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.
Over on the KinshiPress blog, I wrote about the new connection between ActivityPub and WordPress. During the last few years, social networks have been splintering and it would be a major improvement for social users to have control over their own profile on their own site. Over 10 years ago, I wrote a post with this title: “There is an Open Source Rival to Facebook: WordPress“. In the last decade, the potential I described hasn’t been realized. In that post, I walk you though how the ActivityPub plugin works, explore the key features, and see whether this is finally the…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 document, click a button and share that document with others. Those with the correct permissions can interact with you in real time, and you can see the amendments they’re making in real-time. I chatted about Phase 3 with Nathan Wrigley at WPTavern. We talked about why this a necessary update to WordPress, but also why it’s such a difficult feat…
At Logtivity we aim solve problems faced by WordPress agencies, or anyone else who is in charge of lots of WordPress sites. One problem that agencies kept talking about was error logs. It’s often very difficult for them to view error logs for WordPress sites. Some hosting companies require you to contact them, and a few days later, they’ll send you the logs! With Logtivity 2.0, you’ll always have instant access to view the errors, because we host your error logs. I’ve attached a screenshot below.