Work life balance — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. Our topic this week is work life balance.
Two AMAs to make you smarter
Brian Krogsgard
Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…
Restrict Content Pro has a dedicated…
Restrict Content Pro has a dedicated site now. It's the smallest of Pippin William's three primary projects, but it has a lot of potential. I imagine he knows that, and is giving it the real estate it deserves. The design…
“Beginning January 12, 2016, only the…
"Beginning January 12, 2016, only the most current version of Internet Explorer available for a supported operating system will receive technical support and security updates," per the Internet Explorer support policy, as linked to from an announcement about IE11 support.…
Responsive images for WordPress and mobile pages with AMP — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. The topics are responsive image support in WordPress and Google’s new AMP specification.
Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…
Features as plugins hit core for 4.4
Brian Krogsgard
The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API…
What makes some companies in the open source software world different
Brian Krogsgard
For a long time, I've debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement -- and I mean engagement…
Weekend edition
Brian Krogsgard
Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…
How WordPress core development happens — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Brad Williams. We talk about the WordPress core development process and term meta.
GoDaddy is highlighting the top trending plugins and themes installed on their servers
Brian Krogsgard
Well, data is awesome and this is pretty good data. GoDaddy announced what they are calling the Hot 100 that highlights the top 100 trending themes and plugins. The list updates net gains in active installs, so it's a trend measurement, versus…
18F and the United States Digital Service…
Brian Krogsgard
18F and the United States Digital Service (they are different, here's a description) are doing amazing things to advance government web properties. I think it's a pretty non-political statement to say their work could be a lasting legacy item for President…
Rest in peace, Alex King
Brian Krogsgard
Alex King passed away at his home last night, after battling cancer for more than two and a half years. Alex was one of the original WordPress developers, and leaves a lasting legacy and impact on the WordPress community.
WooCommerce was release four years ago.…
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce was release four years ago. It's amazing. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was paying close attention to JigoShop at the time, and following the saga of WooThemes trying to come up with an eCommerce solution. The…
All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast
Brian Krogsgard
Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss the WordPress REST API and the recent proposal for it to be merged into WordPress Core.
In depth report on affects to publishers of iOS 9 content blockers
Brian Krogsgard
10up President & CEO Jake Goldman and 10up Lead Audience & Revenue Strategist have released a report/PDF that discusses, in depth, the impact of ad blocking for publishers. The data is based on some of their own large publishing clients,…
