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Awesome new home for SearchWP
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Length:
3 minutes
Released:
Jul 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Great News for the Castos Team in private podcasting
Castos, a leader in podcast hosting and analytics, has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by Automattic, Yoast SEO, along with individual investors, Castos will use this additional capital to fuel its advance into the Private Podcasting market.
A quote from Craig Hewlett:
“On both the individual and corporate investor side I think the investors see the vision that we have for what the Private Podcasting market can mean for Castos and want to help us achieve that potential,” Hewitt said.
Big huge large news: I sold @SearchWP! Lots to say but the words can't fit in a tweeter https://t.co/OdfYlZDYXG— Jon Christopher (@jchristopher) July 7, 2021
SearchWP finds a new homeJonathan Christopher tweeted that his product SearchWP has been acquired by Awesome Motive. A quote from Syed Balkhi in the announcement post:
“As he wanted to pursue the next chapter of his life, we started discussing the future of the SearchWP plugin.
Given our experience running a suite of popular WordPress plugins, SearchWP was a perfect fit for our family of products.”
He goes on to state:“A WordPress search plugin that a beginner, non-techy, small business owner can easily set up in less than 10 minutes to grow their business.
I sat down with the team, and we have a crystal-clear 12 month plan. A lot of exciting things are coming your way in the coming months.”
Also check out the interview with Jonathan Christopher in this article: Finding an awesome home for SearchWP
Full Site Editing Testing Call #8
Compared to previous calls for testing for the FSE (Full SIte Editing) Outreach program, this round is intentionally targeting a more developer-centric audience compared to site builders or end users. in order to bring high impact feedback for theme.json, a new tool for extenders. You can read more about what to expect with upcoming efforts on make.WordPress.org site.
Events
WordFest live is coming up July 23rd. You can go and check out the speaker sessions that you do not want to miss!
Grabbag
Many of you are familiar with Troy Dean. Well, he was not a part of an acquisi
Castos, a leader in podcast hosting and analytics, has successfully closed an investment round of $756,000. With investments by Automattic, Yoast SEO, along with individual investors, Castos will use this additional capital to fuel its advance into the Private Podcasting market.
A quote from Craig Hewlett:
“On both the individual and corporate investor side I think the investors see the vision that we have for what the Private Podcasting market can mean for Castos and want to help us achieve that potential,” Hewitt said.
Big huge large news: I sold @SearchWP! Lots to say but the words can't fit in a tweeter https://t.co/OdfYlZDYXG— Jon Christopher (@jchristopher) July 7, 2021
SearchWP finds a new homeJonathan Christopher tweeted that his product SearchWP has been acquired by Awesome Motive. A quote from Syed Balkhi in the announcement post:
“As he wanted to pursue the next chapter of his life, we started discussing the future of the SearchWP plugin.
Given our experience running a suite of popular WordPress plugins, SearchWP was a perfect fit for our family of products.”
He goes on to state:“A WordPress search plugin that a beginner, non-techy, small business owner can easily set up in less than 10 minutes to grow their business.
I sat down with the team, and we have a crystal-clear 12 month plan. A lot of exciting things are coming your way in the coming months.”
Also check out the interview with Jonathan Christopher in this article: Finding an awesome home for SearchWP
Full Site Editing Testing Call #8
Compared to previous calls for testing for the FSE (Full SIte Editing) Outreach program, this round is intentionally targeting a more developer-centric audience compared to site builders or end users. in order to bring high impact feedback for theme.json, a new tool for extenders. You can read more about what to expect with upcoming efforts on make.WordPress.org site.
Events
WordFest live is coming up July 23rd. You can go and check out the speaker sessions that you do not want to miss!
Grabbag
Many of you are familiar with Troy Dean. Well, he was not a part of an acquisi
Released:
Jul 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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