WordPress News

Let’s WordSesh together

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2014

This weekend, WordSesh 3 will begin. WordSesh is 24 straight hours of live streamed presentations and discussions from a variety of intelligent folks in the WordPress world. It starts at 0:00 UTC Saturday, which really means 7:00 p.m. Eastern time…

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

"Oh, my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way. Nice to meet you." After the WordPress co-founder welcomed the largest WordCamp San Francisco audience ever, he introduced himself and began this year's State of the Word -- the annual talk where…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

LoopConf: A new WordPress conference that’s only for developers

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2014

HostingPlanet

Early May 2015 will be the first ever LoopConf, a WordPress conference that's geared solely toward developers. Ryan Sullivan, the owner of WP Site Care, is hosting the conference that is to be held in Las Vegas. LoopConf describes…

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…

Contribution as culture

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2014

BusinessHosting

This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

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

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

Business

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…