Building PublishPress – Steve Burge

January 30, 2018

We acquired Bylines to make PublishPress better

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that we’re spending a lot more time focused on WordPress in 2018.

Our primary plugin focus is PublishPress, a suite of tools enabling WordPress teams to create great content.

To make PublishPress more competitive, we acquired Bylines, from Daniel Bachhuber. By default WordPress only allows one author per post. Bylines allows you to assign multiple authors to a post and publish articles from guest authors. Continue reading “We acquired Bylines to make PublishPress better”

February 22, 2019

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”

January 15, 2018

Diving Into WordPress in 2018

I’ve been deeply involved in Joomla and Drupal for years now.

But our Joomla business is doing really well at the moment, and there’s a great team in place, running the site very effectively.

That’s giving me more time to focus on our WordPress projects this year.

There are some books of course. Genesis Explained is very close to launch, and WordPress Explained is getting a major update. Continue reading “Diving Into WordPress in 2018”

February 12, 2018

Interview with Post Status about PublishPress

Post Status published an interview with me that covered a range of WordPress-related topics:

How ridiculously competitive the WordPress space is.
The deal to purchase Bylines and where we’re going with PublishPress.
Our new training-marketing focus at OSTraining.
Gutenberg being a huge roll of the dice for WordPress.

Many thanks to Dan Knauss for bearing with me and shaping these answers into something readable.

Post Status is one of the leading sources for WordPress news. It’s well worth the membership for their newsletter and their members-only Slack channel.