WordPress News

You’re using transients wrong

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a "maximum age" versus a "guaranteed expiration". He also makes a worthwhile…

Why didn’t the government use WordPress for HealthCare.gov?

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

WordPress News

Oh man, my worlds are colliding. Dylan Byers writes in Politico, asking why the White House didn't choose to use WordPress for building HealthCare.gov. Byers notes that some of the states did, and highlights the benefits of WordPress' (and other…

AppPresser: A foundation for using WordPress to make mobile apps

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

DesignWordPress News

AppPresser is a foundation for people to use WordPress based tools to build mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms. AppPresser is a collaborative effort between Scott Bolinger, Brad Williams, Brian Messenlehner, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. You may notice that…

Why remote teams are the future, and how to make them work

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

WordPress News

Help Scout is one of my favorite blogs. In this post, they go in depth about remote and virtual teams, and give tips on tools to use and procedures for making them work. I would recommend a book for them…

How to take advantage of WordPress 3.7’s language packs

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

WordPress News

In order to take advantage of the WordPress 3.7 "language packs" functionality, Otto Wood lays out some ground rules that plugin and theme authors should be following. This is an excellent resource. If Otto's post looks like a foreign language…

WordPress websites and businesses acquisitions

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

Oli Dale has done a pretty thorough roundup of the history of WordPress websites and businesses that have been purchased. I'm a little disappointed that so many people do not reveal the price of their transactions. I know there is…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report

Brian Krogsgard

October 22, 2013

BusinessDraft

Matt Medeiros is a WordPress entrepreneur and podcaster from a town between Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Matt is also a co-founder of Slocum Studios, a web consultancy. One of Matt's podcasts is the Matt Report, where he interviews…

Brace yourselves, WordSesh 2 is coming

Brian Krogsgard

October 21, 2013

WordPress News

The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he's announced the…

Interview with Kurt Payne, core contributor, GoDaddy developer

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

WordPress News

Kurt Payne is a PHP developer, WordPress core contributor, and GoDaddy employee. In this Code Poet interview, he talks about what he's learned and what he works on. I've used the GoDaddy P3 Profiler plugin he's the main author of,…

WordPress 3.7 RC1 released

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7 RC1 has been released, which means the official release of WordPress 3.7 is near. Auto-updates have been refined a bit, and based on some tweets I saw from Andrew Nacin and reports of Beta testing, they are very…

Lessons learned trying to convert customers and monetize

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

Business

Groove is a support software that markets itself for SaaS and eCommerce services. It looks pretty nice, kind of like a Help Scout Plus, maybe. I read a post on their blog about 7 lessons they learned to reach $30,000…

Plugin readme file generator

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

GenerateWP has released a plugin readme file generator. This is the 17th tool released by GenerateWP, yet another user-friendly tool for WordPress developers that allows you easily create valid readme.txt files for your plugin.

WordCamp Europe rewound

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

The WordCamp Europe team has put together a "buzz" list of wrap-up posts and responses to WordCamp Europe. I've heard nothing but positive feedback, and it's really fun being able to read these experiences and see just how impactful an…

Don’t update your theme

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

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…