WordPress News

How has WordPress changed your life?

Brian Krogsgard

August 8, 2014

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…

The case for doing small website projects

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

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,…