WordPress News

WordPress 4.9, “Tipton”, is released with drafts for the customizer

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2017

WordPress 4.9 introduces an all new ability to draft, save, and schedule customizer changes, as well as widget improvements, added code editor safety, and more.

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2017

BusinessDesign

In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.

The WordPress product market is completely different now

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2017

BusinessPlanet

Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.

How Easy Digital Downloads acquired 55 plugins

Brian Krogsgard

October 25, 2017

Business

Over the course of several weeks, the Easy Digital Downloads team executed a series of changes to their marketplace to remove all third party plugins from their ecosystem. The move affected 55 plugins from 27 authors. Some were acquired. Some…

John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related…

Brian Krogsgard

October 13, 2017

Security

John Blackbourn highlights a few email-related security improvements going into WordPress 4.9, including a change of email confirmation process.

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…

If you’re looking for podcasts about…

Brian Krogsgard

September 29, 2017

Design

If you're looking for podcasts about design and front-end development, then you will appreciate this list from UXcellence.

A review of Bylines for multi-author and guest-author posts

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2017

WordPress News

Meet the successor to Co-Authors Plus. It's for multiple authors and guest authors in WordPress without creating additional user accounts.

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at…

Brian Krogsgard

September 21, 2017

Business

Jesse Watson, Software Development Manager at Amazon Fulfillment Technologies, explores what makes software development "hard." One of his sources claims that over 40% of software projects fail! The insight Jesse draws from all this failure is expressed in the "One Skull Rule."…

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period…

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2017

Hosting

Daniel Bachhuber announced a beta period for distributed host testing, a framework for any hosting company to run the WordPress the PHPUnit test suite on their infrastructure, and then report the results back to WordPress.org. SiteGround and WP Engine are…

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Hosting

CodeInWP recently wrapped up their 2017 WordPress Hosting Survey, with 4700 responses. Some of the more interesting tidbits, at least to me: - GoDaddy was the most popular host, accounting for 15.3% of all responses, with the majority of them…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Design

There's been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this "in a big way." David thinks the new editor will add such…

If you’re looking for some good,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

BusinessSecurity

If you're looking for some good, recent podcasts, you might want to check out this interview with Brad Williams over at Robojuice. It's an hour-long show focused on security and the question of whether WordPress is secure enough for Microsoft. The…

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Security

SiteLock has acquired a Dutch security company called Patchman, which doubles the number of active sites they’ll have on their network. Patchman patches (good name!) vulnerabilities on the server, based on scanning files and identifying known vulnerable software. This is…

Building a healthy remote company, with Tom Willmot — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

August 17, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian is joined by the CEO of Human Made, Tom Willmot, and they discuss steps for building a healthy remote company, and talk about Human Made’s new open source employee handbook.

Free speech, privacy, and the web

Brian Krogsgard

August 16, 2017

HostingPlanet

Web-based hosts, platforms, and businesses need a plan for how they'll handle issues around free speech and privacy rights for their users and customers.