WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios. Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support companies look like. The landscape of monthly WordPress support companies has certainly changed since these two…
It was the end of 2017, and I was working remotely as a software developer at a consulting company. I saw the writing on the wall; my position was about to become more or less extinct. If there was ever a time to start my own venture, it was now. So that’s what I did….
Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently one of the items that the Performance team contributors have identified for WordPress 6.2 as…
Last June, I represented The WP Minute in Porto, Portugal for the highly anticipated, long-overdue regional event. WordCamp Europe. Postponed not once, twice, but thrice times. I had low expectations. I mean, for me. I’m a wide-eyed, the glass is always FULL kind of girl (you read that right). So, to protect me from extreme…
When it comes to WordPress core, many of the updates we’ve seen in the past few years have been directly related to the Gutenberg block editor. To some members of the community, those developments have come at the expense of letting other areas of the software languish. For example, the dashboard is long overdue for…
You’ve heard me ranting about the WordPress media landscape for a while now. I’ve been producing content like WordPress news, tutorials, and commentary for a decade. I’ve avoided the most common ways of monetizing by signing a pact with the affiliate Devil. I burned out on producing consumer-grade WordPress tutorials and making “stupid face” YouTube…
Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject: Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden Chomphosy Sarah Gooding summarizes the link above Joe Casabona compares 5FTF to the Creator Economy Rob Howard…
Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration. His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you’ve been on the fence about collaborating with others, there’s no better time than now to start! Enjoy Andrew’s — or it is Bertha’s?…
If you use WordPress to power your website projects, it’s a safe bet that you like one or more aspects of it. The content management system (CMS) has its flaws – but plenty of benefits, too. Still, even if you love WordPress, it’s not the easiest thing to explain to clients. The fact that it’s…
You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter. In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of the debate in the following articles: Matt Medeiros’ take on What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look…
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