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CloudFest 2024 Cheat Sheet

March 13, 2024

The quick and easy cheat sheet for all things WordCamp Asia 2024. Except not as quick or easy ... CloudFest is HUGE!

WordCamp Asia 2024 Cheat Sheet

March 3, 2024

The quick and easy cheat sheet for all things WordCamp Asia 2024.

More In ’24

January 21, 2024

Inspired by Matt Mullenweg's "call for help 😉" on X/Twitter, it's time to make a list that takes ageism out of the equation. The goal of "More In '24" is…

Digital Business Card

August 21, 2023

With the fall conference and meeting season upon us, ahem WordCamp US this week, I thought it would be good to save paper and have a fully digital business card.

Ultimate WCUS Prep Guide

August 12, 2023

Ok, ultimate is a big fun on my part, but with less than two weeks until contributor day ...

WordCamp US Cheat Sheet

August 12, 2023

The quick and easy cheatsheet for all things WordCamp US 2023.

Blue Isn’t Bad

April 3, 2023

The sky is falling! Actually I guess it's Twitter Blue Checkmarks that are falling but if a tree falls in the woods and no hears it, did it really fall?…

Open for Business

April 2, 2023

This isn’t going to be a recap, summary, or slideshow of CloudFest, but there were over 6,000 attendees … so for those CloudFest recaps, summaries, etc. check out some of…

Networking with a Co-Pilot

March 17, 2023

With the biggest non-WordCamp WordPress event in just a few days, many folks who are new to the extra large conference experience are asking a lot of questions. The obvious…

Own Your Automations

March 16, 2023

What causes you to reevaluate your infrastructure, services, or SaaS providers? In the Sandler Sales Methodology, one of the key tools is digging for, understanding, and solving for pain points.…

Do You Really Still Have a Job?

March 15, 2023

It's going one heck of a year (or more) for layoffs. Starting in 2022 Q4, we've seen the big, and even bigger firms, show huge swathes of staff out of…

The WordPress Reports (2023)

March 14, 2023

Over the last few weeks we've had a number of reports fantastic independent reports on WordPress security, professionals, and more. So with great apologies to Mark Halperin's Wide World of…

Where are the WordPress IPOs?

March 13, 2023

Well, I've been solidly wrong about the two big elephants in the WordPress ecosystem for over two years! Way back in October of 2020 I wrote, WordPress IPO?, with what…

The Podcast List (2023)

March 12, 2023

Who doesn't love a good podcast, whether driving (do people still drive?), intentional learning, working out, or (my favorite), while cooking. I haven't updated the podcast list since 2020! So…

Silicon Valley Bank and the WordPress Economy

March 11, 2023

The big tech story from yesterday is the tech darling collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Just as quickly as it happened WooCommerce notified WooCommerce Payments users of how they…

BREAKING: Silicon Valley Bank Fails

March 10, 2023

From The New York Times, Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run by Venture Capital Customers, "If there is one enduring axiom in banking, it is this: Don’t run out of…

AI am Exhausted

March 10, 2023

The AI gold rush is upon us and companies are going to start scaling up development, infrastructure, and marketing resources like crazy. We're going to have a ChatGPToaster in every…

Hosting Hosting Everywhere

March 9, 2023

For many years I've been giving a talk called Invisible CMS (probably my first version) – this isn't an actual piece of code or open source project or SaaS. It's…

I Don’t Know

March 9, 2023

Sometime the writer's block hits hard, and all the content you digest doesn't create a theme, so I'm left with today thinking about what I don't know, and what that…

Remote Time

March 7, 2023

Remote Time (work from home) is very different than Office Time but even more different across the globe than in the United States. Jennifer Liu at CNBC, American workers aren’t…

Social Media Anxiety

March 6, 2023

I think most people have that good ol' love-hate relationship. I love a lot of the communication aspects, I hate the ads, spam, invasiveness, and in some cases the user…

Biggest WordPress Event?

March 5, 2023

The biggest WordPress event this year will likely not be a WordCamp. Huh? This year marks a well thought out plan to bring WordPress to more business masses than ever…

How I Build This in 2023

March 4, 2023

As I build up the content workflows of the past, I thought today would be a day to go over the tools that are powering RobertJacobi 2023. A very clean…

Timing is Everything

March 3, 2023

When was the last time you were "freshly" sent a newsletter with an article that was almost 10 years old?! And it rang true, and was immediately valuable and actionable?…

Do It For Me (DIFM) and WordPress

March 2, 2023

Do It Yourself (DIY) has been a decades long thing, and now we have Do It For Me (DIFM), which I swear sounds like something that's been going on since,…

Track Everything, Not Everyone

March 1, 2023

The new RobertJacobi.com is very much like the site from 2021 - 2022, I'll get into the full details at a later date but one thing that was critical to…

High Hopes for WordPress

February 28, 2023

Folks in WordPress and hosting have had a couple of difficult months. A number of organizations have had good old fashioned RIFs (reductions in force) which are never fun those…

Is Open Source Freemium?

January 17, 2022

Today's inspiration arrives courtesy of Old Man Dan at OMD Ventures, Freemium-ization of Society: I expect free tiers for every new service. I didn’t know I had this expectation until…

Open Source Support Is Not Just Money

January 16, 2022

I follow a lot of folk on social media, well Twitter, and one of them is Michael Babker. He is an amazing supporter of open source projects. Like his time…

How WordPress Are You?

January 15, 2022

Inspired by another newsletter (totally not in the technology arena), I bring you a quiz to see HOW WORDPRESS ARE YOU? If you want to know what the inspiring newsletter…

WPYall, Not for Yall

January 14, 2022

Well the first WordCamp of 2022 is now to be determined. WordCamp Birmingham aka WPYall has been postponed due to Covid, #WPYall Postponed Until Spring: As a result, the WordCamp…

Open Sourced-ish Financial Model

January 13, 2022

Over at Ellipsis Marketing, Alex Denning announced today, Open sourcing our $2k financial model spreadsheet for WordPress businesses: Ellipsis’ financial model sheet is invaluable for getting insight into the performance…

Joomla Mis-Discussed

January 12, 2022

There is a so much to say about Joomla but a huge discussion on Post Status over recent open source issues (see Open Source Support Crisis and More Open Source)…

More Open Source

January 11, 2022

I’m quite happy that the difficulties of being an open source contributor are coming more and more into the public sphere. Bigger names with bigger audiences are getting into the…

OMG! I Understand web3

January 10, 2022

I am not going to say there is a be-all and end-all single simple definition of web3, but by golly My first impressions of web3 by Moxie Marlinspike nails the…

Open Source Support Crisis

January 9, 2022

Another day, another story about the critical role open source software has for everyone. Let’s quickly remind ourselves of the last big open source crisis from less than a month…

Keep it Concise

January 8, 2022

“I won’t bore you.” “Let me get to the gist.” “Here’s the deal.” Why do we hear this all the time followed by a 30 minute “elevator pitch?” If you…

WordCamp Conundrum or Not

January 7, 2022

So I briefly touched on WordCamps and Covid in Open Source in 2021, but WP Tavern has taken a deeper dive into the situation, WordCamp Birmingham Updates COVID-19 Protocols Amid…

Compostable … errr … Composable Ecosystems

January 6, 2022

The kind of thinking that comes out of Marketing MBAs sometimes just drives me nuts. Wait, what are you selling? How is this different than last year … last decade…

Open Source vs Beginner’s Bubble

January 5, 2022

Sometimes a concept comes across that in hindsight is so crazily common sense that you wonder why you didn't learn about it in kindergarten. Welcome to the Beginner’s Bubble! So…

Yoast on Shopify

January 4, 2022

Hot off the presses, We have big news: Yoast SEO is coming to Shopify! Well well well, definitely should've seen this coming, it's a natural way to expand their market…

Internet Education

January 3, 2022

No, not talking about e-learning, e-courses, or learning management, talking about straight up public education of how the internet works. What a web page is. The basics. Ripped from the…

Email – One Channel to Rule Them All

January 2, 2022

I've been doing a number of things during the last week of 2021 to get ready for 2022, and I really enjoyed and highly recommend the post by Chris Lema,…

Open Source in 2021

January 1, 2022

Reflections on 2021 can cover an almost infinite number of topics, but I have to say that open source software has gone through some monumental shifts. As I see it,…

Starboard Boards the GoDaddy Ship with $800 Million

January 1, 2022

Reprinted in a bunch of places, but originally from the Wall Street Journal, Starboard Takes 6.5% Stake Worth Around $800 Million in GoDaddy: Activist investor Starboard Value LP has a…

My #BFCM List

November 29, 2021

These are tools and applications that I actually use! Cloudways GoWP Human Presence Krisp.ai ManyCam Termageddon

The LearnDash Acquisition Roundup

October 3, 2021

Following up on the big news that StellarWP acquired LearnDash. There are a ton of posts from all involved, and even though it's been a week or so (CaboPress consumed…

Sinch Acquires Pathwire

October 3, 2021

Not super breaking but super important since we all communicate via email and text message, especially for marketing. Now we're getting a huge SMS company, Sinch, acquiring a critical component…

CaboPress Breaks the WordPress Event Mold

October 3, 2021

I just returned from CaboPress and it is unlike any WordPress conference, period. I almost feel like that's all the should be said, go to the site, read up on…

Breaking: StellarWP (LiquidWeb) Acquires LearnDash

September 20, 2021

Huge acquisition of LearnDash by StellarWP announced today! The press release gives a bit of color to the announcement: The acquisition marks StellarWP’s entrance into the booming LMS space. As…

How To In-Person?

August 13, 2021

When was the last time you were at a conference with 200+ attendees? For me it’s been a while, and I was doing it multiple times a month at one…

Breaking: Newfold Digital Acquires Yoast

August 12, 2021

Boom! That was the sound of millions of websites wondering what it means to have their Yoast services being run by Bluehost, I mean HostGator, I mean Endurance, I mean…

WordCamp Europe 2021 a Success

June 10, 2021

We just completed three days of good old WordCamp Europe, and for a virtual conference I have to give it a full five out five stars. The sessions were great,…

#MorningCoffee: Money, Money, and People

June 8, 2021

Just a friendly reminder, WordCamp Europe 2021 is in full swing, get thyself to a session or two. Today, it's definitely a "movers and shakers" kind of day. Your news…

500 Billion Dollars

June 8, 2021

That is an amazingly huge amount of money, and what is referring to? WordPress! From BusinessWire, WordPress Economy Drives More Than Half a Trillion in Revenue, New Global Study Shows:…

Ecwid Acquired by Lightspeed

June 8, 2021

This is big news. Ecwid has gone from a simple payment gateway to a mini-Shopify to, I assume, a direct competitor to Shopify with the weight and financing of Lightspeed.…

Mike Demo Joins Codeable

June 8, 2021

Those in the open source communities of WordPress and Joomla have known Mike Demopoulos for many years (as Mike Demo or Demo or 🌈👾🎢⚽ – isn't one name enough 😉)…

#MorningCoffee: The Restart

June 7, 2021

So the month of May was very haphazard and I sincerely apologize to the many loyal readers who kept asking for the next newsletter. Trying to do two full time…

Cloudways and Patchstack

June 7, 2021

There have been a ton of announcements regarding acquisitions, partnerships, and more. I thought I'd pick this one up for two reasons, one and a disclosure, I am the Director…

WordCamp Europe 2021 Underway

June 7, 2021

Short and sweet, #WCEU is underway through June 9. The virtual platform selected is really easy to navigate and friendlier then some I've seen over the last year. The best…

Links of the Week

May 16, 2021

WP Tavern: Genesis Framework To Become Free StudioPress Announces Changes Smashing Magazine: The Evolution Of Jamstack Marker: Customer Support Via Twitter Isn’t Support, It’s PR

Networking (again) in Person

May 13, 2021

I've really missed the "real" networking of days long ago. Constant Zooms, Slacks, and digital communication have been invaluable but nothing – nothing – beats sitting across from someone and…

Kanban for WordPress Acquired

May 12, 2021

Some not so breaking news, this was announced May 7, Under New Management: "As of today, Kanban for WordPress is under new management! The teams behind Alpha Particle and Flowspoke…

Reaction Moves from Marketing to Digital

May 11, 2021

Ok, this is a guilty pleasure update about an agency I've personally known for a long time. They're based out of Canada, and I met their CEO, Mike Szyszka, back…

DigitalOcean’s Premium Droplets

May 11, 2021

As you can imagine with the advent of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Linode, Digital Ocean, Vultr, etc.) there has been a race for performance value. Digital Ocean (DO) is…

Patchstack Ramping Up

May 11, 2021

I've been really, pleasantly, surprised at what's been going on with Patchstack since their acquisition of ThreatPress and rebrand from WebARX. To that end, they have ramped up their Red…

Links of the Week

May 9, 2021

Orbit Media Studios: What are Core Web Vitals? Cloud7: SiteGround stops signing up new clients in Kenya due to new local regulations Scaleway: Digital Europe needs to draw inspiration from…

GoDaddy Goes Hub-Club-Home

May 3, 2021

First time I've seen the new work model described as Hub-Club-Home, and I have to say I love the analogy. It's really clear in my mind where an employee might…

All FLoCed Up aka CASHing Out

May 3, 2021

I first published a few weeks ago on What the FLoC? and since then, major projects have pushed back against the CASH scheme. From TechRadar, GitHub is blocking FLoC: "In…

Links of the Week

May 2, 2021

GoDaddy Pro: Expand 2021 Recap XWP: How Enterprise Tech Companies Invest in WordPress and Why cloud7: Contabo opened new data center in Singapore TechCrunch: ActiveCampaign raises $240M Cloudways: Million Tree…

WordPress Announces Openverse Project

April 28, 2021

This is both a pleasant surprise and awesome show of how a major open source project can extend the benefits of open source in new directions. Let's go in a…

WooCommerce Invests in PeachPay

April 27, 2021

More money flowing in the WordPress economy. Today we get the announcement in Business Insider (paywalled), PeachPay, a one-click checkout startup created by recent college grads, is looking to compete…

Yats are the New Emoji

April 26, 2021

Sometimes I go down the rabbit hole on my own journeys for what's going on across the internet. Sometimes someone is persistent enough about a new technology or application that…

Links of the Week

April 24, 2021

Dries Buytaert: Section 230: repeal reform or reprioritize? WP Tavern: Themes Set Up for a Paradigm Shift cloud7: Wix launches mobile app: Spaces by Wix Omnisend: How Apple’s iOS 14…

GravityView Acquires Gravity Forms Entries in Excel

April 24, 2021

GravityView announced April 6 on their blog, Gravity Forms Entries in Excel, Brought to You By GravityView!: "We’re excited to announce that GravityView is now the proud home of the popular…

The Domain Privacy Battle

April 24, 2021

This topic is very interesting and yet at the same time – at least to me – difficult to grasp. I'm hoping in my discussing this here, I'll actually understand…

Automattic Brings Woo to WooCommerce

April 23, 2021

Elliot Silver breaks the news, DomainInvesting.com, Woo.com Acquired by WooCommerce: "The domain name had been registered at Network Solutions under Whois privacy, and the domain name status changed. Woo.com is…

Squarespace Files for IPO

April 23, 2021

The news popped up over last weekend, thank you Jeff Hardy over at Art of the Message for the tip, OnlineDomain.com reports, Squarespace has filed to go public: "Squarespace, Inc. announced…

What the FLoC?

