The Events Calendar

The WP Agency Journey with Bet Hannon of AccessiCart-Post Status Draft

Emilee

May 12, 2023

Bet Hannon, CEO of AccessiCart, talks with Cory Miller about her journey in starting an agency focused on accessibility and e-commerce in the WordPress space. She highlights the importance of accessibility, not only as a legal requirement but also as a means to enhance the user experience for all visitors. Bet emphasizes the need for WordPress professionals to continually educate themselves about accessibility and user experience best practices, collaborate with communities, and consider the diverse needs of users with disabilities. By prioritizing accessibility and optimizing user experiences, we can create inclusive websites that benefit all users.

WordPress Products in the Enterprise with Crowd Favorite-Post Status Draft

Cory Miller

May 4, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Cory Miller talks with Karim Marucchi, Pat Ramsey, and Alex Nitu of Crowd Favorite. They share their insights on scaling WordPress for the enterprise. Their discussion includes the challenges of managing large WordPress sites, tips for optimizing site performance and security, and advice for hiring and managing a WordPress development team.

Member Spotlight: Hazel Quimpo

Michelle Frechette

March 3, 2023

BlogsMember Spotlights

Meet Hazel Quimpo, the innovative founder of The Clever, a marketing agency for small businesses based in sunny Long Beach, California.

WP.events — Find out what’s happening next

Dan Knauss

August 4, 2022

NotesPlanet

Have you recently thought it would be nice to have one comprehensive source for all WordPress community events? Thanks to The Events Calendar and some nice people at StellarWP — Hazel Quimpo, Zach Tirrell, and Michelle Frechette — there's a…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 59) — Managing Product Teams at StellarWP

David Bisset

May 17, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

Learn from Zach Tirrell about managing popular WordPress products and their teams at StellarWP. Also: Gutenberg, licenses, and market share.

Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of February 21

David Bisset

February 24, 2022

SecurityThe Week in Review

What even is JavaScript? What’s it like to go through an acquisition as an employee and then get into M&A on the other side of the table?

Black Friday / Cyber Monday WordPress Deals 2021

Post Status Support Staff

November 20, 2021

BusinessDesign

Get these great Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on WordPress products and services for 2021! The sale is on NOW!

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Business

Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail how The Events Calendar team tackled recurring events and why they needed to overhaul their system. She shares this because many companies often find themselves in a similar scenario — trying to fix “a…

Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell on GiveWP’s Acquisition by Liquid Web

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

BusinessDraft

Brian Krogsgard talks with GiveWP's (former) CEO and COO, co-founders Devin Walker and Matt Cromwell following their acquisition.

Liquid Web’s Latest Acquisition: GiveWP

David Bisset

May 14, 2021

WordPress News

Liquid Web's acquisition of GiveWP came as a surprise to many people in the WordPress community. WP Business Reviews is part of the deal too.

An interview with Zach Tirrell, Director of Product at Modern Tribe

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

DesignWordPress News

Modern Tribe takes event calendars into the cloud with Loxi, their first SaaS offering. Learn all about it from Zach Tirrell, their director of product.

WooCommerce 2.6 released with shipping zones in core; also, Follow Up Emails acquired

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

WooCommerce 2.6 is out, and named "Zipping Zebra", with a slew of new features. Mike Jolley notes in the announcement that this release has been in, "development for ~5 months, and has had over 1700 commits from 25 contributors." The most visible…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.