Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

The business of WordPress

Avatar for Kimb Jones Kimb Jones
April 27, 2013
Technology
1
110

The business of WordPress

A quick look at the different ways people make a living out of WordPress.

Avatar for Kimb Jones

Kimb Jones

April 27, 2013
Tweet

More Decks by Kimb Jones

See All by Kimb Jones
Gutenberg: The new core WordPress editor
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
4.7k
Why don't you do WordPress for yourself
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
4
570
Why the WordPress dashboard doesn't work and some of the steps you (WE!) can take to fix it
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
2.2k
WOW Plugins! 2013 from WordCamp Lancaster UK
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
3.3k
Let's talk about the WordPress dashboard
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
220
The day web design changed - From The Digital Barn 2
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
86
How WordPress Won
Avatar for Kimb Jones mkjones
0
150

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
Bye-Bye Query Spaghetti: Write Queries You'll Actually Understand Using Pipelined SQL Syntax
Avatar for Tobias Lampert tobiaslampertlotum
0
150
20250910_障害注入から効率的復旧へ_カオスエンジニアリング_生成AIで考えるAWS障害対応.pdf
Avatar for sh_fk2 sh_fk2
2
150
フルカイテン株式会社 エンジニア向け採用資料
Avatar for FULL KAITEN fullkaiten
0
8.7k
ヘブンバーンズレッドのレンダリングパイプライン刷新
Avatar for gree_tech gree_tech
PRO
0
600
AWSを利用する上で知っておきたい名前解決のはなし（10分版）
Avatar for nagisa_53 nagisa53
8
2.5k
オブザーバビリティが広げる AIOps の世界 / The World of AIOps Expanded by Observability
Avatar for Kento Kimura aoto
PRO
0
320
Autonomous Database - Dedicated 技術詳細 / adb-d_technical_detail_jp
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
4
10k
Obsidian応用活用術
Avatar for 松濤Vimmer onikun94
1
420
[RSJ25] Feasible RAG: Hierarchical Multimodal Retrieval with Feasibility-Aware Embodied Memory for Mobile Manipulation
Avatar for Semantic Machine Intelligence Lab., Keio Univ. keio_smilab
PRO
0
120
おやつは300円まで！の最適化を模索してみた
Avatar for PERSOL CAREER Dev | techtekt techtekt
PRO
0
290
Webブラウザ向け動画配信プレイヤーの 大規模リプレイスから得た知見と学び
Avatar for yud0uhu yud0uhu
0
210
Codeful Serverless / 一人運用でもやり抜く力
Avatar for kensh _kensh
6
340

Featured

See All Featured
StorybookのUI Testing Handbookを読んだ
Avatar for Shingo Yamazaki zakiyama
31
6.1k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
Avatar for Morgane Peng morganepeng
53
7.8k
Bootstrapping a Software Product
Avatar for Garrett Dimon garrettdimon
PRO
307
110k
BBQ
Avatar for Matthew Crist matthewcrist
89
9.8k
Reflections from 52 weeks, 52 projects
Avatar for Jefferson Lam jeffersonlam
352
21k
Building a Modern Day 
E-commerce SEO Strategy
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
43
7.5k
Understanding Cognitive Biases in Performance Measurement
Avatar for Philip Tellis bluesmoon
29
1.9k
A designer walks into a library…
Avatar for Paul Jervis Heath pauljervisheath
207
24k
How to Think Like a Performance Engineer
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
26
1.9k
KATA
Avatar for Megan Lloyd mclloyd
32
14k
Product Roadmaps are Hard
Avatar for C. Todd Lombardo iamctodd
PRO
54
11k
Easily Structure & Communicate Ideas using Wireframe
Avatar for Afnizar Nur Ghifari afnizarnur
194
16k

Transcript

  1. I am Kimb Jones http://makedo.in @makedoin http://mkdo.co.uk @mkdohq @mkjones /

    http://mkjones.co.uk

  2. The business of WordPress

  3. None
  4. None
  5. None
  6. None

  7. Some of the business of WordPress hopefully without all the

    boring stuff

  8. Lets begin....

  9. None

  10. 27th of May 2003

  11. None

  12. The features include...

  13. A fully compliant XHTML/CSS admin interface.

  14. A link manager that has everything you’d expect, from Weblogs.com

  15. Highly Intelligent Line Break system

  16. Fully compliant with XHTML standards up to 1.1

  17. Awesome

  18. 9 years, 10 months, 31 days

  19. None
  20. None

  21. WordCamp SF

  22. None

  23. Back to business

  24. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic

  25. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic
  26. None

  27. http://wpcandy.com/covers/wonderthemes/ OR Google "wonderthemes wpcandy"

  28. http://slideshare.net/mkjonesuk/how-wordpress-themes-changed-the-world

  29. http://slideshare.net/mkjonesuk/how-wordpress-themes-changed-the-world SLIDE 34

  30. I'm sick of talking about themes

  31. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic

  32. http://codecanyon.net

  33. http://gravityforms.com

  34. http://woothemes.com/plugins

  35. Can somebody help me?

  36. Support, support, support support, support, support, support, support, support, support

  37. Themes OR Plugin selling Good support = Profit

  38. None

  39. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic

  40. Software as a Service

  41. Modern SaaS IS BIG BUSINESS According to the Gartner Group

    SaaS sales in 2010 reached $10 billion, and were projected to increase to $12.1bn in 2011. Gartner Group estimates that SaaS revenue will be more than double its 2010 numbers by 2015 and reach a projected $21.3 bn.

  42. http://happytables.com

  43. http://restaurantengine.com

  44. BOTH WordPress SAME Sector DIFFERENT Approach

  45. None

  46. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic
  47. None
  48. None
  49. None
  50. None
  51. None

  52. 1. Theme sellers 2. Plugin merchants 3. SaaS-ers 4.Yeh-we-only-do-WordPress 5.

    Automattic
  53. None
  54. None
  55. None

  56. I was Kimb Jones http://makedo.in @makedoin http://mkdo.co.uk @mkdohq @mkjones /

    http://mkjones.co.uk