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Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
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Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

ByDan Knauss

This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the WordPress stories and topics that are on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections. There’s a single throughline in this episode — what works, what doesn’t, and what will take WordPress businesses forward in the product, agency, and hosting spaces.

Jetpack is building an onboarding plugin to alter the new WordPress user experience

Jetpack is building an onboarding plugin to alter the new WordPress user experience

ByBrian Krogsgard

Jetpack is working on a plugin called Jetpack Onboarding that alters the default WordPress “Welcome” screen in the dashboard with a step by step onboarding process. Right now there are four steps for setting up a basic site: The repo descriptions states that these steps are customizable to hosts that bundle the plugin out of…

Performance benchmarks for managed WordPress hosts compared

ByBrian Krogsgard

Kevin Ohashi has put together a very thorough comparison of performance benchmarks for a number of managed WordPress hosts on Review Signal. Included in his review: A Small Orange Pressable WP Engine WebSynthesis SiteGround Godaddy (managed) Digital Ocean (VPS) Pagely A few hosts weren’t included that I’d love to see added at some point: Pantheon Media…

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

ByBrian Krogsgard

Chris Lema recently shared his opinion on some hosting companies to avoid. Spoiler: generally he doesn’t care for hosting companies owned by EIG. You’ve probably never even heard of many of the companies in the list — though you’ve probably all heard of their biggest brands like Bluehost and HostGator. While every host (Chris’s recommended hosts included) has issues…