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Why the Washington Post uses WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard

Yuri Victor gave one of my favorite presentations at WordCamp San Francisco. His talk is now on WordPress.tv. I highly recommend you spend time watching his presentation to see his team’s workflow and decision making process, and why they believe in WordPress at The Washington Post. It’s a great testament to the platform.

Friendlier, safer admin areas

ByBrian Krogsgard

Cliff Seal’s presentation at WordCamp Atlanta is now available, and in it he discusses creating “friendlier, safer admin areas.” His talk is interesting because he highlights some of the scary “dragons” of the admin to those that aren’t comfortable with WordPress, as well as ways to clean the dashboard for folks that don’t need every…

Survey results from WordCamp Europe have…

ByDan Knauss

Survey results from WordCamp Europe have been published. Notably, with “the help of a whopping 60 sponsors, [WCEU] gathered over €700,000,” and the “total revenue from tickets sold was a little over €130,000.” 🙌

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin
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OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

ByBrian Krogsgard

WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I’ve hated every instance I’ve ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin that I don’t hate. That’s a strong compliment for this kind of plugin from me….

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API released

ByBrian Krogsgard

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API was released today. It’s release follows nine months of work, and it will be the last pre-2.0 release for the API. Development on the 1.2 branch has been active, but was entirely on Github until it was synced back to the WordPress plugin repo today. It’s now stable…

Cheers to the GPL

Cheers to the GPL

ByBrian Krogsgard

This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y’all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were “In Open Source We Trust” and “Cheers to the GPL.” So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through all of the pictures and seeing our toast, I thought about it some more and…