WordPress News

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2013

Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, you…

WooThemes acquired Standard Theme from 8bit

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2013

WordPress News

WooThemes and 8bit both announced this morning that WooThemes has acquired the Standard Theme. WooThemes said in their announcement that they will not be selling Standard on their website, but will extend the support period for at least a year.…

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

BusinessSecurity

Automattic is acquiring a security firm that has yet to be named or officially announced. The acquisition is said to be Automattic's largest yet. Matt Mullenweg spoke to TechWeekEurope about security within WordPress and a bit about this acquisition. Well,…

Tips for handling icon fonts

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

Design

Joen Asmussen is a designer for Automattic, and in addition to many things, he works on the Genericons project. In this post, he gives some great advice for using icon fonts in your projects. If you're doing client work or…

Customers don’t care about ideas

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

Business

Brian Casel has written a great post debunking a never-ending myth that ideas by themselves are valuable. Brian tells us how to differentiate ourselves with how we solve problems and how we serve our clients. I also love his note…

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for…

WordPress.com, 8th most visited website in the world

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com recently passed Yahoo! in Quantcast's rankings of the world's most trafficked websites. It's now number 8. What I find most interesting though, is that according to Matt Mullenweg this does not even count mapped domains, or sites on WordPress.com's…

php[architect] online summit for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

Andrew Nacin, Aaron Jorbin, Benji Regan, and Jason Rhodes are participating in php[architect]'s Online Summit Series, presenting on WordPress. It's $49 per person, with discounts for larger groups. This looks to be a very technical lineup, and it'd be tough…

First look at a front end editing concept for WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Front end editing was highlighted as a possible "feature as plugin" concept last month. Now, some initial concepts and a (very raw) plugin are out with some ideas and concepts. It's a good time to have your say on how…

Blogging is narcissistic

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

"Ultimately, my point is that for those of you who are blogging to keep at it and keep sharing. The majority of us love to see what it is that you’re working on, and we love to get into the…

Niche themes: How to research, create, sell

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

Business

Can you make the best WordPress theme in the world? You can if you target a niche. Here's how to find and target niches for your next theme, and a list of 230 niches included to kickstart your research.

Home and front page templates in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

WordPress News

Chip Bennett has done an outstanding job thoroughly describing the issues handling home and front page templates in WordPress. This is a part of WordPress with some of the most confusing nomenclature for folks just getting started (and some experienced…

The Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress Community

Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

WP Weekend Phoenix to merge back into WordCamp Phoenix

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

It's been confirmed that WP Weekend Phoenix is merging back into an official WordCamp as WordCamp Phoenix. I first heard about the announcement on Twitter and confirmed with Andrea Middleton today. As you may recall, I posted about WP Weekend…

Creating a JSON REST API for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding talked with Ryan McCue on WP Tavern about his Google Summer of Code project to build a JSON REST API for WordPress. This is a great project, and Ryan is the perfect person to lead it, in my…

The ThemeForest experiment, one year later

Brian Krogsgard

September 12, 2013

WordPress News

A year ago, Justin Tadlock submitted a theme to ThemeForest to experiment and see a different side of the theme community than he's been a part of for some time. His results, and more importantly much of his additional insight…