WordPress News

Let’s use WordPress to help make a difference

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

Today you have an opportunity to help people that are using WordPress to help others. I hope you'll read this fully and consider helping. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease that has devastating effects on the lungs especially.…

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about the…

Tom McFarlin and Japh Thomson are shifting roles at Envato and Wptuts+

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

CareersWordPress News

In November, Envato announced that they were looking for a new Wptuts+ editor on their blog. The position requires considerable skill with WordPress and effective communication. Japh Thomson has done a fantastic job heading up the Wptuts+ blog effort for two…

WordPress is not easy, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

January 2, 2014

WordPress News

Morten Rand-Hendriksen has put together one of the more thoughtful posts I've seen about the complexity of WordPress. As he notes, "the way we talk about WordPress to new users and clients gives them a distorted picture of what the…

How blogging has kickstarted my career

Brian Krogsgard

January 2, 2014

WordPress News

In early November I had the privilege to attend, sponsor, and speak at WordCamp Cape Town. I had a great time, and got to spend time getting to know some wonderful people in the South African WordPress community. I traveled…

Quick lessons in typography

Brian Krogsgard

January 1, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Want to learn something new to ring in the year? Check out Benedikt Lehnert's A Pocket Guide to Master Every Day's Typographic Adventures. It's short, easy to understand, and offers great advice. And trust me, I've seen your sites (and…

Theme Friendly, an upcoming site for commercial theme reviews

Brian Krogsgard

January 1, 2014

WordPress News

Theme Friendly is a project by Alex Mansfield that will serve to offer commercial WordPress theme reviews. Alex is also blogging his efforts to build the site itself, which is fun. It looks like Alex will be running each theme…

Get a WordPress mentor

Brian Krogsgard

December 24, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros recently wrote a post encouraging WordPress folks to both mentor others and find mentors for themselves. Now he's taken it to the next level with WP Mentor, a site dedicated to the effort. This is a great little…

Bedrock — a modern WordPress stack

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2013

WordPress News

Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure. Dependency management with Composer Automated deployments with Capistrano Better folder structure Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files Environment variables with…

It’s time for a simpler default WordPress theme

Brian Krogsgard

December 20, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin Obenland has been involved with the development of the last three default WordPress themes. In this post, he makes a great case for simplifying the default theme with Twenty Fifteen; and he goes as far as advocating simply using…

WordPress Foundation financials

Brian Krogsgard

December 19, 2013

WordPress News

As a non-profit organization, the WordCamp Foundation publicly files financials. However, they've gone an extra step and broken down their costs for the 2012 tax year on the website. The Foundations expenses were $580,161 for the year, and the breakdown…

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 announced

Brian Krogsgard

December 18, 2013

WordPress News

With perhaps the earliest announcement I've seen for a WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2014 has been announced to occur October 24th - 26th. It appears the contributor day is going to flip this year, and be before WordCamp instead of…

“Patches Welcome”

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Business

As a phrase, this is often more of a conversation killer rather than encouragement for collaboration. The delivery method of this popular phrase is paramount, and the audience needs to be genuinely considered when we say "patches welcome" to those…

BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress 1.9, "Sammy" was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.

Design is not a democracy

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Design

With all the recent changes to the design of WordPress admin, the new default theme, and other design projects for other WordPress properties, I think this is a valuable lesson for us to remember: design is not a democracy. In…

Share sidebars in WordPress Multisite with transients

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Development

Corey Collins goes in depth on the WebDevStudios blog to offer a solution to a problem experienced by many Multisite users: for sharing sidebars across a Multisite instance. The solution uses transients to store everything and a small AJAX function…