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Basis, a business theme with an intuitive content builder

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

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…

DevPress releases new iteration of an alternative admin design

Brian Krogsgard

November 4, 2013

Design

Tung Do has released yet another iteration of a custom WordPress admin design at DevPress. I've seen Tung experiment with a black version, a white version, and a "Hunter" version. And now he's consolidating the previous three themes to one,…

Things to consider when inheriting a WordPress site

Brian Krogsgard

November 4, 2013

WordPress News

WP Beginner has written some helpful tips for those that inherit or purchase a WordPress site. I wouldn't be surprised if most people forget about many of these things, so be sure to bookmark it and have it ready for…

WordPress.com Stats introduces tracking for tags and categories

Brian Krogsgard

November 4, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress.com blog recently did a post wrapping up a series on "Stats Wrangling" to show bloggers how to better get and analyze traffic. It feels a bit buried, but in this final post in the series it seems they're…

What we learned at WordCamp Boston 2013

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2013

WordPress News

We had a great time at WordCamp Boston 2013 and learned a lot from attending. Whether or not you're from the area, we feel like you'll really be able learn something new about WordPress, have a laugh, and enjoy the…

Editorially gets support for exporting to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2013

WordPress News

Editorially is a pretty cool writing app that allows for live collaboration on a beautiful interface. They've just released a new feature that allows Editorially users to export their writing to their WordPress blogs. This feature makes Editorially look like…

How Groove grew their subscriber list to 5,000 in five weeks

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2013

WordPress News

Groove has another excellent case study out on their blog, where they tell the story about how they gained 5,000 subscribers on their blog in only 5 weeks. I was a pretty big fan of a previous post of theirs…

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

DevPress releases new iteration of an alternative admin design

Things to consider when inheriting a WordPress site

WordPress.com Stats introduces tracking for tags and categories

What we learned at WordCamp Boston 2013

Editorially gets support for exporting to WordPress

How Groove grew their subscriber list to 5,000 in five weeks

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