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Todd Jones

December MainWP Roundup: Koko Analytics, AI for website audits, and The WP Weekly Awards

In the December version of the MainWP Roundup we look at the results of The WP Weekly Awards, tap into a dose of inspiration, learn how to use AI to do a webpage audit, bookmark resources for our 2024 social media calendar, and celebrate the pro version of the Koko Analytics plugin. Ready? Let’s go! The WP Weekly Award Winners See winners here The 2023 WP Weekly Awards are here! Over 5800 votes were cast for products and services in 27 categories. The top vote getters include ACF Pro, The Admin Bar, Wordfence, RankMath SEO, and Elementor. Astra won the

MainWP Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

January MainWP Roundup: WordPress themes and plugins

It is a new year and we will find new topics to chat about. This month’s MainWP Roundup includes WordPress plugins and themes, categorization of plugins and themes, healthcare data breaches and a few more. Get ready to ride ya’ll. The Most Popular WordPress Plugins Released in 2022 on WordPress.org Read the Article End of the year means we spend time looking at data and such. I Love WP does just that when it comes to WordPress plugins. Dumitru Brinzan pulled data from the repository to find the top plugins released in 2022. The data is from December 1st 2021

June roundup
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Todd Jones

June 2022 Roundup: Acquisitions, an opinion, Pew Research, and a security podcast

In the June Roundup of 2022 we take a look at a couple of acquisitions, an opinion about Full Site Editing, an interesting Twitter thread, and a podcast about WooCommerce security. Are you ready to ride? Let’s go. WP Engine Has Acquired the Delicious Brains Plugins!! What is a month without some kind of acquisition? If you are keeping up, it seems that hosting companies are doing the acquiring. Minus Automattic, of course. Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains explains the process in this article a day ago on their blog. It may have came a surprise to many, but he

march wordpress roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

March Roundup: Elementor makes a bold move and the future of WordPress Multisite

In this month’s roundup, we take a look at the Atarim Web Agency Summit, Elementor’s bold move, the future of WordPress Multisite, Plugin March Madness, and surprising the thing may have helped many ladies get into a career of coding. Ready to get started?  Giddy up. Atarim Web Agency Summit is coming in April The Atarim Web Agency Summit is back and it will take place on April 26-29th.  As with previous years, the summit is virtual, free, and will include loads of great presentations from experts in the website agency industry. Hosts include Atarim’s Vito Peleg, Stephanie Hudson Co-Founder

January 2022 WordPress Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

January 2022 WordPress Roundup, write a blog

January is the time when people like to, you know, write their year in review and stuff. I’ve seen a few along the way and I’m sure you have too. If you like that sort of thing, we have three at MainWP. I wrote two last year from the blog and Dennis had a nice yearly report for MainWP. So, for the first article of 2022, at least by me, we will have our January Roundup. Ready? Let’s ride. Yoast is coming to Shopify We have big news: Yoast SEO is coming to Shopify! If you haven’t heard the news

November roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

November Roundup: Do the Woo, WordPress Awards, an in-person WordCamp

Not sure if you have noticed, but the calendar hit November this week. What happened? Just the other day we will enter a new year in the COVID era trying to navigate. We’ve seen the ups and downs. We have seen acquisitions and we have seen plenty of virtual summits. Now, November is here and it feels like we have two months of holidays. I urge you not to forget Thanksgiving! Be thankful. Of course, our Canadian friends have already celebrated Thanksgiving. When it’s the end of the year, we start to see things like Black Friday, Cyber Monday specials.

October roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

October Roundup: HeroPress, Page Builder Summit, and Acquisitions

We have a lot to digest in the October version of the WordPress roundup. A lot. We are going to take a look at four conferences coming up, a new project by HeroPress, and a rash of acquisitions in the WordPress space. Hold on tight. WordCamp US Full confession. This slipped on me. I missed it until today (Thursday) while writing the article. If you want to attend WordCamp US, here’s your chance, and it’s free. And, you don’t have to leave your house! We’re back. We’re online. And we’re shaking things up a bit! So make a cup of

September Roundup
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

September WordPress Roundup: Talking Gutenberg Times, Frontity, and Koko Analtytics

It’s that time of the month where we dig into a roundup of WordPress news and such. And as David Lee Roth sang for Van Halen back in the day, “Might as well jump!” In this month’s WordPress Roundup we are talking about WP, Gutenberg Times, Frontity, Koko Analytics, and gearing up for the WPMRR Summit. You ready? Let’s ride. WPMRR Summit announces speakers WPMRR Summit is later this month and so far they have announced three rounds of speakers. I spoke to Joe Howard this week and he said he had a few more to announce. We will discuss

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WordPress Business
Todd Jones

WordPress Roundup: 5.8, web accessibility and organizing a series of posts for the win

It’s that time again. We are barely a week into August, and it’s time for a new WordPress Roundup. Today, let’s discuss the overview of WordPress 5.8, local environments, web accessibility, an RSS feed site, and organizing a series of posts. Let’s ride. Overview of WP 5.8 by Pagely The latest of all WordPress updates is WordPress 5.8. Gutenberg continues to become an important part of the WordPress dashboard. The new update sees new support for WebP and a few other developer things of interest. Pagely offered a nice overview of what’s new with 5.8. WP Local Environment review Looking

July Roundup Freedom
WordPress Business
Todd Jones

July Roundup: Core Web Vitals, Block Patterns, and freedom

Every time I hear “Independence Day,” I tend to think of two things. First, I think of the movie starring a young Will Smith and Bill Pullman as the United States president. You know the one. Will Smith shoots down an alien ship in the desert and drags him back to some Air Force Base. Next thing we know, there is a fight for survival as the alien invasion finally comes. The United States leads the charge as the humans defeat the otherworldly beings. When I hear the words “Independence Day,” the other thing I think of is the song

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