WordPress News

Increased plugin sales by 4x in two and a half months

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

Thomas Griffin is in the midst of transitioning his mindset from that of a developer to that of a marketer. In his most recent post, he describes some relatively simple methods he used to sell his plugin at four times…

WordCamp Internet

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

WordPress News

I had a thought after seeing Brian's tweet about his #WCATL presentation: "I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person." Seeing…

Rethinking the WordPress Admin

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Aside from all the flexibility WordPress gives us for warping and bending it to our will, the static nature of the admin really grinds my gears. There's been some progress on better admin styles and even some very impressive iterations…

WordPress development with Vagrant

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

Development

Jeremy Felt is the Director of Web Engineering at 10up, and he's written on his personal blog about evolving your WordPress development by using Vagrant. It's a great read if you are new or unaware to the practice.

Orbtr: WordPress based marketing plugin

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

WordPress News

The folks at Orbtr launched their new plugin this weekend at WordCamp Atlanta. I spoke with them for a while, and I think their product is promising. Imagine it as a Hubspot-esque product, but all within the WordPress dashboard. It handles email…

Threads: A new take on post series archives

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2013

WordPress News

Threads is a plugin newly released from Alex King that puts a new take on displaying a post series. It formats posts into a timeline that could work quite well for certain types of content.

WP Test: Library of tests for themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2013

WordPress News

Michael Novotny launched a new project called WP Test this morning during his talk at WordCamp Atlanta. It's an importable set of test data for plugins and themes. Looks very interesting, and I'm excited to check it out soon.

Pressgram: An Open Source Inspired Instagram Alternative

John Saddington

March 16, 2013

WordPress News

I'm trying to kickstart this app. Would love your help and your thoughts on how to make it awesome!

WordPress theme development options

Brian Krogsgard

March 14, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a pretty good post on Smashing Magazine that offers an overview of various development options when you're getting started with theme development. However, I wish the author would've given more attention to forkable themes like _s.

Joost de Valk releases local SEO plugin

Brian Krogsgard

March 14, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk has released a local SEO extension for his WordPress SEO plugin. This marks the second commercial extension for WordPress SEO, after the Video one released recently.

Allowing Registered Users to Save Posts – Part 1

Curtis McHale

March 14, 2013

WordPress News

In the first part of our series we take a look at user roles and capabilities as we start to build our plugin.

WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 to be slightly delayed

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Mark Jaquith has outlined a revised plan for releasing 3.6 that's very pragmatic and I think a good move. Beta 1 is going to be delayed two weeks, and the final release around one week, so that the various stages…

Should Automattic switch to Drupal?

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

WordPress News

Haha. I can't even type that title seriously. Matt Mullenweg got a pretty hilarious email telling him perhaps he should consider switching Automattic properties to Drupal. Better get ready.

Fundify lets you self host a kickstarter style campaign

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

WordPress News

Fundify is an interesting take on a WordPress theme and plugin. Developed by Appthemer, it allows you to create your own Kickstarter or IndieGoGo style crowdfunding campaigns. It integrates Easy Digital Downloads for sales, and t's available on Themeforest for…

Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

Development

When moving your WordPress website, the site's URL can be saved in the database in many places. Find the easy way to change all of the URLs using a PHP script to search and replace the database for your development…