WordPress Infographic 2013
Brian Krogsgard
Elegant Themes team went to WordCamp San Francisco and designed a nice WordPress Infographic with all the stats about how WordPress is used and consumed.
All plugins are (not) created equal
Sarah Pressler
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…
Tips for developers adopting a legacy WordPress site
Curtis McHale
Greenfield projects are the dream of most of developers. We have no legacy code to deal with. Just a clean WordPress install and whatever tools we decide best accomplish the goals of the client. Unfortunately you’re not always going to…
Six WordPress and web design eBooks you may enjoy
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a roundup of some of the best WordPress and web design eBooks that I have read and enjoyed.
Potential roadmap for taxonomy meta and post relationships
Brian Krogsgard
Andrew Nacin has written a thorough post discussing many of the challenges for implementing taxonomy metadata in WordPress core and a potential roadmap for doing so. He also highlights how we may be able to achieve post to post relationships…
WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0
Brian Krogsgard
At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 - one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?
2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…
WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque
Brian Krogsgard
WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…
The history of WordPress book is on Github
Brian Krogsgard
The history of WordPres book that Siobhan McKeown is leading is now on Github so folks can help edit, or even contribute. The official title is WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source. Pretty cool that the history…
Thoughts on WordPress affiliate programs
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin gives some great thoughts (that I happen to agree with fully) about WordPress affiliate programs. The key is remembering as an affiliate that every product is not for every person. And if you're an affiliate just for the…
Pagelines DMS reviews
Brian Krogsgard
Pagelines just released their "DMS" (Design Management System). A couple of reviews have already popped up. I'd start here with Leland's at ThemeLab. Of course, you may want to first ask yourself whether you need a drag and drop theme…
WP Weekend Phoenix details emerge
Brian Krogsgard
I guess we can call it a trend now. For the second time in as many weeks, a WordCamp has been "forked". WordCamp Phoenix has been a tremendously popular event in past years. I know at least one year they…
Stay in tune with WCSF all day with WP Armchair
Brian Krogsgard
David Bisset is an epic WordCamp follower. He should have a badge. He'll be at WordCamp San Francisco in the flesh today, and he's taken it up a notch. He's custom developed a site soyou can keep track of WCSF…
Interview with wpMail.me and Cozmos Labs founder Cristian Antohe
Brian Krogsgard
Troy Dean, of Video User Manuals, has a new interview up on his CommPress business podcast that features Cristian Antohe. Cristian is a consultant, and also the curator of wpMail.me, a great WordPress newsletter. The interview has quite a few…
Filter existing shortcodes in WordPress 3.6
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a great post with a working example of the new shortcode_atts{$shortcode} filter available in WordPress 3.6 that allows developers to filter an existing shortcode's parameters. I need stuff like this all the time. The only catch is that the shortcode itself…
WP Push specializes in push notifications for WordPress apps
Brian Krogsgard
I ran across this one thanks to Pippin Williamson mentioning it. WP Push is a highly focused extension market that creates push notification functionality for WordPress plugins and apps. They've got them for Jetpack, the bb's, various eCommerce software, and…
