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WYSIJA is a surprisingly delightful WordPress newsletter plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for "What You Send Is Just Awesome." Yeah, it's tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from…

A call to change WordPress widgets

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Jesse Friedman has written up how he thinks that WordPress widgets and widget areas should operate more like WordPress menus. I agree with him that currently, things like conditional sidebars can be a bit annoying. But I'd like to see…

Who should decide what features WordPress gets next?

Curtis McHale

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

It seems that some people don't feel the community gets enough input in to what 's happening in WordPress. Is that a valid point, or are they just not stepping up to the plate in Trac, IRC, and on the…

Team of 10 set roadmap for the future of WordPress documentation

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

A team of 10 WordPress folks just spent three days at the Open Help Conference and Sprints in Cincinnati in order to analyze a variety of issues with current WordPress documentation practices, and to create a roadmap moving forward. The…

WordPress theme for presentation slides

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

WordPress News

Otto Wood has created an initial version of a WordPress theme intended for use as presentation slides. It's called Slides. Hosting slides on the web makes complete sense, and making slide templates WordPress themes is just as logical. I can…

Conversion rate optimization: hypothesise first, then test

Curtis McHale

June 19, 2013

Business

Seems that conversion rates are on the mind of a few people in the WordPress community lately. Here we get some more advice about how long to run tests and what tools to use.

What’s your WordPress job title?

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Job titles can be confusing. If you've ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you've had inquiries about your services, you've likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or…

Tweeple plugin offers tweet feeds compatible to Twitter V1.1 API

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

If you're like most of the internet, you probably didn't update your Twitter feeds embedded on your site to comply with Twitter's V1.1 API. Well, their V1.0 API fully deprecated about a week ago, and a ton of Twitter WordPressplugins…

Dealing with query variables in RSS feeds

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

Development

This episode modifies the ICS calendar feeds so that we can accept an author parameter and send only the posts that match the author provided.

How split-testing an opt-in form increased conversion rate by 102.2%

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

Very interesting look at split testing for your email list opt-ins and social proof. There has also been a decent discussion on this by WordPress people on Google+. Why do you think that social proof hurt the conversion rates?

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

WordPress.com launches MP6 dashboard redesign

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas' announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are…

Local development tips for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

Development

Jon Brown has a very nice post up on his blog with some tips for better local development with WordPress. There are a lot of ways to go about this, but I like the way Jon organizes things. h/t Ben…

Automattic acquires popular mobile WordPress app, Poster

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic acquired what is probably the most popular third party WordPress publishing app, Poster. Tom Witkin, Poster's developer, is joining Automattic to work on the official WordPress mobile apps. There's a little more info on Mac Stories, TechCrunch and WP Daily, if you're…

Code Poet interview with Human Made cofounder Tom Willmot

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2013

WordPress News

This is a great interview with Tom Willmot, a cofounder of Human Made Limited. Human Made is a web shop and WordPress VIP partner out of the UK, and Tom and his brother Joe Hoyle started WP Remote and partnered…

On WordPress news sites

Brian Krogsgard

June 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff's journey running the…