WordPress News

Don’t update your theme

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

Konstantin Obenland talks about the concept of the Underscores (_s) theme being unversioned, and how theme authors shouldn't worry too much about updating their themes based off of _s every time _s updates. It's a dilemma I've struggled with myself.…

Let’s learn in Cape Town

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

WordCamp Cape Town is November 7th, and I'm really excited to have an opportunity to take part. The timing worked out perfectly, and it will be an excellent chance to learn, get to know people, and achieve some things for…

Rewrite rules made easy

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

Development

Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very…

How to be a good product support provider

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson shares his story of learning to be good at supporting his products. Pippin highlights one of the hardest challenges, that a good support person is both good at problem solving and good at being empathetic with the customer.…

Partner spotlight: The Theme Foundry

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

DesignWordPress News

It was just over three months ago that I redesigned Post Status, re-focused the site's purpose, and partnered with The Theme Foundry. Today, I'd like to share that The Theme Foundry has opted to continue the relationship for another quarter.…

( intuition + investigation ) > memorization

Brian Krogsgard

October 15, 2013

WordPress News

Lance Willett is the theme team lead at Automattic, and in this post he describes the power of intuition and investigation, and how much more powerful these characteristics are than memorization. If you are passionate and curious, you can achieve…

GoDaddy has acquired Media Temple

Brian Krogsgard

October 15, 2013

Hosting

In a shocking move (to me), GoDaddy has acquired fellow hosting company Media Temple. According to the post on TechCrunch, Media Temple's 225 employees will continue to manage its 125,000 customer base as a separate entity. GoDaddy has apparently been…

How long does it take to master WordPress?

Brian Krogsgard

October 15, 2013

Business

Tom McFarlin received an email asking him how long it would take to master WordPress. Tom's answer is fantastic. I do have something in addition to what Tom said to keep in mind as you are on your journey (note…

ManageWP.org officially launches as a curated WordPress news site

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2013

WordPress News

ManageWP has been working on a curated WordPress news site for a long time now. I beta tested and wrote about it in August, and most of what I said then I would say again today. But now that ManageWP.org…

Simple Google Maps for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2013

WordPress News

Recently, a friend asked me what I recommended for a super simple Google Maps plugin. I didn't have a good answer. Plugins I'd seen were either just widgets, or had too much going on. Somehow I had overlooked Pippin Williamson's…

Ghost has launched to the public

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2013

WordPress News

I know it's not the WordPress platform, but it should be of interest to WordPress people. Much of the buzz around Ghost centers around it being an alternative to WordPress for blogging. Well, Ghost's source code is now public on…

Good decisions, else options

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2013

WordPress News

Joen Asmussen is a designer for Automattic, and he's responsible for much of the look of WordPress.com's home page and for the Twenty Thirteen theme. In this post, he warns about using the Decision Not Options mantra of WordPress as…

Personal note: I’m joining Range

Brian Krogsgard

October 13, 2013

WordPress News

I'm happy to say I'm joining Range as a Junior Partner. You can read more details on my personal blog and the Range announcement post. I officially start with them at the end of the month. The career change doesn't…

Parent to child post relationships

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2013

Development

Justin Tadlock has another nice tutorial out where he guides you in the relatively simple function that adds a metabox to a post screen to be able to assign a post parent from another post type. This is highly useful…

Potential roadmap for WordPress Multisite

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

If you use WordPress Multisite or have interest in it, you'll want to read Andrew Nacin's potential roadmap for the future of the project. It's very promising, and he touches on many of the pain points for the current use…

iThemes Exchange adds support for memberships and physical goods

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes Exchange was released only a few months ago, but they've been iterating quickly. As I shared then, they released Exchange without support for physical goods. Now they've not only added support for physical goods, but memberships (recurring and non-recurring)…