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<p><a href="https://10up.com" target="_blank">10up</a> launched <a href="https://www.elasticpress.io/" target="_blank">ElasticPress.io</a> this week, its new Elasticsearch SaaS product with plans starting at $299/month. <a href="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch" target="_blank">Elasticsearch</a> is an open source, distributed search engine that speeds up searching by using JSON documents to store data in indices. The indices store mapping fields to the corresponding documents and the engine searches the index instead of a site&#8217;s entire database.</p>
<p>Elasticsearch can perform near-real-time searches and is highly scalable, but the setup is technically demanding. It is used by many large companies, such as GitHub, Soundcloud, Etsy, Netflix, Cisco, and Samsung. It is also one of the most popular enterprise search engines for WordPress sites, as searching WordPress tables with thousands or even millions of records is simply not going to be fast.</p>
<p>The WordPress plugin directory has a dozen plugins for using and extending Elasticsearch but 10up&#8217;s <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/elasticpress/" target="_blank">ElasticPress</a> is by far the most popular with more than a thousand installs. After supporting the plugin for several years, along with many enterprise clients using Elasticsearch, 10up decided to create a hosted service that integrates with ElasticPress.</p>
<p>&#8220;The reason we created this solution for our clients, and that we’re now making this public, is that we don’t think anyone has provided a super easy, end-to-end (plugin to hosted service) that offers all of the benefits of Elasticsearch and our ElasticPress plugin, while being completely agnostic to your site hosting,&#8221; 10up founder Jake Goldman said.</p>
<p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/wptavern.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/elasticpress.png?ssl=1"><img /></a></p>
<p>ElasticPress.io is an end-to-end solution that is specifically tailored for those using the ElasticPress plugin. This is one of the key differences between managing your own Elasticsearch infrastructure with a service like AWS. ElasticPress.io controls both the hosting and the plugin, allowing the service to optimize performance for both.</p>
<p>&#8220;There are a number of really neat use cases for ElasticPress on our roadmap that add either risk (security) or headaches (complicated setup and management procedures) if you can’t control both ends,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;For instance, there are optional Elasticsearch modules (just like there are optional Apache and Nginx modules) for features like indexing media that many hosted Elastic services don’t enable by default or support. We also want to be able to index and handle content that isn’t public, and many hosted Elastic services aren’t locked down / secured end-to-end with the website by default.&#8221;</p>
<h3>How ElasticPress.io&#8217;s Pricing Compares to Competitors</h3>
<p><a href="https://www.elastic.co/" target="_blank">Elastic</a>, the creators of Elasticsearch were one of the first companies to launch Elasticsearch as a service in 2012. Two years later the company raised $70 million in a Series C funding round. Dozens of other Elasticsearch as a service companies have sprouted up since then, with pricing ranging from under $20 to tens of thousands of dollars depending on the resources offered.</p>
<p>The ElasticPress.io service is the first of its kind in the WordPress ecosystem. Most hosting companies do not have it built into their enterprise level plans. WordPress.com VIP is one of the few that offers Elasticsearch for sites on its <a href="https://vip.wordpress.com/our-services/#hosting-plans" target="_blank">plans</a> which range from $5,000 &#8211; $25,000 per month. WP Engine has an Elasticsearch solution as part of its <a href="https://wpengine-labs.com/" target="_blank">Labs program</a>, which is based on a fork of ElasticPress. However, the solution has not yet been officially added to the company&#8217;s enterprise plans.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/10up">@10up</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/mgibbs189">@mgibbs189</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/cabgfx">@cabgfx</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/sbangnielsen">@sbangnielsen</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/SearchWP">@SearchWP</a> ElasticPress plus lower cost providers is still extremely powerful for under $12 a month</p>
<p>&mdash; Scott Kingsley Clark (@scottkclark) <a href="https://twitter.com/scottkclark/status/830165095045033984">February 10, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>For the most part, developers who have to implement Elasticsearch for a WordPress site are faced with hosting their own instance and managing it themselves. This is the most cost effective option but comes with a great deal more responsibility.</p>
<p>&#8220;Elasticsearch is a quickly evolving platform, and they don’t exactly have the same commitment to infinite backwards compatibility that WordPress has these days,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;Major Elasticsearch upgrades can break old integrations. That means the site owner needs to either worry about automatic version upgrades breaking their site, or has to manage their upgrades carefully. By controlling the integration with Elastic on the website site and controlling the hosting, we can carefully handle version upgrades for customers while making sure nothing breaks.&#8221;</p>
