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Get a free year of learning WordPress by telling your story

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2013

Brian Richards is giving away 12 free year-long subscriptions to WP Sessions. All you have to do is tell him why you would benefit from the gift. WP Sessions is a pretty awesome way to learn from some of the…

Track progress of “features as plugins”

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

I tried to find something like this yesterday and had a hard time. I stumbled across it today finally: a list of current "features as plugins" that are being worked on, along with helpful information on their status. This will…

Theme development enhancements in WordPress 3.8

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2013

WordPress News

On ThemeShaper, Konstantin Obenland highlights some of the enhancements in WordPress 3.8 that benefit theme developers, primarily for the post format and custom background features. It might also be worth noting the change in screenshot size requirements as well (to…

Make your own WordPress admin themes

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

Design

As I noted in my feature post on WordPress 3.8, the new WordPress build tools (using Grunt) and the port of the admin CSS to Sass make it much easier for WordPress core to make new admin themes. Well, with…

The design of WordPress 3.8

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Matt Thomas goes into detail on design considerations for MP6, which became the new look of WordPress in 3.8. Also, it's just so impressive how many people were involved in this project. Excellent wrap-up by Matt.

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Commit messages can be poetry, too

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Ryan Boren, WordPress Lead Developer and Bug Whisperer, decided to create a poem on the importance of eliminating trailing whitespace in his latest commit to the WordPress codebase. The Pinking Shears stir from their slumber, awakened by what may seem,…

Envato community lifetime earnings are over $140 million

Brian Krogsgard

December 11, 2013

Business

It's amazing to think that in only seven years, Envato has grown to 200+ employees and helps so many thousands of people in their community distribute their work. That work, as announced for the first time in Collis Ta'eed's 2013…

Techniques for running code on installation, activation, deactivation, and uninstall

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2013

Development

Mike Jolley is the lead developer of WooCommerce, amongst other awesome plugins. He's very smart, and has a ton of experience with mature WordPress plugins. His blog is kicking butt this month, as he's taking part in WooThemes Blogging for…

Column view for easier page viewing in the WordPress admin

Brian Krogsgard

December 10, 2013

WordPress News

Alex King and Crowd Favorite have released a new plugin for WordPress called Admin Column View, available for free on the WordPress repository. The plugin is designed for hierarchical post types that have a lot of posts. It's a nice…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Fall edition)

Brian Krogsgard

December 9, 2013

Careers

This is the fourth “Who’s hiring” post this year, and previous ones were very encouraging. I have seen multiple people start conversations that led to full time jobs and contract work from those posts. I consistently find people looking for…

Six figure WordPress consulting

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2013

WordPress News

Curtis McHale debunks the myth that making good money with WordPress is easy. This is a good read for anyone looking to dive deeper into a WordPress-oriented career. Like most things, a highly rewarding career working with WordPress requires work,…

Maintainn acquires WPSell, an eCommerce support and development business

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2013

WordPress News

WPSell.net is a site that helps people get support and development services for eCommerce websites. David Rojas launched the site in April of this year, after working with Cart66 as a support technician and seeing that there "were a lot…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

iThemes acquihires Better WP Security, a million+ download WordPress security plugin

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

BusinessSecurity

iThemes has hired Chris Wiegman and taken over his very popular plugin, Better WP Security. Better WP Security has over a million downloads on WordPress.org and sells commercial support and installation services on FooPlugins. Better WP Security also has excellent…

WordPress through the ages

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.