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Your website is not allowed to be fast

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2014

There could quite realistically be a day that your blog or website is not allowed to be fast. Not because you didn't do proper performance testing and optimization, but because a corporatocracy won't allow it. And your website is small potatoes…

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Today, iThemes and Crowd Favorite are announcing a partnership where they will collaborate to take iThemes products to a more enterprise-level market. Practically, this means that Crowd Favorite will contribute developers and other resources to help iThemes better structure and…

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon introduce mandatory support and renewable packages

Brian Krogsgard

August 25, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Envato has announced a change in support terms for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon, which creates a requirement for authors to provide six months of support, and offers buyers "support packs" for renewing support. Support has not historically been required, but nearly…

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Audit WP had a short, but interesting life span. Started by Rob Neu and Jacob King, the site launched in February, and today it's been acquired by WP Site Care. They made an early splash after their launch when Jacob…

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

How has WordPress changed your life?

Brian Krogsgard

August 8, 2014

DraftPlanet

Last week, I was in New York City for WordCamp and some client meetings. The event was a huge success, with four full tracks of expert designers, developers, and WordPress professionals sharing what they've learned. I had a great time…

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result…

Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2014

CareersDraft

On May 28th, 2012, I was virtually introduced to Chris Lema. He had 653 Twitter followers at the time. I know so, because that's how we were introduced — through an email from Twitter telling me he was now following…

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Brian Krogsgard

August 4, 2014

DesignPlanet

Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven't posted since the last week in review. Trust…

An introduction to setting up SSH keys for server management

Ben Lobaugh

July 28, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

Utilizing SSH keys in conjunction with the servers you connect to is a great and highly recommended security practice. SSH stands for "Secure Shell" and enabling SSH for a server creates a secure channel between you (via the command line)…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

The case for doing small website projects

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Last week I posted about how much custom WordPress websites should cost. If you read that post, you know that it depends. Generally the feedback was fantastic, but many readers took from that post that they should raise their prices.…

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

DesignPlanet

The New Yorker is an iconic magazine that's been in print since 1925, and its online web presence is now on WordPress. Reported in the New York Times originally, the New Yorker is altering its online strategy, broadening the number of magazine articles…

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on…

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2014

BusinessPlanet

ChurchThemes was started by Frankie Jarrett in 2011. Frankie is now the Head of WordPress Product at X-Team, makers of Stream -- a product I reviewed a few months ago. Frankie also talked about Stream and ChurchThemes on the Matt Report recently.…

Your website is not allowed to be fast

iThemes to partner with Crowd Favorite to take their products to the enterprise

ThemeForest and CodeCanyon introduce mandatory support and renewable packages

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Audit WP to become part of WP Site Care with acquihire of Rob Neu

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

How has WordPress changed your life?

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Interview with Chris Lema: a journey to working full time with WordPress

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

An introduction to setting up SSH keys for server management

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

The case for doing small website projects

The new New Yorker is live and on WordPress

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Lift has acquired ChurchThemes and intend to enter the hosted church website market

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