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The case for doing small website projects

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2014

Last week I posted about how much custom WordPress websites should cost. If you read that post, you know that it depends. Generally the feedback was fantastic, but many readers took from that post that they should raise their prices.…

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

DesignPlanet

The New Yorker is an iconic magazine that's been in print since 1925, and its online web presence is now on WordPress. Reported in the New York Times originally, the New Yorker is altering its online strategy, broadening the number of magazine articles…

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the fourth “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. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on…

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2014

BusinessPlanet

ChurchThemes was started by Frankie Jarrett in 2011. Frankie is now the Head of WordPress Product at X-Team, makers of Stream -- a product I reviewed a few months ago. Frankie also talked about Stream and ChurchThemes on the Matt Report recently.…

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the third “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. It's been a busy week, and there's a lot to share,…

Tips for local WordPress development with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Jason Resnick

July 11, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

I’ve used local development environments for as long as I can remember. They’ve always been a fluid part of being a developer. The biggest pain point was keeping everything upgraded at all times and switching from one stack to another.…

Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin are joining forces

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin first partnered together when they created Floating Social Bar, a free WordPress social sharing plugin. They decided to collaborate after meeting and getting along at WordCamp Raleigh. From there, their relationship blossomed, and they decided…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

The state of handling custom metadata in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress has a table for handling metadata of posts. Quite simply, it's a good place to store "stuff" that relates to a post, but doesn't belong in one of the standard parts of the posts table. Metadata can be nearly…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "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. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

The first ever WooCommerce conference is November 3rd & 4th, on the heels of WCSF

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

BusinessPlanet

The WooThemes team put up a landing page today for their first ever WooCommerce conference, which is to be held in San Francisco November 3rd and 4th. The conference is right on the heels of WordCamp San Francisco, which is…

Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

BusinessHosting

Average customers often don't know the difference between domains, WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting. They have to learn as they go, or hope they land somewhere someone will guide them well. I once did a WordCamp double-session on WordPress 101.…

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

Brian Krogsgard

June 29, 2014

The Week in ReviewWordPress News

I thought it'd be fun to try something new here. As you've probably noticed, I've been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I'll dive more into that later. I'll…

You forgot about user experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2014

Design

Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

Better local development with Airplane Mode

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

DesignDevelopment

Websites are complicated these days. Even when we work locally, we typically still need to make a bunch of calls to external, online applications, on any given page load. If you're ever without an internet connection, but still attempt to…

The case for doing small website projects

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Tips for local WordPress development with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin are joining forces

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

The state of handling custom metadata in WordPress

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

The first ever WooCommerce conference is November 3rd & 4th, on the heels of WCSF

Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

You forgot about user experience

Better local development with Airplane Mode

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