April 21, 2021

Another acronym. Created by Google. Hold onto your hats as a new "privacy" scheme is exposed for what it really is. Let's start with what FLoC stands for, "Federated Learning…

One.com Acquires WP Rocket

April 20, 2021

It's about one week old as of publishing but this acquisition has made a bit of noise in the WordPress community, with a lot of people comparing this acquisition to…

Links of the Week

April 18, 2021

Cloud7: Hostinger launches Patchstack WordPress Security Omnisend: The 6 Best List-Building Tools for 2021 WP Tavern: Full Site Editing Is Partly a 'Go' for WordPress 5.8 Bottle Rocket Media: 4…

HostPapa Acquires Silicon Valley Web Hosting

April 16, 2021

Just because it's been a bit quiet for HostPapa in the first quarter, don't think the HostPapa Acquisition Spree is ending. Today we have Silicon Valley Web Hosting as the…

CloudFest 2021 Recap Mashup

April 15, 2021

CloudFest 2021 was held March 23 - 25 online. Was going to do my own post conference review but I just didn't have as much time to fully appreciate it…

Wix vs. WordPress, The Final Word

April 14, 2021

If you're not into watching the WordPress community chatter like a hawk, you might have missed it, but earlier this month something odd starting happening. Queue the music. Background Wix…

Free Software Foundation (FSF) Continues Crisis

April 13, 2021

Talk about adding insult to injury, FSF doubles down on RMS, ostracizing future open source leaders and thinkers. Period. We all need that Don Quixote who tilts at windmills, but…

Everything is AAS

April 12, 2021

There's a new AAS (as a service) in town. What, another acronym service? Why another acronym service? Actually, it's Website as a Service (WaaS). Is this some new Elon Musk…

Links of the Week

April 11, 2021

BBC: Remote working: Is Big Tech going off work from home? Kim Doyal: Pricing & Side Hustles WP Tavern: Yes Comments Are Still Relevant But We Need a Better System…

GoDaddy Adds To TLD Portfolio

April 9, 2021

Yes it's an acronym in the title but otherwise it would be way too long, Top Level Domains (TLDs) are the end of any website address. We all know .com,…

Facebook and Instagram Were Down

April 8, 2021

16:42 CDT – Facebook and Instagram are reporting error pages. Universe briefly flirts with maximum entropy. 16:44 CDT – Chaos is restored.

HeroPress Adopts Hallway Chats

April 8, 2021

This isn't an acquisition per se but it is news for the WordPress community, from HeroPress, Hallway Chats Joins The HeroPress Family: "We were considering a podcast, but had moved…

GoDaddy Acquires .Club

April 8, 2021

Another GoDaddy acquisition is in the books, from OnlineDomain, GoDaddy is acquiring the .Club domain extension: "Just weeks away from the 7th anniversary of the .Club launch, we are excited to announce that GoDaddy Registry is acquiring the .Club domain extension. This means, once the deal closes, the .Club extension will…

GoDaddy Acquires re:amaze

April 8, 2021

Another day, another acquisition, 2021 continues to be on an acquisition pace across the board that I have not yet seen. To be honest, I had not heard of re:amaze…

GoDaddy Pro Expand 2021

April 7, 2021

With the relaunch of GoDaddy Pro as a separate sub-brand of GoDaddy and The Hub, I knew there were going to be some great things coming from the team. We…

iThemes Acquires Kadence WP

April 6, 2021

Well this is an interesting acquisition, interesting in that it totally makes sense, even more so since the WordPress themes part of iThemes has been, uh, quiet for quite some…

Elementor’s PayPal Button

April 5, 2021

Lost in March Madness was the launch of Elementor's PayPal button, PR Newswire, Elementor Launches PayPal Button Widget to Boost E-commerce Capabilities for Businesses Moving Online: "This new widget widens…

Links of the Week

April 4, 2021

JAMstacked: Tons of JAMstack stuff WP Tavern: FSF Doubles Down on Stallman Reinstatement open collective: Funds for Open Source Mike Demo: The y.at Auction Stream Torque: Voting for Torque's 2021…

Squarespace Acquires Tock

April 2, 2021

On the heels of Squarespace getting $300 million in funding (with a $10 billion valuation), Squarespace acquired Tock. We know what Squarespace is but what is Tock? The describe themselves…

Sponsor of the Week: iThemes Security Pro

April 2, 2021

You don’t need an intergalactic bounty hunter to fight bad guys. iThemes Security Pro will secure and protect your WordPress sites from the wretched hive of scum and villainy across…

WordPress in 10 Years

March 31, 2021

I was recently invited to write some thoughts for Convesio's new blog Speed at Scale on the future of WordPress, Introducing Our New Blog: Speed at Scale. First, there are…

Site Upgrades are Difficult

March 29, 2021

Over the weekend Feedly, the RSS aggregator tool for millions, had to perform a massive upgrade. Feedly announced on their blog and twitter that this would be occurring. Just shortly…

SiteLock CIO, Neill Feather, Leaves Company

March 28, 2021

Only adding to the report of SiteLock being acquired by Sectigo, Neill Feather, SiteLock CIO (had to fix this since LinkedIn has Neill in multiple positions, just using CIO for…

Links of the Week

March 27, 2021

WordPress VIP: The 5 Agile CMS Trends Reshaping the Digital Landscape WP Tavern: Extendify Acquires Editor Plus, Improves Block Editing WP Engine: Understanding eCommerce Trends: Microservices Architecture GoWP: Why should…

Squarespace at $10 Billion

March 27, 2021

TechCrunch gets into the nitty gritty of who and how much, Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation: "The online website creation and hosting service — which has now…

Weighty Web World

March 27, 2021

I came across a post on CMS Wire Breakfast Bytes about reducing website weight for digital sustainability. This is admiral at all levels, not only does it make sense at…

The Best Calendar and Scheduler Combo

March 26, 2021

This was inspired by two recent items. The first was a request for email and calendaring options at Post Status, and the second was an upsell email at Calendly. My…

Free Software Foundation (FSF) in Crisis

March 25, 2021

I did not expect to see this come across the desk this week, let's begin with a snippet from the official letter, An open letter to remove Richard M. Stallman…

Sectigo Acquires SiteLock

March 24, 2021

Fine, one more update, let's call it the May the Fourth update. What's six weeks between friends – Sectigo, finally, officially, actually on their site, announces the acquisition of SiteLock.…

WebPros Acquires NIXStats

March 24, 2021

There isn't actually a lot of detail out on the interwebs but NIXStats, a server performance and website uptime monitoring platform, has been acquired by WebPros. You can see them…

CloudFest 2021 Schedule

March 23, 2021

CloudFest 2021 kicks off and it has so much to take advantage of across multiple timezones. Unlike Web Agency Summit, the CloudFest agenda is fully posted and available. Readers here…

Patchstack Launches Security Community

March 22, 2021

Following up on my original post, WP Tavern today adds more details and color to Patchstack's background and SaaS transition, WebARX Rebrands To Patchstack, Combines Services To Focus on WordPress…

Atarim Web Agency Summit Schedule

March 22, 2021

Update: The schedule has been a slight moving target but it's now posted and up-to-date at the actual summit. I'm leaving the original up since it's interesting to compare. Go…

Links of the Week

March 21, 2021

Torque: Voting for Torque's 2021 Plugin Madness Now Open Scaleway: It is time to strengthen our EU data sovereignty Hosting Journalist: Interview, CEO CloudFest WP Trends: (new monthly newsletter by…

Clouds Compared: AWS vs Azure

March 19, 2021

I honestly have to say I have never seen such a clean and thorough comparison between two cloud platforms – would've loved to see Google Cloud thrown in but then…

Kill All the Ad Spam

March 18, 2021

More and more people are getting fed up with the privacy invading, superfluousness of web advertising. Ad blockers are seeing greater and greater utilization, 2021 estimated utilization of ad blockers…

What Agencies Need to Know About Hosting

March 16, 2021

I've often thought about the ramifications of being a WordPress hosting customer, that is, I'm paying a host for the ability to have people on the internet access my site.…

The Technoking and Master of Coin

March 15, 2021

Well I can't make this up, and it's not a new series on HBO Max (though I may pay to see it), these are the new correlations to CEO and…

March Madness 2021

March 14, 2021

No, I am definitely not talking about NCAA basketball, since I barely know a thing about it except that I used to hang out in a bar, with friends, cheering…

Links of the Week

March 14, 2021

Boston Globe: Heed the science and abolish daylight saving time (personal favorite!) The Verge: Tim Berners-Lee says internet access should be a basic right WordCamp Central: WordCamp India 2021 –…

Sponsor of the Week: Groundhogg

March 12, 2021

Groundhogg is the best award-winning CRM and marketing automation tool for WordPress agencies and small businesses. We put you in full control so you can create results for your clients…

WPCoffeeTalk with Matt Mullenweg

March 12, 2021

If you haven’t ever taken a look at WPCoffeeTalk, well today is the day to start. The video series by Michelle Frechette is such a breath of fresh air for…

Multicollab Leaves Beta with v1.1

March 10, 2021

Anil Gupta, CEO & Co-Founder at Multidots (a WordPress VIP Agency Partener), reached out recently to let me know that the more stable version of Multicollab – Google Doc-Style Editorial…

Update: OVHcloud Data Center Fire

March 10, 2021

Lots of updates coming in today regarding OVHcloud recovery at the Strasbourg data centers. Most recent and best reporting comes courtesy of Data Centre Dynamics, OVH fire update: four halls…

Dual Licensing Gutenberg – Gutenberg API?

March 10, 2021

Justin Tadlock takes the dual licensing question and puts it in user friendly terms, WP Tavern, Proposal and Steps To Dual-License Gutenberg Under the GPL and MPL: "At the moment,…

More Remote Work

March 9, 2021

Matt Mullenweg, Distributed, writes Another year of distributed work. A brand new set of questions.: "[Tax and ongoing support] questions go well beyond the productivity and collaboration topics that typically…

WordPress Disaster Week

March 9, 2021

Wow, that's an event title that catches the eye! Made me first think that WordPress has a bad few days but this all about prevention, recovery, and support. This conference…

Wordfence Reports Critical 0-day in The Plus Addons for Elementor

March 8, 2021

Chloe Chamberland, over at Wordfence, Critical 0-day in The Plus Addons for Elementor Allows Site Takeover: Today, March 8, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team became aware of a critical…

All In with WordPress Core

March 8, 2021

I've been mulling this idea over for a while and I'm going for it. Over the next few weeks I will rebuilding RobertJacobi.com with as much core Gutenberg and as…

MailPoet Deems Email Risky But Won’t Say Why

March 8, 2021

MailPoet was acquired by WooCommerce at the end of 2020, and honestly don't know if anything has changed because of the acquisition however I received an email in my inbox…

Perl.com Stolen

March 6, 2021

In an update to the theft of Perl.com, Brian D Foy tells us the whole story, The Hijacking of Perl.com, and the What we think happened section is very enlightening:…

Links of the Week

March 6, 2021

SaaStr: Google Says Cloud Will Triple Again in Next 5 Years Nexcess: Introducing StoreBuilder, Get Started with WooCommerce Faster Reaction: What Business Owners Need to Know About Web Core Vitals…

Club Jacobi, One Night Only

March 6, 2021

So it's my birthday, not today, but close enough, and it is a Saturday. I've certainly been missing going out and having fun with friends. What to do ... what…

InMotion Hosting Acquires RamNode

March 5, 2021

Buried in the deep internet at LowEndTalk we had high probability that RamNode was acquired by InMotion. Someone did their homework by keeping up on ARIN transfers (blocks of IP…

Sponsor of the Week: Restrict Content Pro

March 5, 2021

Creating membership sites should be easy. Restrict Content Pro is a plugin that does the heavy lifting for you! Create discount codes, generate reports, export data, manage members, and more!…

WordPress Core Editor Need for Speed Improvement

March 4, 2021

I'll say it here again, I'm a huge fan of Gutenberg today, and the value proposition going forward. The genius contributors at Make WordPress Core have got some awesome speed…

Hopin Raises $400 Million Series C

March 4, 2021

The March 2021 equity bonanza continues with Hopin and its Series C. Fresh off IPO announcements by DigitalOcean and SEMrush, we see a huge influx of cash and multibillion dollar…

SiteGround SuperCacher Rollout Issues

March 4, 2021

WordPress host SiteGround recently announced a new feature, SuperCacher and up to 5 times faster sites for all!: "Today we take a major step that will result in a much…

SEMrush IPO

March 3, 2021

March 2021 is poised to be a very exciting month. We've already had the planned IPO for DigitalOcean announced (yes technically end of February), and now we have the announcement…

WordPress Community vs WordPress Economy

March 2, 2021

There are so many people involved – and billions of dollars – that wordpressing (intentional spelling, defined as building infrastructure for, or deploying content on the internet) is seeing WordPress…

DigitalOcean IPO

March 1, 2021

DigitalOcean publicly filed its S-1 on February 25. What's an S-1 and why is this important for industry. S-1 SEC Form S-1 is the initial registration form for new securities…

Links of the Week

February 28, 2021

Do the Woo: Celebrating 100 Episodes on Do the Woo Podcast with an AMA The Next Web: You SHOULD wave at the end of video calls Jason Fried: The only…

Sponsor of the Week: Sprout Invoices

February 27, 2021

There's a reason Sprout Invoices is the best rated invoicing plugin for WordPress — it's the most fully featured solution with the highest regarded support available. Sprout Invoices: Fully Featured WordPress Invoicing Made…

The Future of Virtual Events

February 26, 2021

With in-person events returning in 2022 (if not late 2021). There have been many discussions on how to take advantage of all the learnings from 2020. A lot of events…

GoDaddy Amps Up WooCommerce Offering

February 25, 2021

With GoDaddy Pro launching The Hub earlier this month, it looks like a full court press from GoDaddy on other aspects of the ecosystem. Over at TechRadar, GoDaddy and WordPress…

Joomla President Reelected and Fixing the Process

February 25, 2021

First, Brian Mitchell has been reelected as President of Open Source Matters (Joomla) for a second term. As of this writing there has not been a public notification on the…

WordPress.org/Hosting and Trademark Rumors Answered

February 24, 2021

Over at Post Status, yes join it, the Slack channels there are full of discussions that you really want to take part in, but I digress, the hosting channel got…

Breaking: LinkedIn Down

February 23, 2021

Looks like one of my favorite social media sites/tools is experiencing major difficulties. LinkedIn. I've noticed this since approximately 13:00 CT, however BleepingComputer notes that the API has been experiencing…

WordCamp Reports

February 23, 2021

I was directed to this when going through WordPress Foundation financials. It's a long story but suffice it to say that over at the Post Status slack, Timi Wahalahti pointed…

Naming Your Business? Pricing? Closing a Sale?

