WordPress News

WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2014

WordPress has a lot of killer features already, and more on the roadmap for future versions. One feature I'd really like to see would be an offline editor: create and manage posts in the browser without a network connection (then…

Yoast enters the WordPress theme market

Travis Northcutt

February 11, 2014

WordPress News

Joost de Valk has announced his company (Yoast) have released three Genesis Child Themes, with more on the way. We’re releasing 3 themes today, all of them very different but all of them share a lot of functionality too. They’re…

The rise of WordPress maintenance services

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2014

Business

WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There…

WordPress capabilities magic with map_meta_cap

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

Development

Mannie Schumpert has done a nice job offering some practical examples using map_meta_cap. Mannie also took all of the examples from Andrew Nacin's excellent WCSF talk from last year. If you are dealing with roles and permissions, the things from…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

WooCommerce 2.1 Released

Travis Northcutt

February 10, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes announced the release of WooCommerce 2.1 "Peppy Penguin" today. Major changes include a REST API, a new look for the admin panel to match the WordPress 3.8 UI, improved reporting tools, and responsive default templates.

Debug Bar Slow Actions

Travis Northcutt

February 7, 2014

Development

Konstantin Kovshenin announced a new plugin called Debug Bar Slow Actions, an extension for the Debug Bar plugin. Konstantin's new plugin ...adds a new panel with a list of the top 100 slowest actions (and filters) during the current page request. This…

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

Travis Northcutt

February 7, 2014

WordPress News

Andrew Nacin, one of the lead developers of WordPress, posted an excellent read on how to best contribute to the WordPress project, as well as some information on how core committers (that is, people who have access to commit code) are…

Yoast acquires WP Force

Brian Krogsgard

February 7, 2014

WordPress News

Joose de Valk announced that Yoast has acquired WordPress news site WP Force from Jonathan Dingman.

An open letter from UpThemes

Chris Wallace

February 7, 2014

WordPress News

I recently wrote an open letter to the WordPress community to apologize for our failures and announce our plans for the future.

WordPress theme performance tips

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Kirk Wight has written a helpful post on the Theme Shaper blog that offers tips on improving performance in WordPress themes. Kirk is a theme wrangler at Automattic and knows his stuff. If you love making themes, but haven't thought…

How to remove jQuery

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2014

WordPress News

With the recent "you might not need jQuery" craze, developers are understandably asking how to remove the library from the front-end of their site. Depending on the way the theme is built, it's fairly straight-forward.

Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL

Travis Northcutt

February 5, 2014

DevelopmentSecurity

A great post from Zack Tollman at The Theme Foundry on why defaulting to what most consider best practices can sometimes be detrimental to performance. Using a CDN (content delivery network) for the new site was a forgone conclusion, as…

WooCommerce now powers over 10% of all eCommerce websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2014

WordPress News

WooCommerce has had explosive growth. That's not new to anyone. But you may not realize just how much WooCommerce has grown compared to the eCommerce space in general. The WooThemes folks wanted to know who was using their product and…

Welcome to the small leagues: On WordPress and journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

A friend and former coworker of mine really likes the word "webmaster". Because it's a hilarious word. It suggests that this person has control over the web in general, which is pretty pretentious. However, traditional webmasters have long had a…

Business models for WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2014

Business

Chris Lema has put together a nice video about creating business models for WordPress products. Sometimes, people jump in without really analyzing or knowing a market, and Chris helps you navigate these waters. He's helped a lot of businesses in…