WordPress News

WordPress.org now delivered over SSL

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

WordPress.org is now delivered over SSL. I saw an exchange between John Turner and Pippin Williamson that noted the change, visible as the default result in Google's search engine results. https://twitter.com/pippinsplugins/status/441594775997648896 If you visit WordPress.org over Http, it won't redirect…

Getty Images are now “free” to embed, but they are awful

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I read an article on The Verge this evening about how Getty Images have made their images freely embeddable. The photo above of Matt Mullenweg is an example. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection,…

HTML5 galleries to land in WordPress 3.9

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2014

Make WordPress

Since WordPress 3.6, it's been possible for theme developers to optionally add HTML5 support for search forms, comment forms, and comment lists. With WordPress 3.9, that optional support will be extended to galleries. The new default gallery markup will use…

How to manage a distributed team

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2014

BusinessDesign

Carl Smith runs nGen Works, a design and development studio that is fully distributed. He's also a co-host on one of my favorite podcasts, BizCraft. In this article from Net Mag / Creative Bloq, Carl talks about some key traits…

Eight things you should do after building your WordPress site

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2014

WordPress News

There are some essentials you should make sure are taken care of before considering your WordPress site complete. They don't take much time but are often overlooked.

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

WordPress News

ManageWP announced some big updates to their site management services this morning. The highlights are as follows: A much faster base plugin that uses over 80% less memory than before Increased speeds and codebase for both backups and site cloning…

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

BusinessMake WordPress

There are a number of things that concern me in regard to WordPress comments. They are one of those features that I have a love hate relationship with. Comments are great for active, well moderated communities. I genuinely enjoy receiving…

What can WordPress do for you?

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2014

WordPress News

In January, the Norwegian WordPress community got together in Oslo for WordCamp Norway 2014. In this video, filmed by Alex Asensi, people give testimonials about what excites them about WordPress and what it's done for them in their lives. Whether it…

How to properly change and reference various WordPress directories

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2014

Development

Using WordPress, it's a poor assumption to assume the wp-content, plugins, and uploads folders are always in the same place, or even always called by those names. The configuration you see above is a sample WordPress root directory. This isn't…

Legalmattic, Automattic has open sourced their Terms of Service

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

Business

The name says it all here. With Legalmattic, Automattic has open sourced some of their legal documents and put them on Github. They are released with a Creative Commons license, free to edit and reuse for your own purposes.

Clef offering password-less integrations for WordPress plugins that enable user registration

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

Security

Clef is a password-less login solution that utilizes a phone app and WordPress plugin for more secure logins. You can get more specific information about two-factor authentication (which is different than this, but along similar lines) on my post where…

Interview with Drew Strojny, Founder of The Theme Foundry

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

BusinessDesign

I had the pleasure to interview Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, about their work at The Theme Foundry, their philosophies about themes, and their latest theme release, Oxford. [audio src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/Post-Status-Draft-3-Drew-Strojny-ThemeFoundry.mp3"] Direct Download Drew is a former Duke football…

WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

WordPress.com has new eCommerce options available to its users. Back in March of 2013, they partnered with ShopLocket for their Enterprise and VIP customers to be able to use the eCommerce tools on their WordPress websites. Now, they've added Ecwid…

The hate and vitriol of WordPress

Travis Northcutt

February 24, 2014

WordPress News

Tom McFarlin posted a great article today on the "hate and vitriol of WordPress." Straight up, people despise WordPress, its codebase, the fact that people not only work on it, but also write about it, build for it, and make any argument…

An introduction to transients in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2014

Development

Transients are an excellent way to speed up complex queries in WordPress. Dave Clements shows you in this post how you can use transients to avoid bringing a site to its knees like he did, by caching those queries instead…