WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg at SXSW

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2013

Matt Mullenweg did a short interview with TechCrunch after his SXSW presentation, and he talks about Automattic operating as a remote company, making money without ads, and some of his daily reads. I'm real excited to learn NextDraft (an inspiration behind…

WordPress theme design trends for 2013

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2013

Design

Simon Ward, of Pingable, shares 20 design trends he sees in WordPress themes this year. I think his take is mostly accurate, even if I'm not a big fan of some of them. h/t Mike Schinkel.

Drastic changes to the WordPress UI

Brian Krogsgard

March 9, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg posted on the Make WordPress UI blog about some drastic changes that are being experimented with, by way of the MP6 plugin. I look forward to seeing how these evolve, and hope they extend beyond simple aesthetic changes…

WordPress vertical case study: ClickBank Powered

Brian Krogsgard

March 9, 2013

Business

Human Made have published a really interesting case study about their work with Noel Tock creating a new WordPress vertical for ClickBank. Human Made and Tock also worked together to build happytables, so the ClickBank project marks their second move…

How do you justify traveling to WordCamps?

Brian Krogsgard

March 8, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

WordCamps are awesome. No doubt about it. But from a business perspective, how do you justify attending out of town WordCamps as a freelancer, employee, small business owner, etc? I would love to hear the perspective of people that have…

Supporting older versions of WordPress in plugins

Brian Krogsgard

March 8, 2013

WordPress News

There's been some interesting discussion recently about supporting old versions of WordPress in plugins. Joost de Valk explains here why he does not support more than one version behind the latest in his plugins.

PressBooks open sourced

Brian Krogsgard

March 8, 2013

WordPress News

PressBooks, the plugin for WordPress Multisite to make ebooks in various formats, has officially been open sourced. This is really great news. It lowers the barrier to entry for authors even more.

Andrea Rennick Code Poet interview

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

Andrea Rennick, a WordPress multisite and support forum legend, has a nice interview on Code Poet today. Check it out to learn about her WordPress story, her job at Copyblogger, communities, and quilting.

WordPress.com menus go Locu

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

Techcrunch reports that WordPress.com has teamed up with menu-distributor startup Locu to display menus in their restaurant vertical. Locu customers (and now WordPress.com customers) can add their menus to the Locu interface and Locu integrates those menus with various other…

Better WordPress code reference

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown has created some initial concepts for a revised WordPress code reference format. It's time for you to go give your thoughts on what would be useful information.

Random Taxonomy Images – Part 3

Curtis McHale

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

In the 3rd part of this series we add a random default image when one is not defined for a taxonomy.

What file is this page using? – The WordPress Template Hierarchy

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2013

WordPress News

Find out what template file is used to display the current page. What The File will be visible in the Toolbar when viewing your website.

A case against shortcodes

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin has written a thoughtful article on WordPress shortcodes, and why he generally doesn't like them as a method for enabling custom content functionality in WordPress. I left my own thoughts in the comments of his post.

Let WordPress automatically clean up your trash

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2013

WordPress News

Explains how you can easily let WordPress automatically clean up your trash every certain amount of days.

Never load jQuery from Google in themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2013

Development

If Pippin reminds us to not dequeue the WordPress version of jQuery in plugins and themes enough, maybe people will eventually listen. This goes for custom client sites too, in my opinion. For the minimal savings, it's just too much…

Adii Pienaar on The East Wing podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2013

Business

Recently, Adii Pienaar appeared on The East Wing podcast. Adii is a cofounder of WooThemes. I've always enjoyed this podcast, and Adii's interview provides great insight into WooThemes and Adii's perspective on business and the WordPress community. Definitely give it…