WordPress News

Say hello to UpThemes Hosting

Japh Thomson

June 28, 2015

UpThemes has entered the hosting arena! The hosting service includes access to a great selection of over 40 themes pre-installed and ready for activation. This includes their entire library, Aesop Interactive's entire library, and a curated list of themes from…

Announcing: WordCamp Europe 2016

Japh Thomson

June 27, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Discussing larger, pan-regional WordCamps, and announcing the details for the next WordCamp Europe.

Growth in the French community

Jenny Beaumont

June 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.

A future API

Ryan McCue

June 19, 2015

BusinessPlanet

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

June 18, 2015

Security

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

June 17, 2015

Hosting

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

June 16, 2015

Business

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

June 16, 2015

Design

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

June 15, 2015

Business

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

June 15, 2015

Business

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

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"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

June 11, 2015

Design

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

June 11, 2015

Business

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

June 11, 2015

Design

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

June 10, 2015

Planet

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

June 5, 2015

Design

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:…