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WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

WordPress.com has released what appears to be their first ever video ad, and it's quite mobile centric. The ad portrays a number of users using the WordPress mobile app to snap and blog pictures. It's only 16 seconds, and is…

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2014

The Week in Review

Welcome to the fifth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Sass is coming to Underscores A long-awaited feature, the first pass…

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

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

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…

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

DesignPlanet

The New Yorker is an iconic magazine that's been in print since 1925, and its online web presence is now on WordPress. Reported in the New York Times originally, the New Yorker is altering its online strategy, broadening the number of magazine articles…

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

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

BusinessHosting

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.…

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…

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

June 23, 2014

DesignSecurity

Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

Business

WordPress.com VIP has a fancy new stats page. Of course I immediately wanted to know how it stacks up to WordPress.com stats as a whole. Here's the math: WordPress.com VIP: 2,441,299,137 pageviews in the last 30 days All WordPress.com: 14,512,740,573*…

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

WordPress News

Jetpack 3.0 has just shipped with a major overhaul of the admin area. I've long desired change, and Jetpack has finally made quite a significant one. The settings page is still very heavily Jetpack branded, but the interface for activating,…

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…

The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Stream is a WordPress plugin by X-Team that allows site owners to track all activity on their website. The free version of the plugin was released in December of 2013, and this last weekend they announced their first commercial extensions.…

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2014

WordPress News

Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build "Snowfall", the New York Times' famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into…

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

HostingWordPress News

I have called it the future in the past, and it seems the future is here. I've always wondered why more people haven't created their own little hosted WordPress platforms. In my view, there could be a hundred WordPress.com style…

WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

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

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

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

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

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

The cost of running a WordPress website

The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

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