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Ian Jenkins shares some details on…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Ian Jenkins shares some details on how Box UK develops enterprise WordPress sites. Ian starts with Docker, Monorepo, and Dictator. They also use Twig as their templating engine. How they install plugins is interesting: “Our preferred setup is that a…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Hosting

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex Denning and Iain Poulson have officially launched FlipWP, which is being labeled as a “new private acquisition marketplace for WordPress.” 💸 Iain, fresh from his sale of Plugin Rank to Awesome Motive, notes in…

Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields

Cory Miller

June 9, 2021

DraftHosting

Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about the company acquiring the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin Rank this week. The SaaS app helps WordPress plugin developers track and improve their rankings in WordPress search results. 🔌 Syed Balkhi explained that his company was already engaged in plugin rank tracking of…

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to set their plugin hostname - this allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP

David Bisset

April 29, 2021

BusinessPlanet

One of the oldest commercial WordPress Plugins gets a facelift. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the recent 2.5 update to Gravity Forms. Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress…

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a recent WP Trends newsletter that he has started working on a new acquisition analytics feature for Plugin Rank: "Find a free plugin on the WordPress.org repository that has a good user base but hasn’t…

Anil Gupta on Multicollab — A New Collaboration Plugin for WordPress

Dan Knauss

April 9, 2021

DraftPlanet

MultiDots recently released MultiCollab, a Google Docs-style internal commenting tool to take feedback from editors inside WordPress.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 3) — The Future of “Single” WordPress Plugin Devs, Thoughts on Jobs

David Bisset

March 26, 2021

BusinessPlanet

What's the future for solo WordPress plugin developer-entrepreneurs? How can young people start careers in WordPress?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 1) — WordPress 5.7 & Plugin Rank

David Bisset

March 12, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Get the latest WordPress news with Cory and David in Post Status Excerpt. Topics: WordPress 5.7, the visual editor, and PluginRank.com. 🔌

Mika Epstein has a sober but…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Mika Epstein has a sober but important post on being burned out from harassment in the WordPress space. Mika's work on the Plugins team has been especially trying thanks to one plugin author who — despite warnings and a ban…

🚫 Mika Epstein reminds WordPress plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 28, 2021

🚫 Mika Epstein reminds WordPress plugin developers they must not interfere with or change the defaults of WordPress's update settings: "You may offer a feature to auto-update, but it has to honor the core settings. This means if someone has…

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 22, 2021

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their…

🔒 Restrict Content Pro has acquired…

Dan Knauss

January 22, 2021

🔒 Restrict Content Pro has acquired Skillful Plugins, a company that has been building Restrict Content Pro plugins for some time, including the Restrict Content Pro – Avatax plugin and the View Limit plugin. Started by Tanner Moushey, Skillful Plugins…

Built by WordPress — .com that is

David Bisset

January 8, 2021

BusinessDesign

Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

As noted by M Asif Rahman,…

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2020

As noted by M Asif Rahman, the WordPress Plugin Directory now has a release confirmation mechanism for new commits. Following a commit that updates a plugin's stable tag value, the committer receives an email with a link they must click…

Ian Jenkins shares some details on…

FlipWP: A marketplace for acquisitions Alex…

Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields

Awesome Motive announced it acquired Plugin…

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a…

Anil Gupta on Multicollab — A New Collaboration Plugin for WordPress

Post Status Excerpt (No. 3) — The Future of “Single” WordPress Plugin Devs, Thoughts on Jobs

Post Status Excerpt (No. 1) — WordPress 5.7 & Plugin Rank

Mika Epstein has a sober but…

🚫 Mika Epstein reminds WordPress plugin…

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

🔒 Restrict Content Pro has acquired…

Built by WordPress — .com that is

As noted by M Asif Rahman,…

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