ZippyKid shared an announcement yesterday that I had to sit on for a moment to understand exactly what the big deal was (if there was any big deal to be had). Vid Luther, founder of ZippyKid shared that they are no longer supporting Wishlist Member for a number of reasons: Performance: Once a membership site goes around 20,000 members and about 100 concurrent sessions, the system starts to bog down. Lack of Transparency: They can’t see the code, so they can’t find ways to improve it. Support: The support for the product is non-responsive Caching: Wishlist works better with APC object […]

This is fantastic news that came across our wire late yesterday as we received word that WP101, the well-known WordPress tutorial site, has released their tutorials in spanish. The challenge was obvious as they had once considered just doing subtitles instead of a true voiceover but to give that authentic feel they decided to invest in the latter:

I’m passionate about personal branding because I believe it’s an important part of building a successful business online. Why? Because people are interested in following people, not just an organization. That’s why you see more people follow (literally) founders of organizations instead of the official company Twitter account. That’s why you get personal blogs that scale way faster and larger than corporate blogs. It’s all about branding and communicating out of being a person, being human. After all, we don’t want to connect with our products – we want to connect with other people.

The WordPress Managed Hosting world is getting even bigger players, like DreamHost which has just announced a new WordPress-specific hosting option called DreamPress: DreamPress is a highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service that comes pre-configured to stand up to higher traffic loads and serve up server-intensive themes and plugins. This means it’s engineered for speed, advanced security, excellent reliability, and ease of use – all features that were created to make your lives easier! So, what do you get Bob for your money’s worth?

With over 60 new features to the new back-end admin existing Shopify users will be in for a real treat (if they haven’t already enjoyed the experience already). Although they’ve been in active beta their announcement this morning brings the new features full-bore for the world to experience and use. The customers on the front-end won’t know any difference but shop owners will without question. A few features of note:

The guys over at WPMU are changing things up a bit, literally, as they’ve announced a new pricing for their premium service that’s going to see an increase for membership. It’s a change that’s been a long time in the making since the last time they updated their pricing was a literal 4 years ago: We’re going to remove quarterly and annual accounts – from next week all new accounts will be monthly only. And as a result a monthly account with unlimited updates and support to unlimited domains and the top end support you are used to now will […]

Oh yes, and before we start CNN, please use a CAPITAL “P” on WordPress (see featured image)! A few things of note with this interview:

Want to be inspired today? Want to reassess your excuse for not blogging and publishing? Then you need to check out John McKennas and Yan Zhang’s presentation on how WordPress is inspiring diversity and how he’s gone beyond the wheelchair to impact thousands. I love this via John early in the presenation: WordPress has enabled people to have a voice. Is there any more clearer of a truth? It doesn’t matter where you are and how you were born:

Just as we had shared previously about the upcoming release it’s finally here and many of you have already downloaded and updated your apps on your iDevices. 3.6 boasts a crazy-new UI and it’s one that may herald a significant uptick of usage (hopefully) as the overall mobile experience is deemed more appropriate and better by the masses. Because not only is the design updated, the experience of getting your blog setup and ready to publish is also updated (and better) as well:

Obviously WordPress themes make up much of the WP ecosystem and have contributed significantly to the crazy-growth that we’ve seen even in the past few years. They also provide and incredible way to earn money, even part-time if you’d like, giving you ways to profit off client and consulting work or even building a business around one (or two). Heck, stories like this may become more common place as people build success stories around WordPress. Love it or hate it you have to admit – WordPress theming business is one killer business to be a part of. Oh, and you can […]