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Enterprise hosting options

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…

Quick tip: Disconnect Jetpack from the WordPress.com side

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2015

Planet

Before now, deleting Jetpack enabled sites from WordPress.com was pretty hard unless you were in the WordPress admin. Now you can finally do it from the WordPress.com side, which is nice when the site no longer exists.

NUX: New User Experience versus Novel User Experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2015

Andy Skelton discusses two types of NUX: New User Experience and Novel User Experience. (NU)X is the experience provided to new users. (New User)’s Experience N(UX) is when any user experiences something unfamiliar. Novel (User Experience) “NUX” commonly means (NU)X. We…

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

WordPress.com Stats get Github-ish improvement

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

WordPress.com Stats now has an "Insights" tab that's quite Github-ish. The tab shows a graph of post activity (though only of posts it seems, and not CPTs), most popular posting day, and most popular posting hour for a particular site.…

Re/code acquired by Vox Media

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Re/code has been acquired by Vox Media. Re/code was previously All Things D before rebranding a year and a half ago after a split with the Wall Street Journal. Re/code is a popular tech news site that breaks a good…

An Automattic affiliate program?

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

In the comments of Matt Mullenweg's announcement for the WooThemes acquisition, someone asked if he could bring back WooThemes' affiliate program. I was pretty surprised by his answer: I think it didn’t work for them well the last time around,…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

DesignSecurity

Two of the initiatives for WordPress 4.3 are for further improving WordPress (especially mobile) UI and re-evaluating password management. Starting Thursday, lead developer Helen Housandí will host UI chats in the WordPress Slack #design channel. Additionally, lead developer Mark Jaquith further laid…

WordPress.com suspends open theme submissions

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

WordPress.com has changed their policies a couple of times on theme submissions. It was closed, then it opened up, and now it's closed again. Sarah Gooding did the hard work on this one: I contacted Automattic to find out why…

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.

WordPress showcase: GovLoop

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

GovLoop is an online community built with WordPress and BuddyPress, aimed at connecting government employees. The WordPress.com VIP hosted website has, "over 150,000 members who use GovLoop to get new ideas and tips to do their job better." Peter Slutsky…

A theme shop year in review

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Business

Mike McAlister has shared an in-depth post recapping his first year as an independent theme shop, Array. Array sells themes on their website, but has also been on WordPress.com for a while. However, they also experimented with Creative Market. What…

April Fools’ roundup

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Today is April 1st. Trust nothing and nobody, including me. Yoast + Crowd Favorite are not really happening, but this one had pretty much no hint to the contrary. AutoMatton -- the WordPress.com auto-blogging tool. Pagely is partnering with U-Haul…

WordPress.com VIP partners with CoSchedule, a bad sign for Edit Flow

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

The team at WordPress.com VIP has partnered with CoSchedule, the editorial plugin that's gaining popularity. CoSchedule is mostly a hosted application with a WordPress integration. It's quite nice, for folks that need a variety of editorial tools. Notably, their calendar…

Open source government intranet

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

At the Big Media & Enterprise meetup in London, the firm Helpful Technology presented on how they built an intranet to serve various departments within GOV.UK, the often praised website of the UK government. Helpful Technology has a working demo…

Enterprise hosting options

Quick tip: Disconnect Jetpack from the WordPress.com side

NUX: New User Experience versus Novel User Experience

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

WordPress.com Stats get Github-ish improvement

Re/code acquired by Vox Media

An Automattic affiliate program?

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

WordPress.com suspends open theme submissions

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

WordPress showcase: GovLoop

A theme shop year in review

April Fools’ roundup

WordPress.com VIP partners with CoSchedule, a bad sign for Edit Flow

Open source government intranet

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