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Footnotes #456
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms of business and product acquisitions, key investments and hires … it says A LOT about…
Meanwhile, over in Post Status Slack,…
Meanwhile, over in Post Status Slack, Steve Burge pointed out that for PublishPress‘s YouTube channel he “found and interviewed several WordPress people [who] are really focused on environmental issues: Tim Frick, Tom Greenwood, Hannah Smith, Phil Sturgeon, Yanir Seroussi, and Johannes Benz.” Those are really great talks, and you can find even more over at…
PublishPress published a 2020 year in…
PublishPress published a 2020 year in review. While some ventures didn’t reproduce that many results, overall the key metrics grew by 100% this year: “COVID-19 definitely had an impact – we saw a big slowdown in growth during March and April… Even though revenue grew much faster in some months than others, customer growth was…
“It turns out that collaborative editing…
“It turns out that collaborative editing for platforms like WordPress is a very cool feature but an incredibly difficult technical challenge.” Steve Burge over at the PublishPress blog has a detailed take on the future of Google Docs style editing in WordPress. 📝
The Knight Foundation is awarding a…
The Knight Foundation is awarding a total of $2 Million (USD) to 24 newsrooms to upgrade their websites. Almost every winner chose WordPress. As Steve Burge of PublishPress notes, 20 out of 24 recipients of these grants will be moving to WordPress or upgrading their WordPress platform. Automattic’s Newspack platform is involved with some of…
PublishPress has some unusual listicles that…
PublishPress has some unusual listicles that might warrant some attention: federal websites that use WordPress, and state governments that have WordPress websites. It would be interesting to see similar lists for countries other than the United States. 🌏
Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂…
Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂 OSTraining founder Steve Burge also announced the 3.0 beta for the Multiple Authors plugin is available for testing. Initially, Multiple Authors was an extension for PublishPress built on the base of Daniel Bachuber‘s Co-Authors Plus and Bylines, which PublishPress acquired. Now, like its predecessors, Multiple Authors is a standalone…
PublishPress announced they have acquired Press…
PublishPress announced they have acquired Press Permit. Both plugins are known for their focus on publishing, and their aim together is “to create a set of powerful publishing tools that are useful to larger organizations, magazines and newspapers.” Newspack‘s ecosystem is mentioned as a target market. 📰 PublishPress owner Steve Burge reflects on this and other recent…
Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced…
Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber‘s Bylines plugin for his relatively new and recently rebranded WordPress-focused business, PublishPress. PublishPress provides an extensible base of useful features for any multi-user editorial workflow. If it reminds you of Daniel’s Edit Flow, that’s because PublishPress is based on the old Edit Flow codebase….
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
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.
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