Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack’s, using the settings API to their advantage, and a few other tidbits were really interesting here.
In this article, popular WordPress consultant Bill Erickson provides a complete walkthrough of steps used to successfully migrate a WordPress site from one server to another.
Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join Automattic, and I always love to learn about the takeaways that various new hires get…
Widgets are one of WordPress’s most powerful features. They are very easy to create but are often created in a wrong way. This posts explains the how to create a basic widget the right way.
Balancing a lifestyle business — and trying to grow it — can be tricky, when you’re not willing to give up your lifestyle for that growth. There are ways to grow your business without giving up the lifestyle you began it all for, right?
Justin Tadlock has another nice tutorial out where he guides you in the relatively simple function that adds a metabox to a post screen to be able to assign a post parent from another post type. This is highly useful in a number of scenarios, and one where a lot of us are probably improperly…
High-level spats in the WordPress business ecosystem are a reality, but on Twitter, they become low-level competitive exchanges. Maybe they could be moved into more private conversations without character limits if the goal is to resolve conflicts rather than intensify them.
