Welcome to the second “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force with WP Sessions and its new VIP offering. WP Sessions is a great way to…
Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them habitually. We should code with proper debug tools so we catch problems as they happen….
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 other hosted services (I’m looking at you, WordPress.com), and there are only two plans. It…
Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In a recent post on the Pantheon blog, Josh — a ten year veteran of the…
A few weeks ago I covered Demo WP Pro, a service by the folks behind Ninja Forms to help WordPress product creators create demo sites for their users. Since then, they’ve launched and rebranded to Ninja Demo. The rebranding was a great idea. Ever since they told me they rebranded, I haven’t been able to…
A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here’s the list of stuff that I use here on Post Status, along with associated costs. I’m also…
Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. I would’ve liked to see it included as well, since it’s such a widely used plugin….
All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It’s being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One of the items updated was to address the processing of pingbacks. The fix is identical…
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 Pantheon for the first time last year, when it was a Drupal-only platform. When Pantheon…
PushUp is a new product from 10up that offers push notification integration between WordPress and Mac OS X Mavericks. Currently, only Safari is supported and users must opt-in by viewing a website in Safari, where they are greeted by a popup that prompts them to enable push notifications from a specific website: If a site…
WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There are a few players in this space. And I’m not talking about tools for managing…
A great post from Zack Tollman at The Theme Foundry on why defaulting to what most consider best practices can sometimes be detrimental to performance. Using a CDN (content delivery network) for the new site was a forgone conclusion, as we assumed it would help us speed things up. But, after testing with a few…
WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg’s slug of “3-8-almost” in the announcement post. As he notes, it’s definitely time to get testing if you haven’t already.
Groove is a support software that markets itself for SaaS and eCommerce services. It looks pretty nice, kind of like a Help Scout Plus, maybe. I read a post on their blog about 7 lessons they learned to reach $30,000 of monthly revenue in their first year. It has some pretty great practical tips you…
WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I’ve hated every instance I’ve ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin that I don’t hate. That’s a strong compliment for this kind of plugin from me….
My apologies for the headline. I couldn’t resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out in the follow-up post on WP-ABTesting (the flagged site), it turned out to be flagged…
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