Today marks the release of WordPress…
Today marks the release of WordPress 5.0, a target date communicated by Matt Mullenweg a few days ago.
Today marks the release of WordPress 5.0, a target date communicated by Matt Mullenweg a few days ago.
In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource — for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way to browse thousands of themes they can use on their websites for free. The notion…
I’ve never heard of KitchenSinkWP — a WordPress podcast that’s 48 episodes in (shows what I know) — but this interview with Matt Mullenweg is quite good. Of note, Adam Silver asks Matt about the road to gaining 50% marketshare for WordPress. Matt’s answer stands out as a nice roadmap of sorts of items — that…
We’re just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you’ll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.
Twitter has acquired Revue, a small company whose service lets you build newsletters from your social media, RSS feeds, and other sources. Matt Mullenweg noted that Automattic was the largest investor in Revue. 🗞️
Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic’s Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.
Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn’t already know fully. The most interesting is that Matt Mullenweg still interviews nearly every candidate at the…