Now that would be a mega-first. It seems like they are hinting at that with their recent hire of COO Heather Brunner, from Bazaarvoice, a technology company also located in Austin, TX: With Brunner’s addition to WP Engine, the WordPress-focused service will be gaining someone with experience helping to lead a company into an IPO. Ben Metcalfe, one of WP Engine’s co-founders, tells us that should the company go that route, it would be the first time a company went public based around the popular blogging platform. She will be charged with growing the company from its 46 employees today […]

Some of you might find this funny – and we’re a few days past April Fools so you don’t have to overly offended! This time it’s via  Atlassian.

I read a great article by Bill Robbins this morning via Poststatus who shared a few common myths when running and creating a successful WordPress Theme business. In his myth-busting blog post he shared these three myths: It’s Passive Income – Obviously there’s nothing passive about building a business. I have no idea how this myth even exists. If You Build It They Will Buy It – Again, debunked. There is no guarantee that anyone will want to buy your theme or your product. Kiss Client Work Goodbye – A personal choice but just because you have a theme business doesn’t […]

We enjoy “doing things up” a bit here at WP Daily and we love having great fun with family, friends, and pretty much anyone who loves WordPress. WordCamp Atlanta 2013 seems like it was forever ago but that’s probably because we’ve been so freaking busy since the conference ended, getting back into the grind and trying to catch up on all that time that we lost planning the event! One thing we were still waiting on was a set of photos from our VIP / Sponsor Afterparty that included a photobooth – and they finally arrived yesterday for us to […]

VIP has been doing great this year with more and more clients coming on board to join the ranks of elite VIP customers (see a few new companies that joined here). They are continuing to innovate and share their experiences (have you signed up for the VIP Dev Workshop?!) with others. They recently shared that Time, Inc., one of their larger VIP clients, made history with their 100,000th commit: Our WordPress.com VIP clients commit and deploy code daily, and often development teams will commit several times a day to keep up with their changing site features and improvements. We do several […]

I’ll come right out and say it – I’m not a fan of Evernote. I know, I know. Keep your sticks and rocks to yourself! I just haven’t found it to be conducive to my particular workflow and to be honest I’m not interested in keeping and documenting everything – there is something powerful about forgetting information but I won’t go into that right now. But, for those that are super-fans may want to take a moment out of their day and take a look at this new app that allows you to literally blog via Evernote. And after spending a […]

I had to, I’m sorry. I found a very old interview featuring Scott Berkun who was asked the following question (and his response): Which words or phrases do you most overuse?  My friends would say its mother*****r. But I don’t think this word can be overused. My type of guy.

Envato piqued our interest a little while back when they were sharing that they had a new project lined up for creative services and it’s finally here. Microlancer, a “fast and affordable” creative services offering is not all that unlike the very popular 99Designs where designers can bid on creative work. But there are some key differences and the biggest one is that you get to choose the designer or provider before you start developing your creative brief. In other words, you can check out the providers first and then move forward strongly with one in mind. There are natural benefits […]

Today has been light for a number of reasons – the first being that we’re getting back into the swing of things from a major holiday and very few of us actually did any work (and writing). The second is because, starting at 3:30am this morning, I found myself driving up to Greenville, SC from Atlanta and would spend most of my day there. I was spending some time mentoring and coaching the second cohort at The Iron Yard, a technology incubator and accelerator. I had the distinct pleasure of coaching the first cohort as well and many of those […]

In the words of our technical editor, https://twitter.com/tommcfarlin/status/318674262581968896 It’s true – April Fools’ day was once a pretty cool thing with clever pranks and bogus PR releases that tricked thousands. Now it’s turned into just another marketing tactic to get a few more eyeballs on a company, product, or service. It’s overplayed, overdone, and the “genius” of it all is all but completely gone. I’m sure I will, at some point, walk through a recap or roundup of the “Best April Fool’s Jokes of 2013!!!!!!!!!!11111111111” somewhere on Mashable or another similar social media site but at this point I think […]