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What you need to know about HTTP/2 and some other things I don’t understand

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2015

Do you ever enjoy reading something even though you know your knowledge barely scratches the surface of what's being discussed? I do. Reading anything written by Zack Tollman is a delight to me, and in this case I wouldn't say…

Enterprise hosting options

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

Hosting

Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks' go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and…

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

Brian Krogsgard

June 16, 2015

Design

Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

Moving Dashicons from an icon font to SVG

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Design

Mel Choyce has started the conversation on Make Core to change WordPress's Dashicons icon font to SVG: In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in core to SVG. The process of adding and…

Dealing with ROT content

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Design

A lot of big websites have ROT (Redundant, out-of-date, trivial) content, and it can make maintaining and improving websites incredibly difficult. If you've ever worked on a website with a few thousand pages you know what I mean; but the…

Theme team roadmap and surveys

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

Design

Tammie Lister has created a roadmap for the theme review team, with steps she thinks they can take forward. It's been a tenuous time for the team, and Tammie's roadmap is excellent, I think. She's proposing five areas for consideration:…

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Brian Krogsgard

June 1, 2015

BusinessHosting

WP Stagecoach is a tool that's been in development, alpha, and beta testing for around two years. It's a host agnostic tool that allows website owners to create staging sites and merge changes back to the live site. Morgan Kay announced…

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Security

Sucuri is seeking to build a full CloudFlare alternative, according to WP Tavern: “The fundamental difference is that it’s security first, performance second,” Perez said. “So yes, in the coming months you’ll see more as our solution blossoms into a…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

DesignSecurity

Two of the initiatives for WordPress 4.3 are for further improving WordPress (especially mobile) UI and re-evaluating password management. Starting Thursday, lead developer Helen Housandí will host UI chats in the WordPress Slack #design channel. Additionally, lead developer Mark Jaquith further laid…

In defense of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2015

Security

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares…

The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

What you need to know about HTTP/2 and some other things I don’t understand

Enterprise hosting options

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

What is Code?

Moving Dashicons from an icon font to SVG

Dealing with ROT content

Theme team roadmap and surveys

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

In defense of WordPress

The trojan emoji

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

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