Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress
Curtis McHale
Here's a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.
Validation and sanitization in the theme customizer
Brian Krogsgard
Konstantin Obenland has posted some tips for proper validation and sanitization on the Themeshaper blog. For those that recall Otto's definitive post on the subject, this one adds a couple of tips in addition that have been added to core…
WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 released, post formats stay in
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 was released this evening. After the debate on whether post formats should be punted to 3.7, it appears they are here to stay in 3.6. They have been iterated on, and I like them much, much…
Ghost reaches funding goal in twelve hours
Brian Krogsgard
John O'Nolan's Ghost Kickstarter has reached (more than) full funding in just under twelve hours. I just posted about Ghost this morning, and while I'm impressed it funded so damn quick, I'm not at all surprised by the interest. It's…
Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Spring edition)
Brian Krogsgard
This is the second "Who's hiring" post, and the last one was very successful. I know of a few people that got full time jobs and contract work based on conversations started from that post. I consistently find people looking…
The future of the New York Times’ WordPress blogs under question
Brian Krogsgard
I read an article this morning that questions the future of the blog format at The New York Times. According to a source in the story, having the more relaxed blog atmosphere along with the content that makes its way to the paper ends…
Ghost hits Kickstarter, seeks ÂŁ25,000
Brian Krogsgard
John O'Nolan's Ghost project, a re-think of WordPress, is now a Kickstarter project. O'Nolan gives a good deal of detail about Ghost's longer term plans, licensing, etc. on the Kickstarter page. The funding goal for the project is £25,000, which…
Blessing of the Blog
Brian Krogsgard
Whether it's a new blog or an old blog, maybe it's time to give it a blessing.
WordPress biography book outline
Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has been working on a book on the history of WordPress, and has its first outline available for your viewing. I love how open she's been about the development of the book. This one is going to be…
Real User Monitoring with Pingdom and WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Pingdom has released a WordPress plugin that allows Pingdom users to use their Real User Monitoring service within WordPress. It's even available to users with free Pingdom accounts. h/t Ryan Hellyer
Summer Mentorship Programs: Gnome and GSOC
Siobhan Mckeown
Jen Mylo has announced the WordPress summer mentorship programs. Google Summer of Code is for college/university students to get involved with development in an open source project. Gnome is an outreach program for women and is open to contributions in…
Pay What You Can for WordPress Maintenance – A Discussion
Brian Krogsgard
I’ve been toying with the idea of providing a pay-what-you-can WordPress maintenance service & I want to gauge the interest of the WordPress community.
Why Choose WordPress?
Curtis McHale
Clients ask me regularly why WordPress is a good option for them. I finally got around to writing it down.
Twenty Thirteen hits WordPress.com
Brian Krogsgard
Twenty Thirteen is officially available on WordPress.com now. This is very interesting to me, as it leads me to believe the new functions around post formats will remain in 3.6, even if the new UI does not. Designed by Joen Asmussen, Twenty…
Capsule, the developer’s code journal
Brian Krogsgard
Crowd Favorite has released a WordPress app called Capsule. It's a journal of sorts for developers, that enables storing code snippets, notes, and much more. The interface is pretty nice. I look forward to seeing how people use this. It's…
Gravity Forms 1.7 Released – Improved Confirmations and Notifications
Brian Krogsgard
Gravity Forms v1.7 was released yesterday and confirmations and notifications have had a huge facelift, which is really going to expand the power of Gravity Forms.
