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Show Notes: Host Jason Cohen is the founder of WP Engine, and before that he founded Smart Bear and IT WatchDogs. He’s started 4 companies that grew to more than $1m in revenue, both bootstrapped and funded. He has 50,000 subscribers to his blog about early-stage startups: blog.asmartbear.com You can find him on twitter @asmartbear, on his website, and at wpengine.com. Sippin’ On Brad – Captain Morgan Dre – Nice, Smooth H2O Jason – Parkway Cocktail Interview Forecasting a Startup Cohen suggested that you want to have a clear idea how a new hire will add x more value than their salary. He indicated that […]

Show Notes Host The guest host of Episode #23 was Brian Richards. What were they sippin’ on? Brian and Dre were drinking water. Brad was drinking a chub soda. How did the host get into WordPress? Brian has been working with WordPress since 2007 (version 2.3) and has done a lot of fun and interesting things with it since then. In 2010, he shared his starter theme framework, StartBox, with the world. In 2012, he joined the ranks of WebDevStudios, where he had the privilege of working on many cool projects. In 2013, he launched WPSessions.com, a site focused on […]

Show Notes Host Matt Medeiros, creator of the Matt Report. Matt can be found at @mattreport How the Matt got started in WordPress Matt was a product manager for a local ISP. They purchased a WebDev company that was a Drupal shop. He took over the support team. Commandeered the Drupal team. They moved into WordPress. Matt left the company and started a company with my father. What they are sipping? Brad – Chub soda, cherry vodka and club soda Dre – Big ole’ bucket of water Matt – Linenkugle summer shandy Pressing Topics WordPress.com introduces WordPress.com Connect. Allows users to […]

Torque is honored to be able to offer to our readers a unique resource: The WP Daily Archives. It was quite a shock to the community when WP Daily withdrew so suddenly, and many people were disappointed. It was one thing that the site itself was calling it a day, but pulling down the content entirely created quite a stir. We at Torque – in the middle of a planning our own launch – just couldn’t stand by and watch all of that influential material disappear into a vortex, never to be seen again. We realized that we quite possibly […]

There has been much thought and feedback over the last day about what will happen to WP Daily. Please know that we have a plan in place! We are going to put the site back online for archiving purposes for the community. Please know that there will be other announcements in the very near future about the long-term plan for WP Daily, but until then all editorial will be halted and no new posts shall be published. Thank you for your patience and we’re very excited about the future of not only this site but the great content and legacy […]