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It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite

Dan Knauss

July 8, 2022

It's still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on "WordPress Lite" and "Create Once, Publish Everywhere."

An Operating System for the Web

Dan Knauss

June 23, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

What if WordPress, growing as an operating system for the web, spawns distributions and spins, like Linux? What do nine years of Jetpack teach us about Automattic and WordPress — the project and the dot-com? Rethinking how we think about SaaS, hosting, and the WordPress ecosystem...

Post Status Notes #500

David Bisset

May 27, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

It's the 500th issue of Post Status Notes and the Post Status newsletter coinciding with WordPress's 6.0 release and its 19th anniversary! 🎂

Here’s an insane story of how…

Dan Knauss

April 2, 2021

Here's an insane story of how bad UI on Substack and 1Password cost Timmy O'Mahony $2,023. 🤯

🇮🇳 I had the chance to…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

🇮🇳 I had the chance to watch

The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging

Dan Knauss

March 9, 2020

WordPress News

Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?

I listened to this interview with…

Dan Knauss

September 7, 2018

I listened to this interview with Chris Best, the CEO of Substack and found it very interesting, especially for his thoughts about the attention advantage with email. There's also a small bit on the role of CMSs in an age…