WordPress News

Tiger Global invests $50 million in Automattic secondary stock

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

Automattic has been making pretty good money for some time. But in order to help early investors lock in returns, they've partnered with Tiger Global for an $50 million investment of Automattic secondary stock. It's not the same as raising…

The biggest WordPress events of the year are just around the corner

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

[caption id="attachment_3250" align="aligncenter" width="752"] Photo via WordCamp Denver[/caption] WordCamp San Francisco, WordCamp Europe, and Pressnomics are all gearing up. But even if you can't make one of these, don't be disappointed, there is likely an event near you as well.…

Logging wp_mail during development with WP_Logging

Curtis McHale

May 24, 2013

Development

It sucks when you accidentally email all your users from a development site. Well, let's get all output from wp_mail logged during development.

Plugin review: Spam Free WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

WordPress News

Some people were discussing Spam Free WordPress on Twitter. I took a look at the code and came to the conclusion that there are just too many red flags in the plugin for anyone to recommend it. Read the full…

Weekly pricing for web development

Curtis McHale

May 24, 2013

Business

Weekly pricing is a great way to keep an even cashflow for businesses, but it's also great for clients.

How to become the “Big Brother” of your own WordPress site with Activity Log

Brian Krogsgard

May 24, 2013

WordPress News

Do clients constantly let you down by deactivating plugins, removing crucial pages or installing new, half-shady plugins? This plugin will aid you with all you need to put the finger on the cause of the issue.

Welcome to the deep end, noob.

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

WordPress News

Hell yeah. Reid Peifer nails it.

“A Better Planet” fresh news widget for your WordPress dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

WordPress News

I have created a new plugin called “A Better Planet” which is simply a news widget for your WordPress dashboard intended to take the place of the default Planet WordPress feed.

Google wants you to host your WordPress site in their cloud

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Google has added PHP to their App Engine services, enabling PHP based apps to be run in their cloud service. I saw various tweets and articles that noted they specifically made sure WordPress would be able to perform in the…

Prefork pre-loads PHP apps (like WordPress) before serving requests

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has released a pretty fancy PHP class called Prefork, that enables pre-loading capability to large PHP apps, such as WordPress. This makes it so that WordPress doesn't have to completely reload itself every time you load the page. It's…

Automattic’s new office is swanky

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2013

WordPress News

This is the first inside-look of Automattic's new office I've seen, and the place is amazing. Thanks Peter Slutsky for sharing these. I mean, wow.

Don’t hide the fact that you’re using WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2013

WordPress News

There are quite a few blog posts, plugins and hacks suggesting to hide the WordPress version number, or hide the overall fact that you’re using WordPress. Don’t do it — it’s pretty useless.

Coda plugins for WordPress

Curtis McHale

May 15, 2013

Development

If you use Coda, here are a few good plugins that make WordPress development just a bit better.

FooPlugins.com WordPress plugin marketplace vendor program

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2013

WordPress News

FooPlugins aims to be an improvement on existing marketplaces and to service not only the end user, but also the many talented WordPress plugin developers in a way that no other marketplace has been able (or willing) to do before.

Watch those hook priorities

Curtis McHale

May 15, 2013

Development

Knowing hook priorities is important. Here is a simple example to show you why it's important.

Non-destructive customisation of WordPress themes using a child theme

Brian Krogsgard

May 15, 2013

WordPress News

Similar to how Photoshop allows you to edit images using adjustment layers without altering the original image, you can use the same concept when customizing WordPress themes. Non-destructive customization has the advantage of being able to revert changes and keep…