WordPress News

Building a non-blog website with WordPress is not a hack

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2014

Noted speaker and podcaster Sarah Parmenter noted on a recent episode of "Happy Monday" that building anything other than a blog in WordPress is something of a "hack." In her response post, Tracy Rotton argues that it isn't: The fact…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Spring 2014 edition)

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2014

Careers

This is the fifth “Who’s hiring” post, and previous ones were very encouraging. I have seen multiple people start conversations that led to full time jobs and contract work from those posts. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers…

Tips for clients hiring a web consultant

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2014

Business

Chris Lema has dropped some excellent tips for clients looking to hire a web developer / consultant. My favorite part was his description of why clients should know their budget: Sure, low prices exist, but in parts of town that…

Blog like a tortoise

Travis Northcutt

March 24, 2014

WordPress News

This post by Brian Krogsgard on his personal blog is a great reminder that blogging isn't all about the stats (although the stats are a nice motivator). It's also a great peek at Brian's strategy and plans for Post Status; he's…

Synchronize WordPress uploads across environments

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2014

Development

Iain Poulson has written a nice tutorial summarizing five different ways to sync uploads / media across WordPress environments. This is a common problem, and he approaches the solutions using different methodologies, including via FTP (least preferred), rsync, Migrate DB Pro,…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

Development

PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it's notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name…

Using the magnifying glass icon for search

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

Design

I love reading user studies like this recent one from Nielsen Norman Group, where they talk about the user experience for using the magnifying glass icon for search. All in all, they say it works quite well. Users tend to…

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

BusinessDesign

AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that's an absolute titan in a broad range of…

WP Dev Table: A monthly online geeky WordPress podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

WordPress News

WP Dev Table is a monthly podcast created to talk about the kinds of topics that would rarely get more than 20 people listening if they were a WordCamp talk in any city, but worldwide they'll get hundreds of "virtual…

WordPress core proposal: portability

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

Akismet releases update to address pingback vulnerability reports

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

Security

Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address…

WordPress.com has opened applications for commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

Automattic has added a new page on WordPress.com inviting theme makers to submit their theme shops to the platform. Historically, Automattic has invited particular theme makers to be a part of the WordPress.com commercial theme program. I have heard from some…

The evolution of 10up

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…

How a high school student became a professional WordPress developer

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

WordPress News

I've followed Sunny Ratilal since his earliest days contributing to Easy Digital Downloads. I remember Pippin Williamson raving about how good he was at contributing to EDD code and supporting EDD customers. Then I found out he was in high…

Everything I know about the news business

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I thoroughly enjoyed a recent Medium post by Sean Blanda, where he discusses the news business. I have a lot of interest in publishing and news, something WordPress is core to. Sean highlights a number of challenges for the news…

Quick tip: Freelance toolkit by Modern Tribe

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2014

Business

I found the Freelance Toolkit landing page on Modern Tribe's website today thanks to a Tweet from Tom Willmot: https://twitter.com/tomwillmot/status/444143641569660928 It's apparently been around for a while, but this was the first time I've seen it. The toolkit is a…