WordPress News

Numeric shortlinks plugin makes shortlinks simple

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

The biggest issue I've ever had with shortlink plugins is that the plugins usually seem like overkill. Custom domains and third party integrations annoy me. Kaspars Dambis seems to have simplified things a bit. His new Numeric Shortlinks plugin creates…

BadgeOS plugin for site achievements

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

WebDevStudios have released a plugin called BadgeOS for site owners to enable achievements and badges. I looked into a number of badge and achievements plugins when building Post Status, but never found one that fit. The Achievements plugin is quite…

The future of SEO plugins for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk talks about what he sees as the future of SEO plugins. In short, most of them suck. Joost's and a couple others are good, but don't trust most of what you see out there.

Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

Development

Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.

SEO tips for shifting your site to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2013

WordPress News

If you want to upgrade your site from ASP, Joomla, Drupal, HTML etc to WordPress you can follow the following steps in order to preserve your SEO rank and traffic.

Shortcode attributes filter added in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Mark Jaquith shares a nice new feature of WordPress 3.6 with his latest blog post: a shortcode attribute filter. So, if the person who registers the shortcode adds this third parameter, it makes it possible to extend the existing attributes…

10 useful WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

WordPress News

These plugins are quite handy for someone that makes websites for clients. Most of these are in my default setup, but I hadn't seen Content Aware Sidebars before, so I'll need to check it out.

Restaurant Engine Q&A with Brian Casel

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

Brian Casel has answered some questions about his WordPress SaaS project, Restaurant Engine. The questions are some he's gotten over time that he decided to put into one blog post. It's great to see his thought processes behind his project.

BackupBuddy 3.3 includes file integrity scans and improved user interfaces

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

BackupBuddy 3.3 has been released. The update includes a file integrity scan that is run during backup, as well as improvements for debugging plugin conflicts, canceling backups, and manually running scheduled backups.

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Time to test! It's great to see a beta out. I'm excited to check out the post format work that's gone into this release, amongst other things.

The Long Game

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

Noel Tock describes ways to invest in yourself today that will pay bigger in the future.

Eliminating ambiguity in WordPress page template file naming

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2013

Development

The template hierarchy is a big part of the structure of WordPress themes, but as its parts were added over time, it now has some strange and confusing file naming. For example, why are so many people naming their templates…

WordPress documentation for free and commercial projects

Curtis McHale

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

Way to many developers leave documentation to the end, and that's not what we should be doing. Documentation is a very important part of your project.

Myths of running a WordPress theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2013

Business

Bill Robbins runs the WordPress theme shop, Organized Themes. In this post, he explains many common myths about running a theme shop. Bill's a great guy, and his honest depiction of running a theme business is refreshing. Also, it turns out our…

Responsive deliverables

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2013

Design

Dave Rupert, of Shop Talk Show and Paravel fame, shares his ideas on creating deliverables for responsive design. I think it could be rephrased to just creating deliverables. He advocates breaking the website functionality into modules, independent from page structure.…

Tools for building better WordPress projects

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin outlines the tools the 8Bit team uses when developing projects on WordPress. There are a number of good debugging tools and plugins listed here.