WordPress News

Change all WordPress site URLs the easy way

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2013

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…

Freelance vs agency work in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

Business

Jesse Petersen has a strong opinion about what it would cost for him to leave freelance WordPress work to go back to an agency.

Keep your WordPress plugins easy to use and expand

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

Today I had the chance to explain to one of our users why a feature was not added to WooCommerce core, but released as a separate extension. The people who do not use extra features can benefit of a faster…

5 WordPress Theme Trends that I’d Like to See for 2013

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

An in depth look at 5 trends that I'd like to see happen in WordPress Themes for 2013.

Trigger plugin activation on new site in a WordPress Network

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

Development

Trigger plugin activation function on new WordPress Network site.

WP Daily’s Community Resource Library

John Saddington

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

We're trying to build a community-led and curated resource library for users.

WP Roller – Roll Your Own Custom WordPress Installer

John Saddington

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

Saves time. Period. Not sure why someone didn't think of this before... unless there are others that I'm not aware of!

Blue twenty thirteen

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2013

WordPress News

As much as it sounds like something Peyton Manning would say before hiking the ball, in fact I'm referencing the blue version of the new default twenty thirteen theme that Otto made as a child theme to the standard orange.

Passing Arguments to Callback Functions

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

Development

This post explores methods which can be used to pass arguments to callback functions without resorting to global variables. Additional input is welcome.

FooTable Plugin now available for free in WordPress.org repo

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

WordPress News

After we released the FooTable jQuery plugin (which is also available from GitHub), we had no idea it would become so popular. So the next obvious progression was to create a WordPress plugin, and it is now available for free…

From Developer to Marketer

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

Business

Thomas Griffin, developer of the Soliloquy Slider for WordPress talks about his transition from developer to marketer.

Creating a widget

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

Development

Widgets are one of WordPress's most powerful features. They are very easy to create but are often created in a wrong way. This posts explains the how to create a basic widget the right way.

WP App Store removes top-level menu item from their plugin

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

WordPress News

Based on customer feedback, we’ve removed the top-level menu item and added submenu items under Plugins and Appearance. Good move? Bad move?

Automate Git to SVN with Scatter

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

Development

Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It's called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He's also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way…

Theme Hook Alliance and the _s theme

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

WordPress News

I'm happy to see that standard hooks are being put into the _s theme. I really like the initiative of the theme hook alliance. If it receives wide adoption, it could really improve overall flexibility for plugins interacting with themes.

WP History – links manager

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown has begun her journey of documenting the history of WordPress, and she's already stumbled across this fun little story about an early cease and desist letter.