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WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

WordPress.com has released what appears to be their first ever video ad, and it's quite mobile centric. The ad portrays a number of users using the WordPress mobile app to snap and blog pictures. It's only 16 seconds, and is…

The anatomy of a security breach, and how to do good in a bad situation

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

BusinessPlanet

On Tuesday, iThemes posted an announcement that they had suffered from a security breach of their website and servers. The attackers had reached the servers which stored customer information, including email addresses, IP addresses, full names, and yes, passwords. iThemes…

The future of Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2014

DesignPost Status Team Blog

I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…

Your website is not allowed to be fast

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

There could quite realistically be a day that your blog or website is not allowed to be fast. Not because you didn't do proper performance testing and optimization, but because a corporatocracy won't allow it. And your website is small potatoes…

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Today, iThemes and Crowd Favorite are announcing a partnership where they will collaborate to take iThemes products to a more enterprise-level market. Practically, this means that Crowd Favorite will contribute developers and other resources to help iThemes better structure and…

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon introduce mandatory support and renewable packages

Brian Krogsgard

August 25, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Envato has announced a change in support terms for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon, which creates a requirement for authors to provide six months of support, and offers buyers "support packs" for renewing support. Support has not historically been required, but nearly…

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Audit WP had a short, but interesting life span. Started by Rob Neu and Jacob King, the site launched in February, and today it's been acquired by WP Site Care. They made an early splash after their launch when Jacob…

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

How has WordPress changed your life?

Brian Krogsgard

August 8, 2014

DraftPlanet

Last week, I was in New York City for WordCamp and some client meetings. The event was a huge success, with four full tracks of expert designers, developers, and WordPress professionals sharing what they've learned. I had a great time…

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result…

Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2014

CareersDraft

On May 28th, 2012, I was virtually introduced to Chris Lema. He had 653 Twitter followers at the time. I know so, because that's how we were introduced — through an email from Twitter telling me he was now following…

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Brian Krogsgard

August 4, 2014

DesignPlanet

Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven't posted since the last week in review. Trust…

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2014

The Week in Review

Welcome to the fifth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Sass is coming to Underscores A long-awaited feature, the first pass…

An introduction to setting up SSH keys for server management

Ben Lobaugh

July 28, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

Utilizing SSH keys in conjunction with the servers you connect to is a great and highly recommended security practice. SSH stands for "Secure Shell" and enabling SSH for a server creates a secure channel between you (via the command line)…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

WordPress.com is very mobile centric with their first video ad

The anatomy of a security breach, and how to do good in a bad situation

The future of Post Status

Your website is not allowed to be fast

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon introduce mandatory support and renewable packages

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

How has WordPress changed your life?

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

An introduction to setting up SSH keys for server management

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

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