Local Pro from WP Engine will…
Dan Knauss
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,…
Dan Knauss
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…
Atlas SShRugged 🤷♂️ Right before the…
Dan Knauss
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,…
Flywheel recently relaunched its Local Pro…
Dan Knauss
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…
WPEngine hosted its DE{CODE} 2020 virtual…
Dan Knauss
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…
Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…
Dan Knauss
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…
WPEngine released the results of its…
Dan Knauss
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…
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future
Brian Krogsgard
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…
Dan Knauss
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…
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
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…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
WPEngine has announced “One-Tap Payments” for…
Dan Knauss
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…
WPEngine recently announced they are celebrating…
Brian Krogsgard
WPEngine recently announced they are celebrating over 50,000 customers. They are now supporting HTTP/2.
If you run a SaaS business…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
WPEngine has added two-factor authentication for…
WPEngine has added two-factor authentication for it's user portal, which is a good move, especially considering the attack they suffered recently. I'm hesitant to use services that don't have two-factor auth when the service is as sensitive as hosting.
