October 23rd, 2024 Issue
Success isn’t just about discipline; it’s about shielding yourself from distractions that can pull you and your business away from your most important goals. As we approach the end of 2024, now is the time to focus, make the most of what’s left, and finish the year on a high note.
~ Team WPfounders
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"Make sure you have a niche and understand the specific needs of your audience."
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“As a founder, you will have a lot of different tasks you have to do. Just because you can do them all doesn’t mean you should. Hire early and build your team.”
~ Jamie Madden of WC Vendors
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"Be agile if you want to keep afloat and don’t be scared to follow some trends, you never know where it's going to take you."
~ Jason Tucker of WPwatercooler
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"Don’t aim to be the cheapest. There’s value in quality, and people are willing to pay for it. Pricing too low can make your product seem less valuable."
~ Farzana Akter Nitu of WPBens
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Read The Latest Updates!
- OceanWP: Announced the release of OceanWP 4 marking the new era of customization of their popular WordPress themes.
- Jetpack: Released a critical security update to fix a vulnerability in the Contact Form feature that had been present since 2016.
- ACF: Gets forked into a new plugin called Secure Custom Fields.
- WordPress.org: Matt Mullenweg announced that Mary Hubbard will take over as the new Executive Director of WP.org.
- WordPress.org: While logging in to your WP.org you will have to check a Mandatory Affiliation Checkbox proving your association or non-association with WP Engine.
- LifterLMS: Celebrating its 10 years in business.
- Liquid Web: Launched high-performance GPU Hosting for AI.
- WP Foundation: Donated $100,000 to the Internet Archive.
- Rocket.net: Launches a new agency partner program to drive revenue and growth for agencies and freelancers working with WordPress.
- Patchstack: The list of plugins now moving away from WordPress.org is being maintained by Patchstack.
- InstaWP: Currently hosting AnyoneCanWP, an online hackathon, with a total cash prize pool of $10,000.
- WooSesh: WPsessions presenting the virtual conference for WooCommerce store builders from October 29-30.
- Template Monster: Hosting the biggest WordPress community awards. Vote for the best web tools out there.
- SolidWP: Launched cloud-based backups called Solid Backups – NextGen.
- Cloudways: Introduced a Web Application Firewall using Immunify360 for Enhanced Security with IP & Country Blocking.
- Webflow: Acquires the GreenSock business, the company behind the GreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP)
- GravityPDF: Leaves the WordPress.org repository and all the new plugin updates will come directly from their website.
- SEMRush: Leading SaaS platform acquires Search Engine Land, SMX, and all of their sibling publications.
- WP Fusion: Automattic removed the WP Fusion lite plugin from wordpress.com following a cease and desist letter filed by its creator.
Podcasts:
- The WP Minute: Matt Medeiros talks with John O’Nolan about “open-source publishing platform”.
- Do the Woo: Marcel and Mike with Andre Faca discuss the “advanced strategies for optimizing WooCommerce websites”.
- WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley talks to Remkus de Vries about “WordPress optimisation”.
- WP-Tonic: Jonathan Denwood talks with Katie Keith about “Opportunities And Challengers For WordPress in 2025”.
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks With Ryan Waterbury about “Alternative CMS systems”.
- Seriously Bud: Bud Kraus talks to Hans Skillrud an entrepreneur who is married to his work.
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Distraction is the enemy of progress.
