Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.
$635.5 billion…That’s “billion,” with a “B.” Let’s look at the size of the universe inhabited by our market of markets of cathedrals and bazaars: the WordPress ecosystem. How should we think about WordPress’s market share or, maybe more accurately, its shares? Are we selling them short and dampening growth?
Local Pro from WP Engine will be free, and it launches next week — according to representatives at the WPEngine Summit conference this week.
Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine, announced on Twitter that “virtual will be the default day-to-day experience across the company.” Physical spaces will be upgraded “to accommodate social distancing and to make them WOW spaces that encourage collaboration, innovation, and fun.” Many WordPress-related companies are highly remote because of the nature of the business, but…
Atlas SShRugged 🤷♂️ Right before the DE(CODE) 2021 conference, WP Engine founder and CTO Jason Cohen announced WP Engine’s new Headless WordPress service, which is called Atlas. A new developer relations team “with focus on headless WordPress” — Matt Landers, William Johnston, and Nate Archer — was also announced in a blog post. During the…
Flywheel recently relaunched its Local Pro app. It’s a solid upgrade focused more on reducing WordPress site development pain points than being just a companion tool for Flywheel users. It syncs with WPEngine now too, and they’re actively working to bring in additional hosts. 🛠️ Sarah Gooding reports at the Tavern, “More than 300,000 developers…
WPEngine hosted its DE{CODE} 2020 virtual conference this week in a pre-recorded talks format but with speakers taking live questions. There’s a nice selection of speakers — particularly Jason Cohen and Matt Landers on headless WordPress. There is video footage of the event, and it looks like WPEngine will be organizing it for quicker consumption…
Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux “coming soon”) that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites and deploying to Pantheon. This announcement follows the launch of a similar tool from WPEngine…
WPEngine released the results of its first global Genesis community survey to which 1,687 people around the world responded. 📊 Some key stats: 54% of those responded lived in the U.S. versus 46% internationally. (88%) of survey respondents own or co-own their businesses with an even higher percentage (90%) identifying themselves as the “technology decision…
I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic’s business, and more.
Some significant recent news about Gutenberg and its release has come out this week. Matt Mullenweg announced an expansion of the release team and named some members of the WordPress community who will help lead “the critical focuses required for a smooth and successful release.” Things like triage, accessibility, REST API, and themes are mentioned….
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber’s Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine feature called “Flexible Workflows.” As the name suggests, Flexible Workflows allows teams to design their own development and deployment workflows. Some teams might want only a staging and production environment. Others might want a development, staging, and production environment that all have the same performance specs to ensure a…
WPEngine has announced “One-Tap Payments” for WordPress ecommerce sites. Their WooCommerce extension leverages the Payment Request API — which is already available in the mobile versions of Chrome for Android. There is not a huge amount of in-depth information in the press release, but Jason Cooper goes into detail in a comment on this ManageWP…
WPEngine recently announced they are celebrating over 50,000 customers. They are now supporting HTTP/2.
If you run a SaaS business (or want to), then you might want to bookmark this in-depth post from Jason Cohen, founder of WPEngine. I could say it discusses the cancellation rate in SaaS business models, but I don’t think it does the post full justice. He discusses everything from the different kinds of cancellations to…
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