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Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue. He goes into how one Basecamp features he designed never actually made it into the product, and what he learned from it. This quote is so good: Every feature has hidden costs. Some are…

WordPress support forums wrapping up migration

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

The WordPress support forums are wrapping up a migration and upgrade to bbPress 2.x. They have long been on old forum software and the migration was much needed. It has caused planned partial downtime for several days, but with something…

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Security

There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development…

Rejuvenating old software products, with Pippin Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian talks to Pippin Williamson, and they examine the efforts he and his team have made while breathing new life into Restrict Content Pro.

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2016

BusinessHosting

GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

HostingSecurity

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new feature – WordPress version management. This feature automatically updates your site to new versions of WordPress, along with themes and plugins, and has the ability to, “scan for other out of date WordPress sites,” on…

Mobile apps that work with WordPress — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

August 30, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about various third party publishing apps available and how they work with WordPress.

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Design

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman on BuzzFeed’s design process. I thought it was an interesting post, especially how he outlines the phases of product design (Define , Explore, Refine, Build, and Learn).

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

BusinessSecurity

WP Media -- the team behind WP Rocket (a commercial caching product) -- are getting into the WordPress security sector. SecuPress hasn't yet launched, but they are starting early access trials for people that sign up through their home page.…

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas technique he used for WordCamp US last year. Personas are regularly used in web design to make sure that you are solving your users problems, and not your own.

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

David Bisset

August 18, 2016

Design

Here's some insight from Tom Harman on BuzzFeed’s Design Process. I thought it was an interesting post, especially how he outlines the phases of product design (Define , Explore, Refine, Build, and Learn).

PayPal is still king of the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Business

PayPal is still king of the hill as a merchant provider. Jean Galea (from WP Mayor) has written this article to help you decide whether you should open a separate business account for each of your brands or products, or…

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…

WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”

Brian Krogsgard

August 17, 2016

DraftMake WordPress

WordPress 4.6, "Pepper", has been released with shiny plugin management, system fonts, link syntax checking, resource hints, and more. This release post includes a special episode of the podcast.

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a…

David Bisset

August 10, 2016

Business

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a detailed post about how his WordPress theming business took off. He talks about his first theme, Yamidoo Magazine, which at one point was making $10,000 per month in revenue alone. Pavel also talks about…

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

WordPress support forums wrapping up migration

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

Rejuvenating old software products, with Pippin Williamson

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Mobile apps that work with WordPress — Draft Podcast

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas…

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

PayPal is still king of the…

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”

Pavel Ciorici from WPZoom writes a…

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