I've been thinking and writing about the idea of an "App Store" for WordPress for a few years now and the time is feeling increasingly right for it to happen.| Jonathan Wold
WordCamps are part of the essential magic of WordPress. They connect community (including newcomers!) to each other, inspire attendees with what's possible in WordPress, and encourage (and empower) people to contribute, which makes WordPress (and the ecosystem) better for us all.| Jonathan Wold
I've been thinking about the benefits and tradeoffs of decentralization and my hypothesis is that the concept of a guild for WordPress product businesses might be just the thing we need to mitigate the tradeoffs of decentralization faced by extenders. So I started doing some research.| Jonathan Wold
What I'm intrigued about most right now is how you effectively monetize an ecosystem plugin. My hypothesis is that ecosystem plugins within WordPress are undervalued and underdeveloped as value-based businesses and, accordingly, are far from achieving their economic potential.| Jonathan Wold