February 22, 2021

Sometimes the simplest questions bring out the simplest solutions. I have three here, and I guarantee if you're working for yourself, or someone else, you've had to deal with at…

Facebook’s Internet Mess

February 20, 2021

Well well, Facebook took the bait and the fight has begun, Changes to Sharing and Viewing News on Facebook in Australia: "In response to Australia’s proposed new Media Bargaining law,…

.COM Price Increases Happening

February 20, 2021

We've hit the final four years of the negotiated six year periods between ICANN and Verisign. A "fiscal" year in this case goes from September through October. As reported last…

Making WordFest 2021

February 19, 2021

I have a big soft spot for Big Orange Heart (BOH) and their most recent event WordFest. They are volunteers in working in a complicated environment to support the complexities…

Goodbye Endurance, Hello Newfold Digital

February 18, 2021

The Clearlake Capital Group rollups keep rolling up. The announced acquisition of Endurance International Group (EIG) was completed February 10, 2021 for $3 billion. The interesting news is the creation…

WP Feedback is Now Atarim

February 17, 2021

Vito Peleg announced that WP Feedback is now Atarim. Why the name? Well, the literal meaning of “Atarim” is “Websites” in Hebrew – which is Vito's native language. Vito goes…

CloudFest Sold By GoDaddy

February 11, 2021

Rumors had been swirling for a while, frankly strong enough to say it was a done deal, but details were impossible to confirm. I would have loved to report on…

Breaking: Mitch Haber Leaving EIG

February 10, 2021

Announced on LinkedIn by Mitch himself, "After almost 21 incredible years, my journey at Endurance is coming to an end this week. As you can well imagine, I have many…

Shared SMS Short Codes Ending

February 10, 2021

Have you ever wondered why the text message you received from your bank, and maybe added it to your contacts list, is suddenly coming from your dry cleaner? These five…

Elementor Pricing Surprise

February 9, 2021

It's definitely a surprise! Whether you find it a good or bad one will certainly depend upon your current plan or if you will subscribing starting March 9, 2021. In…

Big Orange Heart, Wellness and Tattoo

February 8, 2021

Michelle Frechette is on a super mental health roll! First we have her Weekly Wellness Checklist at Big Orange Heart: "Consider yourself your biggest asset. I mean without YOU, who…

The New GoDaddy Pro

February 7, 2021

Officially launching February 8, GoDaddy has created The Hub by GoDaddy Pro (“The Hub”), a reimagining of GoDaddy Pro, what it means for WordPress on GoDaddy, and expanding upon an…

Web Hosting News is a Minefield

February 7, 2021

I have many Google Alerts running, and this one caught my eye yesterday, and then the whole article drove me nuts, TechBullion, Cloud Industry Overview 2021: Web Builders is the…

Selecting the Right WordPress Host

February 5, 2021

I've used many many hosts over the years, and even back in the day self hosted a number of environments, PHP of course, but also Tomcat Java servers (the configuration…

Buy the Internet for $35 Million

February 4, 2021

At least $35 million! Internet.com has been privately trying to be placed for a few weeks now, I've been sitting on this for a bit since respecting your sources is…

Virtual Events, One Year Later

February 2, 2021

Almost one year ago, or 10 years ago depending on how your Pandemic Clock is running, we were seeing the last of in-person events. My last event was WordCamp Miami…

WordPress Releases for 02/2021

February 1, 2021

Looks like we have a busy WordPress week, scheduled for February 2, 2021 is WordPress beta 1, the overall scope includes: The main goal for 2021 is Full Site Editing…

Terms of Service Own You

February 1, 2021

I wrote about terms of service and how they will ultimately effect anything Parler tries to do in Epik and Parler vs Terms of Service but there is so much…

Epik and Parler vs Terms of Service

January 31, 2021

Well I really didn't think I would be getting in on the deplatforming discussion again and so quickly, but with several public press releases/posts from Epik, the hosting and domain…

The Wordfence 2020 WordPress Threat Report

January 29, 2021

I looked and looked because I really wanted to see if this was the first full year WordPress Threat Report – and it looks like it is, it would be…

Busy Busy Drupal

January 27, 2021

In all the lead up to and fun of WordFest a great anniversary was neglected. Huge congratulations to Drupal for 20 years of excellence. Over at Dries Buytaert's blog, Drupal…

Shutterstock to Acquire TurboSquid

January 27, 2021

This is very big news in the stock media space, and will most likely trickle down into the WordPress economy due to Shutterstock's relationship with Automattic. I've known about TurboSquid…

WP Buffs Acquires WP EZI

January 27, 2021

Did I mention that 2021 would be filled with acquisitions? Why yes I did. Specifically in Ecommerce is 2021. On a much smaller scale we see WP Buffs growing its…

BetweenSessions at WordFest 2021

January 27, 2021

The original BetweenSessions was going to be a behind the scenes of WordCamps and other events that lets you know what you missed when running to the next great session,…

Blockchain Content

January 26, 2021

This is a cursory overview of some of the ways content and blockchain are becoming integrated, this definitely bodes well for the likes of WordProof. From The New York Times,…

What for cPanel?

January 26, 2021

I've been following cPanel for a number of years and to be honest there hasn't been a lot of movement at the organization in new directions for most of that…

Sponsor of the Week: GoDaddy Pro

January 22, 2021

GoDaddy just launched the new GoDaddy Pro, an experience tailored to the unique needs of website designers and developers. At its heart is the Hub, a platform designed to be the ultimate tool for website and project management. People who use the Hub…

Steadfast Partnership with NAKA

January 21, 2021

Chicago's very own Steadfast partners with NAKA. Yes infrastructure is not as sexy as the latest and most visible WordPress sites like WhiteHouse.gov but these are pretty big relationships that…

WhiteHouse.gov’s Big Fail (The Mea Culpa Update)

January 21, 2021

There's been much coverage about WhiteHouse.gov running WordPress, and it will always be warming to see one of the most visible websites on the internet running an open source site…

Boostability 2021 Digital Trend Report

January 19, 2021

This is an interesting collection of quick thoughts, but if it is a compilation of thought leaders why didn't I get a call (j/k everyone!). This is a good review…

Emcee DJ Kobe

January 18, 2021

With WordFest, the festival of WordPress, on the horizon, it's time to get the warm grooves going on the dance floor. Yours truly will be the Americas Emcee for some…

WordFest, it’s around the corner!

January 14, 2021

As a media partner for WordFest, it is my great pleasure to let you know what WordFest, the festival of WordPress, is all about, and that it's starting next Thursday/Friday…

The Benefactor Dilemma

January 14, 2021

In every open source project, at some point, the Benefactor Dilemma will occur. This dilemma can take shape in two forms. Either an open source project has a benefactor, or…

PressNomics 7 “Announced”

January 13, 2021

Short and sweet, a tweet: Okay, here me out. PressNomics 7 working title: “Welcome Back World”Scheduled and plentiful social events - an open mic “conference” program.Proof of vaccine required for…

Hosting Virtual Events with WordPress Virtual Event Organizer Jan Koch, a Podcast

January 12, 2021

Another favorite of my listened to podcasts from The Podcast List, Press This Podcast with David Vogelpohl, interviews WordPress Virtual Event Organizer Jan Koch. Again love the full transcription. Regarding…

Do the Woo Chats with WordFest Organizers, a Podcast

January 12, 2021

I love Do the Woo podcasts since they always provide great content but also a transcript, I'm a reader, and we have a good one about WordFest, WooCommerce, and community,…

Deep Diving into WordPress, a Podcast

January 12, 2021

Yours truly on the CloudTweaks podcast Deep Diving into WordPress. WordPress. For a lot of people this name might initially conjure up a place for amateur bloggers, almost a hobbyist…

Who is Big Orange Heart?

January 11, 2021

One year ago I would have had no idea who WP&UP was, or that they changed their name to Big Orange Heart (BOH) in April of 2020. March and April…

Celebrate Often

January 11, 2021

I received an email from Graham Venning of Desert Wing that not only was very generous but really brought to focus something that we forget often. Little wins matter. There…

WooCommerce 2021, Ready to Explode

January 8, 2021

It's been defrosting, marinating, percolating, however you want to describe the slow burn of WooCommerce over the last year, I believe that 2021 will be a breakout year for WooCommerce…

WordCamps Are Back Again?

January 7, 2021

Well not quite today, or even tomorrow, or likely even this year, but meetups may actually have an opportunity in the near future to get people in the same room.…

Hopin Acquires StreamYard

January 7, 2021

If you've been attending virtual events you have most likely used Hopin at some point in the last year, or even prior to the pandemic. Jamstack Conf was one of…

Liquid Web Acquires The Events Calendar

January 6, 2021

Liquid Web will be the first of the year to kickoff numerous acquisitions in the hosting economy. Lots of these have been held over because of the holidays, legal, tax,…

Automattic Steps Into the Ecosystem

January 5, 2021

Over the last two months, Automattic's WordPress.com has taken some interesting steps into the greater open source WordPress economy. First, back in November 2020 (but not even discovered until December…

Hindsight is 2020: October – December

December 30, 2020

Glad you made it to the final quarter review! Hindsight is 2020: January - March kicked us off and followed with April through June and July through September. Let's look…

The Growing Subscription Service Model

December 30, 2020

I would love this post about subscriptions even without the yours truly quote. Subscription models are not going anywhere and frankly will be the way the universe works for, well,…

Hindsight is 2020: July – September

December 30, 2020

And what a year it has been! Hindsight is 2020: January - March kicked us off and I followed up with April through June. Let's look at some defining and…

Hindsight is 2020: April – June

December 30, 2020

And what a year it has been! Hindsight is 2020: January - March kicked us off now let's dive into April through June at some defining and popular posts and…

The Newsletter List

December 27, 2020

If you are too swamped for following everything on social media, setting up RSS feeds, or just visiting the sites that provide the news and commentary you need and want…

Hindsight is 2020: January – March

December 27, 2020

And what a year it has been! What we as a world have had to struggle against, endure, and change has been unprecedented in my lifetime. It's been a year…

The Host List – G2 Winter 2021

December 23, 2020

I have my very personal list of best WordPress hosting companies and host my WordPress site at Convesio, but of course there are other sources. The review service G2 is…

10 Days of Giving

December 22, 2020

With the great success of Steak of the Word, and with 50% of sponsorships going directly to Big Orange Heart (yup we hit a secret stretch goal so we went…

A Tale of Two Keynotes

December 18, 2020

There is a lot to discuss regarding the 2020 State of the Word, as well as of course the 2020 Steak of the Word. Subscribers to #MorningCoffee will get the…

Ecommerce is 2021

December 16, 2020

Throughout 2020, you could see how the Big W of WordPress hosting companies (Automattic, GoDaddy, WP Engine, Bluehost, etc.) have slowly made their 2021 market intensions visible to the world.…

Shutterstock VIP

December 16, 2020

Announced December 9, this comes along in a long line of WordPress VIP technology partnerships this year, Shutterstock Announces Integration with WordPress, Offering Real-Time Smart Image Recommendations to Help Creatives…

Rich Hill Predicts State of the Word 2020

December 16, 2020

This is an absolute first, and maybe the start of a trend, Rich Hill, Founder of FortressDB has submitted his predictions for the State of the Word 2020. You can…

JAMstack Mashup

December 15, 2020

As a relative novice to the JAMstack platform, I've tried to keep some tabs on what's going on since the whole WordPress vs JAMstack debate went into high gear. I…

Open Source Developers Hate Maintenance

December 15, 2020

It's great to have a survey that backs up a whole ton of anecdotal stories experiences, open source developers hate maintenance, TechRepublic, Open-source developers say securing their code is a…

The D. Fish List

December 15, 2020

What? Who? David J.P. Fisher, Sales Hall of Fame Inductee, speaker, author, and coach, has put together his 5th-annual installment where he looks at how we can more effectively use…

Matt Mullenweg Talks WooCommerce

December 14, 2020

Actually WordPress Co-Founder and CEO of Automattic, Matt Mullenweg talks with BobWP and Jonathan Wold on the Do the Woo Podcast about a number of topics near and dear, WooCommerce…

Rytis Lauris: Omnisend

December 13, 2020

Continuing the SaaS interviews, it's my pleasure to share an interview with Rytis Lauris, Co-Founder and CEO of Omnisend, email & SMS marketing automation built for ecommerce. Hugely popular on…

Sponsor of the Week: Supervisor

December 11, 2020

Supervisor.com SaaS allows you to leverage the power of our AI-powered software robots that control real web browsers on a massive scale from 1 to +100,000s.‍The robots behave at the…

Steak of the Word 2020

December 10, 2020

People said we were crazy, it couldn't be done, and why steak (because it rhymes). Please join an immense community for the State of the Word watch party of the…

WordPress 5.6 and REST API

December 10, 2020

One of the biggest updates in WordPress 5.6 involves the REST API. While most users may not directly interact with this level of coding, it is a critical component for…

WP Courses Soft Launched

December 10, 2020

Sort of breaking, well because no one has talked about this yet and there is no official press release. Welcome to WordPress.com's blogging and podcast training solution WPCourses.com! WP Courses…

WordPress 5.6 Release Rundown

December 9, 2020

If you're a subscriber to Morning Coffee you'll know why this is a day late – let's just say dog, ball, stomach, emergency surgery (everything went well and she's happily…

The Host List

December 8, 2020

Following up on The Podcast List – not another list of hosting companies you think to yourself but wait, this isn't a rundown of best WordPress hosting or top 10…

The Podcast List

December 7, 2020

There are a quadrillion podcasts available so I thought I would put together a list of some important, useful, and fun podcasts to whittle it down a bit for those…

WooCommerce Acquires MailPoet

December 7, 2020

This is very exciting for the first tier of email plugins in the WooCommerce and WordPress space. MailPoet is acquired by WooCommerce: "WooCommerce stores can look forward to improved features…

A Very 2020 State of the Word Announced

December 5, 2020

Announced yesterday afternoon at WordPress.org, the annual State of the Word will delivered by the project co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, on December 17th, 2020 at 1600 UTC (10:00 AM CT). Continuing…

