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.
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? [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 (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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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. [...]
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 😉) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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." [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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? [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ...
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 ...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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" - [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Lots of front and behind the scenes action going on in open source over the last few weeks. Everything from money to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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. [...]
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) [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
#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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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
Readings to start the day! (DevOps) Protect WordPress (ZDnet) Hackers and favicon (WP Tavern) Blogs and Censorship (Vox) Pentagon UFOs (Engadget) Secure video calls
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
(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) [...]
(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" [...]
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 (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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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) [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
(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) [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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! [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
