WordPress News

Best practices for WordCamp forkers

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

In light of some recent WordCamp "forks", Andrea Middleton has posted a draft of policies for people that are WordCamp organizers and decide to organize non-WordCamp affiliated conferences. This is a really good proactive approach in my opinion, and Andrea…

How to embed audio and video players in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

One of WordPress 3.6's most useful features is the ability to embed a player for uploaded audio and video files. This guide was written for site owners who are not yet aware of this mostly-undocumented feature.

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

The ethics of open source

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock has written about the four core freedoms of open source, and warned that with some of the WooThemes drama that happened in the last couple of weeks, he heard some words and tones that didn't match the ethos…

The state of WordPress themes (infographic)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

We've done some theme research to discover about 1,000 theme shops online and we looked at 300 of them one-by-one. We collected some really cool data, like that 88% offer lifetime support, the average shop has 13 themes on average,…

WordPress wallpapers

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

WordPress News

Alison Barrett is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, and has created a new website for people to dowload WordPress themed wallpapers. Nick Hamze (who has WordPress everything) and Michelle Schulp have contributed the original designs, but it's open to anyone…

WordPress job board gets a redesign

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

CareersWordPress News

The jobs.wordpress.net website has received a redesign, bringing it in sync with the branding of most of the other WordPress.org facilities. The website was acquired by Matt Mullenweg at the same time as Weblog Tools Collection. It's mostly unrelated to…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

BusinessDesign

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

Time to go home

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

WordPress News

You know you've done this to at least one or two websites. Well, now when you type /wp-admin into Github, you can have a good laugh. This is the proper way to start your week. h/t Dominik Schilling.

Get started with the Heartbeat API

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

WordPress 3.6 introduced the Heartbeat API. It's an exciting API that opens up a whole bunch of possibilities for various core features or plugins, or even themes, to utilize. Pippin Williamson gives a nice introduction and example use case for…

Social navigation menu with Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock walks you through creating a menu for your social networks, making use of CSS attribute selectors. He shows you how to do it all with the Genericons icon font. This is actually part two, but you can check…

Using has_shortcode with WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress 3.6 introduced a new has_shortcode function. See how you can use it to enqueue scripts and styles within your theme and / or plugin.

Issue tracker for WordPress documentation

Curtis McHale

August 16, 2013

WordPress News

Documentation is a lot of work and it's hard to even know where to start. It looks like an issue tracker may be in the works for it though so we can report bugs and dive in on things that…

A guide to pluggable functions

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale has written a nice three part series on WP Lift offering a guide to pluggable functions in WordPress. For those unaware, pluggable functions make it easy for other developers to override your functions in their own plugins and…

Apply Filters is a WordPress development podcast

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Brad Touesnard are starting a brand new WordPress podcast specifically about development, for developers, called Apply Filters. First, they get an A+ for the name. My own site title may hint as to why I like such…

FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

After reading this article, I decided to try out FeedPress, a Feedburner alternative for tracking RSS and utilizing many features similar to Feedburner's own offering. I just switched to it, so I may do a more in-depth review once I…