Sponsor of the Week: Omnisend

December 4, 2020

Email marketing still boasts the highest ROI out of any marketing channel. In some cases, it’s been known to return a whopping $40 for every $1 spent! Best of all,…

cPanel Does WordPress

December 4, 2020

Since cPanel's WordPress Toolkit was announced, they are actively focusing on hosts and I think the greater WordPress community to be the critical third leg in website hosting: WordPress, hosting,…

Bob Dunn and Yours Truly: Outside and Inside the WooCommerce Ecosystem

December 3, 2020

WooCommerce is gaining more and more traction but also has some awareness difficulties and lots of competition. Thanks to Bob Dunn aka BobWP aka DoTheWoo, we get to talk about…

Customer Connections

December 3, 2020

When being virtual is the norm – virtual is really an overused and incorrect word, with apologies to The Prisoner, "I am not a virtual!" I'm just on a screen…

Modern Marketing Terms

December 2, 2020

Continuing the "list a day" for December, today's focus will be about the madness of marketing terms, The New York Times, The Strange Language of Modern Marketing: "Every industry has…

52 things Tom Whitwell Learned in 2020

December 1, 2020

So I'm going to try to find an interesting and meaningful list every day in December because everyone is going to have one, it's been that kind of year for…

Salesforce Acquires Slack

December 1, 2020

Last week was Salesforce and Slack acquisition speculation, and today, direct from The New York Times, Salesforce to Acquire Slack for $27.7 Billion: "Salesforce on Tuesday said it would buy…

Why WordPress is Preferred by Publishers

November 30, 2020

So I think if you run a blog, you are a publisher, but XWP is targeting their latest post at the BIG publishers (ESPN, Sports Illustrated, etc.), 6 Reasons WordPress…

GTmetrix Adopts Lighthouse

November 30, 2020

If it isn't already, GTmetrix should be your go to for a quick performance review. It doesn't test load but is great for getting that single user view of any…

Anatomy of a Technology Partnership

November 29, 2020

What is a technology partnership? How is one created? What are the indicators of success? Why bother dissecting this topic, quite simply, smart and well executed technology partnerships – and…

Assorted Links

November 28, 2020

The post Black Friday, pre Cyber Monday, surviving the weekend, no 75% off, taking a breath and learning a little assorted links. Let's do it! WordPress Themes for Consulting Business:…

Joost Talks CMS Market Share

November 27, 2020

Joost De Valk – his blog is pronounced Just De Talk (oh my goodness I'm kidding! but it would be fun, sorry Joost) – released CMS market share: November 2020…

A Slack Sale

November 27, 2020

This is definitely not your typical Black Friday sale, that's for sure. We actually have a couple of links to this, first courtesy of Bridget Willard, Fortune, Why Salesforce Wants…

Yes We Have 2020 #BFCM

November 27, 2020

This a fun set of Black Friday deals, why, because I literally use and pay for every one of these services, so this isn't some magical best list but actually…

Sponsor of the Week: FLATsite

November 27, 2020

Static sites are quickly evolving as the new trend to secure WordPress sites for many companies. FLATsite is one of the platforms spearheading this trend. It’s your all-in-one WordPress tool…

Section 230 and Hosting

November 25, 2020

The politics side of the universe has been debating the infamous section 230 of the Communication Decency Act for the last three to six month to some degree. No one…

Thank You 2020

November 25, 2020

It's been a rollercoaster of a year, personal and professional goals, plans, and expectations were completely thrown off the rails in March. Rearchitecting what could be done and what might…

WordCamp Mexico 2020 Kicks Off

November 25, 2020

I'm really excited for the last WordCamp of 2020 – unless there is something sneaky happening – maybe a State of the Word? Now if your Spanish is as good…

Morning Coffee: Hard Week for Hosts

November 24, 2020

Today is for covering a hard week for a couple of hosts. The industry is hard enough but honestly these issues are a little different than the usual DNS attacks…

Open Source Directories

November 20, 2020

All of the large open source projects out there have great directories for extensions, plugins, service providers, and events. I thought I'd put together a growing list. Short and sweet…

Morning Coffee: Ecommerce Email & Donuts

November 20, 2020

Email and donuts, what could be better. Significant partnerships and acquisitions in email marketing space are shaping up for some of the largest hosting companies. Donuts acquires as well. The…

Sponsor of the Week: Omnisend

November 20, 2020

Did you know that over 90% of SMS campaigns are read within the first 3 minutes of receipt? If you’re running a WooCommerce store, you most likely already know the…

Morning Coffee: Marketing and Managing

November 19, 2020

Still going crazy with lists, and advice, and blogs, and experts for #BFCM preparation (which of course will be valuable for ecommerce in the long haul). Also a little bit…

Customizing My iPhone

November 18, 2020

With iOS 14 in full swing, it's time to go even more minimal with Apple's Home Screen Widgets. Why? Well because we can, but having fewer distractions and temptations these…

Morning Coffee: BREAKING: Managed Host Down!

November 18, 2020

BREAKING: This is the worst of all worlds. DotNetNuke (DNN) host and Deluxe brand Managed.com looks to not only be unavailable but reports on WebHosting Talk suspect a very nefarious…

Morning Coffee: Optimal Optimization

November 17, 2020

Ok, we have less than two weeks until the internet door busting shopping spectacle known as Black Friday / Cyber Monday (BFCM) unleashes. While many online stores are already ramping…

WordPress Clarification to All Media

November 16, 2020

Today media has been publishing stories regarding the deplatforming of The Conservative Tree House, a website hosted on Automattic’s WordPress.com. For the sake of clarity and correctness, it is critical…

Morning Coffee: Google ‘Kills’ Webmasters

November 16, 2020

Talk about a term that hasn't been used in a looooong time – webmaster – I definitely remember that being a webmaster really meant you had achieved some level of…

Morning Coffee: Triskaidekaphilia

November 13, 2020

Yes that's my made up word for love of Friday the 13th, it's Friday – what's not to love about that! – and also my sister's birthday, so super shout…

Morning Coffee: .TRUST

November 12, 2020

So this is a little breaking news in the domain name ecosystem, fresh in my inbox from Jothan Frakes, .TRUST TLD moves from NCC Group to UNR (Uniregistry). There are…

Morning Coffee: A Birthday for a Demo

November 11, 2020

Aren't there a lot of demos? Actually only one, yeah, just one – for those in the Joomla and WordPress open source communities, we know him as Demo – for…

The Most Transparent Acquisition

November 10, 2020

The news today from Baremetrics is that Josh Pigford has sold it to Xenon Partners. Which is good news in general but the real news is how open and transparent…

Morning Coffee: Apolitical CMS

November 10, 2020

My open source relationship began in 2004 with Mambo, forked a year later as Joomla. Back then it was really hard work to sell the benefits, the community, and the…

Morning Coffee: F Words

November 9, 2020

Not that f word! This is a family friendly publication. We have some Fs in here that are interesting and exciting. Follow along (see what I did there)! Fronting the…

It’s a Subscription World

November 8, 2020

Cloud based software is changing the way small and midsized companies do business. For many, the benefits are a no-brainer; the right technology can mitigate operational expenses and exponentially improve…

Assorted Links

November 7, 2020

The ongoing vote count edition of assorted links. Automattic Releases Spearhead, a Seedlet Child Theme Aimed at Podcasters and Content Creators: "... primarily focuses on podcasters. However, the team has…

Morning Coffee: The Ecommerce Race

November 6, 2020

Don't know about you but I'm almost back to normal sleep patterns. I think I've watched more cable news in the last four days than in the last four years.…

The EIG Acquisition

November 4, 2020

EIG, aka Endurance International Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:EIGI), aka Bluehost/Constant Contact to most people, announced in SEC filings on November 2, 2020 its agreement to be acquired by affiliates of…

Morning Coffee: Internet Kitchen Sink

November 3, 2020

I'm know I'll be up waaaaay too late tonight watching election coverage so who knows if there will be a Morning Coffee tomorrow, or if anyone will even pay attention…

Morning Coffee: Get Geeky

November 2, 2020

Everything is #BREAKING today! We have a new WebPros CEO, and Endurance International Group has been acquired (think Bluehost, Constant Contact, and more). Let's see if I can get this…

Breaking: Endurance International (Bluehost) bought by Clearlake

November 2, 2020

From MarketWatch, "Endurance International Group Holdings Inc. EIGI, +61.27% announced Monday a deal to be acquired by private-equity firm Clearlake Capital Group L.P., in an all-cash deal valued at $3 billion, including debt."…

Breaking: WebPros Appoints Jens Meggers as Chief Executive Officer

November 2, 2020

You may not know the company as easily as you know some of the brands: cPanel, Plesk, and WHMCS. WebPros Appoints Jens Meggers as Chief Executive Officer.

Waiting to Act Doesn’t Really Help

November 2, 2020

First I have to thank David Fisher of RockStar Consulting, for allowing me to repost in its entirety his article today, Acting Perfectly in an Imperfect World. Second, why I…

Assorted Links

October 31, 2020

The spooky Halloween edition of assorted links worth reviewing. Actual Scary Emergency WordPress 5.5.3 Release: "In preparing for this emergency release, a second issue caused a number of sites to…

Morning Coffee: Saving Your WordPress

October 29, 2020

Before we dive in today, a quick word from Matt Mullenweg on whether there will be a State of the Word this year, "We're exploring how to best recap this…

Morning Coffee: Afternoon Performance Blend

October 28, 2020

A little thought. I am by no means a financial market prognosticator or analyst, but I think the recent poor NYSE/Nasdaq performance and early year-end profit taking are going to…

Morning Coffee: cPanel WordPress Toolkit

October 27, 2020

The big news of the day for hosting and especially shared hosts is the announcement of WordPress Toolkit. WordPress Toolkit Lite is included and free with cPanel version 92, and…

Morning Coffee: Payments

October 26, 2020

There has been a lot of news in the last week about web hosting companies. Today we have Epik in the news, The Verge, PayPal cuts ties with domain registrar…

Mathias Biilmann: Netlify

October 25, 2020

I’ve been looking forward to the opportunity to speak with Mathias Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, ever since the WordPress vs JAMstack debate broke out. Mathias and I sat down for…

Assorted Links

October 24, 2020

Sometimes there is just too much content to comment on appropriately so here we have some assorted links that are worth reviewing. The Beginner's Guide to Web Hosting Control Panels,…

The Static Site Question

October 23, 2020

The slowly brewing movement to deploying flat/static sites is gaining steam. There are multiple angles, platforms, and high stakes investment in the movement. What is it? Who are the players?…

HostPapa Acquisition Spree

October 22, 2020

Announced today, HostPapa Acquires Canadian Based Web Hosting Company Korax Inc.: "HostPapa Inc., a leading Canadian web hosting and cloud service provider for small and medium businesses (SMBs), continues its…

Morning Coffee: Good Stuff

October 22, 2020

Yes mom always said "stuff" is not a word, and I've passed on that mantra to my daughter, however there is a potpourri of good stuff to talk about. First,…

Morning Coffee: WordPress Business Happenings

October 21, 2020

Today's lead goes to an article from September 28, courtesy of Bloomberg, Endurance International Group Revives Possible Sale Talks: "The web-hosting company is working with an adviser on options, the…

Morning Coffee: Two Weeks

October 20, 2020

A little Public Service Announcement, I am very cognizant of keeping this site as apolitical as possible but just like the world is round, 1 + 1 = 2, and…

Morning Coffee: Just Show Up

October 19, 2020

The brilliant Kim Doyal must be channeling me, ok that's not even close to reality but I do like to say #AlwaysBeThere. Kim has put together a piece and podcast…

Morning Coffee: Updates to Posts

October 15, 2020

Looks like today will be a number of tweaks and updates to posts from the last week. First Inpsyde CIO, Robert Windisch (DE), drops in with a quick thought in…

JAMmed Up

October 15, 2020

Well the Jamstack Conference fireside chat happened. And it happened. There was no kicking or screaming but there is certainly a significant dichotomy in the main talking point. Monolithic vs…

cPanel Pricing Redux

October 15, 2020

It looks like 2021 will be 2019. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to skip 2020. A little history is required. Before we dive into the pricing discussion, for those…

Morning Coffee: Zoom Fatigue Fixes

October 14, 2020

"Zoom Fatigue," the all encompassing term for staring at your screen all day to engage with people, conference, webinars, etc. is taking a toll and accelerating burn out. Jason Nickerson…

Bill West: HumanPresence.io

October 14, 2020

Continuing the SaaS interviews, it's my pleasure to share an interview with Bill West, Chairman and CEO at Ellipsis Technologies, the company behind Human Presence. Human Presence describes itself as…

Morning Coffee: Choices in Everything

October 13, 2020

Election Day in the United States is exactly three weeks away. I recently came across ElectionDay.org and was curious if any of the WordPress ecosystem giants had signed on (non-embedded…

Morning Coffee: Cloudflares Up

October 8, 2020

Cloudflare has been on a roll over the last week, first with a privacy focused analytics platform and now WordPress focused optimization, from WP Tavern, Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization…

Bob Dunn: DoTheWoo.io

October 4, 2020

I'm very excited to share this exclusive interview with Bob Dunn (aka BobWP) just prior to his launch of Do The Woo (now live at DoTheWoo.io). There is a lot…

WordPress IPO?

October 3, 2020

Not surprising given that it's 2020 but I confess I completely missed that The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) went live on September 9. The press release sub-heading pretty much lays…

Morning Coffee: Speedy WordPress

October 2, 2020

Speedy WordPress There are a lot of ways to improve WordPress speed and the first course of action is almost always looking at what your web host can do. Let's…

The Best Webcam You Already Have

October 1, 2020

For our latest update, thought I would mention that there is a new exciting application call mmhmm that might be used in conjunction or instead of ManyCam. Eagerly waiting for…

Morning Coffee: A Storied Day

October 1, 2020

A Storied Day Nope, still not posting about elections or debates, can't make me. At least not here. To quote renowned WordPress philosopher Pat Ramsey, "withholding comment unless we’re in-person…

Best WordPress hosting in 2020

September 29, 2020

Your's truly quoted in ZDNet's Best WordPress hosting in 2020 by David Gewirtz: The best WordPress hosting companies provide performance (speed and scalability) and ease of use. You want to…

Do we make an impact?

