WordPress News

Lessons learned from being first to the WordPress theme market

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

Adii Pienaar has written a post that's an absolute must read for anyone looking to get into WordPress products. They've learned a lot of lessons at WooThemes, some of which would not be obvious at all without insight from someone…

Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

Brian Krogsgard

October 9, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the…

Plugin to report content for moderation in bbPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Coyier commissioned Josh Eaton to build a WordPress plugin that allows bbPress logged in users to report topics and replies as spam. Once reported, the content gets a new status and moderators can choose whether to allow it or…

Build better template files for your plugins

Curtis McHale

October 8, 2013

Development

Pippin Williamson walks us through the right and wrong ways to build template files for plugins.

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2013

BusinessHosting

Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

Just use [insert CMS here]! Or, why Chris Coyier still loves WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 7, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Coyier gives the many reasons why he still loves WordPress for CSS-Tricks.

A WordPress podcast, one year in

Brian Krogsgard

October 7, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros reflects on the past year of running the Matt Report, a podcast about WordPress businesses and entrepreneurs. It's one of my favorites. He also talks a bit about his opinions on the state of podcasting in general, with…

How to make your customers better at customer support

Brian Krogsgard

October 7, 2013

Business

Most end-users want to ask good questions, they just don't know how. Copy and paste this guide into your own support center to help your customers ask better support questions.

WP Remote enters the WordPress website management big leagues

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2013

WordPress News

WP Remote has had a few years to grow and mature since its inception in 2010. For an interesting backstory, you can read the history of WP Remote. WP Remote was a free product for years. It was a solution from…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

Retroactive Composer support for WordPress with ComposerPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Development

Tom Nowell has created a project called ComposerPress which analyses an existing WordPress install and creates a Composer .json file in your root directory. If you've already gotten to know the value of Composer, but need something to help bring…

Take the WordPress economy survey

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

Business

The folks behind Pressnomics are asking business owners to fill out a survey to help them put together some statistics on the WordPress economy. It's an anonymous survey about your company and revenue. Make sure only one person from each…

Markdown tools for bloggers

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

WordPress News

I've written an introduction to markdown as a language for writing for the web, and a look through the various tools available for crafting markdown'd content, split up by device.

Polish your code

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

Development

If we can polish a

Top ten search terms for themes on the MOJO Marketplace

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

Business

Here's a quick but interesting little post. MOJO Themes has shared their top ten searched terms for themes on their website. Does it shock you as much as it shocks me that 'Real Estate' is number one? The others are a…

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I've hated every instance I've ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin…