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.
We’re Now Running Logtivity, the WordPress Activity Log
Logtivity is now part of the team that runs PublishPress, MetaSlider, and TaxoPress.
Back in 2021, I told the story of how we became part-owners of Logtivity. And over the last couple of years, I’ve been running Logtivity with my business partner, Ralph Morris. Our aim was to build the best activity log service for WordPress.
During 2023, Ralph’s time has been squeezed between a new job and a growing family. Although 2023 was incredibly productive for Logtivity, we talked at the end of the year and Ralph realized he was over-committed. He needed to recover some of his time. So we agreed to an ownership change. Although we had previously been a minority partner, our team will take over the running of Logtivity.
This process was a little more complicated than we expected because Ralph is in the UK and we’re in the US. The takeover involved closing a UK company and opening a new US company. Stripe doesn’t allow you to move accounts between countries, so we need to migrate all the accounts from one Stripe account to another.
It’s time for our team to get to work and keep working to build the best activity log for WordPress.
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.
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 new, I’ve struggled to define it and haven’t seen many other people talking about it.
The solution? I’ve been blogging through it. For about 18 months, I’ve been writing at KinshiPress, featuring these new publishers as I find.
Continue reading “I’m Trying to Understand a New Group of Publishers”We Acquired the Tag Groups Plugin to Join TaxoPress
This is slightly old news, but worth recapping. Late in 2022, we acquired the acquired the Tag Groups plugin and added it to TaxoPress.com.
We first launched TaxoPress because there was a gap in the market. There were no good WordPress plugins to help you organize and categorize your content.
The only existing plugin I could find was called “Tag Groups, which had been created by a developer named Christoph Amthor. This was a really useful plugin that allows you to display and filter content based on taxonomy terms.
Continue reading “We Acquired the Tag Groups Plugin to Join TaxoPress”Logtivity Reaches 1,000 Active Installs
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 installs is both a small deal and quite a big deal.
Continue reading “Logtivity Reaches 1,000 Active Installs”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 edition.
Continue reading “WordPress Interview With The Repository”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.