September 28, 2020

There's a surprisingly lot of great personal and professional stuff said in this quick read by long time friend, Mike "Demo" Demopoulos: I used to be scared to tell people,…

Everything You Need to Know About Ecommerce Email Marketing in 2020

September 27, 2020

Online sales are up 76% year over year, topping $73 billion in June. As the pandemic relegates people to their homes and out of brick-and-mortar stores, digital channels are flourishing.…

Morning Coffee Tuesday Twist: Vital Signs

September 22, 2020

Vital Signs "Usually performance is synonymous with speed, mostly because it’s the most noticeable features of a website. If a page loads quickly, users are happy. If it loads slowly,…

Azure Home Office Gets Paneling

September 18, 2020

This may sound slightly odd to the pure open source-rs (open sorcerers?), but I've been an Azure open source geek for a very long time. With Arc, we were the…

GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge

September 17, 2020

Official GoDaddy Press Release (if you have any content blockers activated on Safari 14, expect this page to destroy your browser, ridiculous unnecessary use of JavaScript): SkyVerge has more than…

Morning Coffee for Agencies: Make a Date

September 15, 2020

The fall season is in full swing and there are a ton of valuable activities for agency owners to take part in (yeah yeah online of course). I've finally gotten…

Omnisend’s 19 Best WooCommerce Plugins

September 11, 2020

Sponsor of the Week Omnisend wants you to ask: What WooCommerce plugins should you be using to boost your conversions? There are lots of tools out there to choose from…

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Past is Present

September 11, 2020

The history of open source and the web are so entwined that it's hard to remember when open source wasn't all about the tools that are intricate parts of our…

Smells Like Web Spirit

September 11, 2020

In many ways, the 1990s got a lot right about how the web should be. We’ve veered to some extremes (eeek Flash) but much is coming back. Think headless, JAMstack,…

Libre-ated

September 11, 2020

“If you hang around in open source communities for long enough, you realize there is more to open source than slapping a free software license on a project and throwing…

Two is the Loneliest Number

September 11, 2020

Most people when asked about the largest open source CMS projects are quick to say WordPress and Drupal, however Joomla has consistently been number two in the specific niche. It’s…

Morning Coffee for Ecommerce: Venti Edition

September 10, 2020

Today's ecommerce cup of coffee is extra caffeinated! There are some great tips, hints, lists, and more. Honestly if you go through all of today content I'm pretty sure you…

Partner Up!

September 10, 2020

I love having a personal ecosystem built out of strong partnerships, you can absolutely utilize partnerships in ecommerce. Though GoWP focuses more on service in this ...

Multi Multi

September 10, 2020

Important concepts for getting to most out of your ecommerce site are multivariate and A/B testing - let's get into the nitty gritty with Multivariate and A/B Testing ...

Triggered

September 10, 2020

Ok, the platform is running, the product / service / solution is teed up. Let's make sure your getting the best level of communication and conversion with email. Solutions like…

Woo(t!) Products

September 10, 2020

Well now that you are armed and ready, let's get our product pages in order courtesy of Tom Rankin and 4 Ways to Create Better WooCommerce Product Pages: "There are…

Arm Yourself

September 10, 2020

Whitney Blankenship hits us hard and fast with The Best Tools for Ecommerce to Drive Sales: "In this article, we’ll check out some of the most important tools to have…

Convesio and Steadfast Partnership

September 10, 2020

In some great news for independent WordPress hosting and infrastructure, Convesio and Steadfast are joining forces to push performance and the WordPress-as-a-Service model (WPaaS) ...

Institutionalized

September 9, 2020

Let's ask the question and provide some great answers to Reasons Why WordPress Is Best Suited for Your Education Website: "Highly acclaimed institutions such as ...

The 2020 Setup

September 9, 2020

Completely inspired by Chris Wiegman's My Development Toolbox – 2020, I thought I would do something similar since my normal living from a laptop lifestyle has dramatically changed ...

Morning Coffee Mashup: Long Weekend

September 8, 2020

What's great about having (and taking!) a long weekend is getting a chance to refocus, reenergize, and relax (if you know) how. I don't know about you but restocked for…

Nothing Compares 2 U

September 8, 2020

Friend of Morning Coffee, Lokesh Budhrani, points us to this almost poetic post about fear, phobias, and change ... written by his mother ...

Blog-ness

September 8, 2020

Basic and straightforward tips from Torque on what you should be doing to Turn Your Blog Into a Business: "When someone searches for a topic you’ve written about, you’ll get…

Tenet Review – weiveR teneT

September 8, 2020

No I didn't go out and see a movie this weekend, but Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution did, "If you have studied Steven Bram’s book Biblical Games (and his other…

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Hodgepodge

September 4, 2020

Today we have pieces from across the open source spectrum: open source in general, Joomla, and Gutenberg. Just to start planning for next week, there's The State of the Source…

Welcome to the Board!

September 4, 2020

The Joomla board has a ton of new blood, and I am personally very much looking forward to what these folks will bring to the project. While reversing the trends…

An Open (Source) Relationship

September 4, 2020

"Is it impossible to achieve this community love with a proprietary product?" Love the question, it way down in the TechRepublic article, How does open source thrive in a cloud…

What’s in a Block Name?

September 4, 2020

ACK! Will we ever get naming of anything in WordPress right? Ok, it's an exaggeration but now naming has invaded blocks. Justin Tadlock for WP Tavern in WordPress Plugin Authors…

Morning Coffee for WordPress: Numbers Numbers Numbers

September 2, 2020

Who doesn't love big numbers? They are just fun to comprehend, unless that is you happen to be included in the millions of sites effect by bad code or hundreds…

A Million Little Pieces

September 2, 2020

Yesterday was a busy day for WordPress maintainers, first we have a huge exploit, then we get an update that fixes itself. WordPress 5.5.1 patches an issue of it's own…

700,000 Vulnerable

September 2, 2020

Yikes, this is a zero day (now one day) exploit regarding the File Manager Plugin. Chloe Chamberland for Wordfence, 700,000 WordPress Users Affected by Zero-Day Vulnerability in File Manager Plugin

Proofing WordPress

September 2, 2020

I starting following this blockchain meets WordPress story back in July when WordProof received €1,000,000 from the European Commission. Yesterday Yoast took an undisclosed stake in WordProof which makes a…

Not so PC

September 1, 2020

Boy or boy are there plenty of thoughts on this piece, Squarespace vs. WordPress.com: Which Is Best for Easy Website Creation?

Deep PCIng

September 1, 2020

Destiny Hagest takes us down the PCI rabbit hole, from origins to implementation to test. If you have never had to deal with PCI compliance, congratulations, but as the great…

Leading Nicely

September 1, 2020

Yay research! We may be much more separated these days but office dynamics haven't gone away. The bit of news from CNN should give us an opportunity to remember to…

Tooling Around

September 1, 2020

Now this is fun, we have a sneak peek into the Tools Are Tools podcast, go ahead and listen to Human Presence on a powered by Elegant Marketplace podcast.

Long Time Listener: Facebook PPC “Hack”

September 1, 2020

Long time listener, first time caller, Mike 'Demo' Demopoulos sends along a great "hack" for agencies to see PPC spending on Facebook.

Morning Coffee Monday Mashup: Cubicle Culture

August 31, 2020

Monday's the day to look out the window at non - WordPress, agency, SaaS, hosting, ecommerce, open source topics. Remember the days when we looked out office windows? Want to…

REInvestment

August 30, 2020

From the Washington Post we have a couple of quotes from REI plans sale of unused eight-acre headquarters campus as the retailer embraces remote work, and I'm not going to…

Not Pinterested

August 30, 2020

Katie Dowd, reporting for SFGATE in Pinterest pays $89.5 million to terminate San Francisco office lease: "Pinterest's change of plans is just the latest indicator that the Bay Area's business…

Socially Capped

August 30, 2020

Back in the good ole days, you know February 2020, I was planning on attending three to four major in-person events a month. Actually flying somewhere and speaking to audiences…

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Past Present Future

August 28, 2020

Friday's are about the greater open source community (yes WordPress may get mention as we do today) but it's an attempt to provide knowledge about projects and tools which you…

Snake-bit by Python

August 28, 2020

"In the last few months, perhaps a year or more, a lot of people started talking about how Python would be going away in favor of other newer programming languages…

AMP it up to eleven, err two

August 28, 2020

Kudos to XWP for their 2.0 release of AMP for WordPress, "Over the last few months, the AMP and XWP teams have been analyzing the onboarding experience and how users…

Dependable Future

August 28, 2020

I like this Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech post for great quotes like, "Using open source technology is now the fastest way new products get built…

Morning Coffee for Ecommerce: Trending

August 27, 2020

It's Thursday so ecommerce, WooCommerce, all the commerces! There are some interesting events that you can still sign up for to expand your horizons: first thing this morning we have…

Eurocorns

August 27, 2020

Investments are ecommerce, just a bit different. The Verge tackles what's happening in Europe with

Elisticle

August 27, 2020

I love a good list of trends, some that may be obvious but there are always one or two that are food for thought.

Morning Coffee for WordPress: Three Letter Words

August 26, 2020

Sometimes the topics are a bit random and getting them to tie together can be tricky, so today where going with TLWs (three letter words). Ok, not actually words but…

CEO

August 26, 2020

Long time CEO of Envato, Collis Ta'eed: "After 14 years in my CEO gig, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to step down from my role and empower a…

PHP

August 26, 2020

Without this million year old programming language, WordPress would most likely be a very different beast. It's good fortune that both offer levels of backwards compatibility that are not often…

MSP

August 26, 2020

The number of WordCamps left for 2020 is minuscule so it was with great pleasure that I attended the virtual WordCamp Minneapolis. I didn't see a single technical issue

Morning Coffee Monday Mashup: An Apple a Day Keeps WordPress Away

August 24, 2020

Where to start? The actual issue, the reporting, or the ramifications? Sure this is going to be inside baseball but that's why you're here, right. Right? It's a great story…

One Bad Apple

August 24, 2020

There has been so much written about Apple's app store policies recently that if you are not totally dialed in just Google "app store epic" or "app store hey" -…

What’s in a Name

August 24, 2020

I giveth and then take away-eth. The thorough back and forth details in the The Verge article paint a comprehensive picture, however they like many news organizations deserve tons of…

Possession is Nine-Tenths of the Law

August 24, 2020

I'll probably keep writing about name confusion for a while with the hopes that the greater digital press understands what's going on, and here is a helpful primer from Matt…

Hello World, 15 Times

August 21, 2020

This week Joomla celebrated 15 years of being one of the largest and most important open source projects ...

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Hello World

August 21, 2020

Even though the usual conference season for the rest of 2020 is well, not. There are some highlights coming up and actually the lack of an almost weekly event is…

Morning Coffee for Ecommerce: Tips are Appreciated

August 20, 2020

The next three and half months in ecommerce will certainly be record breaking beyond anything expected. When you can't go out and crawl the mall because it's locked down, or…

QVCing is Believing

August 20, 2020

There are quiet stirrings of an ecommerce trend that’s done exceedingly well in China ...

Funnel of Love

August 20, 2020

Obviously, every business will have its own unique conversion funnel, depending on a variety of factors ...

FTCees Problems

August 20, 2020

Just a number here, don't miss what it means: 34,438.

Updating the Updates

August 19, 2020

This may be a topic that gets repeated oftern, automatic updates ...

Morning Coffee for WordPress: Lock It Up

August 19, 2020

Morning Coffee for WordPress: Lock It Up Updating the Updates FortressDB for Data Privacy, Security, and Speed Warning Signs That Your WordPress Website Is Being Hacked

Man the Fort

August 19, 2020

FortressDB has been in the works for a while and has officially launched ...

I Saw the Sign

August 19, 2020

Thomas Glare gives us nine warning signs that you have been hacked ...

Morning Coffee for Agencies: The Power of 3

August 18, 2020

Agency agency agency, three things for today, and some even have their own threes. Did you know if you add all the digits in an integer and they add up…

Uniqu3

August 18, 2020

SaaS providers are a wealth of great agency advice...

Strategi-three

August 18, 2020

I don't know how many agencies actually look at other agencies, maybe mostly for competitive reason ...

Morning Coffee Monday Mashup: Get to Work

August 17, 2020

So first, the weekend newsletter Pot of Coffee is open for business, catchup on what you may have missed during the week. Second, Monday's will be focused on a bunch…

Non-Terrible, Bearable?

August 17, 2020

Convesio with a no holds barred take on hosting, which includes a pretty big indictment of cPanel based hosting. They've also got a fantastic hosting agnostic review of page speed…

Happy 15th Birthday Joomla!

August 17, 2020

No fancy quip, no snarky comment, Joomla, the CMS which powers a ton of the internet turns 15 today. By the numbers Joomla is still the 2nd/3rd largest content management…

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Open for Business

August 14, 2020

Morning Coffee for Open Source: Open for Business Lots of front and behind the scenes action going on in open source over the last few weeks. Everything from money to…

Not So Blockheaded

August 14, 2020

I personally love Gutenberg Blocks for a number of reasons which I used to be able to tell people in real life. As a recap for those that don't know,…

The Sky’s the Limit

August 14, 2020

Listen open source founders, the name confusion between the commercial entity and the project foundation is not only annoying but really does a disservice to all the volunteers. Two projects…

Open(ish) Governance

August 14, 2020

IBM and Google sitting in a tree, just on different branches. IBM is very disappointed by Open Usage Commons, while Google is keeping things safe. You make the call. One…

Q*BERT

August 13, 2020

Ecommerce SEO often feels like hopping from one new Google rule to another, let’s welcome Google’s BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) into our alphabet soup, not that expanded acronym…

Mode to nowhere

August 13, 2020

From the great Marker, a subheading to take seriously, Business leaders ready to return to normal are operating with a losing strategy that could put them out of business. I…

Flash drive

August 13, 2020

The drive to getting ecommerce more personal, more useful, more relevant is in full swing. TechCrunch is calling it flash digital transformation and though the article is a bit dated…

Morning Coffee for Ecommerce: Flash Drive

August 13, 2020

Flash drive: The drive to getting ecommerce more personal / Mode to nowhere: recording the pandemic processes you adopted / Q*BERT: let's welcome Google's BERT

Ad Astra

August 12, 2020

Community management of anything is a difficult process, from the always informative MasterWP weekly newsletter is a discussion on the Astra theme: "But, if you’d looked for Astra on WordPress.org…

We’re in the pipe, five by five

August 12, 2020

We're not talking about landing on LV-426 but the release of WordPress 5.5 is definitely something to talk about loud and clear. There are improvements in block editing but it's…

Not hip to be Square

August 12, 2020

Our friends at Torque take on the discussion of WordPress vs Squarespace in "Why You Should Build Your Blog on WordPress vs. Squarespace." Devin Partida hits all the high notes…

Morning Coffee for WordPress: Ad Astra

August 12, 2020

Ad Astra: discussion on the Astra theme curfuffle / We're in the pipe five by five: WordPress 5.5 / Not hip to be Square: Why (not) Squarespace

Zooma Zooma Zooma Zoom

August 11, 2020

There was only one Zoom a day when I was growing up but these days we have so many to choose from that aren't forced meetings. The really interesting ones…

WC(not for)US 2020/2021

August 11, 2020

We're not talking about landing on LV-426 but the release of WordPress 5.5 is definitely something to talk about loud and clear. There are improvements in block editing but it's…

Let’s close those sales

August 11, 2020

Leadership is always seeing an expense (unless they are the right leaders), Orbit Media Studios lays out all the arguments you should be prepared to make in How To Get…

Morning Coffee for Agencies: Zooma Zooma Zooma Zoom

August 11, 2020

There was only one Zoom a day when I was growing up but these days we have so many to choose from that aren't forced meetings. The really interesting ones…

Morning Coffee for Ecommerce, Sales Lapse: August 4, 2020

August 4, 2020

#MorningCoffee with omnisend, Nexcess, and Kim Doyal. Featured: Best Practices for Lapsed Purchasers

Who Owns WordPress

August 3, 2020

I've spent this last fews week thinking on how to reimagine #MorningCofee while keeping the daily briefing. The new Morning Coffee will cover a single topic per day with extended…

Omnisend

July 17, 2020

Do you have your email campaigns ready for the busiest time of the year? The holidays are quickly approaching! This holiday season will be unique compared to years before with…

i2Coalition and The Domain Name Association Merge to Create North America’s Largest Internet Infrastructure Advocacy Group

July 16, 2020

Great news for two very important infrastructure organizations. I was able to catch up with Christian Dawson, Co-Founder of the i2Coalition, for a quick exclusive to ask what this means…

Human Presence

July 10, 2020

Bot and automated WordPress spam are growing threats and headaches for the WordPress community. Whether it is comment spam or automated contact form spam, it’s incredibly annoying and can be…

Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure?

