WordPress News

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2013

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

June 6, 2013

WordPress News

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

June 5, 2013

HostingWordPress News

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

June 5, 2013

Business

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

June 4, 2013

WordPress News

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

June 4, 2013

HostingWordPress News

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

June 4, 2013

WordPress News

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

June 3, 2013

Business

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,…

Sometimes we need a reminder

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

WordPress News

John Hawkins reflects on his experience this last weekend at WordCamp Orange County, as someone he met was literally brought to tears because they finally found a solution to a problem they were having with a friend's website. John says…

If you’re serious

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Ten good years and a preview of the WordPress history book

Brian Krogsgard

May 31, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg posted a thoughtful tribute to the last 10 years of WordPress on the official .org blog. He gives a bit of history, highlights some moments from these years, and links to some other 10 year celebratory posts. He…

Nonces that are used only once

Brady Vercher

May 31, 2013

Development

The word nonce indicates a number used only once, but in WordPress nonces can be used multiple times within 24 hours, although they are unique to the user, action, and ideally an object. Usually, that's all that's necessary, but to…

Case study: Building a WordPress powered web app

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Josh Kadis has written up a summary of his experience at Quartz (an excellent online business news magazine) using WordPress to build a web app. Their considerations for choosing to build their own API versus use Jetpack's, using the settings…

Notify users when they haven’t completed a form

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

Development

This tutorial goes through how to create a shortcode that allows you to create a notice for people who haven’t yet completed a specific Gravity Form on your site.

Redesigning the Template Hierarchy

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress Codex has a very useful template hierarchy graphic to show which templates files display what info. However, it isn't the prettiest or easiest to follow. Luckily, Michelle from Marktime Media took on a personal project of redesigning it…

Without a plugin? The functions.php myth.

Brian Krogsgard

May 30, 2013

Development

There's a wide spread digital myth in the WordPress microverse about the functions.php file and that it's a code snippet container. This post tries to explain why people are misusing this file, shows alternatives and explains step by step how…