<p>10up is aiming at the higher end of the market where customers are looking for convenience and access to the creators of ElasticPress for support. Goldman anticipates many of those customers will be similar to the product&#8217;s existing customers who simply need a robust keyword search or related content engine that will &#8220;just work.&#8221; ElasticPress.io is also targeting smaller and mid-tier businesses that are experiencing performance bottlenecks with WordPress&#8217; native query engine.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those customers are typically relying on rather complicated faceting / filtering of content, the classic use-case being a WooCommerce store where customers are constantly filtering on a handful of unique (unique = hard to cache) meta data all the time,&#8221; Goldman said. &#8220;That’s where ElasticPress really shines: our native WooCommerce support and optimization take those very taxing queries and makes them lightning fast.&#8221;</p>
<p>As the service is fairly unique in the WordPress space, ElasticPress.io&#8217;s <a href="https://www.elasticpress.io/#pricing" target="_blank">pricing</a> has room to evolve as 10up learns from its customers. The plans currently range from $299 &#8211; $999 per month with increasing storage space and tiered support response times. Goldman said they haven&#8217;t ruled out other pricing points and may explore more pricing options in the future.</p>
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<p>I talked to Jason about a whole lot of things, mostly to do with growing well. Whether you&#8217;re growing revenue, company size, or personal development &#8212; this is a conversation about growth, and how to do it well.</p>
<p>Unlike many entrepreneurs in the WordPress space, WP Engine isn&#8217;t Jason&#8217;s first business. He&#8217;s done this before, and made plenty of mistakes. He talks about what he&#8217;s done differently at WP Engine and how its made him a happier person.</p>
<p>This interview took place at LoopConf, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_CmkUT25BE">Jason was a keynote presenter</a>. His LoopConf talk pairs well with our discussion.</p>
<p>You can catch the first segment on video, and the entire conversation is on the audio podcast.</p>
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<h3>Links</h3>
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<li><a href="https://wpengine.com/">WP Engine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://loopconf.com/">LoopConf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.asmartbear.com/">Jason&#8217;s blog</a></li>
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<h3>Sponsor: iThemes</h3>
<p>This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://ithemes.com/?utm_source=post_status&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=ps_ads">iThemes</a>. The team at iThemes offers WordPress plugins, themes and training to help take the guesswork out of building, maintaining and securing WordPress websites. For more information, check out their <a href="https://ithemes.com/?utm_source=post_status&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=ps_ads">website</a> and thank you to iThemes for being a Post Status partner.</p>
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<h2>Interviewed for WordPress.tv</h2>
<p>A few weeks ago, Marcus Couch and I were interviewed by John Parkinson. Parkinson is a volunteer moderator and performs community outreach for WordPress.tv. In the interview, we discuss the benefits of WordPress.tv, the WordPress community, WordCamps, and more. I encourage you to check out his <a href="https://blog.wordpress.tv/tag/interview/">other community interviews</a> as well.</p>
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<h2 class="selectionShareable">WooCommerce and WordPress Used to Sell Stress Cubes</h2>
<p>CNBC has <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/a-24-year-old-made-345000-by-beating-kickstarters-to-market.html">an interesting story</a> that features a 24-year-old who made $345K in two months selling <a href="https://stresscube.com/">Stress Cubes</a>, a knock-off of the Fidget Cube. The Fidget Cube raised <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antsylabs/fidget-cube-a-vinyl-desk-toy">nearly 6.5M dollars</a> in crowdfunding money.</p>
<p>The Fidget Cube experienced significant delays in shipping due to manufacturing issues. The 24-year-old contacted suppliers in China, purchased 1,000 plastic cubes, created a similar product, and shipped it to market before the Fidget Cube had a chance to reach backers. He used WordPress and WooCommerce to sell Stress Cubes grossing him nearly $350K in two months.</p>
<h2>Why WordPress in Education</h2>
<p>Jared Bennett <a href="https://dev.commons.hwdsb.on.ca/2017/02/08/why-wordpress-in-education/">explains</a> how the <a href="http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/">Hamilton Wentworth District School Board</a> uses WordPress.  &#8220;We run over 100 individual school websites on a WordPress Multisite Network, and back in May of 2011, we launched the HWDSB Commons: a second Multisite Network which now hosts over 8,000 blogs for over 30,000 users,&#8221; Bennett said.</p>
