Brian GladuAugust 15, 2019August 15, 2019 AWS versus Google Cloud: Comparing Clouds [Mid-2019] For quite a few years AWS had little competition in the cloud provider space. Today, that’s no longer true. Oracle, Microsoft, Alibaba, Google, and other heavy-hitters have entered the market and each of their cloud solutions has unique strengths and weaknesses. The…Read The Story
Brian GladuAugust 2, 2019August 19, 2019 The Comprehensive Guide to WordPress Security in 2019 The benefits of this WordPress security guide are two fold: Learn exactly what you need to know about WordPress security in 2019. Understanding WordPress security helps you adopt a security-oriented mindset that will help you prevent and mitigate risks as you make…Read The Story
Lizzie KardonJuly 26, 2019August 19, 2019 A Survival Guide to Migrating Away from your Failing WordPress Host Not all hosts are created equal. When it comes to Managed WordPress Hosting, that fact is becoming ever more clear to us with near-daily sales calls from people with business-critical WordPress sites at a loss because their current host is failing them.…Read The Story
Sean TierneyJuly 17, 2019July 18, 2019 B2B Sales Process Automation: “Leviathan” Unveiled True to our open source business ethos we're conducting an experiment in radical transparency and unveiling some of our key systems and business processes. Our hope is that by sharing some of the innovative "secret sauce" other startups will implement, refine and…Read The Story
Robert RowleyJune 21, 2019June 21, 2019 Can WordPress Developers and Security Researchers get along? The relationship between WordPress developers and security researchers has been strained for some time now. Recently it is so bad that vulnerability reporters are going rogue which is affecting site owners. In the past months we’ve seen multiple researchers drop 0-day information…Read The Story
Rod AustinMay 29, 2019June 6, 2019 Optimizing WordPress for Speed There’s a lot of hype around page speed, and the hype is usually centered around 2 main points: SEO: The Google algorithm measures page load time as one of its many search ranking factors UX - User Experience: It’s well documented that…Read The Story
Matt MedeirosMay 23, 2019 GravityView Diversity Grant As PressNomics 6 approaches, it’s humbling to see how it’s grown beyond a conference for people that power the WordPress economy, to a community of awesome individuals and organizations that come together to spark change in our ecosystem. I’d like to introduce…Read The Story
Lizzie KardonApril 19, 2019April 19, 2019 How to Build a Scalable E-Commerce Store With WordPress (In 3 Steps) The goal of most websites -- especially e-commerce stores -- is growth. A stronger online presence leads to more visibility and increased revenue, so it's worth pursuing. Unfortunately, if you don't take the time to build a scalable e-commerce store when you're…Read The Story
Robert RowleyApril 3, 2019April 3, 2019 For Safety, the P3 Plugin Has Been Banned We spend every April 1st playing jokes on each other that rely on comical hoaxes and abuse our trust, but make us giggle during this annual tradition. We know these fantastical stories are most likely false and intended to entertain. Stories like…Read The Story
Joshua StrebelMarch 27, 2019 Blue Oceans. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 2) This is part two of a series on my recent keynote for WordCamp Phoenix, where I took the stage in front of my local business and WordPress community to share some insights and lessons learned. The video is embedded below and in…Read The Story