Publishing

Product People Arnas Donauskas, Web Hosting Product Owner at Hostinger — Post Status Draft 141

Cory Miller

February 17, 2023

Arnas Donauskas, Web Hosting Product Owner at Hostinger, joins Cory Miller to discuss his WordPress product. Arnas leveraged his experience in customer success and UX research to transition into owning a WordPress product.

Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

Post Status Team Blog

Post Status has been a haven for kindness and generosity, but it's thanks to our members, readers, listeners, colleagues, and friends that the work we do together and the fun we have is good, meaningful, and regenerative for our community. On that note, this is my last post in my role as editor at Post Status...

Keeping Higher Education Website Managers’ Dream Alive While Sunsetting Edupack

Blake Bertuccelli

November 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Every University IT department dreams of a self-service system in which they do not have to deal with outside vendors.

Evolving Edupack: A One-Size Fits All Plugin Leads to an Accessibility Platform and Enhanced Agency Services

Blake Bertuccelli

November 14, 2022

BusinessFeatures

I now believe that a one size fits all website publishing product is not possible. Each university has its own set of requirements. The requirements vary from the placement of buttons to the type of accessibility a university mandates. In the end, universities shouldn’t sacrifice individual requirements for ease of use.

To Heck with Black Friday, I’m Raising My Prices! — Post Status Draft 127

Dan Knauss

October 28, 2022

DraftPlanet

This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement: "While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll be narrowing our target audience and focusing mainly on medium-large publishers and online businesses; working with them more closely and providing a high level of customization and support." What motivated Lesley's decision? Where does she expect it to take her company? How can plugin owners find enterprise agency partners? Listen to this episode of Post Status Draft and find out.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?

Dan Knauss

October 27, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

This week in an article shared in Post Status Slack, Eric Karkovack suggested some ways to improve the WordPress user experience, especially for DIY users setting up a website for the first time. Some of the things Eric wants to see happen, like a standard interface for plugins and a curated view of the plugin ecosystem, are also commonly expressed by designers, developers, and people in other roles at WordPress agencies serving enterprise clients. Can we get everyone to "yes" on a better UX?

Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?

On the Web Publishing Tool Race

Cory Miller

August 12, 2022

BusinessDesign

What if it's not between open and closed but centralized and decentralized?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 44) — Small Wins with Small Plugins

David Bisset

February 3, 2022

BusinessHosting

Collins Agbonghama is the Founder of ProfilePress. He spoke with David about his recent success acquiring a plugin and breaking even in just four months.

Wholesome Publishing is a new plugin…

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2020

Wholesome Publishing is a new plugin that adds comments to Gutenberg blocks. You can also give any block a "draft" status so it won't appear in the front end — very handy! 💬

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.

Publishing checklist

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

Daniel Bachhuber and the team at Fusion has created a plugin to enable a publishing checklist in the WordPress post editor. It's convenient, customizable, and I think in the perfect spot over on the right side widget area. It also…

A little perspective

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

From Club member Gerasimos Tsiamalos -- also known as Tsiger from CSSIgniter -- I got one of the best comments I've read in a long time. He has a very personal story about how he got involved in WordPress theme…

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

DesignPlanet

The New Yorker is an iconic magazine that's been in print since 1925, and its online web presence is now on WordPress. Reported in the New York Times originally, the New Yorker is altering its online strategy, broadening the number of magazine articles…

Tammie Lister to write BuddyPress theme development book

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Tammie Lister has made a deal with Packt Publishing to write a book about BuddyPress theme development. She plans for the book to be a relatively short, 100 pages, with lots of resources for developers that wanted to get started…