🇺🇸 Peter Slutsky over at WordPress VIP tells the story of their involvement in the Biden-Harris transition website and who they worked with: “In the weeks leading up to the election, WordPress VIP joined forces with Wide Eye Creative and the transition’s digital team led by Andrew Nacin. Everyone recognized the site’s pivotal role on…
A new service from Automattic will build sites on WordPress.com for customers starting at $4,900. How will this impact WordPress freelancers?
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 service with a personal touch: “You’ll work with a dedicated engagement manager throughout the entire…
For a few hours on Tuesday, June 11th, technical issues with WordPress VIP hosting resulted in some prominent and apparently “headless” sites showing the default WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme. 🧯
Steph Yiu (from WordPress VIP) relates her experience at the Poynter Institute’s Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media. Steph says she was able “to participate in sessions on being a change agent, negotiating as a woman, promoting diversity in leadership, and personal career development.” 🙋 Thanks to its distributed and open culture creed, WordPress…
Last but not least, congratulations are in order for Yoast who recently became a WordPress VIP technical partner.
Gutenberg was the talk of town at WordCamp US, as you may expect. Most people have their own thoughts on the product itself, the necessity of its existence, the process in creating it, or a variety of other things. I am pleased to see the progress that’s been made on the product itself. And I…
Meet the successor to Co-Authors Plus. It’s for multiple authors and guest authors in WordPress without creating additional user accounts.
Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn‘s presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and involved moving 10 years worth of content — 400,000 articles and over a terabyte of images….
It’s a new year, and a great time to set some New Year’s resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.
This is cool news: WordPress VIP has announced that India’s rtCamp is the newest member of the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program. (It’s also worth noting there’s been a good bit of shakeup to that program in the last year, in case you haven’t looked at it in a while.) What makes this announcement particularly…
HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety of reasons, including culture, language, location, time zone, and personal challenges. We’re finding people around…
Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it’s in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to reflect some of the ways they’ve changed over the years. They are also growing, rapidly….
A few months ago, I enabled two-factor authentication for WordPress.com. There are a number of reasons I did so. For one, at Range, we sometimes work on WordPress VIP projects, where two step authentication is recommended for about anything that could interact with those projects (.com, email, etc). Second, it was required for me to…
Matt Mullenweg did a little research study for himself, based on his own “guilty pleasure” for reading Techmeme. Techmeme’s leaderboard, for those that aren’t aware, is basically the benchmark all tech sites measure their influence by. Matt analyzed which of the Techmeme 100 run WordPress, and found that 43% of them do. Based on the…
If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the announcement post, here are the technical bits: VIP Quickstart is a mix of Vagrant, Puppet,…
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