WordPress News

Rethinking WordPress widget administration

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

The team at WebDevStudios has done some pretty complete visual mockups of what they view as an improved widget / sidebar management experience. I really like where they are heading. It's more visual and more consistent with where other parts…

Developing for WordPress? Keep your shit secure

mikejolley

August 14, 2013

Security

In this article I talk about the current state of the wordpress.org repository backed up by recent statistics, and give advice on keeping plugins and themes secure during development.

The freelancer’s guide to long term contracts

Curtis McHale

August 14, 2013

Business

This is a great ebook for anyone looking to get in to long term contracts with clients. Eric walks you through the benefits and pitfalls of the practice. He is a seriously smart dude.

Contribute to the future of the WordPress admin dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Hate the WordPress admin dashboard? Now's a good time to voice your opinion. Dave Martin is looking into rethinking the dashboard, potentially for WordPress 3.8. He's put a survey on the Make WordPress Core blog where you can voice your…

ManageWP joins the WordPress news fray with a Digg-like web app

Brian Krogsgard

August 14, 2013

WordPress News

ManageWP has been teasing ManageWP.org for what must be a few months by now. I received an email invite yesterday to see what the wait was all about. Based on the teasers, the new service seemed to be some sort…

Scared of WordPress core Trac? Try bug gardening.

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Helen Hou-Sandí has some advice for those of you that might be afraid of WordPress core's development processes. You could get involved with bug gardening, which essentially allows you to set milestones and make sure bugs aren't getting left behind…

PHP globals and classes for new programmers

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Development

Justin Sternberg has written a nice and thorough post geared toward beginning programmers to cover common PHP methodologies. I definitely recommend reading this for those that may recognize certain techniques, but don't really fully understand them. I love beginner tutorials…

WordPress.com introduces Connect, a “login with” API

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com has introduced a new API today called WordPress.com Connect. It's an API to allow websites and applications to offer login capability for WordPress.com users. It's not surprising Automattic has introduced this feature. After all, they have tons of services that…

Career advice for developers

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Business

Cory Miller gives some career advice for programmers. Cory has been in the web business for a long time, and as the owner of iThemes, has significant authority in this arena. If you're a web developer and looking for some…

The future of WPDB

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

mysql_*() methods are deprecated in PHP 5.5 and it's time for WordPress move on and enable support for PDO or MySQLi. In this article I describe what I played with and what the next steps are for getting a better…

Contributing to Jetpack, the guide

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

WordPress News

The Automattic Jetpack team has announced a handy guide for people that want to contribute to Jetpack. I should probably learn from this, as historically, my methods for contributing to Jetpack have been by whining on Twitter. I wish more…

Yoast changes licensing structure to not allow unlimited licenses

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk posted on his Tumblr, of all things, that their commercial plugins at Yoast.com have undergone a licensing structure change. They've changed to yearly based support, and also removed their unlimited site license. They're hoping to eliminate abuses with the move,…

Weekly company fee for core WordPress contributions

Mario Peshev

August 12, 2013

Business

Here's an interesting idea to sponsor WordPress experts from smaller agencies and companies for contributing back to the WordPress project.

WPCandy appears to have been sold (Update: it has not been sold)

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2013

WordPress News

Update: Ryan emailed me, and commented here, that it was not sold, nor going anywhere. Josh also told me, "it was a joke that got out of hand." I'm very sorry. I should've waited for a response, but I didn't…

Have a happy WordPress podcast weekend

Brian Krogsgard

August 10, 2013

WordPress News

I hope you are having a great weekend. This last week, I had the pleasure of being on two podcasts: DradCast and Week in WordPress. I had a great time Wednesday night talking to Dre Armeda and Brad Williams about…

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies' shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren't. I love Ryan's views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I'd really…