WordPress News

Invest in yourself week

Brian Krogsgard

December 28, 2015

This is one of the best weeks of the year for you, and you may not know it. You probably have fewer support requests, clients calling, or otherwise demanding forces taking you away from focusing inward. I encourage each of…

Envato is getting into hosting WordPress websites with Pressed partnership

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2015

BusinessHosting

Envato has been testing a pitch for hosting since December 1st, and plans to roll it out on a broader scale in the new year. Two theme shops are running the hosting pitch now, Qode and Select-Themes. Buyers can see…

Recap of WordPress in 2015, and what to look forward to in 2016 — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

December 18, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk about WordPress in 2015 and what to expect in 2016.

Real feedback

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

Business

Ryan Sullivan has a great post about feedback: Since I’ve become a business owner, I’ve tried to go out of my way to leave feedback anywhere I can, and really try and give solid, actionable feedback to the people who specifically…

Envato getting into video app space

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

Business

In a bit of a surprise move, Envato is getting into the video mobile app space. With a clever video app that nicely highlights their VideoHive market, the new Envato Video app allows people to create simple marketing videos, straight…

Product design is very different from…

December 15, 2015

Design

Product design is very different from marketing design.

Quartz is a business oriented news…

December 11, 2015

Business

Quartz is a business oriented news website owned by Atlantic Media, and it is also using WordPress on the backend, with a custom REST API to power much of their distribution (to apps, the website, newsletter, etc). Here's an analysis…

WordFence — a security plugin to…

December 10, 2015

Security

WordFence -- a security plugin to boot -- has an XSS vulnerability that was recently patched. VaultPress posted more about it, but if you run this plugin, you need to update.

WP Engine requiring mass password reset on all accounts

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2015

Security

WP Engine sent emails to all existing (and apparently many former) customers stating that they needed to reset every password associated with their account: While we have no evidence that the information was used inappropriately, as a precaution, we…

WordPress.com VIP is close to launching VIP Go — their next generation of hosting

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2015

Hosting

WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it's basically a VIP 2.0.…

Interview with Scott Taylor, WordPress 4.4 release lead — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

December 9, 2015

DraftMake WordPress

In this episode of the Post Status Draft Podcast, Joe and Brian interview Scott Taylor, a WordPress Core Committer and the Release Lead for WordPress 4.4, and then talk about WordCamp US and Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word.

Mel Choyce is now one of…

December 8, 2015

Design

Mel Choyce is now one of five females with commit access to WordPress, and she shares her experience learning about the privilege on her blog. Another great thing about her and Michael Arestad getting commit? It's a big and needed…

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, released

Brian Krogsgard

December 8, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.4, “Clifford”, has been released. Clifford includes infrastructure for the WordPress REST API, taxonomy and comment improvements, as well as the new Twenty Sixteen default theme, the ability to embed posts anywhere, and much more.

State of the Word, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

WP Shout are again doing their…

November 30, 2015

Hosting

WP Shout are again doing their WordPress hosting survey. I'm sure they would appreciate it if you took the survey, and share it with your networks to get a nice sample.