If I were talking about Gutenberg And WordPress…
The last time I wrote about Gutenberg, I told you I was confused. I don't think I'm confused anymore, but I am clear that I don't speak in any official capacity for WordPress, Automattic or anyone involved in the development ...
Misunderstanding the goal of the Gutenberg Experience
I checked out the Gutenberg plugin and new writing experience for WordPress – via an early plugin version. It's clear I missed the goal of this thing. I tried the new Gutenberg writing experience for WordPress today! Having read all ...
Is the WordPress economy shrinking?
Is the WordPress economy hurting? Shrinking? I don't know if you have heard this from folks, as you've been talking or thinking. Maybe you run an agency that focuses on WordPress websites and you're starting to hear folks talk about, ...
Lies that stop us from breaking into WordPress
Tomorrow I'll be speaking at the Digital Commerce Summit—put on by Rainmaker Digital, the folks that created the Rainmaker Platform that hosts this site. My talk is titled, “Breaking into WordPress.” Have you thought about breaking into WordPress? When I ...
There is always an “us” but not always a “them”
Let me get this out of the way—this is a post about another post about a dynamic that may or may not exist within a community of people around an open source software project that is undefined because anyone is free ...
Breaking into WordPress? Have a new product idea?
Six months ago, a friend asked me a question that put a bug in my brain. “What if you created a course on breaking into WordPress?” He knew that I had coached and consulted with several companies who were trying ...
Warning: Learn WordPress plugins before using them
Before putting them into a project, you should learn WordPress plugins—what they do, how they do it, and what you can do with them. “The Problem with Gravity Forms” I answered a call on Clarity where the person was frustrated. ...
I’ll be at these upcoming conferences, will you?
Will we see each other? I just came back from two great conferences: MicroConf: for bootstrapping companies in Las Vegas WooConf: all things WooCommerce in Austin, Texas The video from my talk in Paris just got posted, which is great ...
Is WordPress really dreaded?
You've heard the story… You've likely heard the story of the student who works so hard on a research paper. They spend all sorts of time studying and creating an outline. They invest in tons of drafts and proofreading to ...
Folks to Watch in 2016
We're just a day or two away from 2016, so I thought I would round up my predictions and some of the folks that I'm keeping a close eye on in 2016. The WordPress ecosystem continues to evolve Here's what ...