WordPress News

WooThemes offers customers the choice to be grandfathered in

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

After the new pricing and licensing structure got announced, there was a lot of feedback and discussing going on in the comments of the WooThemes blog. They now offer customers the decision between being grandfathered in for the old rates…

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

Robert Neu

August 2, 2013

Business

I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

Running a Viable Freelance Business

Curtis McHale

August 2, 2013

Business

After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.

John James Jacoby brings Alliteration to 10up

Japh Thomson

August 1, 2013

WordPress News

The witty and charismatic lead of the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, John James Jacoby, recently announced leaving Automattic. Now reveals he's joined Team 10up.

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”

Japh Thomson

August 1, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The long-awaited release of WordPress 3.6 has arrived.

Modular WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 1, 2013

Development

Matt's vision of future WordPress development (from the SotW) is encapsulated in plugin development. What does that mean for future dev on core APIs? I have one idea on a way that plugin-like functionality could work hand-in-hand with core API…

I am Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress (18% of web!) and Automattic, ask me anything!

Japh Thomson

July 31, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg fields questions in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread after WordCamp San Francisco 2013 on July 31 at 3pm Pacific Time.

WordPress Infographic 2013

Brian Krogsgard

July 30, 2013

WordPress News

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

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

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

July 29, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

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

July 29, 2013

DesignWordPress News

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

July 28, 2013

Development

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

July 28, 2013

Development

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

July 27, 2013

DesignWordPress News

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

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

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

July 26, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

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…