WordPress News

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

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

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 Pressware shop is open, and ready to cater to WordPress publishers

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Tom McFarlin is a veteran of the WordPress product space. Today he's announced that his company, Pressware, has opened a shop for selling WordPress products. Pressware's first product has been out for a while now; the Mayer theme has been…

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

June 23, 2014

DesignSecurity

Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

The WordPress community summit is back

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

Who is buying commercial WordPress themes?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

To say the theme marketplace is undergoing a transition is probably an understatement. We've seen many shops sell or change focus over the past year. A few have maintained their place in the market or even grown some, but it's not easy…

PressNomics 3, the economics of WordPress conference, is January 22nd – January 24th

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Dates have just been announced for the next PressNomics. PressNomics' third edition will be held in Tempe, Arizona, January 22nd through January 24th. The first two iterations of this conference, which is essentially the official unofficial WordPress business conference, were…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…

Made with WP: conversations with people who make things with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

WordPress News

Chase Livingston and Chase Clemons host a number of podcasts on The Dispatch. Chase Livingston is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic and Chase Clemons does support for Basecamp. Made With WP is one of the shows Chase & Chase produce.…

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2014

Development

New Relic has some advice for programming concepts to learn for newly graduated software engineers. While they target degreed engineers, I think these topics are quite practical for anyone that considers themselves a programmer or developer. Some of my favorites:…