WordPress News

WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing

Brian Krogsgard

June 22, 2017

WooCommerce has — at least for now — decided to end renewal discounts for extension sales. This is a smart business move and the right thing to do, even if it could've been rolled out better. Matt Mullenweg said in…

An entrepreneurial journey around eCommerce, with Patrick Rauland — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

June 14, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Patrick Rauland discuss the state of eCommerce today, both from a product perspective, and for store owners.

Here’s a nice read from Jules…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Design

Here's a nice read from Jules Forrest on the CSS Tricks blog: how she built the backend of the Women Who Design website. Tools including using the Twitter API, Autolinker (a new one or me), Node, Firebase, and JavaScript. I also encourage you…

Rebecca Gill announced the Web Savvy…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Business

Rebecca Gill announced the Web Savvy Marketing Genesis theme business has been sold to 9Seeds.

Much more interesting than a regular…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2017

Business

Much more interesting than a regular Jetpack upgrade is how (as I predicted) Jetpack is bringing "professional themes" to the plugin, effectively making it a full-on marketplace. I am very, very interested in how that's going to work, specifically in…

Teaching what you learn with Joe Casabona — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

June 7, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe Casabona discuss learning WordPress, as well as teaching it, including the things they find most important to learn.

Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Design

Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine feature called "Flexible Workflows." As the name suggests, Flexible Workflows allows teams to design their own development and deployment workflows. Some teams might want only a staging and production environment. Others might want a…

Rainmaker goes service only, sells partial stake to Nimble Worldwide

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2017

BusinessHosting

Rainmaker launched in April of 2014, and now it's moving from a SaaS product model to a service-only model, which includes a partial buyout to a new stakeholder -- Nimble Worldwide. I was excited about the launch of the hosted…

WordPress in higher education, with Rachel Cherry — Draft Podcast

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2017

DraftHosting

In this episode, Brian is joined by Rachel Cherry, an experienced WordPress developer, including in the realm of using WordPress in higher education. She also organizes a WordPress for higher-ed conference, WPCampus.

Is “Mobile First” really “Desktop Worst”?…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Design

Is "Mobile First" really "Desktop Worst"? Oliver Brooks (Creative Director at Metalab) explains his dislike for the unnecessary use of mobile menus in desktop browser views: Mobile First should not be taken as an opportunity to over-simplify and, by the…

Adam Soucie has a nice start…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Design

Adam Soucie has a nice start to a series of articles on accessibility over at Flywheel's design blog, The Layout. He begins with perceivability as defined by WCAG standards because, "if a visually or hearing impaired user can't perceive a…

“Data is useless without the ability…

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2017

Design

"Data is useless without the ability to visualize and act on it." Andrew Coyle writes about the ingredients of a successful data table user interface design. He presents a nice list of design structures, interaction patterns, and techniques.

HackerOne opens possibilities for WordPress vulnerability hunting

Brian Krogsgard

May 16, 2017

Security

HackerOne is a popular platform for vulnerability hunting and disclosure, built on a bounty system for properly disclosed software issues. As Aaron Campbell notes on the WordPress blog, "It provides tools that improve the quality and consistency of communication with…

Publish tickets, initial speakers, sponsors

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2017

BusinessHosting

I'm super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That's a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to…