The SEO Rapper is seriously one-of-a-kind and the CMS rap is amazing and you know he speaks truth about WordPress! Heck, he even rapped at a WordCamp once! At some point I need to meet this guy in person. A little light entertainment for your Wednesday snooze-fest at work – come on folks, we’re half-way there! More of his quality spittin’ after the jump – I’m digging the Pagerank one especially:

It’s no secret that we’re super-fans of Automattic, Inc. and WordPress. We kind of bleed this stuff, you know? And we’re not alone in that as many of you are fanatics as well! But we try our very best to be critical of what we report on and unbiased in our approach – it’s a line we toe every single day but the tension, as they say, is a good one. One of the things that I do besides edit this blog and write like it’s going out of style is help my team grow as a startup and organization […]

As commercial theme providers continue to innovate and experiment with their business models and find solutions that meet their demanding customer needs I like to canvas and call-out implementations that are both creative and clever. For instance, many commercial theme providers have a customer showcase where they share some of their “best” customers who have developed or designed off the base theme into a stunning beauty and wonder. Or, they will share some marquee clients and customers who are either big name individuals or companies that are using their product. All of this is with the intent of not only […]

As we continue to think about how we are going to grow WP Daily in a way that makes sense for both us, as a business, and our users and community, we’re taking a critical look at existing monetization models as well as beginning to strategize about creating new ones. The fact is that blog monetization isn’t anything new and most advertising and revenue generation has been well documented as well as tested and vetted so I’m not going to hash out the extensive different models and whether or not they will work for us but I did want to […]

From time to time I like to sneak a peak into what other WordCamps and Meetups are doing, especially in the different parts of the world. Part of it is just simply morbid curiosity – I like to see what others are doing with WordPress, and the other part is a fascination with culture and the varieties that I’ve encountered throughout my life. One of the reasons for this is because of the fact that I’ve spent a good deal of time living in other parts of the world when I was a child and growing up and it’s something […]

Not today, but soon. Perhaps as early as March or early April. But it’s coming. Aaron Jorbin has been working hard at collecting, curating, and sharing best practices when it comes to meetup groups and all of this time and attention has been to align all WordPress-centric groups so that the best experience can be had by all. One of the things that had been rolled out in the last few months is the aggregation and consolidation of a number of Meetup Groups under the WordPress Foundation Meetup.com account. Practically-speaking, this just saved the organizers a few bucks for the […]

Every week I share a few thoughts via a simple email newsletter to our WP Daily Contributors and I share with them a little more detail as to what we’re doing behind the scenes as well as to encourage them in their own publishing efforts. They are a great group and I’m so thankful to already have a growing and robust contributor group! They are the source of energy and power behind a lot of what we do here and we need to thank them even more for their work! As a result, we’re starting to create a “HEART Contributors” program […]

WooThemes has announced that they are now partnering with Codeables as a strategic outsourcing team to help do much of the custom design and development work that is often thrown at the WooThemes team directly. This makes an incredible amount of sense and is something that most, if not all, premium theme companies (and free distributors of themes and plugins) face: The onslaught of requests for custom work. Knowing this from first-hand experience I believe that what WooThemes has done is both strategic and wise in terms of their own resources focusing their time on their core products instead of […]