July 10, 2020

Sue Halpern for The New Yorker: When the ballots were delivered to a panel of seven poll workers for the manual count, the crowd collected in the center of the…

Morning Coffee: July 10, 2020

July 10, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Wired, The New Yorker, cPanel, Capiche, and WP Tavern.

Morning Coffee: July 9, 2020

July 9, 2020

#MorningCoffee with The Next Web, Orbit Media, WP Tavern, omnisend, and WP Engine.

Morning Coffee: July 8, 2020

July 8, 2020

#MorningCoffee with omnisend, Torque, The Harvard Gazette, WP Tavern, and Marginal Revolution.

Morning Coffee: July 7, 2020

July 7, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Torque, Nexcess, WP Tavern, Chris Lema, and WP Engine.

Morning Coffee: July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

#MorningCoffee with WP Tavern, Security Boulevard, Nexcess, Torque, and TechCrunch.

The Art of WordPress Load Testing

July 3, 2020

With an ever growing need to have instantaneous website access, load testing is getting a lot more traction in the conversation. In fact load testing is just one part of…

Morning Coffee: July 3, 2020

July 3, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Drupal, WP Tavern, Nexcess, Torque, and The Verge.

Morning Coffee: July 2, 2020

July 2, 2020

#MorningCoffee with omnisend, Convesio, Nexcess, Torque, and WP Tavern.

Open Source Software: Hearts, Minds, and Acquisitions

July 1, 2020

I'm always amazed by that statistics around open source. This post by cPanel does a great job of breaking it down. It's breathtaking to think of how many people have…

Morning Coffee: July 1, 2020

July 1, 2020

#MorningCoffee with The New Yorker, Spin Sucks, WordProof, WPMUDEV, and WordPress VIP.

Under the Radar Acquisitions

June 30, 2020

Just culled from the invisible headlines two acquisitions involving the hosting industry. First, and just announced today, we have Liquid Web acquiring ServerSide (a Windows CMS host). From the press…

Committing to the Content

June 30, 2020

One year ago I came up with the idea for the Ambassador Program while at WordCamp Europe. While I'd love to tell a million stories about that, the point here…

Morning Coffee: June 30, 2020

June 30, 2020

#MorningCoffee with codeinwp, The Next Web, CMSWire, inpsyde, and WP Tavern.

Morning Coffee: June 29, 2020

June 29, 2020

#MorningCoffee with LA Progressive, Bluehost, BobWP, WooCommerce, and The Gazette.

Morning Coffee: June 28, 2020

June 28, 2020

#MorningCoffee with omnisend, BobWP, Torque, Yahoo News, and 10up.

I Just Got PastaDropped

June 27, 2020

So I just got PastaDropped (it's a verb now right?) courtesy of Mike Demo and Web Ventures. So first, thank you. And now a bit about the PastaDrop experience. I…

Morning Coffee: June 27, 2020

June 27, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Spin Sucks, cPanel, The Next Web, Orbit Media, and The New Stack.

WordCamp Denver 2020

June 26, 2020

WordCamp Denver 2020: Once you find a session you’d like to see, visit our Watch Now page to join it. How much easier and free can you make this? Brilliant. The camp…

Lauri Kasti: Supervisor.com

June 26, 2020

The hosting interview series from last year was a huge hit. I'll have multiple industries covered in 2020 and we are starting with SaaS. It's my pleasure to welcome Lauri…

Morning Coffee: June 26, 2020

June 26, 2020

#MorningCoffee with WP Beginner, Freemius, SearchEngineJournal, New York Times, and Torque.

Morning Coffee: June 25, 2020

June 25, 2020

#MorningCoffee with The Next Web, Marker, omnisend, WP Newsify, and ManageWP.

Morning Coffee: June 24, 2020

June 24, 2020

#MorningCoffee with NPR, Reaction, CMSWire, Orbit Media, and Bottle Rocket Media.

Morning Coffee: June 23, 2020

June 23, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Joomla, CMSWire, Torque, Wordfence, and Bluehost.

How to Get Local SEO Traction Without Really Trying with Daren J Morreale

June 22, 2020

This wouldn't normally make the featured post and rather just a link to webinars or events but - really big but - this is happening today and I just discovered…

WordCamp Italia

June 22, 2020

I was really disappointed to see that WordCamp Torino 2020 was cancelled with no switch to a virtual WordCamp. I've been looking forward to getting engaged with the Italian WordPress…

Morning Coffee: June 22, 2020

June 22, 2020

#MorningCoffee with CMSWire, Latest Hacking News, Analytics India Magazine, Guitar.com, and iTnews.

Morning Coffee: June 21, 2020

June 21, 2020

#MorningCoffee with cPanel, The Next Web, Marginal Revolution, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian.

New #1 Fan of ROKiT Williams Racing

June 20, 2020

I'm thrilled to be the newest number 1 fan of ROKiT Williams Racing. Huh you say? Well I do follow F1 a little (some other team) but my new team…

Morning Coffee: June 20, 2020

June 20, 2020

#MorningCoffee with cPanel, The American Prospect, Science Magazine, New York Times, and Bloomberg.

WP Engine to Match Employee Donations Supporting BLM, ACLU, and Black Girls Code

June 19, 2020

This is a great program for the next 30 days provided by one of the leaders in WordPress hosting but only for employees of WP Engine. “We want to be…

Morning Coffee: June 19, 2020

June 19, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Torque, CNBC, Nautilus Magazine, WP Tavern, and Convesio.

Creating WordPress Websites (FREE Self-Paced Tutorial)

June 19, 2020

Well this is pretty cool, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, is offering a number of courses for free (* non-credit) including a WordPress course with 90 days of free hosting…

Morning Coffee: June 18, 2020

June 18, 2020

#MorningCoffee with CMSWire, EnterpriseTalk, The Next Web, CPO Magazine, and Torque.

Morning Coffee: June 17, 2020

June 17, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Dries Buytaert, omnisend, The Conversation, WP Tavern, and The Guardian.

Morning Coffee: June 16, 2020

June 16, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Marker, Android Police, WP Tavern, The Next Web, and Aeon Psyche.

Press Release: Steadfast Launches Time Synchronization Service to Assist Trading Broker-Dealer and Firm Compliance with SEC Rule 613 CAT NMS

June 16, 2020

Chicago, June 16 , 2020: Steadfast, a cloud and managed infrastructure company with more than 20 years of hosting financial service organizations has launched a new time-synchronization-as-a-service (TSaaS) that provides…

Press Release: WP Engine Appoints Jason Teichman as COO

June 15, 2020

WP Engine today announced it has appointed Jason Teichman as Chief Operating Officer. As COO of WP Engine, Jason will be responsible for overseeing the full customer journey of the…

Morning Coffee: June 15, 2020

June 15, 2020

#MorningCoffee with CMSWire, CNN Business, ZDNet, t3n Magazin, and LessWrong.

Morning Coffee: June 14, 2020

June 14, 2020

#MorningCoffee with TechRepublic, Engadget, Spaceflight Now, Wired, and SFGate.

Morning Coffee: June 13, 2020

June 13, 2020

#MorningCoffee with GoDaddy, TechRepublic, Business Insider, Marginal Revolution, and New York Times.

Morning Coffee: June 12, 2020

June 12, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Torque, Glantz, eBridge Marketing, cPanel, and DarkReading.

Morning Coffee: June 11, 2020

June 11, 2020

#MorningCoffee with WPMUDEV, Torque, WP Tavern, Andreessen Horowitz, and WP Engine.

Cart Abandonment Incentives: The Pros, Cons, and How to Make Them Effective

June 10, 2020

From the omnisend blog and Whitney Blankenship, an informative piece on cart abandonment and things I've not thought of before but I think there is a little burying of the…

Avoiding Website Ratholes: Advice for SaaS Marketers

June 10, 2020

From Peter Cohen, principal of SaaS Marketing Strategy Advisors: In other words, nobody’s really happy with their existing website. That's fair and I know this goes into tips on overhauling…

WP Engine Posts from the Last Year

June 10, 2020

With WP Engine Summit/2020 in full swing, I thought I would pull out some WP Engine related posts from the last year. Interviews, podcasts, and acquisitions! Proud to have been…

Morning Coffee: June 10, 2020

June 10, 2020

#MorningCoffee with SaaS Merketing Strategy, BobWP, omnisend, Ellipsis, and The Verge.

Morning Coffee: June 9, 2020

June 9, 2020

#MorningCoffee with BobWP, CMSWire, Toptal, ProfitWell, and WP Tavern.

WP All Import for WooCommerce

June 9, 2020

Bob has a great walk-thru of WP All Import for WooCommerce. (BobWP) Migrate WooCommerce Products Images and Attributes to a New Shop. "There will come that time that you may…

Another acronym for your business dictionary – QBR

June 9, 2020

QBRs are quarterly business reviews that companies conduct with their customers. There you go, now pile it on top of ARR, MRR, and LTV. (CMSWire) Customer Success Should Begin Long…

What developers need to know about design

June 9, 2020

As if developers didn't have enough to worry about now they need to be designers. But seriously having an understanding of multiple disciplines can only be beneficial. (Toptal) Here's what…

Content Tips for your SBB

June 9, 2020

Everyone is really on the recurring revenue bandwagon these days. So here are some more tips for content and your SBB (subscription based business - I just acronymized this). (ProfitWell)…

Inline image editing in WordPress

June 9, 2020

Who doesn't love editing images when and where you need to? Though to say this is an improvement to workflow is a stretch. It's easier for the freelancer or single…

Your Site is Broken Because of Ad Blockers?!

June 8, 2020

I've been coming across the problem of sites breaking because of ad blockers. This has got to be one of the most ridiculous developer / product manager created situations in…

Morning Coffee: June 8, 2020

June 8, 2020

#MorningCoffee with ZDNet, The Verge, Cosmic Companion, CNN, and Oxford Academic.

Morning Coffee: June 7, 2020

June 7, 2020

#MorningCoffee with Pocket, The Next Web, Marker, Marginal Revolution, and WPMUDEV.

Morning Coffee: June 6, 2020

June 6, 2020

#MorningCoffee for June 6, 2020 (Washington Post) The next big problem: Businesses can’t or won’t pay their rent. It’s setting off a dangerous chain reaction. (Hosting Journalist) Study: ‘One Out…

How to Virtual WordCamp Europe

June 5, 2020

We are full speed at WordCamp Europe today and tomorrow and that now with a few hours of experiencing it I thought I would share some best practices to having…

Morning Coffee: June 5, 2020

June 5, 2020

#MorningCoffee for June 5 (WP Tavern) Blockify the WordPress Dashboard with the Mission Ctrl Plugin (The Verge) Zoom says free users won’t get end-to-end encryption so FBI and police can…

Morning Coffee: June 4, 2020

June 4, 2020

Must reads with your #MorningCoffee for June 4 (Distributed) Why Distributed Companies Will Likely Move Away from Location-Based Compensation (Axios) The business of tear gas (The Verge) What happens to…

Drupal 9 is launching today (…finally)

June 3, 2020

So, tongue in cheek with the "finally," I expected to be able download D9 when I woke up this morning but had to wait. Looks like it's going to be…

Morning Coffee: June 3, 2020

June 3, 2020

#MorningCoffee: June 3, 2020 (The Next Web) The rocket science behind the SpaceX astronaut launch (Fortune) Charles Schwab is the latest to offer 'fractional' shares (Engadget) The psychology behind why…

Mental health support for remote workers

June 2, 2020

Big Orange Heart (formerly WPandUP) is a charity and resource that's needed more than ever these days. The post title says it all, they provide mental health support for remote…

Big Time Joomla

June 2, 2020

Joomla kicked off the summer with style and substance. There are a lot of kudos to go around but the J and Beyond team and the Joomla release team deserve…

Morning Coffee: June 2, 2020

June 2, 2020

Must reads with your #MorningCoffee for June 2 (Big Orange Heart) Managing Remote Teams (Michael Tsai) Unhelpful Amazon Order Confirmation E-mails (The Next Web) Publishers are suing the Internet Archive…

Termageddon

June 1, 2020

Termageddon helps companies avoid privacy fines and lawsuits by offering an auto-updating Privacy Policy generator.

