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Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Hosting giant Endurance slammed by “independent research” company with suspect motivations

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

Hosting

I looked into this story for hours, and have concluded that the doomsday scenario described in the headline on Business Week and the report by Gotham City Researchers are exaggerated at best. Gotham City Research publishes these reports depicting crash…

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

HostingSecurity

Many readers have likely heard by now that WordPress 4.2.1 is out (and probably already patched on your installs). The patch is in response to a zero day vulnerability reported by Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki. WordPress 4.2.1 includes a check on…

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

Hosting tips for developers

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Mark Jaquith shares some hosting tips for developers using Pantheon's service. I wish I'd seen this before I used Pantheon for the first time. If you're doing client work on Pantheon, Mark's guide is outstanding. Also, it's not a bad read…

GoDaddy acquires Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Hosting

GoDaddy has acquired Elto to create a marketplace for WordPress professionals. Elto shut down late last year to re-think their strategy, and today it was reported by TechCrunch that they are joining GoDaddy to better execute their vision. The company's…

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Hosting

WP101 has inked a deal with GoDaddy's Pro (WordPress) hosting product to complement their deal with Sidekick, to enable a significant amount of user training for GoDaddy customers. Both deals are part of an overall agenda from GoDaddy to enable…

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Hosting

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

Brian Krogsgard

March 25, 2015

Hosting

WP Engine and Pagely both had announcements on growth today. WP Engine announced that they raised $23 million dollars to enable them to hire faster and expand their product base. When I covered them as in late 2013, they were…

Micro and niche conferences abound

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Hosting

There have been many announcements of late for micro and niche conferences. This is a steady occurrence these days, which I'm happy to see, but it's not easy to keep up with it all. I'm even considering a calendar of…

A case for the front-end editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Hosting

On WP Shout, Fred Meyer makes an impassioned case for the front-end editor, and why he believes it deserves a renewed effort as a WordPress feature plugin and eventual WordPress core inclusion. It's a really thoughtful post, and at well…

WPupdatePHP wants to be BrowseHappy for servers

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Hosting

WPupdatePHP is a project by Coen Jacobs to evangelize the need for people to use modern PHP versions for their WordPress installs. It's both a website and a script people can include in their plugins, to function like BrowseHappy does.…

I peaked across the fence at hosted Joomla, then ran home

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

Hosting

Joomla.com launched as a hosted version of the Joomla! CMS. I was interested because my host (SiteGround) had blogged about how they built the hosting platform for the new Joomla.com site. The tech is neat, as is the fact that…