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Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

Average customers often don't know the difference between domains, WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting. They have to learn as they go, or hope they land somewhere someone will guide them well. I once did a WordCamp double-session on WordPress 101.…

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

Brian Krogsgard

June 29, 2014

The Week in ReviewWordPress News

I thought it'd be fun to try something new here. As you've probably noticed, I've been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I'll dive more into that later. I'll…

The WordPress community summit is back

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past…

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…

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

HostingWordPress News

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…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…

WP Dev Table: A monthly online geeky WordPress podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

WordPress News

WP Dev Table is a monthly podcast created to talk about the kinds of topics that would rarely get more than 20 people listening if they were a WordCamp talk in any city, but worldwide they'll get hundreds of "virtual…

The evolution of 10up

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

What can WordPress do for you?

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2014

WordPress News

In January, the Norwegian WordPress community got together in Oslo for WordCamp Norway 2014. In this video, filmed by Alex Asensi, people give testimonials about what excites them about WordPress and what it's done for them in their lives. Whether it…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Pixel Jar and AdSanity plugin

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2014

Business

It's been only two months since it was announced that Crowd Favorite would be acquired by VeloMedia; and that deal is nearing completion. Those two brands will be one, under the Crowd Favorite name. Crowd Favorite has just announced another…

How blogging has kickstarted my career

Brian Krogsgard

January 2, 2014

WordPress News

In early November I had the privilege to attend, sponsor, and speak at WordCamp Cape Town. I had a great time, and got to spend time getting to know some wonderful people in the South African WordPress community. I traveled…

WordPress Foundation financials

Brian Krogsgard

December 19, 2013

WordPress News

As a non-profit organization, the WordCamp Foundation publicly files financials. However, they've gone an extra step and broken down their costs for the 2012 tax year on the website. The Foundations expenses were $580,161 for the year, and the breakdown…

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 announced

Brian Krogsgard

December 18, 2013

WordPress News

With perhaps the earliest announcement I've seen for a WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2014 has been announced to occur October 24th - 26th. It appears the contributor day is going to flip this year, and be before WordCamp instead of…

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

The WordPress community summit is back

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

WP Dev Table: A monthly online geeky WordPress podcast

The evolution of 10up

Where to learn WordPress development

What can WordPress do for you?

Crowd Favorite to acquire Pixel Jar and AdSanity plugin

How blogging has kickstarted my career

WordPress Foundation financials

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 announced

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

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