WordPress News

Take the WordPress economy survey

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

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…

WordPress security tips for your website

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Security

Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner are co-founders of WebDevStudios and last week they teamed up with SiteGround to do a security presentation. They offer some scary statistics on security, go over an example hack, cover ways to secure your website,…

How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

DevelopmentMake WordPress

This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of…

Bring any slides to WordPress with seoslides

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Business

A new WordPress plugin called seoslides aims to bring slides straight to your WordPress website. Alorum worked with 10up to build seoslides. You can build presentations right in the WordPress admin using a fancy HTML 5 canvas interface, and you…

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is ready for testing. For such a quick release cycle, there are features in WordPress 3.7 that are going to be big for the platform. Andrew Nacin highlighted a few items in 3.7 Beta 1 that…

The case for WordCamp speaker reviews

Brian Krogsgard

September 27, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Lema makes the case for implementing WordCamp speaker reviews. I think it's a great idea, and you should definitely read his full proposal. I do have some concerns on it though. For one, reviews are subjective, so organizers would…

What fold?

Brian Krogsgard

September 27, 2013

Design

It doesn't matter how many times we explain it, clients are still concerned with the fold. The fold does not exist on the web, especially when we do our jobs as web designers and developers. The fold is a print…

A new WordPress editing concept: Inline access

Mark Root-Wiley

September 26, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Previously mentioned on Post Status, there's a Front End Editor "Feature as Plugin" in the works. The idea of front end editing (aka "inline editing") has been around for a long time and may make it into Drupal 8. Medium…

Behind churchthemes.com

Brian Krogsgard

September 26, 2013

BusinessHosting

I've written a non-traditional "launch post" for churchthemes.com, telling the story of how this theme shop came together in the last year. Included are thoughts and experiences relating to business, development philosophy, pricing models, web hosting and marketing.

The new WP Remote API is fancy

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

WordPress News

WP Remote is really starting to mature as a site monitoring and backup service. With their new API and integration with WP CLI, there's some seriously awesome potential. Read more from Human Made developer Daniel Bachhuber. They are also hiring…

Automattic has acquired Cloudup

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

Business

Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they've announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that's still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot of…

WYSIJA is now MailPoet

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

WordPress News

WYSIJA is a popular email and newsletter plugin, built right into the WordPress dashboard. The name is confusing, but as I have talked about before, the product is pretty great. They have cleared up the name part, re-branding as MailPoet.…