<p>Bennett <a href="https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/">shares links</a> to plugins the team created to solve specific issues such as comment moderation in BuddyPress and blocking specific modules in Jetpack. Since WordPress is free as in beer, it allows his school board to spend public money in a more responsible way.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the WordPress ecosystem we operate in, I pay for functionality to be developed, and I share it openly on platforms like the WordPress plugin repository, or on sites like <a href="https://github.com/hwdsbcommons/">Github,</a>&#8221; Bennett said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The money you would have spent to enable the previously developed functionality, you can now spend on something else, something that I might benefit from. Think about how much more responsible this model is, particularly when we are talking about spending public money.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are all contributing; and the community benefits from those contributions; and our money — and the functionality of our platforms — improves exponentially faster than if we were all spending our money paying the private company over and over for code that has already been paid for by previous customers.&#8221;</p>
<p>To learn more about WordPress in education, listen to <a href="https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-261-wordpress-for-schools-with-cameron-barrett">episode 261</a> of WordPress Weekly where we interview Cameron Barrett, founder of <a href="http://schoolpress.co/">SchoolPresser, LLC</a>. Barrett explains how he negotiated and helped migrate Newark New Jersey’s public school system from a proprietary CMS to WordPress.</p>
<h2>WP101 Plugin Now Has WooCommerce and Jetpack Videos</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://wp101plugin.com/">WP101 plugin</a> has added Jetpack and WooCommerce training videos. This is in addition to the Yoast SEO and WordPress training videos.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Huge update for our WP101 Plugin! It now includes WooCommerce and Jetpack videos. That’s 90 videos for your clients! <a href="https://t.co/6jtzj1JgkC">https://t.co/6jtzj1JgkC</a> <a href="https://t.co/CByYvd61Xi">pic.twitter.com/CByYvd61Xi</a></p>
<p>&mdash; WordPress 101 (@WP101) <a href="https://twitter.com/WP101/status/829455708802408452">February 8, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<h1 class="entry-title">Adding Meta Fields to a Widget Sidebar Section</h1>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Example for how to add meta fields/controls to a widget sidebar section in the customizer: <a href="https://t.co/aMadLioQn6">https://t.co/aMadLioQn6</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/javascript?src=hash">#javascript</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordPress?src=hash">#WordPress</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Weston Ruter ⚡ (@westonruter) <a href="https://twitter.com/westonruter/status/829799276976828417">February 9, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>WP Sessions Developer Survey</h2>
<p>WP Sessions is conducting a <a href="http://wpsessions.com/developer-survey/">developer survey</a> to find out about the tools developers use. Results will be anonymized and shared in aggregate in a few weeks.</p>
<h2>Widget Logic Has a New Maintainer</h2>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/">Widget Logic</a>, a popular plugin actively installed on more than 300K sites, has a <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpchefgadget/">new maintainer</a> named <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpchefgadget/#content-plugins">WPChef</a>. The plugin was created nine years ago by <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/alanft/">Alanft</a>. Prior to WPChef gaining commit access, the last time Widget Logic was updated was <a href="https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/widget-logic/tags/0.57?rev=1592418">two years ago</a>.</p>
<p>After gaining access, WPChef released Widget Logic 5.7.0. This version fixed a PHP 7 compatibility issue, a conflict with WPML, added a new default load logic point, and a Ukrainian translation. In addition to bug fixes, a global admin notice to install Limit Login Attempts Reloaded was also added. Limit Login Attempts Reloaded is a separate plugin owned and maintained by WPChef.</p>
<p><img />Limit Login Attempts Reloaded Admin NoticeThe wording of the notice and appearing globally caused some users to <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-widget-logic-team-security-recommendation/">be concerned</a> or upset. Some users responded to the update by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/widget-logic/reviews/?filter=1">writing 1-star reviews</a>. After a user <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/taking-over-and-forking-this-plugin/#post-8781763">described the notice</a> as sounding like fake news, WPChef changed it.</p>
<h2>From SupportPress to Help Scout!</h2>
<p>The WordPress.org community team is moving away from <a href="https://supportpress.com/">SupportPress</a> to Help Scout. The move opens up a number of possibilities as Help Scout offers a lot of features that are non-existent in SupportPress.</p>
<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/community/2017/02/09/moving-from-supportpress-to-help-scout/">Moving from SupportPress to Help Scout</a></p></blockquote>
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<h2>Plush Wapuu!</h2>
<p>In what is a traditional part of this series, I end each issue by featuring a Wapuu design. For those who don&#8217;t know, Wapuu is the <a href="http://wapuu.jp/2015/12/12/wapuu-origins/">unofficial mascot</a> of the WordPress project.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Wapuu?src=hash">#Wapuu</a> army is taking over <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WordCamp?src=hash">#WordCamp</a> US <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.2.1/72x72/1f60d.png" alt="