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Envato is moving to author driven pricing for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

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Brian Krogsgard

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…

The steady move upmarket in WordPress hosting

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

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David Bisset

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

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

WordPress at Scale

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Brian Krogsgard
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.…

WooThemes is experimenting with selling themes…

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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…

Envato is incorporating in the US

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Brian Krogsgard
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…

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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

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Brian Krogsgard
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

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Brian Krogsgard

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…
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