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WordPress responsive navigation options

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

BusinessDesign

Philip Arthur Moore is the Premium Theme team lead at Automattic. I'm thrilled to have been able to ask Philip some questions about WordPress.com premium themes, their processes, and working at Automattic. His answers are thorough and very insightful, and…

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…

Tidy Repo plans to be a consistent source for reliable plugins

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

DesignWordPress News

It's tough sometimes telling somewhere a good place to find reliable plugins. We have an overload of list posts that list every single plugin doing the same thing; and the repository, while good and also monitored, is just huge. Tidy…

Thoughts on design patterns in WordPress

Curtis McHale

August 8, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Tom McFarlin has yet another great post talking about design patterns in WordPress. There is a time and place for Object Oriented and Procedural approaches.

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I…

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

BusinessDesign

Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.

Code should fail nicely

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Web designers tend to be pretty particular about their designs. However, often times, if you watch how end users use a website, it can be surprising when they don't do things how the designer and developer would expect. Perhaps the…

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

Six WordPress and web design eBooks you may enjoy

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Here's a roundup of some of the best WordPress and web design eBooks that I have read and enjoyed.

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

How Lift is taking WordPress to the Emmy’s

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

DesignSecurity

Lift is a WordPress-powered product, design and consultancy business. I've been following Chris Wallace, a Partner at Lift, for a long time. I've always known they do a lot of work for television and other interactive media, and this morning…

Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Design

It appears the WordPress VIP website has a new look and feel. I have to say, I greatly prefer it to the harsh black of the old design. This is one of my favorite blogs for seeing what the biggest…

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

WordPress themes for comics

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignWordPress News

I saw today that WordPress.com has released a new WordPress theme geared toward comic writers, called Panel. It reminded me of an older project called ComicPress. ComicPress was probably ahead of its time in terms of just how niche it…

A refreshed Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignPost Status Team Blog

Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…

WordPress responsive navigation options

Meet Philip Arthur Moore, Premium Theme Lead at Automattic

Art direction for publishing with WordPress

Tidy Repo plans to be a consistent source for reliable plugins

Thoughts on design patterns in WordPress

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Code should fail nicely

All plugins are (not) created equal

Six WordPress and web design eBooks you may enjoy

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

How Lift is taking WordPress to the Emmy’s

Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns

On WordPress themes and frameworks

WordPress themes for comics

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