Category Steve’s Blog

I’m Trying to Understand a New Group of Publishers

For my day job, I run PublishPress, TaxoPress, and MetaSlider which produce publishing plugins for WordPress. Over the last couple of years, that work has introduced me to an exciting new movement of publishers and journalists. Because the movement is so…

Logtivity Reaches 1,000 Active Installs

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Building Logtivity

This week, Logtivity passed 1,000 active installs, as measured by the WordPress.org plugin repository. Logtivity is a SaaS service we built to track all the activity on your WordPress sites, and then sends you alerts for important events. 1,000 active…

WordPress Interview With The Repository

The Repository is probably the best regular WordPress newsletter. The team do a great job of featuring weekly news in context, featuring a wide range of quote from people in the business. They asked me five questions for a recent…

Interview With WPTavern on Gutenberg Phase 3

Phase 3 is the most interesting part of the Gutenberg project for me personally. Phase 3 will allow multiple users to interact with WordPress content at the same time. This is the Google Docs experience inside WordPress. Open up a…

From 1,000 to 1,000,000 WordPress Installs

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Building MetaSlider

Back in February 2019, I wrote a post called “Going From 1,000 to 100,000 WordPress Installs“. At that time, we were just starting our WordPress journey and made the decision to acquire some popular plugins to build the “PublishPress” brand.…