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Member Spotlight: Anne McCarthy

Michelle Frechette

August 1, 2022

Anne McCarthy is a minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought-provoking questions. They stumbled into WordPress as a freshman in college in 2011 and never looked back. What do you enjoy most about working in…

Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy

Dan Knauss

July 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

$635.5 billion…That’s "billion," with a “B.” Let's look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress's market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?

Not Dead Yet! Just Mostly Dead?

Dan Knauss

June 17, 2022

DesignPlanet

Gutenberg 13.4 • Learning FSE sooner rather than later • Gutenberg in Tumblr and Day One • WordCamps and the vitality of the WordPress community • AUS WordPress community only mostly dead? • Get SEO Schema graphs • Web font loading geek out • PHP is 28! • PHP namespaces and autoloaders • You can work anywhere... why not Cleveland? • North Commerce — faster than the rest? • and more...

9 Things I Learned from WordCamp Europe 2022

David Bisset

June 7, 2022

BusinessFeatures

A lot of interesting things surfaced in the open conversations with Matt and Josepha at WCEU. I also learned a lot from Pablo Postigo, Feliz Arntz, Shane Pearlman, Jonathan Wold, Nora Ferrerio, Milana Cap.

Post Status Notes #492

Dan Knauss

March 31, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

The first-ever core preview walkthru with contribs for WP 6.0. Lots of Gutenberg news, big WordCamp comebacks, and other cool things!

Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future

David Bisset

January 10, 2022

BusinessDesign

How has the WordPress community changed since its early days? How does money and market share change it? What lies ahead?

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Michelle Frechette

January 7, 2022

SecurityWordPress News

The Post Status team reflects on the year that was (good and challenging), and looks forward to 2022 with hope.

Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft

Olivia Bisset

December 30, 2021

BusinessComments

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.

Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis

David Bisset

December 16, 2021

BusinessComments

Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.

The Legend Of The Headless Website with the WebDevStudios Team

David Bisset

October 29, 2021

BusinessDesign

What is a "headless" WordPress site? Is it a good option for you? What does headless WordPress offer in speed, security, and scalability?

A Strategic Partnership Framework for WordPress Businesses

Jonathan Wold

September 15, 2021

BusinessDesign

A good strategic partnership can quickly surmount the challenges of distribution facing WordPress plugin authors and SaaS businesses.

Delicious Brains acquires Advanced Custom Fields

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

BusinessHosting

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web inked a deal to acquire Iconic.

Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux

Karen Johnson

May 24, 2021

BusinessDesign

Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.

The Kolbe Index A and How It Can Help Your Team Thrive — with Kathy Kolbe

Karen Johnson

May 7, 2021

BusinessDesign

Kathy Kolbe has been called Abraham Maslow's successor because of her work on the mind and creative problem solving. Learn the science of team synergy in this important Post Status conversation.

Danielle Joseph on Client Relations

Dan Knauss

April 25, 2021

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Danielle Joseph talks about her work with clients as a designer and how that has shaped her agency and Willowspace.

Upcoming Events 📆 EXPAND 2021 is…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

Upcoming Events 📆 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by GoDaddy Pro from April 27-28. 🆓 The WordPress London Meetup is happening on April 29th and will discuss the hidden features of…