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WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn from WebDevStudios
WordPress support company Sitecare acquires Maintainn, excluding the team, from WebDevStudios.
Hear from the founders in today’s interview to learn how the deal went down, what to look for in good acquisitions, and what the future of WordPress support
Is it time for Core to Perform?
Where is the concentration on performance and other goodies in new releases of WordPress? Sarah Gooding over at the WPTavern covered how WordPress contributors have been discussing adding SVG support for more than nine years. The SVG module is currently o
Five for everyone, sometimes
Five for the Future is back on the radar, surfacing more clarification and criticism. Here’s snack pack of links from around the community addressing various opinions on the subject:
Five for the Future’s True Intentions by Josepha Haden ChomphosySara
Collaborating between WordPress companies
Guest host Andrew Palmer is back to address the topic of collaboration.
His company Bertha recently collaborated with Yoast to forge a powerful combination of AI + SEO for WordPress. If you’ve been on the fence about collaborating with others, there’s
Shaken, not stirred
You’d have to be living under a rock to miss the recent WP drama unfold on Twitter.
In some quickly deleted fever-induced tweets, Mullenweg likened GoDaddy to a “parasitic company” that is an “existential threat” to WordPress. Explore more of the deba
What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look like?
Whoever thought that Apache web server would be de-throned in it’s prime? Hello NGINX. We see you Cloudflare. Red Hat and Fedora linux showed up, but then the world went faster together with Ubuntu.
Intel dominated the chip space forever. Still does, t
We’re Slackers!
We have switched over to Slack from Discord.
News
There has been a lot of feedback for full site editing in the latest release of WordPress. The team over on make.wordpress.org is looking for people to sign up for usability testing by June 24th. Th
Well done, WCEU!
In this episode, Andrew Palmer of Bertha.ai reflects on his time at WordCamp Europe.
If you were stuck at home to watch from afar like me, your FOMO was probably running at 110%. Unlike Andrew, I missed out on the awesome talks, after parties, and the
Automattic, a WordPress agency, and an open source ideology walk into a bar.
Strattic was acquired by Elementor. Miriam Schwab, co-founder of Strattic writes:
“Life is interesting – sometimes outcomes are obvious, and sometimes what ends up happening kind of blows our minds. When we set out to build Strattic, we expected to fo
How to find your WordPress customers
Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a creative way to find new WordPress customers that may just surprise you!
Find an existing community of non technical people that have websites (like bookkeepers or copywriters)
Then look at any of these three thin