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Get Ready For WordCamp Boston 2017!
WordCamp Boston 2017 is set to occur this week (July 22-23) at Boston University. The two-day event will be filled with lecture-style sessions, panels, and workshops all geared toward WordPress and tech.
AJ Morris Acquires iThemes Exchange
Everything iThemes Exchange related will transition to ExchangeWP.com. Toolkit, Plugin Suite, Exchange Pro Pack, and iThemes Exchange Add-on customers will be given accounts for free support and upgrades through August 2018 at ExchangeWP.com.
Customers will no longer be able to purchase Exchange or its add-ons through iThemes as the company transfers licenses and products to ExchangeWP. However, iThemes will continue to provide customer support until the transition is completed, expected to happen in early August.
2017 WordPress Hosting Survey: 4,750 Respondents Say GoDaddy Hosting Is Quite Okay
Something that’s not a mystery here, and hasn’t been ever, is that we like our managed hosting plan at Kinsta quite a bit. It works, keeps things fast, overall … great! We even reviewed it here.
That being said, the way we host our sites and the way most “WordPress insiders” host theirs, isn’t at all what casual users do.
As it turns out, most people host with GoDaddy, Bluehost, and HostGator. And you know what? … They’re loving it! We’ve just concluded our 2017 WordPress hosting survey (a much larger survey than last year’s), and the results are quite stunning, or highly interesting, to say the least.
