Open Source

In Parallel: A conference for open source focused agencies

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

In Parallel is the second of two conference series being put on by Human Made, and organized by Siobhan McKeown. I've already shared A Day of REST with you, which Post Status is a content partner for. In Parallel is…

Comments redux

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Comments are getting a welcome flurry of activity in WordPress 4.3 and 4.4 development. Rachel Baker is the component lead, and WordPress 4.4 release lead Scott Taylor has gravitated toward comments as his pet project this release (bless his soul).…

Successful open source

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Jeffrey McGuire -- of Acquia, the Drupal version of Automattic -- has a great post and accompanying podcast on, "idealism and what successful open source looks like." It does a great job expressing common ideals. My favorite bit: I want…

Doing what I want after 25 years

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Design

The latest HeroPress essay is by Becky Davis, who describes how she got into web design and development with WordPress after 25 years of doing things for other people and their needs. She finally asked herself what she wanted, went…

A WordPress conference for higher education: coming to a campus near you?

Rachel Cherry

August 17, 2015

HostingPlanet

WordPress is used by thousands of universities all over the world. Many universities run large parts of their web infrastructure with WordPress, and it's time for them to have a niche WordPress conference catered for their experiences.

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…

Give your WordPress client an Apple experience

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Hosting

We're all familiar with the Apple ecosystem to some extent, even if we don't own any Apple products. We know it stands for polish, accessibility, and a complete solution. Carl Alexander wishes that the situation with WordPress hosting was more…

How we built our blog

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Have a read of Jon Chan from StackExchange talking through the migration of their blog from WordPress to Jekyll. There's a lot that we, as a WordPress community, can learn from other open source projects and the reasons people decide…

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 the WordPress community can learn from Drupal

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

John Eckman has done a second annual post on what the WordPress community can learn from Drupal. It's quite good, and quite thorough. Here's his tl;dr version, but the whole post is certainly worthwhile: What can the WordPress community learn…

Singular community

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

John Eckman -- the CEO of 10up -- discusses whether there is a singular WordPress community, or a singular Drupal community. He notes that there is often very little overlap amongst communities, and WordPress and Drupal communities have pre-existing opinions…

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.…

Finding stability in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

Business

Lara Littlefield's is the latest story on HeroPress, and it is a moving one. Lara has been using WordPress since the very beginning and today runs SimmerWP, which looks like a really neat tool for managing recipes. Lara really opens up…

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%.

Professional users

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2015

Dave Winer says why he loves what he calls professional users: We should be teaching young people how to be great users. How to contribute to the projects that make them more effective at doing what they do. The best form…

In Parallel: A conference for open source focused agencies

Comments redux

Successful open source

Doing what I want after 25 years

A WordPress conference for higher education: coming to a campus near you?

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Pearson versus Mullenweg, a history

Give your WordPress client an Apple experience

How we built our blog

WordPress Foundation sues owner of WordPress domain names

What the WordPress community can learn from Drupal

Singular community

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Finding stability in WordPress

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Professional users

Post Status

Opportunities

Partner Directory

Resources

The Community for WordPress Professionals

Post Status

Opportunities

Partner Directory

Resources