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What is the WordPress Foundation, and who is in charge? These are the questions asked in this article - questions we should all be asking as the foundation wields its power without transparency.

Using plugin pointers, much like pointing, is rarely appropriate

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

WordPress introduced pointers just a couple versions of WordPress ago. They've pretty quickly gained adoption by some popular plugins. I hesitantly link to this post on Paulund that shows you how to make a plugin pointer, because I think they're…

SlabText – a jQuery plugin for equalizing line measure in headlines

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

This is a slick jQuery script to make big, fancy, responsive headlines where each line has equal line measure. So it makes it like those posters we all love where the font size varies per line to make the measure…

Leaders and the greater good

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

What is leading when it comes to open source? How much transparency does a project like WordPress need and what is the state of the word right now?

I thought I knew about responsive design

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

I thought I knew a lot about responsive design, but I learned a ton in this post by Paul Stamatiou. He recently redesigned his blog, and he goes into great length into how he did it, and what he learned.…

If you build it, they will come. But you have to drag them.

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

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If you're not following Dave Donaldson's blog this year, you're doing it wrong. His openness is so refreshing. Dave runs Max Foundry, and has been pouring out every detail of how running the plugin business has been a struggle. Today,…

Justin Tadlock released a plugin for your portfolios (and a theme too)

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Justin Tadlock released a new plugin and theme today. The plugin is a custom post type and taxonomy for managing portfolios, called... wait for it... Custom Content Portfolio. It is available for free in the WordPress plugin repository. He released…

Introduction to WordPress Filters

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

This short guide, aimed at beginner/intermediate developers, introduces WordPress filters, explains their basic use, and provides some examples on the topic of cheese sticks.

WordPress Gear: useful developer tools

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

WordPress Gear is a "compendium" of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp

It’s the information, stupid

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…

How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.

Nevermind

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…

Designer vs Developer: be the unicorn

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013

I wish I could've seen this presentation by my fellow Birmingham cohort, Sara Cannon. The deck alone has great advice. Sara breaks down the barriers and self-assigned exclusions between designers and developers. Key: we all solve problems in the middle.…

Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)

Ben May

January 27, 2013

I wasn't able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I'd blog what I did!

Who Owns WordPress? Or How to Make Money in a GPL Universe

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2013