Value of an App Store - Jonathan Wold
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
WordPress is an operating system for empowering creativity on the Open Web. With 40%+ of the web running on WordPress, WordPress is also an indicator of the health of the Open Web. The better WordPress empowers creators and the extenders and hosting providers who serve them, the better the health of the internet as a […]| Jonathan Wold
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
On the one hand we love free riders. Their confidence in WordPress has lead to its adoption and has, overall, lead to an increase in investment in the project, to which we all benefit. Where it gets tricky, though, are the product businesses that extend WordPress.| Jonathan Wold
