The Unofficial Directory of WordPress WBEs

ByDan Knauss Posted onSeptember 28, 2022September 28, 2022

Last week, Steve Burge asked on Twitter, “how many female-run WordPress companies are there?” A big list emerged in the replies:

Question: how many female-run WordPress companies are there? I can think of these:
– @GoWPservices
– @OSTraining
– @convesio @yoast was for a while.
Am I missing any more?
— Steve Burge (@SteveJBurge) September 13, 2022

Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂…

ByDan Knauss September 11, 2019

Happy tenth anniversary to OSTraining! 🎂 OSTraining founder Steve Burge also announced the 3.0 beta for the Multiple Authors plugin is available for testing. Initially, Multiple Authors was an extension for PublishPress built on the base of Daniel Bachuber‘s Co-Authors Plus and Bylines, which PublishPress acquired. Now, like its predecessors, Multiple Authors is a standalone…

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Elementor has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

ByBrian Krogsgard February 25, 2020February 25, 2020

Elementor has raised a $15 million Series A to help them take the extremely popular page building tool to the next level.

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Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition

ByDavid Bisset June 2, 2021May 10, 2022

Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains.

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Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

ByDan Knauss September 22, 2022September 22, 2022

Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a “self-employment penalty” on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There’s a lot of speculation in this article, but it’s a subject worth deeper analysis. Whatever the cause, a 2:1 male-to-female ratio in WCUS attendees (or people…

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WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 15

ByDavid Bisset May 20, 2022July 20, 2022

Good viewing and listening for you this weekend! Krogsgard on memberships and churn. Web 2.0 tech leaders reflect. Mike McAlister on the journey from Atomic Blocks and Array Themes to the Liftoff Creator Course. Paid services at Underrepresented in Tech. The Pattern Creator and Directory. WCEU. Inclusive Open Source Processes and Governance.