2013 -- has raised half a million dollars for Receiptful, his newish eCommerce receipt sending SaaS. Adii boasts 2,500 active subscribers (of 5,000 signups) for Receiptful. More interesting to…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

WordPress News

WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt's mission to power 50% of the web.

The book about the story of WordPress is open source and ready for preview

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

Siobhan McKeown is in the final stages of the official book about WordPress, which details the history and significant milestones of the project. I have much more to come about the book on the main blog. But I wanted to send a Note now…

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim's podcast for over two hours. It's got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member…

WordPress lead developer changes

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Yesterday and today there has been some significant news for the WordPress project. We now have two new lead developers, and two long-time leads are stepping down after outstanding tenures assisting with steering the ship.

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Grudge match over thesis.com

WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names

What is Code?

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Happy 12th birthday, WordPress

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Adii Pienaar raises half a million for Receiptful from Matt Mullenweg, Collis Ta’eed, and more

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

The book about the story of WordPress is open source and ready for preview

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

WordPress lead developer changes

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