WordPress News

News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

WordPress 3.7.1 is out

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.7.1 is out with eleven bug fixes. If you are already on WordPress 3.7 and you are eligible for auto-updates, they will start rolling out soon. If you want to find out if you're eligible for auto-updates, you can…

Explicit browser support

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Brian Krogsgard
Browser support is not a minor thing to consider when building web projects. Whether developing a website for a client or building a product, one of the most important things to clarify right away is what level of browser support…

Lessons learned building and supporting a WordPress theme

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Brian Krogsgard
Konstantin Kovshenin shares the lessons he's learned from building and supporting his free Expound WordPress theme. The theme has over 100,000 downloads, and it's pretty interesting to see how he prepared for the release and the common support requests that…

Get to know the new functions in WordPress 3.7

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Brian Krogsgard
The fabulous documentation site, QueryPosts, has you covered with the new functions added to WordPress 3.7. Take a look around and jump right to the source to get familiar with the new things to play with in your next project.…

What’s new in WordPress 3.7, “Basie”

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.7, "Basie", has just been released. It's been named in honor of Count Basie. The WordPress 3.7 development cycle is the quickest turnaround between major versions of WordPress ever. You may not notice a whole lot of sexy new…

You’re using transients wrong

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Brian Krogsgard
Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a "maximum age" versus a "guaranteed expiration". He also makes a worthwhile…

How to take advantage of WordPress 3.7’s language packs

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Brian Krogsgard
In order to take advantage of the WordPress 3.7 "language packs" functionality, Otto Wood lays out some ground rules that plugin and theme authors should be following. This is an excellent resource. If Otto's post looks like a foreign language…

WordPress websites and businesses acquisitions

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Brian Krogsgard
Oli Dale has done a pretty thorough roundup of the history of WordPress websites and businesses that have been purchased. I'm a little disappointed that so many people do not reveal the price of their transactions. I know there is…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

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Brian Krogsgard
You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report

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Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros is a WordPress entrepreneur and podcaster from a town between Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Matt is also a co-founder of Slocum Studios, a web consultancy. One of Matt's podcasts is the Matt Report, where he interviews…

Brace yourselves, WordSesh 2 is coming

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Brian Krogsgard
The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he's announced the…

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