WordPress News

Automattic acquires Longreads

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

Longreads is a popular term and hashtag for, well, long reads. Many publishers pride themselves in in-depth articles aimed to capture a reader for a significant period of time. Such stories are quite popular amongst journalistic and hyper-attentive-news-addict circles. The…

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Andrew Munro have just launched Version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, an affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Pippin is well known in the WordPress community for his work as a plugin…

The FooBox lightbox plugin now has a free version

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress News

The folks at FooPlugins have announced a free version of their FooBox lightbox plugin. FooBox has been under active development for about two years, which is saying something in the world of lightboxes, where many free jQuery driven options have…

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It's being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One…

Cognitive Lode: tips for understanding user behavior online

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

Design

Cognitive Lode is a nice little resource site by the folks at ribot that aims to educate web-makers about the various behaviors of web-users, "to help you make better products." Each study is nicely illustrated, cites additional resources, and generally…

DevPress sold for $14,000 on Flippa

Brian Krogsgard

April 6, 2014

BusinessDesign

Update: Devin Price is the new owner. DevPress has a storied four year history, and today it's been sold on Flippa for a mere $14,000. What started as a partnership between four well known WordPress community members was eventually reduced…

Theme composition vs frameworks

Travis Northcutt

April 1, 2014

DesignDevelopment

Tom J Nowell published a great post today on theme composition vs frameworks. He points out a problem with theme frameworks: what you need or want to do doesn't always fit the way the framework is laid out. The problem…

Introducing Dictator

Travis Northcutt

March 31, 2014

Development

Daniel Bachhuber just announced Dictator, a "provisioning system for WordPress." One key idea Dictator adopted from provisioning systems: environments are ephemeral. WordPress no longer doing what you want it to? You should be able to destroy it and provision a…

Redis object cache for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2014

Development

WordPress has long had a Memcached backend available for object caching. Over the past several weeks, Eric Mann and Erick Hitter have built out a Redis-based alternative for object caching. Updated Source: https://ethitter.com/2014/04/redis-object-cache-plugin-available-for-download/

Jigoshop gets passed on to new owners

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Jigowatt, the company who develops the Jigoshop eCommerce plugin for WordPress has transferred ownership of the plugin over to Proxar IT Consulting, enabling Jigowatt to concentrate on the website design and development side of their business.

Performance benchmarks for managed WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

March 27, 2014

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi has put together a very thorough comparison of performance benchmarks for a number of managed WordPress hosts on Review Signal. Included in his review: A Small Orange Pressable WP Engine WebSynthesis SiteGround Godaddy (managed) Digital Ocean (VPS) Pagely A…

How to market your first WordPress product

Brian Krogsgard

March 27, 2014

Business

Oli Dale has put together a nice post outlining methods he's found to be effective for marketing his WordPress themes and plugins. I wrote tips for marketing WordPress products last year, but my list was more focused on what I…

Creators and lurkers: the power of blog commenting

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

WordPress News

AJ Kohn talks about participation inequality online in his defense of comments, using a number of level-headed metrics, as part of his argument that comments are good for blogs. A small amount of creators are responsible for the vast majority of…

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

BusinessDraft

Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…

The Church of WordPress

Travis Northcutt

March 25, 2014

WordPress News

Mike Jordan wrote an excellent post on the future of the WordPress community. The natural evolution of community is exclusivity. The WordPress community is still so young, that this has not yet become a problem- but it is a looming…