Morning Coffee: June 1, 2020

June 1, 2020

#MorningCoffee: (BobWP) How To Write a Good 'About Page' for the Small Shop Owner (Phoronix) The Linux Kernel Deprecates The 80 Character Line Coding Style (GoWP) 6 Steps to Selling…

Maybe You Read This, Maybe You Don’t

May 31, 2020

I've been reluctant to comment on the state of the country for lots of reasons but I'm very glad Chris Lema did - and better than anyone I personally know.…

InMotion Hosting

May 31, 2020

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Morning Coffee: May 31, 2020

May 31, 2020

Must reads with your #MorningCoffee: (BobWP) Good Documentation and Instructions Matter (Rest of World) This lending app loves you until you’re late on a payment. Then the shaming begins. (TechCrunch)…

Morning Coffee: May 30, 2020

May 30, 2020

#MorningCoffee (WP Engine) Understanding Top Website Migration Factors (MongoDB) Stack Overflow Research: MongoDB is the Database Most Wanted by Developers (Marker) Remote Work Means Anyone Can Take Your Job (The…

24 Hours of Joomla

May 29, 2020

I less than seven hours (7:00PM CDT) we are about to see an amazing Joomla conference. JandBeyond 2020 is putting together a non-stop 24 event covering all things Joomla and…

Morning Coffee: May 29, 2020

May 29, 2020

#MorningCoffee (WP Tavern) Diving Into Automattic Block Experiments (Omnisend) Make Your Automated Messages More Relevant with A/B Testing (Torque) 5 Best Practices for Maintaining Your WordPress Database (The Drive) The…

Morning Coffee: May 28, 2020

May 28, 2020

MorningCoffee: (WP Tavern) WordCamp Europe 2020 Announces Schedule & Rooms & Booths (BBC) The benefits isolation can have on your work (Indica) COVID Underdogs: Mongolia (WP Engine) WP Engine Summit/2020…

Drupal 9: Focusing on Innovation

May 27, 2020

Good summary of the most boring major CMS update in the history of open source and this is a brilliant idea. Apple is been doing this for a number of…

Morning Coffee: May 27, 2020

May 27, 2020

#MorningCoffee: (The Next Web) There’s an actual science to good Instagram photos (Marker) The American Economy Was Just Blasted Years Into the Future (CodeInWP) Best SendGrid Alternatives in 2020: Cheaper…

Big Screen Zoom

May 26, 2020

As a followup to today's #MorningCoffee linking to a MacWorld article, I have been pondering this exact setup. Since my home office is not really setup for such a layout…

Morning Coffee: May 26, 2020

May 26, 2020

MorningCoffee: (CNN) I tried to delete myself from the internet. Here's what I learned. (Laura Deming) The Rage of Research (TechCrunch) Ecwid raises $42M from Morgan Stanley and PeakSpan (Omnisend)…

Ecom Services Summit 2020 Panel

May 25, 2020

Looking forward to being a part of Getting To 10x - An Ecommerce Success Panel tomorrow, May 26 at 3:00 PM ET. It's a part of the Ecom Services Summit…

Morning Coffee: May 25, 2020

May 25, 2020

MorningCoffee (Chicago Tribune) Illinois approves cocktails for pickup and delivery (The Wirecutter) What Your Noise-Cancelling Headphones Can and Can’t Do (The Next Web) Technology start-ups that fail fast succeed faster…

Morning Coffee: May 24, 2020

May 24, 2020

MorningCoffee (WP Tavern) Should WordPress Provide an API for Third-Party Editors? (ESPN) Homeless 9-year-old refugee dreams of becoming youngest grandmaster (The Next Web) Coding is a language and that’s why…

Morning Coffee: May 23, 2020

May 23, 2020

MorningCoffee (Marker) Inside King Arthur Flour and America's Sudden Baking Obsession (WP Engine) Full Site Editing: The Future of Building with WordPress (Torque) 8 Tested and Trusted Tips to Improve…

Breaking: Hecky Powell Dies

May 22, 2020

Outside of Chicago most people probably don't know his name or his eponymous rib joint but for 10s of thousands of north shore residents, Northwestern University students and faculty, and…

Convesio

May 22, 2020

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Morning Coffee: May 22, 2020

May 22, 2020

MorningCoffee (Capiche) Computer Assisted Intuition (The Wirecutter) How to Keep Your Produce Fresh for Weeks (LSE) The public does not understand logarithmic graphs (The Next Web) A look at how…

Morning Coffee: May 21, 2020

May 21, 2020

MorningCoffee (ProfitWell) SaaS vs PaasS vs IaaS (InMotion) What is Platform as a Service (PaaS)? (Torque) Web Monetization Plugin from Pragmatic and Coil Announced (New York Times) Annie Glenn Champion…

Tails Never Fails

May 20, 2020

With a title like, "Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness," you've got to be at least curious. The entire study…

Niche Agency Owners Group

May 20, 2020

Argh Facebook, "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!" If you know me well Facebook is really not at the top of my social media…

Morning Coffee: May 20, 2020

May 20, 2020

MorningCoffee (The Times of India) Permanent work from home damaging for workers' well-being (The Next Web) Here’s why ‘if you build it they will come’ is poor advice (Torque) Your…

WordPress Editors Arrive

May 19, 2020

WordPress writers, bloggers, content creators of the world rejoice! New editors abound.

Morning Coffee: May 19, 2020

May 19, 2020

MorningCoffee (The Next Web) IBM's new open-source tool helps developers make their apps more accessible (Distributed) How Do You Create Company Culture When You Rarely See Your Colleagues? (Yahoo) Humpback…

Morning Coffee: May 18, 2020

May 18, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: May 17, 2020

May 17, 2020

MorningCoffee (Inverse) Young dogs might be more similar to human teenagers than we think: new research (e-recht24) WordPress: Hacker greifen 900.000 Seiten an (OrlandoWeekly) New board game has roots in…

GoWP

May 16, 2020

GoWP provides white label WordPress services to help agencies grow. Whether it’s maintenance, a 24/7 team for content edits, or site builds — we’ve got you covered.

Morning Coffee: May 16, 2020

May 16, 2020

Readings to start the day! (WP Engine) Pro Tips for Growing Your Online Business (Torque) How to Fix the Most Common WordPress HTTP Error Codes (New York Times) Coronavirus Is…

Keeping your CMS safe and secure

May 15, 2020

Jason Nickerson covers all the basics in this cPanel security post. It's also a really good reminder of you get what you pay for in this world. The internet is…

Morning Coffee: May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020

Readings to start the day! (WP Newsify) Why Is Your WordPress Website Running Slowly? (The Next Web) Facebook buys GIPHY (TechRadar) the popular GIF-hosting platform (TechRepublic) Official Google WordPress plugin…

Morning Coffee: May 14, 2020

May 14, 2020

Readings to start the day! (The Next Web) Automating your social media posts could hurt your startup’s online presence (AppleWorldToday) Director Ridley Scotts signs first-look TV deal with Apple (WP…

Morning Coffee: May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020

Readings to start the day (or finish)! (The Next Web) Lost your drive? Here’s how entrepreneurs can recapture their spark (Omnisend) How to Create Post-Purchase Emails that Renew the Customer…

ICANN76 Community Forum

May 12, 2020

I'm feeling surprisingly comfortable planning for ICANN76 Community Forum. Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Cancún, Mexico has been selected as the location for…

Work from Home Forever

May 12, 2020

This is really just the start of the opening of the "work from home" floodgates - for better or worse. Are we going to start "living away from home?"

Morning Coffee: May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020

Readings to start the day! Google) Why remote meetings don’t feel the same (Torque) Headless WordPress: What It Is and How to Use It (Distributed) How Does Crisis Management Work…

Breaking: 88 MPH for cPanel

May 11, 2020

And for metric users, 141.622 KPH. If you missed the reference or even what I'm talking about, cPanel just released version 88, and 88 MPH also happens to be the…

Welcome to the Halving! (huh?)

May 11, 2020

Every time I hear about the Halving my mind quickly goes to Highlander and the Quickening. It is a pretty big event in the bitcoin (cryptocurrency) universe and we just…

RSS Readers Rejected From the App Store

May 11, 2020

This story is slightly bonkers to me. First, Apple (anyone), my RSS feed is absolutely allowed to be included by any RSS reader. Second, not only does my publishing of…

WP Engine in Kraków, Poland

May 11, 2020

While it's probably not the most exciting or important WP Engine news in the world I have a very large soft spot for this office opening. Back a few years…

Level up with cPanel University from home

May 11, 2020

Sure it's a pitch for certification but (yes but), if you have the time, free online cPanel training in a huge part of the hosting ecosystem is a no brainer.…

Morning Coffee: May 11, 2020

May 11, 2020

Readings to start the day! (The Atlantic) The Internet Miracle (Torque) Landing Page Conversion (TechRadar) WordPress Redirection Hack (The Next Web) Hubble Space Telescope (Make the Masks) 3D Print Masks

Morning Coffee: May 9, 2020

May 9, 2020

Readings to start the day! (DevOps) Protect WordPress (ZDnet) Hackers and favicon (WP Tavern) Blogs and Censorship (Vox) Pentagon UFOs (Engadget) Secure video calls

Exclusive: Wordfence 0-Day Story

May 8, 2020

I've always been curious how open and proprietary content management systems handle critical hacks, whether of the core CMS or third-party plugins/extensions/modules/etc. It is an amazing part of any ecosystem…

Morning Coffee: May 8, 2020

May 8, 2020

Readings to start the day! (Chicago Tribune) 5-phase plan to reopen Illinois during coronavirus (TechCrunch) No cookie consent walls (eBridgeMarketing) Marketing Tactics for MSPs (ChartMogul) Wartime SaaS Forecasting (FiveThirtyEight) Scottie…

Morning Coffee: May 7, 2020

May 7, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Sandy Edwards joins the GoDaddy Pro team

May 6, 2020

Great for Sandy, even greater for the GoDaddy Pro team who will benefit so immensely with Sandy on board. I have worked hard in the community to build a safe…

COVID-19 Death Rate by Density

May 6, 2020

COVID and U.S. Population Density (Updated May 6, 2020)

Morning Coffee: May 6, 2020

May 6, 2020

(Tim Bray) Bye, Amazon(HiringSolved) Paving the Path to the Future of Work(Deutschlandfunk Kultur) Sprunginnovationen in Krisenzeiten(The Verge) Space Force trailer with Steve Carell(Taskade) Google Wave's Failure and Lessons This is…

Morning Coffee: May 5, 2020

May 5, 2020

(Entrepreneur) Transforming In Response To the COVID-19 Pandemic(CMSWire) What You Can Do to Strengthen Company Culture in Times of Crisis(WP Tavern) Find My Blocks Plugin Shows All Blocks in Use…

Toni Kukoc talks ‘Last Dance’

May 4, 2020

This is honestly not the type of show that would normally grab my attention. Yes, I am a Chicagoan but not a basketball fan. I greatly enjoyed the magic and…

Morning Coffee: May 4, 2020

May 4, 2020

(OpenSource) The FSF reveals the tools they use for chat and video(New York Times) Job Interviews Are Broken(TechRepublic) What makes developers happy?(WordPress) The Month in WordPress April 2020(Monty and Rose)…

Morning Coffee: May 3, 2020

May 3, 2020

(Data Center Post) Pandemic Data Center Protocols(Marginal Revolution) Heat and learning(New York Times) The Coronavirus Ended the Handshake(SEO Südwest) Google: So könnt Ihr AMP Stories optimal gestalten(CBS News) "Murder hornets"…

Morning Coffee: May 2, 2020

May 2, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Endurance International Group Reports 2020Q1

May 1, 2020

Endurance International Group (EIG) has reported their most recent quarterly results. Given the uncertainty regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and the related economic impact, the Company is suspending the guidance previously…

Morning Coffee: May 1, 2020

May 1, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: April 30, 2020

April 30, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: April 29, 2020

April 29, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: April 28, 2020

April 28, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: April 27, 2020

April 27, 2020

This is what I’ve read to start the day, and so should you. The daily download for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, hosting, SaaS, and things I think are randomly interesting. Don’t…

Morning Coffee: April 26, 2020

April 26, 2020

(Mindsize) A new Mindsize and new CEO (The Atlantic) Parenting Kids With Anxiety (Smerconish) How Fast the World is Changing (Mental Floss) See What's Inside a 25-Year-Old Can of Spider-Man…

Morning Coffee: April 25, 2020

April 25, 2020

(Bloomberg) Coronavirus Will Change How We Create Cars (Bloomberg) How Big Is Market for Video-Game Coaches? (eBridgeMarketing) Marketing MSPs During Crisis (Stackline) 100 Fastest Growing and Declining Ecommerce Categories (Torque)…

Morning Coffee: April 24, 2020

April 24, 2020

(EU Startups) Frontity closes €1 million round led by Tumblr’s parent company(Chicago Tribune) A commercial that aired during ESPN documentary ‘The Last Dance’ hints at advertising’s deepfake future(The Atlantic) How…

It’s Time to Build

April 23, 2020

Critical thinking post by Marc Andreessen. I linked to this on Sunday's Morning Coffee and have been contemplating it ever since. Part of the problem is clearly foresight, a failure…

Morning Coffee: April 23, 2020

April 23, 2020

(coindesk) Tim Draper Firm Launches 'Crypto Exchange' Anyone Can Plug Into WordPress(Vice) Is It Worth Buying a Used Tanker to Fill With Cheap Oil?(CNN) Stanley Tucci makes the perfect Negroni(Bloomberg)…

Morning Coffee: April 22, 2020

April 22, 2020

(wplift) How One Family Agency Discovered the Next Generation of Hosting (Harvard) Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience (Daring Fireball) The iPad Magic Keyboard (Business Insider) Whole Foods tracks unionization risk with…

#newday #onlinestore

April 21, 2020

Thread via Chris Lema Maybe you said that "going online" wasn't what you needed. Or that you'd do it when you had more time (which never happened). Or maybe you…

Morning Coffee: April 21, 2020

April 21, 2020

(New York Times) How ‘Fast Carbs’ May Undermine Your Health(WP Tavern) WordPress Dashicons Project to Discontinue Development(CIO Dive) 'Ancient' Internet Explorer 6 a ripe cyberattack target this year(Reuters) Zoom bombs…

Morning Coffee: April 20, 2020

April 20, 2020

(The Atlantic) New Zealand’s Prime Minister May Be the Most Effective Leader on the Planet(JAMA) Suicide Mortality and Coronavirus Disease 2019—A Perfect Storm?(opensource.com) A stress-free guide to keeping WordPress sites…

Morning Coffee: April 19, 2020

April 19, 2020

(Andreessen Horowitz) It's Time to Build(Men'sHealth) How the Game-Changing George Foreman Grill Made History(Do the Woo) Let WooCommerce Customers Login via Social and More(ZDNet) Time is Ripe for Low-Code and…

The Changing Web Hosting Business Model

April 18, 2020

Jason Nickerson: The Changing Web Hosting Business Model Yet there are still stories of the “Summer Host”, small startup hosting companies that usually pop up at the beginning of the…

Morning Coffee: April 18, 2020

April 18, 2020

(Star Wars) Join Meetings from a Galaxy Far, Far Away(WP Tavern) On Digital Gardens, Blogs, Personal Spaces, and the Future(The Register) ICANN Delays .org Sale(San Antonio Express News) San Antonio’s…

Morning Coffee: April 17, 2020

April 17, 2020

(Slate) The Yeast Supply Chain Can’t Just Activate Itself(WP Tavern) Leave at Door: New Free WooCommerce Plugin Enables Contact-free Delivery(Bloomberg) The Coronavirus Will Make the Digital Divide Even Worse(NPR) White…

Best Blade Runner Mashup Ever

April 16, 2020

The Verge: Watch the weird cinematic rabbit hole that is Blade Runner: The Lost Cut Blade Runner: The Lost Cut is described as “a radical re-envisioning of Ridley Scott’s 1982…

Morning Coffee: April 16, 2020

April 16, 2020

Gutenberg 7.9 Adds Gradients to More Blocks, Extra Typography Controls, and New PatternsHow Apple and Google Are Enabling Covid-19 Contact-TracingDisney Plus will premiere eight-part Mandalorian docuseries on Star Wars DayThe…

Bialy Hates Linux

April 1, 2020

Unknown local WordPress guy cheers up neighborhood in penguin costume! First, I take no credit for this random bit of fun. Second, I really wish I thought of this (and…

Press This Podcast

March 26, 2020

Great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with David Vogelpohl of WP Engine.

