A future API
Ryan McCue
Ryan McCue, the lead developer of the WordPress REST API, imagines the year 2020, when the REST API is mature and in WordPress core. He tells us stories of some of the fun things that are possible.
What you need to know about HTTP/2 and some other things I don’t understand
Brian Krogsgard
Do you ever enjoy reading something even though you know your knowledge barely scratches the surface of what's being discussed? I do. Reading anything written by Zack Tollman is a delight to me, and in this case I wouldn't say…
Enterprise hosting options
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…
Stepping up reporting in WordPress eCommerce
Brian Krogsgard
If I could give this post 1,000 +1's, I would. Brianna Norcross is operations manager at Reaktiv Studios and she is super obsessive with the numbers and good reporting. In her experience, and I wholeheartedly agree, WordPress eCommerce plugin reporting…
Things learned building and coding HTML emails
Brian Krogsgard
Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…
Google Analyticator sold to SumoMe, the team behind AppSumo
Brian Krogsgard
Troy Dean -- of WP Elevation and Video User Manuals -- was until recently also the maintainer of Google Analyticator, the WordPress analytics plugin with 400,000+ active installations. Troy sold Google Analyticator to Noah Kagan and SumoMe. SumoMe is directly related…
Twenty myths about building a business
Brian Krogsgard
Alex Turnbull shares some myths about business that resonated with me. I’ve learned a lot – we all have – and I look at business and entrepreneurship in a completely different way now than I did five years ago. There were so…
What is Code?
Brian Krogsgard
"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.
Moving Dashicons from an icon font to SVG
Brian Krogsgard
Mel Choyce has started the conversation on Make Core to change WordPress's Dashicons icon font to SVG: In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in core to SVG. The process of adding and…
Web pages are now 2MB on average, and it’s largely because of images
Brian Krogsgard
The steady climb in average website sizes isn't stopping. And according to Tammy Everts, more than 60% of page weight today is due to images. As internet users, we crave images — the bigger, the better. Site owners play to…
Dealing with ROT content
Brian Krogsgard
A lot of big websites have ROT (Redundant, out-of-date, trivial) content, and it can make maintaining and improving websites incredibly difficult. If you've ever worked on a website with a few thousand pages you know what I mean; but the…
Quick tip: Disconnect Jetpack from the WordPress.com side
Brian Krogsgard
Before now, deleting Jetpack enabled sites from WordPress.com was pretty hard unless you were in the WordPress admin. Now you can finally do it from the WordPress.com side, which is nice when the site no longer exists.
Theme team roadmap and surveys
Brian Krogsgard
Tammie Lister has created a roadmap for the theme review team, with steps she thinks they can take forward. It's been a tenuous time for the team, and Tammie's roadmap is excellent, I think. She's proposing five areas for consideration:…
A commercial plugin directory
Brian Krogsgard
Steven Gliebe has launched a commercial plugin directory called Pro Plugin Directory. My point is that commercial plugins are a big deal but there is no central place to locate them. I usually search WordPress.org and find something free that…
Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley
Brian Krogsgard
Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.
WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool
Brian Krogsgard
WP Stagecoach is a tool that's been in development, alpha, and beta testing for around two years. It's a host agnostic tool that allows website owners to create staging sites and merge changes back to the live site. Morgan Kay announced…
