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Envato is moving to author driven pricing for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2016

Envato is extending their Author Driven Pricing (ADP) program to WordPress themes on ThemeForest and plugins on CodeCanyon next week. Since inception, Envato has established pricing for the items on their marketplace. They would categorize the theme or plugin and establish…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2016

Hosting

ManageWP has long been a leader in the small group of businesses that want to help you manage your WordPress installs from one place. The six year old service has gone through a long development phase, where they rebuilt everything…

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

Nate Wright

May 26, 2016

BusinessPlanet

Balancing a lifestyle business -- and trying to grow it -- can be tricky, when you're not willing to give up your lifestyle for that growth. There are ways to grow your business without giving up the lifestyle you began it all for, right?

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2016

Hosting

Media Temple is the latest company to offer an "enterprise" level WordPress hosting option. Their new offering is based on Amazon Web Services and starts at $2,500 per month. From TechCrunch: The standard enterprise plan costs $2,500 per month comes…

If you find stories about scaling…

David Bisset

April 21, 2016

If you find stories about scaling interesting, then this post on how Twitter handles over 3k images per second might be worth your time. Some takeaway points listed that I appreciated: "Doing the simplest thing that can possibly work can…

GoDaddy targets Digital Ocean with new cloud infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2016

Business

GoDaddy is targeting products by companies like Digital Ocean and Amazon with their new by-the-hour Cloud Services and Apps project. The pricing is pretty much a direct mirror of Digital Ocean's right now (starts at $5 per month), and they…

Automattic has purchased a majority stake in Pressable

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2016

BusinessHosting

Automattic has taken over a majority stake in Pressable, the managed WordPress hosting company, with a purchase of Pressable CEO Vid Luther's shares of the company. They were already a significant investor.

WordPress at Scale

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

Hosting

The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2015

BusinessHosting

Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see…

WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes…

December 15, 2015

WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes and (more interestingly) WooCommerce extensions on MOJO Marketplace. I can't imagine how this would do particularly well, but there's really no downside for Woo. No third party sellers are currently in the mix, unless…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Envato is incorporating in the US

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2015

Business

Envato is expanding operations to the United States, with an official incorporation. Many large companies do this, where they are registered in their home country, and again in large business centers. The US is a huge business center for Envato…

There is another draft of the…

October 8, 2015

There is another draft of the Shortcodes roadmap out that appears to scale back the scope yet again. I really don't envy Robert and the others working on this nightmare.

Popping the publisher bubble

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Business

Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here's my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money,…

The case for term meta, and a roadmap for making it happen

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2015

Term meta is one of the most requested developer features for WordPress. When architecting a site's data, most of us have likely had a desire for term meta to add additional text fields, term images, term ordering, or some other data…

Envato is moving to author driven pricing for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

Static site generators versus WordPress

ManageWP’s new platform, “Orion”, is now live, includes new pricing

Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

If you find stories about scaling…

GoDaddy targets Digital Ocean with new cloud infrastructure

Automattic has purchased a majority stake in Pressable

WordPress at Scale

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Envato is incorporating in the US

There is another draft of the…

Popping the publisher bubble

The case for term meta, and a roadmap for making it happen

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