Interview with WooThemes Product Manager Matty Cohen
Brian Krogsgard
Jamie Marsland, of PootlePress, has done a nice video interview with Matty Cohen, WooThemes Product Manager and Senior Developer.
The dire state of WordPress
Travis Northcutt
A (reasoned) criticism of the architecture of WordPress, and how it should be fixed.
Alex King on the maturity of WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Austin Gunter has interviewed Alex King on the WP Engine blog about the maturity of WordPress. I'm only part way through the 4,000+ words, but it's a great read so far. Alex brings enormously valuable perspective to things in the…
Blackbox Debug Bar
Brian Krogsgard
In Dave Donaldson's WordCamp Atlanta presentation, he mentioned how much he likes the Blackbox Debug Bar plugin. I'd never seen it before, but it looks quite nice for showing debut information in an easy to consume way. It's a nice…
Advice for working with clients
Brian Krogsgard
Ryan Cowles has shared some great advice on WP Daily for working well with clients. It's quite similar to what I talked about in my presentation at WordCamp Atlanta. Not all of the things we need to remember to do…
Tips from WordPress pros
Brian Krogsgard
In Siobhan McKeown's latest post on Smashing Magazine, she shares some really great advice from some of the top folks in the industry. It's a must read if you work with WordPress professionally.
WordPress & Google Summer of Code 2013
Brian Krogsgard
Initial plans for applying to Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) are coming together on the Make Core blog. It's a good opportunity to mentor someone if you've got the chops.
What makes meeting people in person so worthwhile
Brian Krogsgard
John Saddington writes on Tentblogger just what makes it so special to meet someone in person that you know online. It gives you an opportunity to view them in a whole new way. It's great to then be able to…
Increased plugin sales by 4x in two and a half months
Brian Krogsgard
Thomas Griffin is in the midst of transitioning his mindset from that of a developer to that of a marketer. In his most recent post, he describes some relatively simple methods he used to sell his plugin at four times…
WordCamp Internet
Brian Krogsgard
I had a thought after seeing Brian's tweet about his #WCATL presentation: "I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person." Seeing…
Rethinking the WordPress Admin
Brian Krogsgard
Aside from all the flexibility WordPress gives us for warping and bending it to our will, the static nature of the admin really grinds my gears. There's been some progress on better admin styles and even some very impressive iterations…
WordPress development with Vagrant
Brian Krogsgard
Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he's written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It's a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.
Orbtr: WordPress based marketing plugin
Brian Krogsgard
The folks at Orbtr launched their new plugin this weekend at WordCamp Atlanta. I spoke with them for a while, and I think their product is promising. Imagine it as a Hubspot-esque product, but all within the WordPress dashboard. It handles email…
Threads: A new take on post series archives
Brian Krogsgard
Threads is a plugin newly released from Alex King that puts a new take on displaying a post series. It formats posts into a timeline that could work quite well for certain types of content.
WP Test: Library of tests for themes and plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Michael Novotny launched a new project called WP Test this morning during his talk at WordCamp Atlanta. It's an importable set of test data for plugins and themes. Looks very interesting, and I'm excited to check it out soon.
Pressgram: An Open Source Inspired Instagram Alternative
John Saddington
I'm trying to kickstart this app. Would love your help and your thoughts on how to make it awesome!
