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Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past…

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

Business

WordPress.com VIP has a fancy new stats page. Of course I immediately wanted to know how it stacks up to WordPress.com stats as a whole. Here's the math: WordPress.com VIP: 2,441,299,137 pageviews in the last 30 days All WordPress.com: 14,512,740,573*…

Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They've moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by…

Pantheon has raised $21.5 million in Series B financing

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2014

BusinessHosting

Pantheon CEO Zach Rosen announced this morning that they've raised $21.5 million in financing.I covered Pantheon, including an interview, just recently when they launched their WordPress product. As I said then, Pantheon is a very compelling product.Seeing this raise another…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

BusinessDraft

Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…

Turn WordPress into a Twelve-Factor App

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Development

If you’re going to be creating complex websites with WordPress, then you need to get serious about it. This series of posts is based on the Twelve-Factor App methodology, adapted for large scale WordPress projects.

WordPress for large scale publishing

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

WordPress News

Felix Salmon talks Content economics on the Reuters blog. Off-the-rack CMSs like WordPress and Drupal are OK for small-to-medium sites, but aren’t particularly well suited to be the framework for a major publishing operation. Okay. Though I find it hilarious…

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

BusinessDraft

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting WooThemes HQ in Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout the week I had the opportunity to interact with WooThemes' co-founders Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson, as well as the rest of the Cape…

Yoast introduces commercial version of WordPress SEO

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk announced on the Yoast blog yesterday that they're pre-releasing a commercial version of the highly popular WordPress SEO plugin. The plugin will come with additional features with the full release, but for now it's an option for…

WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

Jason Cosper writes on the WP Engine blog that people need to stop saying WordPress is not secure, because it is. WordPress Core is rarely cause for security concerns, and hasn't been for some time. However, due to WordPress' massive…

Three projects to scale up WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2013

WordPress News

In the coming weeks Rocket Lift will release and showcase three open-source projects to improve how WordPress scales to larger sites.

WP Stack – a Toolkit For Creating Professional WordPress Deployments

Tom McFarlin

February 10, 2013

Development

WP Stack is a professional WordPress deployment tool written and maintained by Mark Jaquith. It assumes you're already using a number of professional development techniques. Specifically, WP Stacks aims to help you scale WordPress out to multiple servers.