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When you think about design, do…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

When you think about design, do you visualize IBM in your mind's eye? After reading this article from Anne Quito on how IBM is gearing up to become a large and sophisticated design company, maybe that will change. As I…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

September 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

More design fun: I love duotone,…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Design

More design fun: I love duotone, and Sean Hervo discusses its role in web design. And if you like it too, Brody at AudioTheme has a post on how to do it, which I've noted here before, and use myself…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Hosting

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention recently after being disabled without warning, is now back online and on WordPress. A 10 year old blog post was what brought down the site. This is rightly being used as a prime example of why…

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue. He goes into how one Basecamp features he designed never actually made it into the product, and what he learned from it. This quote is so good: Every feature has hidden costs. Some are…

WordPress support forums wrapping up migration

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

The WordPress support forums are wrapping up a migration and upgrade to bbPress 2.x. They have long been on old forum software and the migration was much needed. It has caused planned partial downtime for several days, but with something…

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Security

There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development…

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2016

BusinessHosting

GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

HostingSecurity

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new feature – WordPress version management. This feature automatically updates your site to new versions of WordPress, along with themes and plugins, and has the ability to, “scan for other out of date WordPress sites,” on…

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Design

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman on BuzzFeed’s design process. I thought it was an interesting post, especially how he outlines the phases of product design (Define , Explore, Refine, Build, and Learn).

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

BusinessSecurity

WP Media -- the team behind WP Rocket (a commercial caching product) -- are getting into the WordPress security sector. SecuPress hasn't yet launched, but they are starting early access trials for people that sign up through their home page.…

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas technique he used for WordCamp US last year. Personas are regularly used in web design to make sure that you are solving your users problems, and not your own.

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

David Bisset

August 18, 2016

Design

Here's some insight from Tom Harman on BuzzFeed’s Design Process. I thought it was an interesting post, especially how he outlines the phases of product design (Define , Explore, Refine, Build, and Learn).

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…

When you think about design, do…

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

More design fun: I love duotone,…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

WordPress support forums wrapping up migration

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Makers of WP Rocket are getting into WordPress security

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas…

Here’s some insight from Tom Harman…

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

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