In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss some of the major headlines of the past two weeks. We talk about the unprecedented move by the Theme Review Team to suspend Zerif Lite from the theme directory leaving 300K users without a way to get updates. We share what’s new in Edit Flow 0.8.2 and the troubles …
Tom Auger and Greg Mount of Agency Chat Discuss Headway Themes and Relying on Third-Party Tools
Agency Chat is a weekly 30 minute show hosted by Greg Mount of Pasada Media, Tom Auger from Art & Science, and Andy McIlwain that discusses trends and challenges relevant to digital agencies. On the episode that aired September 14th, Mount and Auger discussed the Headway Themes situation and how integral communication is when it comes to running a digital business. “You can do whatever you want …
Headway Themes Confirms Financial Difficulties, Issues Apology to Customers
Headway Themes publicly apologized to its customers on the company’s blog this evening for a lack of communication, the decline in support, and the extensive issues with the most recent 4.0 release. To say the past couple of months have been tough for you, in particular, and us, is an understatement. We’re writing today to communicate with you as best …
Former Headway Themes Employee Goes Public: Staff Has Not Been Paid and Customers Are Not Receiving Support
As of last week, Headway Themes customers are still not receiving support for the products they purchased and co-founders Grant and Clay Griffiths have yet to communicate via email or the company’s blog. Support is frozen and customers and employees have been jilted, while Headway Themes continues to keep the product available for purchase. The founders have remained silent on …
Customers Still in the Dark Concerning the Future of Headway Themes
Back on August 10th, we wrote about the uncertainty of Headway Theme’s future amid a lack of communication, ability to provide support, and possible financial troubles. The article prompted customers to reach out on social media to Grant and Clay Griffiths, co-founders of the company, to find out what’s going on. On August 20th, Red Robot Web Design sent the …
In Case You Missed It – Issue 14
photo credit: Night Moves – (license) There’s a lot of great WordPress content published in the community but not all of it is featured on the Tavern. This post is an assortment of items related to WordPress that caught my eye but didn’t make it into a full post. Terrible Software John James Jacoby explains why he thinks today’s software …