September 25th, 2024 Issue
Interesting times! There’s been a lot of buzz in the WordPress industry, stirring up divisions within our usually strong community. While WCUS proved to be a great event, and hats off to the organizers and volunteers who worked tirelessly to make it a success, WCUS '24 will likely be remembered for other reasons.
~ Team WPfounders
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Read The Latest Updates!
- WCUS’24: Matt talks about WP Engine and their contributions to Open Source in his presentation.
- WP Engine: Cease and desist order issued to Matt and Automattic.
- Automattic: Cease and desist order issued to WP Engine.
- FlyingPress: FlyingPress is more affordable after new pricing plans.
- Brizy: Updated brizy plugin and cloud with new elements and features and fixed the requested issues.
- Greyd: Joined hands with Guildenberg to grow and to extend their presence in the US market.
- Elementor: Launched the version 3.24 with Enhanced CSS Loading, Floating Bars, Variable Fonts and more.
- Patchstack: Secured a $5M funding to accelerate product development and build a top-level sales and marketing team.
- Yikes: Acquired by karmadharma for sustainable growth.
- Crocoblock: Registrations open for the Crocoblock WordPress Agency Summit.
- NitroPack: Registrations open for the Agency productivity webinar held in collaboration with WP Umbrella and Atarim.
- WP Fusion: Jack Arturo shares data after they raised prices by 20% in June.
Podcasts
- Do the Woo: Marcel and Mike discuss about the “critical aspects of hosting for WooCommerce stores”.
- WP Builds: Nathan Wrigley talks to Derek Ashauer about his new product “Conversion Bridge”.
- WP-Tonic: Jonathan Denwood talks with Max Ziebell about “how AI will effect WordPress freelancers and agency owners?”
- SDM Show: Rob Cairns talks With Andrew Palmer about Matt’s keynote in WCUS’24
- Indystack: Aleksandar talks to Megan Rose about how to become successful developer on Codeable platform.
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Divisions burn bridges. Let’s build them instead.
