WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Rob Howard built the MasterWP merch store as quickly as possible with WooCommerce, and then he assessed the relative difficulty of building with Woo rather than Shopify. His conclusion? A high-end WP developer [i.e., Rob] needed half a day to…
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Shiny New Releases
Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
WordPress Core and Mobile Apps WordPress 6.0.2 RC1: Please help test! RC1 features 12 Core bug fixes and five in the Block Editor.WordPress for iOS 20.6: You can help test via the TestFlight program by opening this link on your iOS device.WordPress for…
Is this a WordPress Acquisition?
Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
DigitalOcean buys Cloudways for $350 million in cash "Is this a WordPress acquisition?" That question led to some discussion in Post Status Slack this week. The consensus was “yes it is,” although we’ve certainly included many WordPress-adjacent or partnered companies…
Local Development Tools and the Open Web
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
DesktopServer: The end of an era and the beginning of a new one Once upon a time, I used XAMP. Then I used DesktopServer. I liked it and soon bought a subscription for updates and support. It was host-agnostic and…
An Operating System for the Web
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Speaking at Pressnomics in 2015, Matt Mullenweg claimed that without Jetpack, WordPress' market share would be in decline. Why? Because "naked" WordPress wasn't competitive with SaaS site builders like Wix and Squarespace. On Twitter last month, Jeff Chandler reminded the…
Post Status Notes #501
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
Elementor acquires Strattic The latest addition to our acquisition tracker was a bit of a surprise to many people — a plugin company acquiring a host for a change. Elementor is a hosted solution and booming platform ecosystem, however, since…
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
DraftHosting
Castos is a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider with roots in the open-source community through their Seriously Simple Podcasting plugin for WordPress. They recently announced a $756K pre-seed funding round from a number of companies, including Automattic and Yoast SEO. Cory…
Ashley Rich over at SpinupWP breaks…
Dan Knauss
Ashley Rich over at SpinupWP breaks down all you need to know about caching and WordPress including the different caching layers and common pitfalls. 🕳️
If you ever wondered what “long-term…
Dan Knauss
If you ever wondered what "long-term support" really means for the Ubuntu LTS distros — and when to choose it over alternatives — then this post at SpinupWP will tell you exactly that. 💿
SpinupWP recently added a useful page…
Dan Knauss
SpinupWP recently added a useful page about troubleshooting situations where WordPress won't load — perhaps a “504 Gateway Timeout” or a “403 Forbidden” error — due to a DNS or server issue. 🔧
Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google…
Dan Knauss
Hosting
Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, and AWS for hosting WordPress sites way you might with SpinupWP or ServerPilot and their forthcoming HostLaunch platform. Digital Ocean won the matchup, but all three platforms were are pretty close, and the…
Speaking of performance boosts, SpinupWP has…
Dan Knauss
Speaking of performance boosts, SpinupWP has published a terrific introduction to WordPress caching. After reading this, you should have a better understanding of how the various layers of caching play a role in speeding up WordPress page load times.
