WordPress News

Yoast… themes?

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2013

Joost de Valk posted this morning that they are trying ditch their clients, and want to focus on their own products more. This includes plans to start selling WordPress themes. They are focusing on the Genesis child theme market. It'll…

Pay-What-You-Want Theme Experiment: Empty Spaces

Brian Krogsgard

March 22, 2013

WordPress News

I released a WordPress theme on my site recently, and I'm running a little experiment with it -- it's available as "pay what you want", with no minimum price. I'd appreciate if you took a moment to check it out!…

WordPress Theme Development Best Practices

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2013

WordPress News

In reaction to recent criticism about a lack of rules or best practices for WordPress theme development, I've compiled an overview of resources to help developers create themes according to best practices.

Local Testing Windows with Virtual Box and MAMP Pro

Curtis McHale

March 21, 2013

WordPress News

Learn how to make Virtual Box virtual machines access MAMP Pro for testing Windows OS's

A great UI is invisible

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2013

Design

Here's a really inspiring post on Codrops. It talks about solving problems in UI, not just adding features.

Bulk reports and digests for Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2013

WordPress News

Gennady Kovshenin has written a really nice looking add-on for Gravity Forms that enables bulk reports and digests of form entries. It appears you can set the frequency for the notifications for each form. He also links a couple of…

Code Poet interview about Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

March 21, 2013

WordPress News

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I thought I'd share my interview with Code Poet. I talked about my path into web development and WordPress, but also went into some depth about Post Status.

Problems with the WordPress plugin repository

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Tom McFarlin makes a well-reasoned article on his issues with the way the WordPress plugin repository works. I disagree with some of what he says, but he definitely makes some great points. I especially agree that the repository is extremely…

Lazy loading images, explained

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

Development

I love posts like this. I've never given Lazy loading of images much thought. Devin Price has explained what lazy loading actually does, how it's best handled in WordPress, and gives his recommendation on how to best use this sort…

Cat Signal: An advocacy plugin for the Internet Defense League

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Do you take your online freedoms seriously? Then this plugin may be for you. Chris Reynolds has released Cat Signal to showcase a modal box or banner whenever the Internet Defense League has an active campaign running.

Interview with WooThemes Product Manager Matty Cohen

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Jamie Marsland, of PootlePress, has done a nice video interview with Matty Cohen, WooThemes Product Manager and Senior Developer.

The dire state of WordPress

Travis Northcutt

March 20, 2013

Development

A (reasoned) criticism of the architecture of WordPress, and how it should be fixed.

Alex King on the maturity of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter has interviewed Alex King on the WP Engine blog about the maturity of WordPress. I'm only part way through the 4,000+ words, but it's a great read so far. Alex brings enormously valuable perspective to things in the…

Blackbox Debug Bar

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

In Dave Donaldson's WordCamp Atlanta presentation, he mentioned how much he likes the Blackbox Debug Bar plugin. I'd never seen it before, but it looks quite nice for showing debut information in an easy to consume way. It's a nice…

Advice for working with clients

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

Ryan Cowles has shared some great advice on WP Daily for working well with clients. It's quite similar to what I talked about in my presentation at WordCamp Atlanta. Not all of the things we need to remember to do…

Tips from WordPress pros

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2013

WordPress News

In Siobhan McKeown's latest post on Smashing Magazine, she shares some really great advice from some of the top folks in the industry. It's a must read if you work with WordPress professionally.