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A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

DesignDraft

StoryCorps.me enables anyone to create and share powerful stories. Just launched as an iOS and Android app, the website that provides the app infrastructure is built on WordPress, utilizing the WordPress REST API. Here's how StoryCorps.me came to be.

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Andrew Nacin now works at the U.S. Digital Service, the federal government service that aims to "redefine public service for a new generation." Nacin continues his role as WordPress lead developer, but is stepping back from working on the project full time.

Redesign versus realign

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2015

Design

Nathan Barry discusses the benefits of simple "realignments" in website design versus (potentially) unnecessary full redesigns. That’s something I’ve heard a lot: if something isn’t good enough, it’s time to redo it. Sometimes that’s necessary, but more often you should…

WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

Brian Krogsgard

March 25, 2015

Hosting

WP Engine and Pagely both had announcements on growth today. WP Engine announced that they raised $23 million dollars to enable them to hire faster and expand their product base. When I covered them as in late 2013, they were…

WordPress News with Brian Richards

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

DraftPlanet

Brian Richards and I cover the week in WordPress news with a new short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews.

Understanding WordPress security vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Security

Daniel Cid has a good post on Sucuri that describes how they look at WordPress plugin vulnerabilities. Contrary to popular belief, just because you hear “SQL Injection”, it doesn’t mean someone can actually hack your site. The real problem comes…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

The results of a $50,000 redesign

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Design

This isn't WordPress-specific, but Andrew Youderian wrote an outstanding case study of his company's $50,000 redesign. The redesign is for an eCommerce company and includes more than just the website design -- it's branding, migration from Magento to Shopify, and…

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2015

Security

Yoast released a new version of the WordPress SEO plugin in the last 24 hours, which fixes a blind SQL injection vulnerability. According to a post mortem by Joost de Valk, the bug wasn't caught in security audits, but was…

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

Design

The new WordPress.org commercial theme page -- which was launched just a couple of weeks ago -- seems to have greatly reduced the number of referrals to commercial theme shops. Many commercial theme providers featured on WordPress.org are noting 80%+…

Micro and niche conferences abound

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Hosting

There have been many announcements of late for micro and niche conferences. This is a steady occurrence these days, which I'm happy to see, but it's not easy to keep up with it all. I'm even considering a calendar of…

WordPress security whitepaper

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Security

The WordPress.org website now includes a WordPress security whitepaper, donated by WordPress.com VIP. It's sparse in its current form, but it's a great start. Why does this matter? Well, a whitepaper from the official project is a great tool for…

A case for the front-end editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Hosting

On WP Shout, Fred Meyer makes an impassioned case for the front-end editor, and why he believes it deserves a renewed effort as a WordPress feature plugin and eventual WordPress core inclusion. It's a really thoughtful post, and at well…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Andrew Nacin has joined the White House’s U.S. Digital Service

Redesign versus realign

WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

WordPress News with Brian Richards

Understanding WordPress security vulnerabilities

GoomWay

The results of a $50,000 redesign

Yoast SEO vulnerability, disclosure, and forced upgrade

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

Micro and niche conferences abound

WordPress security whitepaper

A case for the front-end editor

The most popular WordPress plugins

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