513 – Time for Your 2021 WordPress Security Audit
In today’s episode, we talk through a checklist of items that need to be done this fall to make your website secure.
512 – Add Additional WordPress Blocks
In today’s podcast, we talk about different plugins that will add additional blocks to your WordPress site.
511 – All About WordPress Core Blocks
In today’s episode we talk about the default core WordPress blocks and how they can be used to build the perfect layout for your post or page.
510 – Managing a WordPress Site with WP CLI
In today’s episode we talk about using WP CLI to manage your WordPress site.
508 – Planning out a WordPress Plugin
Announcements Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place Emoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor Automattic Releases Quadrat, a Block-Based Podcasting WordPress Theme WordCamp US Online Set for October 1, 2021, as Community Team Weighs Proposal for Returning to In-Person WordCamps Colorado Becomes First State to Require State…
507 – Moving to a WordPress VIP Developer Role
In today’s episode I explain the process of moving from a support role to a developer role at Automattic.
The New Labor Market of Open-Source
The proliferation of open-source software into the technology industry has had an important effect on how people work. Open-source companies often stood at the forefront of remote-first work, and now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, open-source communities are leading the way with years developing blueprints that are now helping other companies. Alongside this development, open-source software…
What Companies Look for When Acquiring Open-Source Companies
In a groundbreaking acquisition, IBM acquired Red Hat, a company that open-sources all of its products, for $34 billion in 2019. This changed the paradigm of open-source acquisitions, after all, this meant that IBM saw value in a purchase of software that could have been in the open to work with for this major technology…
The Business Model of the Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
In the third part of our examination of some of the business models being powered by open-source software, we explore the space of the digital experience platform. One of the obvious advantages of a platform — open-source or proprietary — is the promise of a seamless experience to accomplish a goal. When it comes to…
The Business Model of Productized Professional Services
In the second part of the three part series, we examine another business model of the open-source software economy: the productized service. Unlike the models to support commercial open-source software, productized services take the need for open-source software to be implemented on behalf of clients, and creates repeatable and scalable ways to do so. In…