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WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2014

BusinessPlanet

ChurchThemes was started by Frankie Jarrett in 2011. Frankie is now the Head of WordPress Product at X-Team, makers of Stream -- a product I reviewed a few months ago. Frankie also talked about Stream and ChurchThemes on the Matt Report recently.…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

Better local development with Airplane Mode

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

DesignDevelopment

Websites are complicated these days. Even when we work locally, we typically still need to make a bunch of calls to external, online applications, on any given page load. If you're ever without an internet connection, but still attempt to…

The Pressware shop is open, and ready to cater to WordPress publishers

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Tom McFarlin is a veteran of the WordPress product space. Today he's announced that his company, Pressware, has opened a shop for selling WordPress products. Pressware's first product has been out for a while now; the Mayer theme has been…

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

To say the theme marketplace is undergoing a transition is probably an understatement. We've seen many shops sell or change focus over the past year. A few have maintained their place in the market or even grown some, but it's not easy…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2014

BusinessDesign

The Lucid Theme shop was run by Jon Bellah until today. He still maintains the Lucid brand, but he's sold his themes to UpThemes. When I inquired with Chris Wallace, founder of UpThemes, about why they made the acquisition, he said,…

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

BusinessDesign

In mid-April I wrote that Press75 was for sale on Flippa. That auction ended without a sale, with bids for up to $45,000. Today, the Minneapolis based Westwerk is announcing that they have bought Press75 from Jason Schuller. It's my…

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Fundify is a crowdfunding theme and plugin combination, that operates on top of Easy Digital Downloads. Created by Astoundify, the Fundify plugin is a free download on WordPress.org, and they monetized the product through a complimentary WordPress theme, sold on…

The state of the WordPress theme industry

David Perel

May 27, 2014

BusinessDesign

Editor's Note: This story is republished from Medium, with author David Perel's permission. David has a unique take on the industry and has some very poignant thoughts that I wanted to share with this audience. The times, they are changing.…

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

Travis Northcutt

May 21, 2014

WordPress News

The Theme Foundry today announced Make, a free theme that "takes the drag and drop page builder from Basis to the next level." The fact that Make is a free theme is notable, as most of The Theme Foundry's themes…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did…

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

HostingSecurity

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…

Syed Balkhi, of WP Beginner, enters the commercial theme market with ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

ThemeLab has been around since 2007, started by Leland Fiegel. Leland released dozens of themes on ThemeLab, most of which were free. He also wrote a consistent blog and was generally an active member of the WordPress community. Over time…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Better local development with Airplane Mode

The Pressware shop is open, and ready to cater to WordPress publishers

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Press75 has been sold to Westwerk, the company behind WerkPress

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

The state of the WordPress theme industry

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

The cost of running a WordPress website

Syed Balkhi, of WP Beginner, enters the commercial theme market with ThemeLab

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

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