WordPress News

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

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

June 1, 2015

BusinessHosting

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…

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Security

Sucuri is seeking to build a full CloudFlare alternative, according to WP Tavern: “The fundamental difference is that it’s security first, performance second,” Perez said. “So yes, in the coming months you’ll see more as our solution blossoms into a…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Finding stability in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

Business

Lara Littlefield's is the latest story on HeroPress, and it is a moving one. Lara has been using WordPress since the very beginning and today runs SimmerWP, which looks like a really neat tool for managing recipes. Lara really opens up…

Five years of Yoast

Brian Krogsgard

May 22, 2015

Business

Joost de Valk sent a newsletter this morning noting that Yoast has been in business for five years. It's hard to believe just five years ago he had a job working for someone else. Now they are a team of…

Transparency in WordPress businesses

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2015

Business

I love seeing companies open up and share their business details. Income and transparency reports have become more and more popular. Alex Turnbull, of Groove, notes why transparency alone should not be just about the numbers: Why is transparency effective? Because…

A couple more notes on the WooThemes acquisition

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

Business

Thank you to all members for your patience on the newsletter, as I spent a great deal of time on the WooThemes acquisition post. I have a couple of thoughts I thought I'd leave specifically for you. New space in…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

DesignSecurity

Two of the initiatives for WordPress 4.3 are for further improving WordPress (especially mobile) UI and re-evaluating password management. Starting Thursday, lead developer Helen Housandí will host UI chats in the WordPress Slack #design channel. Additionally, lead developer Mark Jaquith further laid…

In defense of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2015

Security

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares…

The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

One year of Post Promoter Pro

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Business

We often hear of big fails and big success stories with WordPress plugins and products. It was refreshing to hear Chris Klosowski blog about his experience selling Post Promoter Pro, his commercial buffer-style plugin that has done okay, but certainly…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.