Get new perspectives on last years' biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.
Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.
Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple,…
An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, "How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?" 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always…
Cloudflare announced the beta of Cloudflare Images: a "service to store, resize, optimize, and deliver images at scale." Image "variants" are supported along with the ability to automatically serve the most optimized version of the image. Exact pricing is not…
Iain Poulson has authored a guide to outsourcing support for your WordPress plugin. Iain lists the best options out there, their pros, cons, and pricing while including his own thoughts on each approach. 🔌
Elementor announced earlier this month that they are increasing the price for their upper-tier subscriptions. The 1,000 site plan will go up from $199/year to $999/year on March 9th, 2021. These changes are only for new customers; existing subscribers to…
Big Step for BigCommerce BigCommerce has become a public company on Nasdaq. CEO Brent Bellm commented that "as a public company we’ll be able to provide all our stakeholders more transparency than ever into our size, momentum, and industry leadership."…
The debut of Jetpack CRM was announced at the Jetpack blog. It's a "new customer relationship management tool built specifically for WordPress sites." Jetpack CRM is a standalone plugin -- not bundled with Jetpack -- and has separate pricing starting…
Scott Bolinger announced AppPresser 4. It's a major release with a completely modernized, native build process for backend apps. This will make your apps "faster and ... up to date." New pricing and beta releases are coming soon. 🔘
🎙️ I had a decent amount of time to listen to podcasts this week, including a few that are new to my rotation. Here are the best "new to me" podcasts I've found: WPandUP's #PressForward podcast had an episode with…
Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.