WordPress News

WordPress.tv to allow users to submit their own videos

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

Pretty soon, you'll be able to submit your own videos to WordPress.tv. This will be a great change, as currently there is a consistent queue for getting new videos reviewed and published. The remaining items are to figure out how…

WP Bytes – evergreen tutorials for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

WP Bytes is an attractive new WordPress tutorial website that, in my opinion, is taking an interesting approach to articles. Kevin Dees started the site, and his main method of categorization is by series. So you can learn all you…

WooCommerce 2.0 is coming March 4th. Final chance for testing!

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

Today we have tagged the second Release Candidate in our version control (you can now download it from GitHub) and this marks the last week of testing. If is it as good as we think it is (and no critical…

Adding Custom Meta to WordPress Taxonomies

Curtis McHale

February 21, 2013

Development

Part 1 of 3 where we show you how to add custom meta fields to a WordPress taxonomy.

Redesigning Automattic’s websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2013

Design

Stéphane Thomas has written a post proposing a more unified design aesthetic for various Automattic properties. It's very thorough, including complete home page wireframes with content. Stéphane doesn't work for Automattic, and the post appears to be fairly random, so it…

11 WordPress extensions you can use with Sublime Text 2

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

If you use Sublime Text 2 you probably know of its extensibility. Most modern IDEs have such a feature. Or, if you're like me, you tend to use certain text editors for certain projects. Here are some cool extensions for…

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…

WordPress admin styles checklist

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Tung Do, owner of DevPress, shared a checklist of things to pay attention to when creating an admin theme, as he did. It looks... intimidating.

Tools for growth at WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

Business

Pete Davies is a growth engineer for WordPress.com. That basically means he uses many tools to help analyze data so they can better market the platform for more people. This post on Pete's personal blog is a fantastic description of…

How websites are making money

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

Business

Here's a really interesting slide deck from Flippa's operations manager analyzing how websites are making money. He used 8,000 Flippa sold sites as examples. Toward the end, he notes an 8% growth for WordPress' marketshare of the CMS driven sites sold in…

Are home pages dead?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

Design

Quartz makes the argument that every page is the home page, because more and more sites are accessed first from within. I'm pretty sure I disagree. I get the point that interior pages need to be better focused for users first…

Properly instantiating WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin discusses various methods for instantiating WordPress plugins. There are some good comments as well.

Is it ethical to use a pre-built WordPress theme for client sites?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

A reader of Paul Boag's site asks if it's okay to use a pre-built WordPress theme for a client site. Two people share pros and cons. The much shorter answer is, yes. It's okay. But, you should absolutely disclose it.…

WordPress is a mature platform

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter, of WP Engine, attempts to quell concerns from some who think WordPress may not be a mature platform. He gives a very level headed response to some common criticisms. While I think there is room for WordPress to…

Strategies for supporting WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2013

WordPress News

Thinking about releasing either a free or commercial WordPress plugin? Read this post by Tom McFarlin on wpTuts+ first, along with the discussion in the comments.

Set up unit tests for your plugin

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2013

Development

The wp-cli (command line interface) project has really been gaining traction. Scribu shows in this post how to easily setup unit tests for WordPress plugins using wp-cli.