From Developer to Marketer
Brian Krogsgard
Thomas Griffin, developer of the Soliloquy Slider for WordPress talks about his transition from developer to marketer.
Creating a widget
Brian Krogsgard
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.
WP App Store removes top-level menu item from their plugin
Brian Krogsgard
Based on customer feedback, we’ve removed the top-level menu item and added submenu items under Plugins and Appearance. Good move? Bad move?
Automate Git to SVN with Scatter
Brian Krogsgard
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It's called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He's also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way…
Theme Hook Alliance and the _s theme
Brian Krogsgard
I'm happy to see that standard hooks are being put into the _s theme. I really like the initiative of the theme hook alliance. If it receives wide adoption, it could really improve overall flexibility for plugins interacting with themes.
WP History – links manager
Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has begun her journey of documenting the history of WordPress, and she's already stumbled across this fun little story about an early cease and desist letter.
Matt Mullenweg at SXSW
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg did a short interview with TechCrunch after his SXSW presentation, and he talks about Automattic operating as a remote company, making money without ads, and some of his daily reads. I'm real excited to learn NextDraft (an inspiration behind…
WordPress theme design trends for 2013
Brian Krogsgard
Simon Ward, of Pingable, shares 20 design trends he sees in WordPress themes this year. I think his take is mostly accurate, even if I'm not a big fan of some of them. h/t Mike Schinkel.
Drastic changes to the WordPress UI
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg posted on the Make WordPress UI blog about some drastic changes that are being experimented with, by way of the MP6 plugin. I look forward to seeing how these evolve, and hope they extend beyond simple aesthetic changes…
WordPress vertical case study: ClickBank Powered
Brian Krogsgard
Human Made have published a really interesting case study about their work with Noel Tock creating a new WordPress vertical for ClickBank. Human Made and  Tock also worked together to build happytables, so the ClickBank project marks their second move…
How do you justify traveling to WordCamps?
Brian Krogsgard
WordCamps are awesome. No doubt about it. But from a business perspective, how do you justify attending out of town WordCamps as a freelancer, employee, small business owner, etc? I would love to hear the perspective of people that have…
Supporting older versions of WordPress in plugins
Brian Krogsgard
There's been some interesting discussion recently about supporting old versions of WordPress in plugins. Joost de Valk explains here why he does not support more than one version behind the latest in his plugins.
PressBooks open sourced
Brian Krogsgard
PressBooks, the plugin for WordPress Multisite to make ebooks in various formats, has officially been open sourced. This is really great news. It lowers the barrier to entry for authors even more.
Andrea Rennick Code Poet interview
Brian Krogsgard
Andrea Rennick, a WordPress multisite and support forum legend, has a nice interview on Code Poet today. Check it out to learn about her WordPress story, her job at Copyblogger, communities, and quilting.
WordPress.com menus go Locu
Brian Krogsgard
Techcrunch reports that WordPress.com has teamed up with menu-distributor startup Locu to display menus in their restaurant vertical. Locu customers (and now WordPress.com customers) can add their menus to the Locu interface and Locu integrates those menus with various other…
Better WordPress code reference
Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has created some initial concepts for a revised WordPress code reference format. It's time for you to go give your thoughts on what would be useful information.
