WordPress News

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

Design

For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list in…

Press75, one of the oldest WordPress theme shops, is for sale

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

Started in 2008, Press75 is one of the oldest WordPress theme shops. Jason Schuller has run the site for years, and according to the listing, it was once a half a million dollar per year business. Now it's for sale. Jason…

Microcaching with Nginx

Travis Northcutt

April 15, 2014

Development

Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains that…

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

BusinessSecurity

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it's really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces.…

WordPress 3.8.3 fixes a bug with “Quick Draft”

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

Last week's 3.8.2 security release introduced a bug where drafts written with the Quick Draft tool in the dashboard were not saved. That bug is fixed with today's 3.8.3 release. What's really interesting about this release is that not only is…

WordPress.vim

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Development

Darshan Sawardekar has released a very impressive looking plugin for Vim, appropriately titled WordPress.vim. If you use Vim as your editor/IDE, you should definitely check this out. The plugin includes support for an impressive array of features and other tools,…

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Development

Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. I…

Life on trial at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

Careers

Recently, Dave Clements finished a trial at Automattic. In this summary, he describes the experience in detail, from his initial interview and test to his four week trial. There were a few things in the post I didn't already know…

WordPress.com introduces a Portfolio content type

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2014

WordPress News

I'm honestly surprised it took this long, but WordPress.com has introduced a Portfolio custom content type for their platform. Current themes that support the new content type are Espied and Illustratr, however I think that many themes will begin introducing…

Devin Price is the new owner of DevPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2014

Business

Devin Price is a developer from Austin, Texas and owner of WP Theming, an excellent WordPress blog. He also hosts his plugins and themes on WP Theming. Devin is the author of the popular Options Framework plugin, the Portfolio Post…

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

A severe Jetpack vulnerability has been disclosed and patched in Jetpack. The bug allows attackers to publish posts, and has existed since 2012. The Jetpack blog post states the following: During an internal security audit, we found a bug that allows an…

Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6

Travis Northcutt

April 10, 2014

Security

The good folks over at interconnect/it have backported the recent security updates for WordPress to the 3.5 and 3.6 branches, due to having some clients running older versions that, for whatever reason, aren't able to upgrade at this time. They've…

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

Design

The WordPress.com theme directory received a facelift yesterday, as well as some functionality changes. New design The new design isn't a big stretch from the previous one, but it is cleaner and more modern. One item to note is that…

Automattic acquires Longreads

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress News

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…