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UpThemes retires all old themes, sets clean slate for the future

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

UpThemes has retired all of their old themes, and released their first new theme. It's part of an ongoing effort the better define who they are and what their goals are in their themes. According to my conversation with Chris…

WPML 3.0 introduces new GUI and better eCommerce support

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

WordPress News

WPML is probably the largest multi-lingual plugin for WordPress. In their latest release, they overhaul their user interface and implemented better support for eCommerce, specifically WooCommerce. WPML has been around quite some time now, so I'm happy to see it…

I can haz braces?

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1's are winning. That's a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I've ever…

Turn WordPress into a Twelve-Factor App

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Development

If you’re going to be creating complex websites with WordPress, then you need to get serious about it. This series of posts is based on the Twelve-Factor App methodology, adapted for large scale WordPress projects.

Theme frameworks explained in an animated infographic

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

WordPress News

This animated infographic provides a visual explanation of how theme frameworks work, as defined by WordPress.org.

The BuddyPress default theme is being phased out

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress has worked well with most WordPress themes for the last two major releases. Therefore, the BuddyPress team has decided it's time to retire the default theme from shipping with BuddyPress core. Boone Gorges gives the details on the BuddyPress…

Basis, a business theme with an intuitive content builder

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The Theme Foundry has released their vision of a business WordPress theme, called Basis. Basis is yet another theme by The Theme Foundry that reiterates why I like having them as a partner. Basis has a content builder in it…

WordPress for large scale publishing

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

WordPress News

Felix Salmon talks Content economics on the Reuters blog. Off-the-rack CMSs like WordPress and Drupal are OK for small-to-medium sites, but aren’t particularly well suited to be the framework for a major publishing operation. Okay. Though I find it hilarious…

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

BusinessDraft

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting WooThemes HQ in Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout the week I had the opportunity to interact with WooThemes' co-founders Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson, as well as the rest of the Cape…

iThemes enters the WordPress site management sphere with Sync

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

HostingWordPress News

iThemes has announced a new product today, called Sync. It's a tool to manage WordPress website updates, including themes and plugins. Sync is free for up to 10 sites for all iThemes account holders. They will announce plans soon for…

WordPress 3.8 schedule, and how to explain WordPress vs WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

WordPress News

Bob Dunn put together a few weekend conversations in this summary where Matt Mullenweg notes that WordPress 3.8 will be released on December 12th. Also, there's a nice screenshot in there from Matt's Joomla! conference keynote that explains the relationship…

WordPress isn’t falling behind

Brian Krogsgard

November 7, 2013

WordPress News

When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack?…

Ten bootstrapping tips from Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato

Brian Krogsgard

November 7, 2013

Business

Collis Ta'eed recently did a Twitter "series", if you will, highlighting ten bootstrapping tips of his to celebrate the seven year anniversary for Envato. They haven't blogged the list anywhere that I can tell, and I don't want it to…

Gravity Forms 1.8 beta introduces API, heartbeat integration, and multi-file uploads

Brian Krogsgard

November 6, 2013

WordPress News

The first beta for Gravity Forms 1.8 is out, and it looks like a feature-packed release. The API looks particularly exciting. I would love to see some developers dig into it and give some example use cases. Also, it's nice…

Fight impostor syndrome

Brian Krogsgard

November 6, 2013

WordPress News

Tomorrow I'm extremely fortunate to be speaking at WordCamp Cape Town. One of the points in my presentation is about fighting impostor syndrome. However, It has also come up in one of my many wonderful conversations with Chris Lema, and…

Interview on WP Shout

Brian Krogsgard

November 5, 2013

WordPress News

Fred and David were nice enough to ask me to do an interview on WP Shout, a site they recently acquired. They've done a nice job summarizing an audio interview and segmenting it into the various sections. I hope you'll…

UpThemes retires all old themes, sets clean slate for the future

WPML 3.0 introduces new GUI and better eCommerce support

I can haz braces?

Turn WordPress into a Twelve-Factor App

Theme frameworks explained in an animated infographic

The BuddyPress default theme is being phased out

Basis, a business theme with an intuitive content builder

WordPress for large scale publishing

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

iThemes enters the WordPress site management sphere with Sync

WordPress 3.8 schedule, and how to explain WordPress vs WordPress.com

WordPress isn’t falling behind

Ten bootstrapping tips from Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato

Gravity Forms 1.8 beta introduces API, heartbeat integration, and multi-file uploads

Fight impostor syndrome

Interview on WP Shout

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