Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis
David Bisset
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux
Karen Johnson
Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.
Upcoming Events 📆 EXPAND 2021 is…
Dan Knauss
Upcoming Events 📆 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by GoDaddy Pro from April 27-28. 🆓 The WordPress London Meetup is happening on April 29th and will discuss the hidden features of…
The most discussed story of the…
Dan Knauss
The most discussed story of the past week is Wix's marketing campaign against WordPress. If you have been on Twitter or Post Status Slack, you probably know many of the details by now. Wix appears to have selected several "high…
🏗️ Steve Benjamins from SiteBuilderReport shares…
Dan Knauss
🏗️ Steve Benjamins from SiteBuilderReport shares some trends and market share data from 2020 for web builders. Market Share: Wix and Squarespace continue to be the market leaders, although their share of the market fell to 53% from 56% in…
Will Automattic compete with WordPress freelancers?
David Bisset
A new service from Automattic will build sites on WordPress.com for customers starting at $4,900. How will this impact WordPress freelancers?
Built by WordPress — .com that is
David Bisset
Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…
Ryan McCue shared this paper…
Brian Krogsgard
Ryan McCue shared this paper about Let's Encrypt SSL 🛡️ usage that has some interesting figures: Squarespace has 4.9M sites using Let's Encrypt for SSL (97% of their customers) and Automattic has 4.3M sites, or 96% of the total.…
Joost de Valk has an analysis…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk has an analysis of CMS market share numbers from W3Techs. Joost's key findings are: WooCommerce's market share is three times as big as Shopify, but Shopify is growing. If current trends continue, Shopify, Joomla, SquareSpace, and Wix…
Gutenberg, accessibility, and compromise
Brian Krogsgard
I had a call with Matt Mullenweg to discuss some things regarding the upcoming Gutenberg release, the critiques around accessibility, and thoughts I've had around the way this release and other releases are scheduled. I'll keep this note to the…
Here are a couple of tweets…
Brian Krogsgard
Here are a couple of tweets from Lisa Sabin Wilson I think are worth mentioning here: A lot of conversations about Headless WP lately, as well as WP as a platform, focused on down market competition with Wix and Squarespace,…
WordCamp Europe is in the books,…
Brian Krogsgard
WordCamp Europe is in the books, with the usual strong lineup of quality talks from excellent speakers. I (David) was unable to attend physically, but I watched both days of talks on the livestream. Since there were far too many…
WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…
Miriam Schwab recently wrote and asked…
Brian Krogsgard
Miriam Schwab recently wrote and asked if there are times when using Wix instead of WordPress (and vice versa) is the answer. I learned a few things about Wix in her post, including (interestingly enough) that Wix's blog actually runs…
GoDaddy has announced a new customized…
Dan Knauss
GoDaddy has announced a new customized experience for ones (especially non-developers) to get a WordPress site. The experience includes a startup wizard with the ability to choose a theme as part of a four step process. They are also including…
Matt Mullenweg’s stand for the GPL against Wix
Brian Krogsgard
You've probably heard about as much as you want to hear regarding Wix and the GPL issues surrounding their mobile app release by now. However, I want to help sift through the noise. First, some links: Matt Mullenweg's open letter…
