WordPress News

ManageWP.org officially launches as a curated WordPress news site

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2013

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)…

Lessons learned from being first to the WordPress theme market

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

Business

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.