I love writing about WordPress.

Here are the product business focused pieces I’ve written:

• A Guild for WordPress Product Business – My current primary focus in the WordPress ecosystem.
• Governing the Guild – My latest thinking on how you start a guild and manage its growth.
• Growing a SaaS in WordPress – My latest thoughts on how a software company from outside the WordPress ecosystem can grow within it.
• Using The Loop To Grow A WordPress Product Company – A culmination of my current thinking on strategy for product companies in the WordPress ecosystem.
• Are WordPress Product Businesses Undervalued? – I share my hypothesis, reasons behind it, and my guidance for founder.
• Monetizing an Ecosystem Plugin – A progression of my work on the ecosystem plugins topic.

And here are the hosting and “App Store” related pieces:

• The Value of an App Store – My latest thinking on the value of an App Store, focused on the perspective of hosting providers.
• An App Store for WordPress – A “big picture” piece intended to provide guidance as we work towards a cross-ecosystem “App Store” for WordPress.
• Hosts and the Free Rider Problem – A new line of thinking tackling a challenge I see in the WordPress ecosystem broadly.

And a few of my other favorites:

• A Newcomer’s Guide to WordCamps – An introduction to WordCamps and guidance, focused on businesses entering the ecosystem.
• WordPress: An Operating System for the Open Web – A foundational piece where I introduced the concept of WordPress as an operating system.
• Benefits and Tradeoffs of Decentralization – My take on the nature of the WordPress ecosystem.
• A Framework for Strategic Partnerships – A piece I wrote for Post Status, focused on encouraging more partnerships in the WordPress ecosystem.
• Ecosystem Plugins: The Next Big Opportunity in WordPress – A piece where I introduce and expand on the concept of an ecosystem plugin.

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