WordPress in the Long View with James Farmer — Post Status Draft 129

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Cory is joined by James Farmer, CEO of Incsub, WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs. James’ WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, and how he stays competitive with Squarespace. Cory brings up the WordPress.org active install data question and gets James’ take on how he’d like to see it re-emerge with greater value for plugin businesses.

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🔗 Mentioned in the show:

• Incsub - WPMU DEV, CampusPress, & Edublogs
• WPMU DEV
• CampusPress: WordPress for Education | Websites & ePortfolios
• EduBlogs: Blogs & Websites For Education

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• James Farmer (Founder, Incsub)
• Cory Miller (Editor, Post Status)
• Olivia Bisset (Intern, Post Status)

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