Over the weekend WordPress co-creator and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg called out Wix for copying GPL code from the WordPress mobile app and distributing it in its proprietary app. He identified two repositories that Wix forked in order to bring the GPL-licensed WordPress Rich Text Editor into its app. “If I were being charitable, I’d say, ‘The app’s editor is …
Top Signs Your Brand Strategy Is Losing Focus
How can you tell when your brand is losing focus and what can be done to remedy the situation? Here are warning signs. View original post at Entrepreneur…
8 Must-Do Steps for Securing and Hardening Your WordPress Website
Imagine with me for a moment that you’re a hacker looking for ways to hijack reputable websites and use them to funnel unsuspecting traffic to a nefarious phishing scam. How would you target websites for maximum impact? One option would be to locate and target a single vulnerability that affects hundreds or thousands of sites. If such a thing could …
WordPress 4.7 Removes the Underline and Justify Buttons From the Editor
Back in August, we highlighted potential changes to the WordPress editor that would improve the user experience. The team has since implemented some of the suggestions outlined in ticket #27159 into WordPress 4.7, including rearranging some of the toolbar buttons. The headers drop-down menu is now in the top row of buttons while the strikethrough and horizontal rule buttons are …
WordPress Careers Masterclass: Selling a Service (Client Work)
Have you thought about making money with WordPress by selling a service? In other words, working with clients to provide them with a service such as a consultancy, or a more tangible outcome like a website? Welcome to the third post in this series on how to build a successful career with WordPress. In the first post in this series, we …
WPWeekly Episode 252 – Flywheel Hosting Three Years Later
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Dusty Davidson, co-founder and CEO of Flywheel, a managed WordPress hosting company that caters to agencies and designers. Davidson last appeared on the show three years ago when the company had yet to launch to the public. In the interview, Davidson tells us what he’s learned in …
Why Your Brand Should Establish a Meaningful Social Purpose
Aligning your social purpose with the identity of your brand will give it vital credibility. View original post at Entrepreneur…
10 Fun Ways to Halloween-ify Your WordPress Site
Halloween is one of the best times of year to shake things up and have some fun. If you love this time of year as much as I do, then you’ve already decorated your house and office with cobwebs, candy bowls, and crazy-spooky characters. But who says spreading the Halloween spirit needs to stop there? If you run a WordPress …
The Challenges of Organizing a WordCamp From Abroad
Earlier this year, a WordCamp incubator program was created to help three cities establish their first WordCamp. After receiving 182 applications, the three cities selected for the program were: Denpasar, Indonesia Harare, Zimbabwe Medellín, Colombia WordCamp Medellín is scheduled for November 5th and is the first of the three incubator events to take place. Andrea Middleton, Community Organizer for the WordPress open source project, …
Running a Subscription Business? ChartMogul is *Amazing* (And We’ve Scored You $600 Off!)
We’ve just solved the hardest problem we’ve had for years: easily and accurately working out, displaying and digging into our Software as a Service (SaaS) metrics…. and it’s all thanks to ChartMogul. Honestly, we’ve never found a better tool for simply hooking into your payment providers (for us, Stripe and PayPal, but they also support Braintree, Recurly, Chargify and more) …