I joined Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, and Piccia Neri for episode 305 of This Week in WordPress on WP Builds, subtitled “Subscribe to the Pool Party.” We covered WordCamp scheduling changes in the Netherlands, WordPress event sponsorship, and the latest news from across the WordPress ecosystem.
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This Week in WordPress #305 on WP Builds
I joined Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, and Piccia Neri for episode 305 of This Week in WordPress on WP Builds, subtitled “Subscribe to the Pool Party.” We covered WordCamp scheduling changes, WordPress event sponsorship, and the latest news from across the WordPress ecosystem.
Lessons Learned from Building Successful Plugins in the WordPress Space on Do the Woo
I was a guest on the Do the Woo podcast with BobWP to talk about lessons learned from building a suite of successful WordPress plugins. We covered how the PublishPress plugin family grew, the challenges of acquiring and integrating new plugins, and what I’ve learned about serving a dedicated community of WordPress publishers and content teams.
Lessons Learned from Building Successful Plugins on Do the Woo
I joined BobWP on the Do the Woo podcast to share lessons from building a suite of successful WordPress plugins — how the PublishPress family grew, the challenges of acquiring new plugins, and what I’ve learned serving a community of WordPress publishers.
Publishers Still Choose WordPress on WP Minute
I joined the WP Minute to discuss why publishers continue to choose WordPress over competing platforms. Despite newer publishing tools, WordPress remains the platform of choice for serious content operations — and I shared my perspective on why that’s unlikely to change.
Insights from Editorial Plugin Makers on Multicollab
The Multicollab team invited me to share insights from building editorial plugins for WordPress. As the team behind PublishPress — a suite focused on content scheduling, permissions, and workflows — we discussed the challenges in the WordPress editorial space and where collaboration tools are heading.
This Week in WordPress #240 on WP Builds
I joined Nathan Wrigley and the WP Builds panel for episode 240 of This Week in WordPress, covering the latest news and developments from the WordPress community.
We launched RoleUp for Onboarding and Offboarding WordPress Users
Over the years, we’ve built a lot of WordPress plugins. Recently we’ve experimenting with SaaS platforms for WordPress.
First was Watchful which is a site maintenance service.
Next was Logtivity which is a monitoring service for WordPress agencies.
This month, we’ve launched RoleUp. This a platform to onboard and offboard users from a lot of WordPress sites. You can see a preview of the RoleUp dashboard in the image below:
Continue reading “We launched RoleUp for Onboarding and Offboarding WordPress Users”Logtivity Charts Got Much Better with Chart.js and Date Range Picker
Logtivity is a WordPress activity log that we launched this summer. Not only can you track all the activity on your site, but with Logtivity you can also turn that information into beautiful and useful charts.
We use the charts all the time in our other business. You can use these charts to show logins, purchases, subscriptions, cancellations, downloads, or any other key events.
Logtivity charts just got a lot better because you can customise the date range for charts. Your charts are updated with advanced date ranges, so you can zoom in to view any time period.
Continue reading “Logtivity Charts Got Much Better with Chart.js and Date Range Picker”Some Big Life Changes
Last July, I turned 40. For some people that’s not a huge milestone, but for me it was. I felt stale and in need of fresh challenges.
So from last summer to this summer, I worked on making changes. Some things happened: I bought out my main business partner and made a significant move into WordPress. But, by-and-large, it was a year of slow negotiations, many discussions and lots of tire-kicking. I even sat for my first job interview in 15 years, before realizing that was the wrong direction.
Continue reading “Some Big Life Changes”Going From 1,000 to 100,000 WordPress Installs
Looking back over the last 18 months, most of the posts on this blog have been about acquisitions. This post has a summary of them all.
I should blog more about other things, but the acquisitions have kept me busy!
Continue reading “Going From 1,000 to 100,000 WordPress Installs”We’re adopting more extensions at Joomlashack
Over at Joomlashack, we’ve hit on a business model that is working well.
Over the last couple of years, we’ve adopted 6 extensions: JCal Pro, jInbound, Shack Forms, Shack Toolbox, Shack Open Graph, and Tabs and Sliders.
A few weeks ago, we announced the arrival of 5 more extensions. This week saw the arrival of Shack Locations.
Oh, and we’ve adopted WordPress plugins too with Bylines and UpStream.
Joomla and WordPress are mature markets and some developers are leaving after 10+ years. We think that adopting code is a win for everyone. In the past, developers had limited options if they wanted to stop work on their extensions. If they made an official announcement, they had to deal with unhappy users. To avoid this, sometimes the developers would just disappear. In contrast, a smooth adoption leads to a great outcome for the developers and users.
I suspect we’ll adopt more Joomla extensions in the future, and more WordPress plugins too.
Update: We did indeed adopt more. See this post on going from 1,000 to 100,000 WordPress installs.