A Strategic Partnership Framework for WordPress Businesses
Jonathan Wold
A good strategic partnership can quickly surmount the challenges of distribution facing WordPress plugin authors and SaaS businesses.
Introducing Team Membership
Brian Krogsgard
Team Memberships are a new way to support Post Status and provide continuous education and excellent community insights for your entire organization.
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.
Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution
Brian Krogsgard
In 2015 Envato invested $1.5 million dollars into Pressed -- the white-label WordPress hosting service -- for a one third stake in the company. Now they've fully purchased ownership in the business, and the majority of the Pressed team is…
DreamHost is the first host to offer Jetpack commercial option en masse
Brian Krogsgard
DreamHost has announced a new benefit for DreamPress customers: all customers can get Jetpack's commercial version -- including VaultPress backups and Akismet spam protection -- included in their plan for no additional cost. The deal was structured between Automattic and…
What you should know about the Sucuri acquisition deal by GoDaddy
Brian Krogsgard
In fewer than six years, Sucuri went from a team trying to decide when the founders should go full time, to a team of more than one hundred people, and an acquisition deal in their hands from one of the…
WeFoster is targeting community-centric WordPress sites with new hosting platform
Brian Krogsgard
WeFoster is launching a complete hosting platform to target community-centric WordPress sites of all shapes and sizes. I spoke with Bowe Frankema and Marion Gooding about the project last week, to get a sense of their aims, and to see…
StudioPress relaunched, going all in on a hosted product
Brian Krogsgard
StudioPress has a brand new look, and is now marketing itself primarily as StudioPress Sites. At a foundational level, StudioPress Sites feels like a mashup of other products under the parent company umbrella, backed by the powerful StudioPress brand. In…
One year of the Post Status Club
Brian Krogsgard
I'd like to share some details with you about the first full year of the Post Status Club. I like transparency, so I figured I'd lay out exactly what happened over the year, what went well, what didn't, and how…
Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce
Brian Krogsgard
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%.
Inside Jetpack
Brian Krogsgard
Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…
Drupal and WordPress have sold us out
Brian Krogsgard
Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.
SiteGround to sponsor Iseulde Van Dorpe full time on WordPress core
Brian Krogsgard
From WP Tavern, the decision to sponsor a full-time contributor: SiteGround identified and selected its new contributor based on recommendations from others involved in core development. “In search of developing our WordPress involvement even further, we made some inquiries as…
The future of Post Status
Brian Krogsgard
I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…
The first ever WooCommerce conference is November 3rd & 4th, on the heels of WCSF
Brian Krogsgard
The WooThemes team put up a landing page today for their first ever WooCommerce conference, which is to be held in San Francisco November 3rd and 4th. The conference is right on the heels of WordCamp San Francisco, which is…
