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Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on…

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the third “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. It's been a busy week, and there's a lot to share,…

Tips for local WordPress development with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Jason Resnick

July 11, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

I’ve used local development environments for as long as I can remember. They’ve always been a fluid part of being a developer. The biggest pain point was keeping everything upgraded at all times and switching from one stack to another.…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "Week in Review" on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2014

BusinessHosting

Average customers often don't know the difference between domains, WordPress themes, plugins, and hosting. They have to learn as they go, or hope they land somewhere someone will guide them well. I once did a WordCamp double-session on WordPress 101.…

You forgot about user experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2014

Design

Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

Better local development with Airplane Mode

Brian Krogsgard

June 24, 2014

DesignDevelopment

Websites are complicated these days. Even when we work locally, we typically still need to make a bunch of calls to external, online applications, on any given page load. If you're ever without an internet connection, but still attempt to…

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Brian Krogsgard

June 23, 2014

DesignSecurity

Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Forty is a design and UX agency based in Arizona. James Archer, Forty’s CEO, is a founding member of the Gangplank incubator in Chandler, AZ. Forty is a team of six that have focused on design and UX for the past…

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2014

Development

New Relic has some advice for programming concepts to learn for newly graduated software engineers. While they target degreed engineers, I think these topics are quite practical for anyone that considers themselves a programmer or developer. Some of my favorites:…

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2014

BusinessDesign

The Lucid Theme shop was run by Jon Bellah until today. He still maintains the Lucid brand, but he's sold his themes to UpThemes. When I inquired with Chris Wallace, founder of UpThemes, about why they made the acquisition, he said,…

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

HostingWordPress News

Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In…

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Tips for local WordPress development with Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV)

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Obox has launched Instant: white labeled, seamless hosting for their WordPress themes

You forgot about user experience

Better local development with Airplane Mode

All Pods 2.x versions need updating due to significant security vulnerability

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Crowd Favorite to acquire Forty, a UX and design agency

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

UpThemes adds Lucid theme collection to their reportoire

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

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