I’m a super-fan of startups and spend as much time with other startups that I possibly can – even last night I was with our local Atlanta iOS Meetup group and we talked, among other things, starting an iOS-based company. (Yes, it’s totally ok for WordPressers to have passions outside the WordPress-centric software development world! You knew that, of course…) But the startup world is seeing more and more WordPress-related ventures and that’s super-exciting because it means that WordPress is getting the attention that it deserves in many respects as being a viable business foundation for entrepreneurs and startup heads. The principles […]
Open for Voting: A Better Planet Feed
We’ve covered this initiative previously and I’m excited to see that Oli’s continuing to build steam and make good on his promise to deliver a better feed and curated experience for everyone. Now, he’s opened up some voting for including a few other notable blogs, like the following: WP Force Pippins Plugins Chris Lema Winning WP Bob WP WP Teach Matt Report WP Daily Themes I am personally a fan of a few of these and not a super-fan of others but the community will ultimately decide.
Smashing Library Deal – 20% Off!
I’ve been a fan of Smashing Magazine for a long time and most of their stuff is, well, just smashing I suppose! I had too, I’m sorry. They’ve got a sweet deal on their entire library right now for $79 – yeah, that’s right, for $79. That’s an insane deal on some killer content:
A New Dash for WPcom, and Windows Phone 2.2?!
Things are being put together quickly this week and launched as a new WordPress.com dashboard has been released publicly (which many of you have already experienced). So, the question is: How do you like it?
Introducing: The WordPress Pros Network
We’ve been noodling over this concept for a while now and even introduced the idea months ago among our contributors who always get a bit of an inside scoop to what we’re doing at WP Daily (another great reason to contribute, I might add). If you’ve been around for some time then you’ve seen another version of this somewhere else, a long time ago. We’re bringing the concept back and taking a stab at it with another MVP, just like our Job Board that was launched a few weeks ago (that’s doing awesome, btw, thanks for asking)! Take a look:
Will Ghost Pick Up Where WordPress Left Off?
In an already-fast circulating article John O’Nolan shares via FastCompany his candid thoughts on how Ghost is going to “pick up the mantle” that WordPress has put down: There is no longer such a strong notion that WordPress is “just a blogging platform,” because it’s actually no longer a blogging platform at all. Matt Mullenweg himself now says that the future of WordPress is as a “web operating system.” The state of online publishing is clear. All around us we see new platforms popping up, growing, and trying to fill the very large shoes which WordPress has left behind. These […]
ProcessWire: An Award Winning OS CMS
Have you heard of ProcessWire? I’ve heard of it a number of times as it’s crossed my desk and I’ve continued to ignore it somewhat as I’ve had more pressing things (get it…?) to attend to. But the darn thing won’t die and keeps winning awards – so at long last I was able to sit down with it this past weekend and just walk through some of the demo videos and documentation. The result? Mixed. But, comparing it to WordPress I’ve found a lot that I like about it, especially since WordPress has transitioned from calling itself strictly a […]
WooCommerce and the 1M Downloads
Nothing but love and much congratulations to the WooThemes team on continuing to develop a product worth downloading. Isn’t that the neat thing about open source? You can entirely validate, at least generally speaking, the quality and success of a product by just looking at the sheer number of downloads. Sure, downloads is just one of many signals of success and especially quality, but if you back that up with an established company with a brand that’s worth noting, it just represents all-around goodness.
TeslaThemes Now 2 Months Old, Still Here
And that’s a good thing. Sure, no one’s going to quit a new theme club or theme company within the first month or two but it can be very apparent very quick whether or not any traction is being created as this world can be scary, yo! TeslaThemes, which announced their coming out April 17th is still here and continuing to release their themes as they had originally planned: One new theme a month. A simple strategy that’s been tested already a few times.
Want Advertisements in Jetpack's Carousel?
Oh wow, you can! For those that are monetizing sites or helping others monetize their WordPress-powered sites then you know that advertising is a very large and important part of their venture. Although there are many ways in which you can monetize a site effectively and that have proven to work it’s sometimes the more difficult strategies that prove to be the most effective. Why don’t most people do them then? Because they are just that, more difficult, costly, and requires more things like A/B testing to prove effective.
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