I don’t write fluff pieces. I call ’em like I see ’em. If your project is a dumpster fire, I’m going to say it’s a dumpster fire. Whenever someone comes to me in hopes that I review their product, I give them some form of the preceding paragraph. It doesn’t matter if it is a plugin, theme, web host, or …
Chilean News Publication El Soberano First to Launch on Newspack
El Soberano homepage on the Newspack platform. Nine months after the announcement of Newspack by WordPress.com, the Chilean news site El Soberano became the first publication to launch on the new platform. On October 16, the small news team relaunched with a fresh design powered by the Newspack theme and its newsroom-focused plugins. Newspack is a project of Automattic, the …
Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, and various other products, announced earlier today that Mark Davies has joined the team as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This news comes fresh off the heels of Automattic’s acquisition of Tumblr in August and a $300 million Series D investment from Salesforce Ventures in September. The investment round gave the company a $3 …
Is Your Brand Engaging or Intrusive?
A brief guide to developing constructive consumer relationships.
A [Free] WordPress Launch Checklist You Can’t Afford To Miss
Website launch day should be about celebrating and congratulating, not stressing and scrambling. To help you avoid oversights and embarrassing mistakes, we’ve put together this WordPress website launch checklist to ensure your (or your client’s) website stands out from day one. The urge to rush a new website launch can be tempting. The development stage is over, you’ve done the …
Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin
Kioken Blocks creator Onur Oztaskiran is teaming up with Niklas Jurij Plessing, a Berlin-based developer and author of the Gutenslider plugin, to improve both products under the same roof. Oztaskiran said the partnership is not an acquisition but rather a unification of efforts that may eventually result in combining under the same name. “Our short term plan is to work …
Building a Brand With One of the World's Best Rebounders
Check out this wide-ranging conversation with NBA star Dennis Rodman.
How To Create a Google Analytics WordPress Plugin To Start Using Today
Want to create a plugin for Google Analytics tracking in WordPress? Here’s how to get your plugin created today! Adding Google Analytics to your WordPress site will help you track who’s been visiting your site, what they’ve been looking at, and how they got there. The simplest and easiest way to do this is to install a Google Analytics WordPress …
Meetup.com Introduces RSVP Fees for Members, WordPress Meetup Groups Unaffected by Pricing Changes
Meetup, a subsidiary of WeWork, has announced a significant change to its pricing structure that will require members to pay a $2 fee in order to RSVP to events. The change will go into effect in October, ostensibly to distribute meetup costs more evenly between organizers and members. Some meetup organizers have received the following message: Meetup is always looking …
8 Must-Haves When Adding eCommerce to Your WordPress Site
Thinking of using WordPress for eCommerce? In this post, we show you what to look for, what you will need, and what to avoid. WordPress is an all-round solution, offering so much more than a robust content management system (CMS). No longer just the choice for bloggers, you can now add WordPress eCommerce features and build a beautiful, responsive, and functional …