In Memoriam: Karl Zimmerman

March 11, 2020

Last week, the Chicago tech and international hosting communities lost Karl Zimmerman (full obituary). Or just Karl, everyone knew Karl. You couldn’t help it if you accidentally touched on a…

BetweenSessions at WordCamp Miami 2020

March 2, 2020

BetweenSessions let's you know what you missed at WordCamp Miami.

The Week 2020/FEB/29

March 1, 2020

News of the week for weekend reading.

WordCamp Miami Sessions Part 3

March 1, 2020

For WordCamp Miami, I wanted to share the sessions that I've marked as must see for Sunday.

Breaking: Web Ventures Acquires Sprout Invoices

February 29, 2020

Two days, two announcements! Web Ventures (WV), is on a roll at WordCamp Miami.

WordCamp Miami Sessions Part 2

February 28, 2020

For WordCamp Miami, I wanted to share the sessions that I've marked as must see for Saturday afternoon.

Smerconish Critical Thinking: Hackers Will Win Elections

February 28, 2020

Elections need open source, with open source code, everyone can review the code, the processes, the expectations.

Breaking: Web Ventures Acquires weForms

February 28, 2020

The second Web Ventures acquisition of 2020.

Coronavirus Conference Etiquette

February 26, 2020

Americans are notoriously physically interactive. How can you be comfortable without offense at conferences?

WordCamp Miami Sessions Part 1

February 26, 2020

For WordCamp Miami, I wanted to share the sessions that I've marked as must see for Saturday morning.

Breaking: New Joomla President

February 23, 2020

#BREAKING Brian Mitchell is the new @joomla president. #Joomla #opensource

The Week 2020/FEB/22

February 22, 2020

News of the week for weekend reading. Events coming, let's catch up! #WordCamp #WordPress #Joomla #WCMIA

How Agencies Choose Hosting

February 18, 2020

What kind of agency are you when it comes to hosting?

Speech on the Internet, Did We *!$# It Up?

February 17, 2020

Speech on the Internet, Did We *!$# It Up?

The Week 2020/FEB/15

February 15, 2020

News of the week for weekend reading. Lots of events coming, let's catch up! #WordCamp #WordPress #Joomla

What for Joomla?

February 13, 2020

Two recent posts about WordPress and Joomla beg the question. What for Joomla?

Correct to Cancel WordCamp Asia 2020

February 12, 2020

Without a doubt it is the absolute correct call to cancel WordCamp Asia. Wordfence helps out!

Breaking: WordCamp Asia 2020 Canceled

February 11, 2020

After public and private concerns, the conference team has concluded that due to COVID19 (Coronavirus), WordCamp Asia is canceled.

.COM Price Increase is No Big Deal

February 11, 2020

There is a lot of grief going on regarding the ICANN agreement to remove wholesale pricing caps for Verisign’s .COM registry.

BetweenSessions at WordCamp Phoenix 2020

February 10, 2020

BetweenSessions let's you know what you missed @WordCampPHX #WCPHX #WordPress #WordCamp

The Week 2020/FEB/09

February 9, 2020

Enjoy this recap of links and posts from the last week that you actually have time to read during the weekend. #WordPress #opensource

Coding in the Shadow: Iowa

February 5, 2020

In less than 24 hours, people who had never heard of Shadow, Inc. started screaming conspiracy, willful incompetence, and much much worse. How is the trust rebuilt?

The Week 2020/02/02

February 2, 2020

A very special recap since today's date is a palindrome! Enjoy this recap of links and posts from the last week that you actually have time to read during the…

The Week 2020/JAN/25

January 25, 2020

Recap from the last week that you have time to read during the weekend. #WordPress #hosting #internet

Vic’s Letter to Joomla

January 24, 2020

I’ve commented already on the post but would like to reiterate that this is a great post and I hope gets people thinking. My overwhelming concern is that a reinvigorated…

Web Ventures Acquires Elegant Marketplace

January 21, 2020

Is this the last WordPress software acquisition of 2019 or the first of 2020? Doesn't matter. I think we are going to start seeing a large consolidation of the many…

The Week 2020/JAN/18

January 19, 2020

A recap of links and posts from the last week that you actually have time to read during the weekend. If you're looking for exposure at WordCamps or other conferences,…

The Week 2020/JAN/11

January 12, 2020

A recap of links and posts from the last week that you actually have time to read during the weekend.

Give Me My iPad Mouse

January 8, 2020

I literally live 24x7 with my #iPad Pro. It’s the best travel anywhere device for full computing I’ve ever owned. I have the cellular version so that makes being connected…

Caught: Cogent Blocked from ARIN Whois DB

January 8, 2020

The ultimate link is a PDF but short and fascinating view of the internet infrastructure world and the sales practices that have caused Cogent to be blocked. I also have…

Web Hosts are Partnering to Expand Markets

January 7, 2020

We saw a flurry of merger and acquisition activity in 2019 in the hosting space, signaling the maturing of the market. This type of consolidation among complementary companies makes good…

The Week 2020/JAN/4

January 5, 2020

Happy New Year! A recap of links and posts from last week that you actually have time to read now.

Let’s Get WordPress Database Tips!

January 4, 2020

This is definitely something needed even if you hope to never ever whip open phpMyAdmin or MySQLWorkbench. via @topher1kenobe #wordpress

New Year New Site

January 2, 2020

Happy 2020! The past year was a whirlwind of activity in the #WordPress ecosystem, #hosting and infrastructure environment, and the #SaaS world. We were able to interview the best and…

Acquia Acquires Cohesion

September 4, 2019

This really is the year where open source based corporations are stepping up in a fury of acquisitions and today it's Acquia acquiring Cohesion to continue the drive of simplifying…

The Week 2019/SEP/2

September 2, 2019

Happy Labor Day to all! A weekly recap of links and posts you actually have time to now read. WordCamp Costa Rica is at the end of the week and…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 7

August 29, 2019

We are getting close to the finish line with this series of interview but the wave continues: new partnerships, acquisitions, and services in the web hosting industry—an industry that is…

Pro-Market: How Amazon’s Pricing Policies Squeeze Sellers and Result in Higher Prices for Consumers

August 29, 2019

If you're interested in the dirty details of Amazon pricing, this piece by Pro-Market might even shock you at what's what with the internet's largest store. Don't rush the reading,…

The Week 2019/AUG/25

August 25, 2019

A weekly recap of links and posts you actually have time to now read. WordCamp Orlando is in full swing this week, with at lot more WordCamps as well. If…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 6

August 22, 2019

The wave continues: new partnerships, acquisitions, and services in the web hosting industry—an industry that is undergoing significant change. Emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations have shifted the landscape and…

The Week 2019/AUG/18

August 18, 2019

A weekly recap of links and posts you actually have time to now read. I'll next be speaking at WordCamp Orlando, which is taking place from August 23 through August…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 5

August 15, 2019

The wave continues: new partnerships, acquisitions, and services in the web hosting industry—an industry that is undergoing significant change. Emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations have shifted the landscape and…

Automattic Aims at SAAS – Acquires Tumblr

August 13, 2019

The short opinion on this is everyone should have seen this coming. By this I mean the acquisition of a user base of content creators. This year has been all…

The Week 2019/AUG/11

August 11, 2019

A weekly recap of links and posts you actually have time to now read. We are a day late and dollar short, but that's thanks to the amazing WordCamp Montreal!…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 4

August 8, 2019

The wave continues: new partnerships, acquisitions, and services in the web hosting industry—an industry that is undergoing significant change. Emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations have shifted the landscape and…

Perfect Dashboard Acquired

August 6, 2019

Finally announced today on LinkedIn. Great news! WP Engine, the WordPress Digital Experience Platform, has acquired certain assets from Perfect Dashboard including the AutoUpdater product. Piotr Moćko, our CTO and…

The Week 2019/AUG/3

August 3, 2019

A weekly recap of links and posts you actually have time to now read. Some of these are older since this the first weekly recap. ∎ Original post Interview with…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 3

August 1, 2019

As I mentioned in my last two interviews, 2019 has ushered in a wave of new partnerships, acquisitions, and services. It’s indisputable that the industry is undergoing significant change. Emerging…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 2

July 25, 2019

We have seen a flurry of web hosting activity in 2019. Between new partnerships, acquisitions, and services, the industry is undergoing significant change. Emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations have…

National Geographic: The Atlas of Moons

July 18, 2019

The Atlas of Moons is insanely informative for us lay-people but extra gorgeous and much more entertaining to digest on an iPhone. Among the eight major planets, Earth is the…

How the Right Partnerships, Acquisitions, and Services are Paving the Way for Next-Gen Web Hosting | Part 1

July 18, 2019

We have seen a flurry of web hosting activity in 2019. Between new partnerships, acquisitions, and services, the industry is undergoing significant change. Emerging technologies and evolving customer expectations have…

WP Engine to Acquire Flywheel

June 25, 2019

WP Engine, the WordPress (WP) Digital Experience Platform (DXP), this week announced an agreement to acquire Flywheel, a WP hosting and management company, in what will be the largest acquisition in WP…

WordPress SaaS Companies, Making Moves

May 29, 2019

It’s been announced today that StagingPilot has been acquired by Pantheon, and everyone should be excited! StagingPilot, a WordPress (WP) staging solution that has been successful in multi-environment (development to…

Ways to Differentiate Managed IT Offerings in 2019

April 9, 2019

A collaborator in my network recently posed the following on LinkedIn and I wanted to take the time to create more of an in-depth response to this important question: 2018 demand for…

Domino’s Pizza app must be accessible to blind people

January 30, 2019

Accessibility is usability, no one is perfect but Domino's dragging its feet just doesn't make sense. "Domino's Pizza has been told its website and app must be made fully accessible…

Joomla Now a Closed Source Project?

January 22, 2019

Joomla elections are coming up, (for details on the process see my last election post, A Call to the Joomla Community to Actively Participate in 2018 Elections), and it’s time to…

New Joomla Logo

January 17, 2019

Joomla redid its logo! Just kidding. Slack redid its logo and to me, it looks a little too close for comfort. Green, orange, blue, and red - all separate without…

Happy eighteenth birthday, Drupal

January 16, 2019

From Dries, Eighteen years is also the voting age in the US, and the legal drinking age in Europe. I'm not sure which one is better. 🙂 The video is…

Signal v Noise exits Medium

January 16, 2019

David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp and Signal v Noise fame: Thanks to the fact that we kept our own domain when we moved to Medium, all the articles and links…

Wake Me Up Before you Amazon Go-Go!

January 15, 2019

If you’re alive and have eyeballs, you are aware of and likely familiar to some degree with Amazon Go. It’s Amazon’s new concept around shopping, billed on its site as “The…

Major Hosting Vulnerabilities Exposed

January 15, 2019

We don't know if or to what degree any hacks occurred but I'm not sure why this was so easy. It truly underscores the importance of implementing end-to-end security measures.…

Breaking: Michael Babker Leaving Joomla

December 12, 2018

While I am surprised, I am not shocked, Michael has gone above and beyond as a code contributor but leadership is certainly not supportive in the ways it should be.…

ICANN Publishes ICANN63 By the Numbers Report

November 28, 2018

This was my first ICANN Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the numbers, quality, and venue were really top notch. My favorite numbers: 2,639 checked-in participants, with 1,440 listing their region…

At-Large Outreach Activities at IGF 2018 Paris

November 20, 2018

Wish I could have been at IGF 2018. Great outreach by the team! From 12-14 November 2018, At-Large Community leaders gathered at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris to attend the…

‘Drunk’ Canadian curlers kicked out of tournament final

November 19, 2018

Thank you BBC - I always knew curling was rock 'n roll!: "They went out to curl and they were extremely drunk and breaking brooms and swearing," Red Deer Curling…

Why some open-source companies are considering a more closed approach

November 19, 2018

Tom Krazit, writing for GeekWire: “Ninety-nine percent of the contributions to Redis were made by Redis Labs,” Bengal said. There’s a longstanding myth in the open-source world that projects are…

Illinois Bicycle Rules of the Road? Doubt it.

November 18, 2018

I'd make a fairly grand bet that this study did not make sure that bicyclists actually followed the rules of the road, being almost hit many a time in Chicago by…

Cormac McCarthy meets a MacBook

November 13, 2018

Best Cormac McCarthy tech mashup reference ever! It’s true that Apple has somewhat neglected the Mac in the last five years and is only now trying to make amends. But…

1.1.1.1

November 12, 2018

It's secure, fast, and free. This is a no brainer for connecting to the internet, set up at https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/setting-up-1.1.1.1/: 1.1.1.1 is a fast and private way to browse the Internet. It is…

Endorsements for the Joomla Community 2018 Elections

August 13, 2018

The open source web content management system (CMS) project, Joomla, is having its second biannual election this week for officers and department coordinators. Last week I wrote about who I nominated. In case…

A Call to the Joomla Community to Actively Participate in 2018 Elections

August 9, 2018

It’s that time of year again! Elections for the board of Open Source Matters, Inc. happen twice a year at 6 month intervals, and the next elections are right around the corner.…

WordPress as a Solution

April 17, 2018

WordPress has long been known as the most popular content management system around, and it is 100% open source, to boot. It is the force behind 27% of the web, including…

HostingJournalist.com had a great time

March 21, 2018

HostingJournalist.com had a great time with the people from Perfect Dashboard (and 1&1) during the ‘VIP Kitchen’ event in hotel Bell Rock in Europa-Park where CloudFest was held. Later on…

How to Increase ARPU With Existing Clients and New Customers

March 7, 2018

“Growth hacking” has been the buzzword of the past several years. As annoying as it may be for a headline in about 34.2 MM online articles, it’s popular for good…

Finalizing Your Annual Budget? Why Open Source Should Be a Line Item.

February 21, 2018

“Full technological sovereignty” has a nice ring to it. It happens to be the reason that the city of Barcelona is opting to move away from proprietary technology solutions from…

#StopThink: The State of Political Discourse in America

January 10, 2018

A quick snapshot of political discourse in 2017: “Fake News”Far LeftRight-Wing ExtremismDeplorables It’s no surprise that political discourse is as toxic was as toxic as it was in 2017. Many…