WordPress News

Welcome to the small leagues: On WordPress and journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2014

A friend and former coworker of mine really likes the word "webmaster". Because it's a hilarious word. It suggests that this person has control over the web in general, which is pretty pretentious. However, traditional webmasters have long had a…

Business models for WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2014

Business

Chris Lema has put together a nice video about creating business models for WordPress products. Sometimes, people jump in without really analyzing or knowing a market, and Chris helps you navigate these waters. He's helped a lot of businesses in…

Beanstalk’s guide to deploying WordPress

Curtis McHale

February 3, 2014

Development

There are lots of ways to deploy WordPress and now Beanstalk has added their own take on deploying WordPress with Git and their deployment tools.

Welcome Travis Northcutt as Contributing Editor

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2014

WordPress News

I'm thrilled today to announce that the Post Status team is growing. Doubling, in fact! I'm very happy to announce that Travis Northcutt is going to be a Contributing Editor to Post Status. In this role, Travis will be able…

VelocityPage by Mark Jaquith

Travis Northcutt

January 31, 2014

WordPress News

Mark Jaquith just announced a new plugin called VelocityPage. VelocityPage is a WordPress plugin that brings simple and intuitive page layout abilities to WordPress, on any theme. There's a short video that demonstrates the capabilities in the linked post; it's definitely…

The email line that’s client repellant

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

WordPress News

I've had a lot of email correspondence lately. As a boutique agency, all of us at Range share duties like responding to leads, proposals, and project management. It's been incredibly fun to stretch my legs back into sales and project…

My journey to managing my own WordPress server

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

Hosting

I used to shy away from managing my own server, but with experimentation I got more comfortable with it and now manage my own server.

WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled sites can now be embedded anywhere

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released a feature to create widgets to offer embed-able feeds for WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled blogs, so you can embed your blog anywhere. It looks just like a Twitter feed, but for a blog. From a technical standpoint,…

Woo: You too have woes

Zé Fontainhas

January 28, 2014

WordPress News

For developers, i18n isn't always obvious, not even for large, and well-established theme vendors. In this post, I've tried to outline some of the most obvious issues in some of WooThemes' themes.

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2014

Development

The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it's been a great tool that's allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can…

A free documentation theme for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2014

WordPress News

Tareq Hasan has created a free theme called weDocs to help folks manage documentation within WordPress. The theme is on Github and the demo is quite nice. This could be a great boilerplate for those of you looking to integrate…

Support Dash is transitioning to be a HelpScout app

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2014

WordPress News

Support Dash has announced they are transitioning from a standalone in-dashboard customer service app to a HelpScout app. Ben Sibley says the new app "will reduce the time you spend on support by providing you with key information inside every…

Rethinking the WordPress editor

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2014

WordPress News

Jay Hoffman has some good thoughts over on Torque about what lies ahead for the WordPress content creation experience. Between content blocks and front-end editing, writing a post in WordPress two years from now will not be like it is…

A love letter on .pot

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2014

WordPress News

Zé Fontainhas is an extraordinary wordsmith (in my own and many others' opinions) and a polyglots master. In this open love letter to Mike Jolley and his excellent WP Jobs Manager plugin, Zé eloquently highlights some of the finer points of…

Why we love $500 WordPress clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2014

Business

Ryan Sullivan shares excellent reasoning as to why he likes working with small budget clients. In short, with a smaller client the limits are better known and the surprises are fewer. Meanwhile, it's still quite possible to serve a client's…

Required reading for marketers and clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2014

Business

Ryan Holiday gives advice on how to market a "boring" business. He tells of the power of stories, and reminds us that all businesses have them. When we get stuck in a rut as web professionals, this is especially helpful.…