WordPress News

Ghost hits Kickstarter, seeks £25,000

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2013

John O'Nolan's Ghost project, a re-think of WordPress, is now a Kickstarter project. O'Nolan gives a good deal of detail about Ghost's longer term plans, licensing, etc. on the Kickstarter page. The funding goal for the project is £25,000, which…

Blessing of the Blog

Brian Krogsgard

April 26, 2013

WordPress News

Whether it's a new blog or an old blog, maybe it's time to give it a blessing.

WordPress biography book outline

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown has been working on a book on the history of WordPress, and has its first outline available for your viewing. I love how open she's been about the development of the book. This one is going to be…

Real User Monitoring with Pingdom and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Pingdom has released a WordPress plugin that allows Pingdom users to use their Real User Monitoring service within WordPress. It's even available to users with free Pingdom accounts. h/t Ryan Hellyer

Summer Mentorship Programs: Gnome and GSOC

Siobhan Mckeown

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Jen Mylo has announced the WordPress summer mentorship programs. Google Summer of Code is for college/university students to get involved with development in an open source project. Gnome is an outreach program for women and is open to contributions in…

Pay What You Can for WordPress Maintenance – A Discussion

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

I’ve been toying with the idea of providing a pay-what-you-can WordPress maintenance service & I want to gauge the interest of the WordPress community.

Why Choose WordPress?

Curtis McHale

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Clients ask me regularly why WordPress is a good option for them. I finally got around to writing it down.

Twenty Thirteen hits WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Twenty Thirteen is officially available on WordPress.com now. This is very interesting to me, as it leads me to believe the new functions around post formats will remain in 3.6, even if the new UI does not. Designed by Joen Asmussen, Twenty…

Capsule, the developer’s code journal

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2013

WordPress News

Crowd Favorite has released a WordPress app called Capsule. It's a journal of sorts for developers, that enables storing code snippets, notes, and much more. The interface is pretty nice. I look forward to seeing how people use this. It's…

Gravity Forms 1.7 Released – Improved Confirmations and Notifications

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2013

WordPress News

Gravity Forms v1.7 was released yesterday and confirmations and notifications have had a huge facelift, which is really going to expand the power of Gravity Forms.

Upgrade your caching plugins: Vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Tony Perez, of Sucuri, has provided a summary, with explanation for the less security fluent of us, of a vulnerability in both W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. Definitely update right away.

Auto Hosted allows for easy auto updates for self hosted themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

David Chandra has released a solution for providing automatic theme and plugin updates for self hosted WordPress products, called Auto Hosted. It looks quite nice. I love that David's documentation for his product is open to the public. I'm very interested in…

What theme authors need to know about the new post format UI

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Jason Bobich has written a very nice article for wpTuts+ about various new functions and post format changes included in WordPress 3.6 betas. While the post format UI is on the hot seat for 3.6 and may or may not…

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting

ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.

Tammie Lister to write BuddyPress theme development book

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

Tammie Lister has made a deal with Packt Publishing to write a book about BuddyPress theme development. She plans for the book to be a relatively short, 100 pages, with lots of resources for developers that wanted to get started…