WordPress News

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

Brian Krogsgard

June 16, 2015

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A lot of big websites have ROT (Redundant, out-of-date, trivial) content, and it can make maintaining and improving websites incredibly difficult.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:…

A commercial plugin directory

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

Business

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

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

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…