An email was sent out by Jen Mylo who’s helping to organize the killer WordPress 10th Anniversary Party(ies) that are being coming in a short 10 days! It appears that not only is there going to be a killer #WP10 website, as shared by Jen and David Bisset where they are going to pull in extracting images and tweets and instagram posts that use the #WP10 hashtag during the event and display them live on the site. You can see David’s GitHub repo for more information if you’d like to contribute and help out. The design of the site isn’t completed […]

Now that’s a pretty sweet stat, isn’t it? We shared how there’s an uptick of the top 100 blogs out there that are using WordPress and one of the better known agencies, 10up, apparently supports 8% of those top 100 blogs! Of those listed, 10up has on their roster the likes of TechCrunch, 9to5mac, Deadline, Consumerist, and Hip2Save among others. Now that’s a killer client list if you ask me!

Adobe Muse is a new product that’s part of the Creative Cloud bundle from Adobe that allows for easy creation of websites as well as in-browser editing, and many other interesting features. It was brought up as a potential alternative to WordPress – really? Let’s see about that.

The title is my lame Thursday afternoon attempt at some humor but as I read it over and over again in my head it makes less and less sense, so I’ll go ahead and hit the publish button before I go insane. Via Bronson Quick, it appears that Google App Engine has launched their PHP runtime during I/O so that you can run WordPress directly on App Engine itself. They’ve even got a tutorial already live so that you can learn how to deploy a simple WordPress installation to the Cloud Platform. Make note, the tutorial assumes you know what you’re doing […]

Seven trenchcoat-clad executives walked single file through the front doors of the café where I was seated. I stood to wave them over to our table. At the time, I was working for a non-profit organization, and we were building a new software product. I had spent weeks vetting developers, and this trechcoat-clad gaggle of executives represented one of the top three firms. As they reached our table, each of them greeted me and placed their business card on the table in front of me. By the time I finished meeting all of them, I felt like I had been dealt […]

Although Automattic is very much a distributed and virtual team they do have physical locations and offices for their employees to meetup and do their work, something that some news organizations seem to overlook. In a recent visit to their San Francisco offices, Peter Slutsky captured a few neat shots as he walked through the environment – check out those digs!

It seems that things are getting more literal when it comes to the development of the Ghost blogging platform! In the update that just hit John O’Nolan just announced that they are going to meet up next week! This coming Tuesday, the 21st of May, Hannah and myself will be hanging out at Bounce London (http://www.bouncepingpong.com/) from 6pm onwards. We’d absolutely love to see any of you who fancy coming along for a drink and a chat. No agenda! If you’re in / around / near London – come and meet us and say hi. We’ve got tons of exciting plans […]

As many people had thought and as Code Garage has shared previously, all customers are being asked to migrate to VaultPress through their automated system in the next few months. This will essentially complete the acquisition that Automattic made back in December of last year. As of right now, no new signups are being offered by Code Garage and instead you’ll be signing up with VaultPress directly. For a time I thought that maybe both would co-exists, sharing technology best practices under two different brands and identities but it would see that folding Code Garage completely under VaultPress was going to […]

Pexeto, a developer/designer duo that builds premium WordPress themes, passed $1,000,000 in sales and earned Power Elite status with Envato. How did they do it? Wouldn’t we all like to know!

Or so it’s reported…! The President of the United States visited the Capital Factory startup offices, which has played a role in helping WP Engine get to where they are now. Jason Cohen, founder of WP Engine, shared a few thoughts on how they’ve created not just a great company culture but jobs that really matter: Since we founded the company 3 years ago, WP Engine has grown from our first 3 people, to now nearly 50. We’ve not only created dozens of jobs, but I believe we’ve created jobs worth having. And if you can get the right type of […]