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“Become the best version of yourself.” An Interview with Rich Tabor

Rich Tabor is transitioning to a new role now as Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience with GoDaddy. In the past three years, Rich founded a digital agency, launched a popular PhotoShop...

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An Interview with Reyes Martínez of Frontity — a new WordPress framework

Previously known as Worona, Madrid-based Frontity is close to launching their eponymous public beta, described on Github as both “an alternative rendering engine for WordPress,” and “a React framework...

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Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the team led by Brent Shepherd, and the makers of the largest WooCommerce extension, WooCommerce Subscriptions. The acquisition secures a future for Subscriptions...

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WCEU 2019 in Review

All the talks and panels at WCEU were planned and executed well, but there were a few standouts we’ll highlight, in case you weren’t able to watch the entire livestream. Friday Highlights Jenny...

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Preserving the Wilderness

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray      from the straight road and woke to find myself      alone in a dark wood. —Dante's Inferno, John Ciardi's translation If you’ve been trying to follow...

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WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance

This post is available below by text, and Jonathan and Brian talked about it for a podcast episode as well. They are additive to one another. Ben Thompson recently wrote about Shopify and the Power of...

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Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased Tumblr

Automattic — which owns WordPress.com — has acquired Tumblr and about 200 employees from Verizon, according to The Wall Street Journal and confirmed in Post Status Slack by Automattic CEO Matt...

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Is Tumblr a social network?

What the heck is Tumblr, anyway? I’ve never done a particularly deep dive into the platform, though it is recently relevant for my line of work. I created a Tumblr back when WordPress was debating...

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Chat with a WordPress skeptic

I talked with Kira Leigh, a full-stack creative entrepreneur and consultant. Skeptic may be too strong of a word, but she makes it clear that she thinks WordPress is too often used when it’s not...

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Salesforce Ventures invests $300 million in Automattic, at a $3 billion...

Salesforce Ventures is the investment arm of Salesforce. Prior to this investment in Automattic, Salesforce Ventures had announced $875 million raised across 11 fund initiatives — but none that...

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Matt Mullenweg’s State of the Word, 2019

WordCamp US 2019 is taking place for the first time in St. Louis, Missouri, where more than 1,300 WordPress community members and leaders are gathered. It’s been the year of Gutenberg in 2019, and in...

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A Teenage Woman’s Perspective On The State of The Word

Hello everyone! This year I got the chance to go to the State of the Word, which is a talk given by Matt Mullenweg each year at WordCamp US (WCUS). Here are my thoughts and views on this year’s State...

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Scott Bolinger on WordPress, JAMstack, and the future of the independent...

In this episode, Scott and I dig into his experience as an indie developer within the WordPress landscape. Scott has long used JavaScript as a core technology with AppPresser. I think he's on the...

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Introducing a new chapter, with Cory Miller as Post Status partner

I created Post Status in January 2013 and started the Club in January 2015. January 2020 marks another huge milestone for this community and business. I’m very excited to share that Cory Miller is now...

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Working on multiple things, and working with partners

A lot of folks in the WordPress economy, whether employed with a side hustle or self-employed, manage multiple things. Also, many of us work with partners, or are interested in partnerships. Cory has...

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Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive’s acquisition of All In One SEO

Syed Balkhi joins me to discuss the acquisition of AIO SEO. All in One SEO is one of the most widely used plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, with more than two million installs. In the announcement...

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Elementor has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

Elementor has seen explosive growth in their WordPress-based page building application since its release in May 2016, now boasting more than 4 million installs of the free version of the plugin. The...

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WooCommerce Payments offers a more unified eCommerce experience, better...

WooCommerce Payments is now available to select merchants who apply to the program. It's a big step for WooCommerce toward establishing stronger SaaS-like feature parity with Shopify. Built using...

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The benefits of Masterminds

Ken Wallace runs Mastermind Jam, which according to the website, “gives you everything you need to join, create, and manage your mastermind group, all without having to waste time cobbling together a...

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Taking care of your mental health in uncertain times, with Dr. Sherry Walling

Dr. Sherry Walling is a psychologist and entrepreneur, adept at, “helping smart people do hard things.” She was gracious to talk in a Post Status Webinar with Cory Miller, about how to navigate life...

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