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Transparency, Contribution, and the Future of WordPress

When we sold Yoast to Newfold in 2021, I quickly learned we had been incredibly naive. While at Yoast, I hadn’t realized how many deals were made between big co

CMS market share June 2024 commentary

This commentary focuses on the data found in my monthly CMS market share report, which is generated automatically every month. This is the first time I’m writin

CMS Market share measured “right”

Today, I’m introducing a new CMS market share report on this site based on the HTTP Archive’s dataset. This report will be updated – automatically – every month

Introducing a new plugin: Progress Planner

Ever since Marieke and I left Yoast, we’ve considered building a new WordPress product. We love working on something that people can use—something that will imp

A right-click / contextmenu logo popover

I always like it when I right-click a logo on a website because I need to get the logo, and the site’s designer has thought about this. If you right-click on th

Docusign to Documenso

In my quest to move most of my SaaS services to self-hosted open-source software, I’ve taken on the next step: our document signing infrastructure. Everyone see

HelpScout to Freescout

Everyone uses a lot of SaaS applications to manage their day-to-day business. So much that the cost of it becomes prohibitive. I’ve decided that I’m going to tr

Playground Blueprint Builder

I have been playing with the WordPress Playground a lot. As I did, I wanted a way to quickly make a copy of an existing site to a new Playground. It seems an id

Cleaning up WordPress option clutter

Note: this plugin has received a ton of updates since its inception. It’s now been moved to Progress Planner, where the team there (including myself) are develo

Designing plugins to be uninstalled

I feel a particular class of plugins in the WordPress world should be more prominent. Plugins that help you do something, which you then delete when you’re done

Research: WordPress publications misuse tags

This post was migrated to this site in January 2025 when we took down the Fewer Tags project site.

Multi-currency awesomeness with EDD & Cloudflare

We’re getting ready at Emilia Projects (which is the “run our own projects part” of Emilia Capital) to sell our first plugin, the Pro version of Fewer Tags. We