To Heck with Black Friday, I’m Raising My Prices! — Post Status Draft 127
Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
Transcript ↓ This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement: "While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll be narrowing our target audience and focusing…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Skip to Transcript ↓ This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the three top WordPress stories on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections! It seems the temporary loss of…
Best Practices and Tools from rtCamp
Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
I've been collecting rtCamp news for a while — they have a great monthly newsletter — and here are some of the highlights worth sharing broadly. rtLearn = rtGrowth First of all, is rtLearn — not new but not as…
WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business News and Insights 2022 Web Almanac CMS Report According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34%…
What is WP Cloud?
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
WP Cloud has been flying under the radar for a while. At the WP Minute, Matt Medeiros spoke with Jesse Friedman, Director of Innovation at Automattic, to find out what it is. In brief, WP Cloud is a Platform as…
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web WP_Query Changes in 6.1 Jonathan Harris emphasized in Post Status Slack #development and on Twitter this week that WordPress 6.1 is bringing big changes to WP_Query — changes he's been working on for…
1,122% 3-Year Growth
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Multidots was ranked #560 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List this year. Noted at the end of the listing is a massive figure — they posted 1,122% growth over three years as a WordPress VIP Gold partner. They've also…
WordPress at a Massive Scale
Olivia Bisset
BusinessDesign
Cory Miller talks with Lead Solutions Engineer at WordPress VIP, Sean O'Shaughnessy. Learn about WordPress hosting at a massive scale with some blind case study examples. Recorded on August 12, 2022. Topics Discussed How Sean got into his present roleThe…
Putting it together, together
Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
By Cory Miller and Dan Knauss • May 13, 2022 🗓️ Estimated reading time: 1 minute The workflow from WordPress content to newsletter campaigns (like this week's) isn’t a great experience without good integration. (See Dan’s post, “It’s Hard to…
WordPress VIP + SalesForce Marketing Cloud
Cory Miller
NotesWordPress News
According to Elisa Brown at WordPress VIP, they’ve just announced a partnership and integration with SalesForce Marketing Cloud. It’s the only one of its kind and makes activating your content in WordPress to build email campaigns easier. Yes!
Market Size and Market Shares: Thinking Bigger About the WordPress Economy
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
By Dan Knauss, Nev Harris, and Jonathan Wold 🗓️ July 15, 2022 📝 Updated July 16, 2022 Estimated reading time: 12 minutes The value of the WordPress ecosystem at the end of 2021 was estimated by an independent team of…
An Operating System for the Web
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Speaking at Pressnomics in 2015, Matt Mullenweg claimed that without Jetpack, WordPress' market share would be in decline. Why? Because "naked" WordPress wasn't competitive with SaaS site builders like Wix and Squarespace. On Twitter last month, Jeff Chandler reminded the…
Member Spotlight: Rahul Bansal
Michelle Frechette
WordPress News
Rahul Bansal is the Founder and CEO of rtCamp — an enterprise WordPress VIP agency based in India and the USA. Rahul first used WordPress in 2007 as a professional blogger. He quickly became a freelance WordPress developer, releasing his…
Post Status Notes #498
David Bisset
PlanetSecurity
Joost de Valk's latest WordPress market share analysis has led to a lot of good questions that are hard to answer without better data and ways to assess it. Are we going up or down? David Bisset offered his take…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 56) — BlackPress: Bringing More Creators into the WordPress Community
David Bisset
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
“Organizers running meetups wherever they may be — your first thought should be how I can make this inclusive for everyone?”— Destiny Fox Kanno In this conversation for Post Status Excerpt, David is joined by Destiny Fox, Niesha Sweet, and…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 55) — A New Era of WordPress Themes
David Bisset
DesignPlanet
“A style is the design language for a theme.” — Rich Tabor In this episode, David Bisset talks with someone who has moved the WordPress theme needle a long way: Rich Tabor. Rich believes the arrival of the Full Site…
