WordPress News

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

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.

The motivations of a blogger

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

WordPress News

When I blog, I don't do it so I can read the post myself. I want you to read it, just like you are doing right now. But I don't just want you to read it. I want you to…

A glossary of WordPress terms for beginners

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2013

WordPress News

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…