WordPress News

Non-Breaking Business

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

This morning, I listened to the latest episode of the Non-Breaking Space podcast. Non-Breaking space is one of my favorites, and this episode they had on Gene Crawford and Carl Smith to talk about web businesses. It's not directly related…

Community Advice for WP Beginners

John Saddington

February 1, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown shares an epic post on Smashing Magazine on how beginners can get ramped up quickly in WordPress. The community wisdom is truly highlighted here.

Understanding MySQL in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

Development

Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.

Dre Armeda and Brad Williams tease “DradCast”

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

It seems that Dre Armeda and Brad Williams are destined to return to the internet-airwaves soon, with what appears to be a podcast called, "DradCast." Drad is the nickname that Brad and Dre have given themselves as a tag team…

When to use the alternative PHP syntax

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

Development

Ben Everard made a short video describing when he thinks it's appropriate to use the alternative PHP syntax. He uses the example of his WordPress blog templates. He makes good points, but primarily he notes that it allows for a…

bbPress 2.3 in beta

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

bbPress 2.3 has entered its first beta. If you are a bbPress forums user, now is the time to go grab a copy and test it on your development installs. bbPress has really matured over recent years, and is a…

Automattic (via Code Poet) promotes Envato properties. Should they?

Travis Northcutt

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

In this post on Code Poet (which is an Automattic site or "shindig"), the author links to a tutorial hosted on http://wp.tutsplus.com, which is an Envato property and prominently promotes ThemeForest. How does this jive with the recent brouhaha involving…

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

It was brought up recently that a couple of theme shops were selling commercial themes on both Theme Forest and WordPress.com. In light of recent GPL Drama, that caused some confusion about licensing allowances. StudioPress almost immediately took their themes…

Approaches to WordPress Theme Development

John Saddington

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a great overview of various approaches for developing killer WordPress themes by Philip Arthur Moore on Code Poet.

Re-thinking the WordPress Plugin Directory

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress Plugin Directory is due for an update. It’s great for getting information about specific plugins, but not so great for browsing. The lack of filtering, and the poor quality of relevance results are two of the main reasons.…

Loading WordPress language files the right way

Tom McFarlin

January 31, 2013

Development

A solid post by Geert that provides a correct way to include language files in your plugins as well as a great explanation as to why this approach is best.

CodePen embeds for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

This looks awesome. Sarah Gooding featured this CodePen embed plugin for WordPress over on the WPMU blog. CodePen is a great tool that I've been wanting to use more. If you're not familiar, it's a project from Chris Coyier and…

Why you shouldn’t use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Development

Mike Schinkel posted on his HardcoreWP blog about why you should never use closing PHP tags in WordPress plugins. It's a great read. He goes in depth about why, versus just telling you not to. This is how beginner level…

You know you want a WordPress theme for your IRC client

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Design

And Ryan Duff is here to oblige your every whim. He presents to us a WordPress themed Colloquy theme.

WordPress, the enterprise, and security

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

Business

Here's an excellent article from one of the top sources in the world on WordPress and web security. Tony chimes in on the challenges that lay ahead for WordPress as it ventures further into the world of the enterprise. His…