Patricia Borlovan

There were two interesting months within the WordPress ecosystem with events that are here to impact the course and development of the platform. We saw WordPress getting important security updates and a brand new design for the plugin repository and also witnessed to a significant acquisition. With this being said, let's dive into the summary […]

If you are a business owner with a technical hat, then it's most likely that you have spent some hours coding and building your product and close to none on WordPress marketing. But in order for your product to actually get to meet its customers, you'll also have to learn how to market your software […]

Being an entrepreneur and owning a business can require a high level of self-discipline, especially when you are the "Rocket Commander" within your company and the one responsible for making sure things go smooth. Usually, the way you start the day will generally determine the type of the day you will have, and I think […]

Let's take a short rocket ride to see how SlideHunter, the online resource for PowerPoint templates, went from a simple blog to WordPress membership site, with a subscription base of over 150.000 users. Who is SlideHunter and what they do? SlideHunter is a free online resource that offers PowerPoint templates. Their website was born after the founder […]

After writing the article "Overview of the WordPress Community in 2016" and getting feedback for the article on various platforms, I decided to continue writing them, but I changed its name into "Roundup of WordPress ecosystem". This is the first article from a monthly series that will showcase what happened around the whole ecosystem in […]

Building a WordPress community website can be a great idea not only because you can control the experience of the user, manage SEO and inbound traffic, but also because I think a community is more about nurturing a constant, active presence and happy experience. If we speak about the integration between our Profile Builder & […]

We're excited to announce a new integration between AffiliateWP & Paid Member Subscriptions. Paid Member Subscriptions is our WordPress Membership plugin that enables you to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revokes access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased. AffiliateWP is an affiliate […]

As 2016 comes to a close and we are looking forward to the next year we wanted to take some time and look at the WordPress activity within the whole community. Automattic published the past week their annual report, where you can check lots of statistics about their activity, WooCommerce, Jetpack, WordPress.com and WordPress VIP […]

If you’ve been keeping up with the latest WordPress updates, then you surely know that WordPress 4.7 was released this week and is now available for download. This latest version, named “Vaughan” in honor of jazz legend, Sarah "Sassy" Vaughan is the third major version released by WordPress earlier this year, following WordPress 4.6 "Pepper" […]

Letting users customize their profiles is a great way to encourage them to spend more time on your forum website and interact with each other. However, this is not a feature either WordPress or bbPress offers by default. WordPress supports user registration, but provides very little functionality in terms of profile customization. Fortunately, there are […]