Tickets for WordCamp Europe are already out, though the event is in June! Hundreds have already been purchased, so if you know you’re going (I’m going!) then you might want to grab your ticket.
In this episode, Kimberly Lipari and Cory Miller discuss the ups and downs of building and selling WordPress companies. They share their experiences, including the challenges they faced and lessons learned. They also give advice to entrepreneurs and business owners looking to grow and sell their own WordPress companies.
For the first time, WordCamp Europe is offering sponsorships exclusively for “small businesses”, which they define as businesses that generate the majority of their revenue from WordPress and made less than €1 million in revenue in 2016. The sponsorship costs €2,500, has twenty spots, and includes a table for one day, along with a few…
The WordPress 5.3 release team has a new batch of focus leads, including Ian Belanger as Default Theme Wrangler and Anders Norén as Default Theme Designer. Anders will be designing the new Twenty Twenty theme, which will be released with 5.3 after WordCamp US in November. This Dev Chat summary from Josepha Haden outlines the…
Survey results from WordCamp Europe have been published. Notably, with “the help of a whopping 60 sponsors, [WCEU] gathered over €700,000,” and the “total revenue from tickets sold was a little over €130,000.” 🙌
John Hawkins reflects on his experience this last weekend at WordCamp Orange County, as someone he met was literally brought to tears because they finally found a solution to a problem they were having with a friend’s website. John says it nicely, “I’m proud to be part of a community that gives back so abundantly. What…
Okay, maybe it doesn’t raise the bar the way you think I mean. But this is worthwhile. I’m pretty busy building the new Post Status infrastructure, but not too busy to post this. GravityView is a WordPress plugin by Zack Katz and Katz Web Services that lists Gravity Forms entries on your site in a…
