WordPress News

Responsive deliverables

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2013

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.

WP Roll is a new way to find WordPress news sources

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2013

WordPress News

WP Roll is curated blogroll of people and blogs writing about WordPress. It uses RollRank which is a unique and custom built ranking algorithm that relies on various social signals for sorting blogs by their popularity, quality and relevance to…

A Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

Scott Berkun spent a year working for Automattic as research for his upcoming book, A Year Without Pants. The book will focus on remote work, for which Automattic is well known. Berkun is going to, "share what I learned about…

Dive in. Ways to contribute to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

Carrie Dils tells her story of how she was convinced she could contribute to WordPress, and offers ways for others to get involved as well.

WordPress plugin to embed comparison charts

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

The Diffen comparison plugin lets WordPress bloggers easily search and embed comparison charts on their blog, from right within their regular editor. Diffen is the world's largest collection of unbiased comparisons in sports, sci./tech, legal, finance, grammar, health and general…

The Future of Startbox with WebDevStudios

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

Startbox is a theme framework built by Brian Richards that was adopted / acquired by WebDevStudios when Brian went to work there full time. In this post on WP Force, Brad Williams answers what the future of Startbox looks like.

Why you shouldn’t remove dates from blog posts

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

I was very happy to read this post on WP Beginner in support of leaving dates on blog posts. It's bugged me for years that WP Beginner (and loads of other sites) didn't have them, because like they say in…

Make support easier with the SysInfo plugin

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2013

WordPress News

Dave Donaldson has extracted some code he uses in all of his plugins at Max Foundry to release as a standalone plugin. SysInfo is relatively simple; it shows as much information about a WordPress site and environment as it can,…

MOJO Themes Acquired

John Saddington

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

Mojoness has been acquired by a company called EIG. Will we see this trend continue in 2013?

WordPress.com partners with ShopLocket for eCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace's eCommerce offering to me.

Why extensions for plugins

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson describes why the extensions model is a good idea for plugins, and responds to common criticism he sees for the model. I agree with him. I really love the extension model for plugins, and I think there is…

Develop locally with Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made…

WordPress, a web operating system

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

I'm wrapping up listening to the most recent episode of DradCast, hosted by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Matt speaks of what WordPress can be ten years from now, and included in his response mentions, "when you think about it, we're…

Drew Strojny, founder of Theme Foundry, on Code Poet

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

Drew Strojny is the founder of Theme Foundry. I had a chance to meet Drew last year at WCSF, and really enjoyed our conversation. Get to know him for yourself in this nice interview with Code Poet.

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org

Brian Krogsgard

March 28, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has done a nice comparison of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. This could be useful for when you're trying to explain the difference to clients.