WordPress News

Shifter is a “serverless hosting solution…

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Shifter is a "serverless hosting solution for WordPress." According to the website, it "seamlessly transforms your site into a series of static HTML files," and they aim to be both the generator and the host of the generated files. It's…

SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Hosting

SiteGround's team has been almost exclusively based out of their offices in Bulgaria until now. Lilyana Yakimova announced on their blog that they have hired 32 former support personnel from Site5, employees whom hail from 10 countries, including the United States. Site5…

Why grow a service agency?

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2016

Business

Shane Pearlman is a partner and the CEO of Modern Tribe. In his ManageWP AMA, Ahmad Awais asked him a great question, and I really enjoyed his answer. Ahmad has observed that it's difficult to advance in the WordPress economy…

Loopconf postponed indefinitely

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Business

Force majeure is a term that you don't pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means "superior force" in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening…

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2016

Hosting

Pagely is celebrating their seven year anniversary. Joshua Strebel reflects on seven years of the managed WordPress hosting industry that his team started, and also looks into the future. WP101 is also celebrating a birthday -- a whopping eight years -- and Shawn Hesketh says…

The art of being a self-employed web consultant — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 24, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian talks to Diane Kinney about web-based freelancing in the real world.

When you think about design, do…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Design

When you think about design, do you visualize IBM in your mind's eye? After reading this article from Anne Quito on how IBM is gearing up to become a large and sophisticated design company, maybe that will change. As I…

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Business

Carrie Dils and Diane Kinney are working on a book devoting to making you become a better freelancer. Real World Freelancing covers, "client management, business strategies, processes & tools, marketing, mental health" and other subjects. You can signup to be notified…

What is a WordPress theme anyway? — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 19, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress themes, the functionality people put into them, and the challenges that face the WordPress ecosystem with the current state of theming.

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

September 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

More design fun: I love duotone,…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Design

More design fun: I love duotone, and Sean Hervo discusses its role in web design. And if you like it too, Brody at AudioTheme has a post on how to do it, which I've noted here before, and use myself…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Hosting

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention recently after being disabled without warning, is now back online and on WordPress. A 10 year old blog post was what brought down the site. This is rightly being used as a prime example of why…

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

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…