WordPress News

A glossary of WordPress terms for beginners

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2013

WP Beginner has created a very handy glossary of various WordPress terms. I looked through a few of them, and they are pretty thorough in their descriptions, and each has relevant WP Beginner posts below for further reading. This is…

Advanced PHP developer? WordPress is a better starting point for your project than you think.

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

Development

Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, "even a half-assed…

Understanding _n_noop()

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

Development

How a function that doesn't do anything can save your life. Well, not really, but close. _n_noop() can be very interesting, especially for APIs in larger plugins.

WP Bacon expanding beyond a podcast

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

WordPress News

WP Bacon is a relatively new podcast, and they are already deciding to expand into written content as well. They plan to write tutorials, reviews, and even a little news. There's a lot of good content being written in the…

Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I've had an opportunity to play with Barley for WordPress, an inline editor plugin. Barley is a two-sided product. Barley is a hosted, PHP based CMS, and Barley for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that extends the hosted Barley editing…

Beware of a spam email disguised as if it’s from Yoast

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

Security

An email spam campaign disguised as being from Yoast is making the rounds. If you get an email from Yoast linking to their latest post, be sure to verify the sender and the link before you click it. According to…

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Eric Andrew Lewis started a new topic this morning on the Make WordPress Core blog to introduce a new core plugin team. The Post Meta team's goal will be to improve the "developer’s experience from the back-end – creating input…

ThemeForest authors can now ditch support for Internet Explorer 8

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

DesignWordPress News

ThemeForest announced that authors can opt not to support Internet Explorer 8, citing the widespread adoption of Windows 8 and jQuery 2.0 dropping support for the old browser. We're finally entering an era of only modern web browsers.

Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

WordPress News

Jeffrey Zeldman announced in a tweet this morning that he's joining Automattic's board of advisors. Zeldman is the king of web standards and has been a huge presence in the web community for over 15 years. He's the founder of…

Understand how to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

Development

Samuel "Otto" Wood describes the prepare() function, and why it matters. For anyone playing with SQL in their work, you should make sure you understand these basics that Otto quite clearly explains.

Automattic files two lawsuits and strikes back at fraudulent DMCA takedown notices

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

WordPress News

Citing two recent cases of copyright law abuse, WordPress.com-owner Automattic has announced it’s backing ‘censorship’ victims by filing two lawsuits to deter future misuses. [editor's note: this is awesome.]

What screens want

Brian Krogsgard

November 21, 2013

Design

This is one of the most fun and thought provoking reads on design I've read in a really long time. Frank Chimero has put together what he calls "thoughts on digital canvases", and it's really worthwhile. If you do any…

Documentation marketing: how opening up docs turned into 60% of the sales funnel at WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 21, 2013

Business

Warren Holmes is the Chief Information Officer at WooThemes. He tells a story on his personal blog how WooThemes opened up their documentation site from behind the paywall, and now that site is the referrer for 60% of their revenue.…

Case study: building a front-end managed web app using WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 20, 2013

Design

The folks at Voltronik have put together a pretty interesting case study going over their processes and considerations for building a project management system for a client, managed on the front end, all with WordPress. The result is a Bootstrap…

WordPress code snippets ’til Christmas

Brian Krogsgard

November 20, 2013

WordPress News

Elliott Richmond is in the second year of his advent calendar for WordPress code snippets. You can sign up on the site for the 2013 version and he'll email you the snippets every day. I enjoyed this last year, as…

Sources of growth for a membership site

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2013

Business

Shawn Hesketh runs WP101, a WordPress tutorials membership site. He recently received a question about how he markets his site, and his answer is thorough and insightful, and definitely worth a read for anyone trying to grow their product or…