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WordPress Needs a Business Reset

WordPress doesnโ€™t have a technology problem. It has a business problem. As market growth slows, weak models are being exposed – and community, features, and good intentions wonโ€™t fix broken economics. This is the moment where structure starts to matter more than hype.

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2025 Recap: A Year of Clarity, Focus, and Enterprise-Scale Ambition

Clarity in direction shaped every strategic decision, partnership, and product milestone at Greyd in 2025โ€”confirming our role in a market moving toward structured, scalable, and governable WordPress ecosystems.

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News from our Core Contributors in November

In November, Tammie Lister continued her contributions to the Core AI and Editor teams.

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WordPress News in November

WordPress 6.9 brings some exciting changes to the editor. From new blocks to practical features, weโ€™ll give you a glimpse of whatโ€™s coming without giving too much away.

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Two women, Tammie Lister and Jessica Lyschik, stand smiling in front of a colorful backdrop. A browser window showing the WordPress 6.9 Development Cycle page is overlaid in the foreground, highlighting their contributions to WordPress core.

News from our core contributors in October

In October, our contributors continued to focus on work in the Core AI and Editor teams, refining design and usability in WordPress.

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Closing Phase One of the German Accelerator U.S. Program

Our CEO shares Greydโ€™s journey through phase one of the German Accelerator U.S. Market Access Programโ€”from Palo Alto to New Yorkโ€”and how the experience refined their strategy, clarified their positioning, and set the stage for the next chapter of growth.

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When Every Team Has Its Own Version of Your Brand

Brand fragmentation across enterprise divisions is a predictable architecture output.

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A Commercial Co-Founder Isnโ€™t Something You Add Later

Technical founders are told to study something scientific, because the commercial side is something you can teach yourself along the way. That advice holds up right until the company has to sell something.

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Why brand compliance reviews always happen too late

Compliance checks at the end of production catch problems the delivery process created; the later the check, the more expensive each finding.

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Why a global design change takes six weeks and three departments

Long deployment timelines in enterprise digital estates are a direct readout of the platform architecture underneath them.

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A Campaign That Takes Three Weeks to Launch is Not a Campaign

Franchise campaign velocity is a structural problem. When each location requires a separate manual update, rollout time scales with location count, not with team effort.

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You are billing for work that should have been automated

When agencies bill clients for repetitive content production, they are converting a structural inefficiency into a revenue line and calling it work.

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#19 How Can Product Companies Grow in WordPress Right Now?

How Can Product Companies Grow in WordPress Right Now?

Episode 19 explores what it really takes for WordPress product companies to grow today, from what Elementor’s layoff signals to pricing maturity, ICP focus, and why chasing the customer matters more than staying loyal to a platform.

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Beyond SEO: How AI is changing what Websites need to be

Beyond SEO: How AI Is Changing What Websites Need to Be

Episode 18 explores how AI search is reshaping what websites need to be, from why discovery no longer starts on Google to how brands stay visible when 85% of citations come from outside their own domain.

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Greyd Conversations #17 Reshaping Events in the Wp Industry

Reshaping Events in the WP Industry

Episode 17 explores what’s shifting in the WordPress event landscape โ€“ why WordCamps are losing sponsors and attendees, and what business-focused formats like PressConf and CloudFest are doing differently.

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Greyd Conversations #16 - How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People

How to Scale an Agency Without Hiring More People

Episode 16 explores how agencies can scale without growing their headcount โ€“ from shifting mindset around client value and delivery structure to the role of tooling in closing the gap between design and implementation.

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Greyd Conversations #15

Building Sales That Actually Scale

Episode 15 explores how companies can build sales that actually scale โ€“ from defining real customer value and ICPs to creating structured sales processes and avoiding common pitfalls with AI.

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Modern WordPress Architecture: What Agencies Should Actually Care About

Modern WordPress Architecture โ€“ Agency Essentials

Episode 14 explores what modern WordPress architecture actually means for agencies today โ€“ from balancing stability and innovation to evaluating headless setups, Full Site Editing, and the real impact of AI on agency workflows.

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We Need Better Commercial Events

Most sponsorship decks answer every question except the one that matters. Who will actually be in the room?

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Featuring Mark Weisbrod and Sandra Kurze from GREYD, on cards announcing their attendance at PressConf 2025 in Tempe, Arizona.

We went to PressConf

For us, PressConf was more than an event. It was a turning point. We came back with more than new business opportunities and insights.

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WordCamp US 2024: A recap

Attending WordCamp US turned out to be a monumental event for us. Partnerships were formed, new connections were made, and we presented our franchise showcase.

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WordCamp Europe 2024 Recap

With the event fresh in mind, choosing which highlights to describe is a challenge this year! There were so many. It was a successful week with our team in Turin, Italy.

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Thank you, WordCamp Vienna!

WordCamp Vienna has a special place in our heart. In 2022, it was the first WordCamp we attended and sponsored. Itโ€™s so great to see how much the event has grown since our first time!

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Greyd at the CloudFest Hackathon 2024

As we recently announced on LinkedIn, weโ€™re excited that weโ€™re sponsoring the CloudFest Hackathon.

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