Tech

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Security

WordPress 5.1 reached Beta 3 this week, but sadly the PHP error protection handler slated for this release will be held for WordPress 5.2 instead. Some potential security issues cropped up in the implementation, and the team wanted to play…

Just another migration story

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2019

BusinessDesign

This past week it was necessary for me to spend time migrating a website and helping deploy a new design for it. It was a frustrating and humbling experience that also reminded me just how much of a challenge these…

An Interview with Ernst-Jan Pfauth of De Correspondent

Dan Knauss

January 25, 2019

DesignPlanet

Ernst-Jan Pfauth is co-founder and CEO of The Correspondent, which is launching this year as an English language spinoff of the Dutch news site De Correspondent.

Remembering Dean Allen

Dan Knauss

January 10, 2019

BusinessDesign

Dean Allen's vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.

John Maeda published his Design in…

Dan Knauss

January 5, 2019

Design

John Maeda published his Design in Tech Report for 2018 with an interactive slide version and a straight text version. John focuses on three concepts: classical design, design thinking, and computational design. One of his "key observations" is "Design isn’t just…

iThemes has a brief interview with…

Dan Knauss

December 28, 2018

Hosting

iThemes has a brief interview with Justin Tadlock about web hosting horror stories 😱 and freedom of speech.

Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi at Review Signal did a deep analysis of its 2018 data that goes well beyond simple load testing at many WordPress hosts. The goal of this new analysis was to determine whether paying a higher price for hosting buys…

Mel Choyce explains how to design…

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Design

Mel Choyce explains how to design a Gutenberg block for restaurant menus. Mel provides a Sketch file, and if you want to use the design to build a restaurant block, give Mel credit and a link in your plugin readme.txt.

WordPress 5.0.1 and beyond

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2018

Security

WordPress 5.0.1 was released on December 13th. There were a few backwards compatibility breaks in this version, which raised a few eyebrows. 🤨 After those eyebrows rose in the Post Status main channel, Gary Pendergast commented: The timing of security releases…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.

Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word, 2018

David Bisset

December 10, 2018

Make WordPressPlanet

Matt Mullenweg took the stage once again for his annual “State of the Word” talk at WordCamp US in a packed room of over 1,500 attendees.

Freemius is launching a “We Got…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2018

BusinessDesign

Freemius is launching a "We Got Your Back" pilot program for WordPress product vendors. This program helps clients handle a few additional non-coding-related tasks (including design and branding), along with other features yet to be announced. To qualify, your business must…

Eric Karkovack has showcased an impressive upcoming feature…

Dan Knauss

October 25, 2018

Design

Eric Karkovack has showcased an impressive upcoming feature of Advanced Custom Fields. Called "ACF Blocks," this feature allows users to create custom Gutenberg block types without the usual JavaScript. ACF PRO customers can play with this today in the latest beta release,…

As Catalin Cimpanu points out, the…

Dan Knauss

October 25, 2018

Security

As Catalin Cimpanu points out, the PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving official security updates at the end of this year. As many WordPress developers already know, this branch is still widely used on many servers. While WordPress recommends 7.2…