WordPress News

WordPress.com adds partners to lower the barrier to eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2014

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…

How to deactivate WordPress Multisite properly

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2014

HostingWordPress News

WordPress Multisite is a great feature of WordPress. But it's not always the right feature.

Two step authentication for WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WordPress mobile apps

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2014

WordPress News

A few months ago, I enabled two-factor authentication for WordPress.com. There are a number of reasons I did so. For one, at Range, we sometimes work on WordPress VIP projects, where two step authentication is recommended for about anything that…

Edit Flow: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice пожитки.

Zé Fontainhas

February 20, 2014

Development

A post reviewing a few common internationalization issues, taking the case of a Edit Flow as an example.

Learn WordPress from Bob Dunn

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2014

WordPress News

Bob Dunn has released his latest project, many months in the making. BobWPTutorials is a tutorial and course website powered by WooCommerce, and offers tutorials on general WordPress usage, as well as Genesis and WooThemes products. He already boasts 48 published…

Why post formats should be plugin territory

Travis Northcutt

February 19, 2014

WordPress News

A thought-provoking piece by Morten Rand-Hendriksen on why post formats belong in a plugin, rather than in WordPress core. Currently Post Formats themselves remain as a core feature and there is sporadic talk of restarting work on the Post Formats UI.…

Don’t use template_redirect to load an alternative template file

Travis Northcutt

February 19, 2014

WordPress News

A short post by Mark Jaquith explaining why you should use the template_include hook instead of template_redirect for loading an alternative template file. template_redirect is a popular WordPress hook, for good reason. When it runs, WordPress has made its main…

Aesop, a Medium-esque “story engine” for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2014

BusinessDesign

Aesop is a self-described "story engine" for WordPress. The plugin boasts "components designed for rich storytelling experiences." Basically, it creates an admin interface that allows a site owner to create interactive stories, similar to those popularized by projects like Medium…

On selling a WordPress agency

Brian Krogsgard

February 18, 2014

Business

It was announced in November that VeloMedia was going to acquire Crowd Favorite. The deal closed on Friday, and Crowd Favorite CEO (and now VeloMedia CTO) Alex King wrote about why and how he sold his agency -- the oldest…

Client resource: beginner’s guide to SEO

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2014

WordPress News

If you're like me, you've been frustrated before when a client asks you if you are "SEO proficient". SEO is one of those terms that's so mainstream, many prospective clients ask about it without knowing too much about what they…

The ins and outs of code blocks in WordPress content

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2014

WordPress News

Chris Coyier has done a nice job going through the various considerations to make when posting code in WordPress content. He covers using <pre> and <code> tags in the WordPress editor directly, using Markdown and Github flavored Markdown, and third…

Managing Jetpack enabled blogs on WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2014

WordPress News

I have tons of WordPress.com connected blogs. Some are connected to WordPress.org sites that are mine. Some are connected to WordPress.org sites of one-off clients and friends that I wasn't in the mood to explain Jetpack and WordPress.com too. Some…

Business theme highlight: Forefront

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I discovered a new WordPress theme today, thanks to a tweet from Ian Stewart, called Forefront. Forefront is a business theme by Automattic that is available on both WordPress.com and on Creative Market for WordPress.org users. Forefront has its own…

Why I’m done with social media buttons

Brian Krogsgard

February 14, 2014

WordPress News

I get asked at least once a month to put sharing buttons on Post Status. Yesterday, I read Sam Solomon's reasoning about why he's done using them in his designs. Also, the comments from Hacker News had some good insight,…