Category: Pagely News
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The Final Lesson of 2020
TL;DR In the midst of an outage at our IaaS provider (AWS) – I reflect on what a crazy year it has been and how fortunate we are to go through it together. A fitting end to 2020 Sometimes the world throws something at you that, despite your best preparation and skills training, you get…
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Pagely Changes the Caching Game in Hosting with Object Cache Pro Partnership
Pagely is thrilled to announce our partnership with Object Cache Pro. Utilizing state of the art compression technology, Object Cache Pro is now part of Pagely’s core offering, and available to all of our customers, platform wide. Offering major cost savings, access to some of the world’s best technology, and a dedicated DevOps team to…
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Pagely Launches New Personalized Product Education Center
Thanks to 1-click installers and GUIs, WordPress exists as a way for people to quickly get things done, many times without a deep understanding of how all of the pieces fit together. WordPress’s ease-of-use is a great thing, but it can also leave many people in the dark when it comes to scalable approaches and…
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Building the Future of Pagely: Our Vision for 2020
About a month ago we had the extreme pleasure of getting our remote-first team together for an in-person retreat in Gatlinburg, TN to strategize and plan the vision for our company in 2020 and beyond. Fast forward to today and we’re in the midst of a global pandemic, the likes of which none of us…
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How Pagely was Built by a Husband and Wife: Sally Strebel, Pagely COO on Mixergy
Talk to any boots to the ground entrepreneur, especially in tech, and they’ll tell you Mixergy is one of the podcasts they listened to when they were getting their business started. The same goes for us. That’s why we’re psyched to announce our co-founder and COO, Sally Strebel, as the latest guest to go under…
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Pagely’s Lizzie Kardon Interviewed by NBC on the TODAY Show
Today I went on national television to represent over 500 women in tech because it’s time to close the pay gap and start paying people what they’re worth. The tech industry has long been dominated by men, with only 25% of the workforce being made up of women. Yes, this isn’t a new conversation. Women…
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Set the Employees Free. Notes on Joshua Strebel WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 3)
To wrap up this series on my WordCamp Phoenix keynote, I’ve once again embedded the video below. In this post I will unpack a couple of new concepts and ideas from that talk. Catch up here with part one and part two. Set the Employees Free In a typical corporate hierarchy most, if not all,…
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For Safety, the P3 Plugin Has Been Banned
We spend every April 1st playing jokes on each other that rely on comical hoaxes and abuse our trust, but make us giggle during this annual tradition. We know these fantastical stories are most likely false and intended to entertain. Stories like T Mobile’s Phone BoothE, Nissin’s Cup o Noodles headphones, or Auntie Anne’s Hot…
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Blue Oceans. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote presentation (Part 2)
This is part two of a series on my recent keynote for WordCamp Phoenix, where I took the stage in front of my local business and WordPress community to share some insights and lessons learned. The video is embedded below and in this post, I will unpack a couple of the concepts and ideas from…
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Bias and Self Delusion. Notes on Joshua Strebel’s WCPHX Keynote Presentation (Part 1)
I had the pleasure of being a keynote speaker at WordCamp Phoenix this winter. I used the opportunity to share some hard-earned insights and lessons-learned from my 10 years as CEO of Pagely. The video is embedded below. In this post I’ll unpack a couple of the concepts and ideas from my talk. These are…