Core caching concepts in WordPress
Curtis McHale
Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.
Sub Posts helps you link WordPress posts to one another
Brian Krogsgard
Linking posts to each other is quite a hassle in WordPress, especially if they are of different post types. Sub Posts enables you to setup these links, link the posts and display them on your website in minutes.
Automated WordPress development
Brian Krogsgard
Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…
Please do not use curly brackets {} in template files
Pippin Williamson
My thoughts on why you should NOT use curly brackets in theme and plugin template files.
Bundling plugins into themes is really dumb
Brian Krogsgard
Coen Jacobs posted about a couple of examples where theme authors were bundling commercial plugins into their commercial themes. This is incredibly dumb, which Coen gives good reasons as to why. The comments are also worth reading. And for an…
Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin
Brian Krogsgard
Mike Jolley, the lead developer and original creator of WooCommerce, has released a beta version of a new plugin called WP Job Manager. It's free and available on Github. Knowing how WooCommerce works, I'm really excited to try this out.…
How to adopt a WordPress plugin, or to put it up for adoption
Brian Krogsgard
Jeff Chandler has put together a good post on how to adopt abandoned WordPress plugins, or to put your own plugin up for adoption. One of the toughest things about using other people's plugins is that it's hard to know…
Holy Crap – Adobe Brackets
Curtis McHale
At the very least, it's probably time to give Brackets a serious look for your WordPress theme building.
WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…
Automatic remote backups added to WP Remote for $5 per month
Brian Krogsgard
WP Remote, the update and backup solution from Human Made, has announced their first commercial plan for their popular product. You can now pay $5 per month per site to get automated backups stored remotely. This sets them up as…
The Mojo Marketplace integrates with Bluehost cPanel
Brian Krogsgard
The Mojo team has teased work they've collaborated on with Bluehost that will offer Mojo products within the cPanel dashboard of Bluehost accounts. The integration includes single sign-on between a Bluehost account and Mojo, as well as one-click buying from…
Making customer service human
Brian Krogsgard
For too long, companies have been automating customer service, but that depersonalises the relationship. It’s time to make customer service human again.
WP101 extends their video service with Spanish versions
Brian Krogsgard
WP101 has extended their potential user base significantly by producing all of their WordPress user videos with Spanish versions. These are fully translated and re-recorded videos, not just subtitles. This is a huge, and impressive, investment into what must be…
DreamHost targets managed WordPress hosts with DreamPress
Brian Krogsgard
DreamHost has announced a "highly optimized, extremely reliable managed WordPress service" using managed VPS instances on "tuned-for-WordPress" servers. They're also including automatic updates and some other WordPress specific features. It seems they are pretty clearly going after the growing market that so far…
iThemes is entering the WordPress eCommerce landscape with Exchange
Brian Krogsgard
iThemes announced this morning that they are entering the eCommerce landscape with a new product called Exchange. Based on their announcement post, it seems the product will be a classical physical goods eCommerce product, in the same realm as WooCommerce,…
WordCamps and business
Brian Krogsgard
WordCamp SF attendees, via Matt You've likely heard a lot about the WordPress economy over the past couple of years. Tens of thousands of people make their living with WordPress. It's likely that many thousands more work at news sites,…
