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Some important changes to the WordPress.org…

Brian Krogsgard

April 27, 2018

Some important changes to the WordPress.org theme review process were recently announced. The review now focuses on four key areas: security, licensing, "malicious or egregious stuff," and content creation. Themes will be spot checked once they are live in the theme…

An Interview with GeneratePress founder Tom Usborne

Dan Knauss

February 23, 2018

BusinessDesign

GeneratePress has earned a substantial user base, surpassing a million downloads last year. Here's what it's creator and founder has to say about the journey.

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.

Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

BusinessHosting

In 2015 Envato invested $1.5 million dollars into Pressed -- the white-label WordPress hosting service -- for a one third stake in the company. Now they've fully purchased ownership in the business, and the majority of the Pressed team is…

MH Themes writes to relate why…

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2017

MH Themes writes to relate why they are stopping the sale of WordPress themes on WordPress.com. They cite a few reasons, although the point that stuck out for me was the claim that Automattic seems to moving more and more…

Imagely (whose parent company makes the…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Imagely (whose parent company makes the NextGEN Gallery plugin) has acquired Tesla Themes and is interested in acquiring more theme shops. Tesla Themes has more than 4,000 sales on ThemeForest, plus those on their own site.

The theme directory disconnect

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2017

BusinessDesign

In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.

Some great solutions exist if you…

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2016

Some great solutions exist if you want to replace WordPress's default search (SearchWP, ElasticSearch, etc.) but sometimes you or your client just want to use Google. This tutorial from Elegant Themes shows you can get Google Search to replace WordPress…

Jami Gibbs is selling Rescue Themes,…

February 12, 2016

Jami Gibbs is selling Rescue Themes, and it'd be a pretty good pickup for the right buyer. I especially like the political theme niche, and Jami knows themes. If you're interested, she has a contact method on the blog post.…

Envato is introducing a hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

November 17, 2015

BusinessDesign

It's easy to see some parallels between ThemeCloud and Envato Sites in terms of goals, but they are vastly different in execution. The basic goals for each is to make making websites easier. Envato has chosen to go with a fully…

How to design a commercial WordPress theme — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

November 11, 2015

DesignDraft

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard, and he interviews WordPress theme designer Mike McAlister. Brian also talks about the value of attending events.

LeadPages CEO response to pushback from Elegant Themes fork

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Yesterday I wrote a bit about LeadPages forking Elegant Themes' Bloom plugin to create Rapidology, a popup plugin. Late last night, LeadPages CEO Clay Collins wrote about their thinking when deciding to fork Bloom. When I wrote about the fork…

WordPress plugin repo forking policy clarified

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Hosting

Mike Epstein clarified a policy for the WordPress.org plugin repo this morning, based on some recent issues that cropped up (likely the Elegant Themes / LeadPages thing yesterday). Basically, GPL-compatible unchanged copies are not allowed as part of an "above and…

Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Folks are making a bit of a fuss about a commercial plugin -- Bloom, a lead generation and popup plugin -- getting forked and released for free. It all started with an Elegant Themes tweet: Looks like @LeadPages took our plugin, replaced…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Some important changes to the WordPress.org…

An Interview with GeneratePress founder Tom Usborne

Envato has acquired Pressed to create a complete hosting solution

MH Themes writes to relate why…

Imagely (whose parent company makes the…

The theme directory disconnect

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Some great solutions exist if you…

Jami Gibbs is selling Rescue Themes,…

Envato is introducing a hosted website platform

How to design a commercial WordPress theme — Draft podcast

LeadPages CEO response to pushback from Elegant Themes fork

WordPress plugin repo forking policy clarified

Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

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