Tech

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

ZippyKid is a managed WordPress host that's been around around three and a half years. They have grown their business consistently since their launch in May 2010, and today have a number of high profile blogs and corporate profiles as…

Turn WordPress into a Twelve-Factor App

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Development

If you’re going to be creating complex websites with WordPress, then you need to get serious about it. This series of posts is based on the Twelve-Factor App methodology, adapted for large scale WordPress projects.

iThemes enters the WordPress site management sphere with Sync

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

HostingWordPress News

iThemes has announced a new product today, called Sync. It's a tool to manage WordPress website updates, including themes and plugins. Sync is free for up to 10 sites for all iThemes account holders. They will announce plans soon for…

DevPress releases new iteration of an alternative admin design

Brian Krogsgard

November 4, 2013

Design

Tung Do has released yet another iteration of a custom WordPress admin design at DevPress. I've seen Tung experiment with a black version, a white version, and a "Hunter" version. And now he's consolidating the previous three themes to one,…

Explicit browser support

Brian Krogsgard

October 29, 2013

BusinessDesign

Browser support is not a minor thing to consider when building web projects. Whether developing a website for a client or building a product, one of the most important things to clarify right away is what level of browser support…

You’re using transients wrong

Brian Krogsgard

October 24, 2013

Development

Ryan McCue has written an insightful post about caching data in WordPress with the Transients API. Most interesting to me is how he describes expiration in transients as a "maximum age" versus a "guaranteed expiration". He also makes a worthwhile…

AppPresser: A foundation for using WordPress to make mobile apps

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

DesignWordPress News

AppPresser is a foundation for people to use WordPress based tools to build mobile apps for the iOS and Android platforms. AppPresser is a collaborative effort between Scott Bolinger, Brad Williams, Brian Messenlehner, and Lisa Sabin-Wilson. You may notice that…

Rewrite rules made easy

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

Development

Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very…

Partner spotlight: The Theme Foundry

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

DesignWordPress News

It was just over three months ago that I redesigned Post Status, re-focused the site's purpose, and partnered with The Theme Foundry. Today, I'd like to share that The Theme Foundry has opted to continue the relationship for another quarter.…

GoDaddy has acquired Media Temple

Brian Krogsgard

October 15, 2013

Hosting

In a shocking move (to me), GoDaddy has acquired fellow hosting company Media Temple. According to the post on TechCrunch, Media Temple's 225 employees will continue to manage its 125,000 customer base as a separate entity. GoDaddy has apparently been…

Parent to child post relationships

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2013

Development

Justin Tadlock has another nice tutorial out where he guides you in the relatively simple function that adds a metabox to a post screen to be able to assign a post parent from another post type. This is highly useful…

Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly

Brian Krogsgard

October 9, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the…

Build better template files for your plugins

Curtis McHale

October 8, 2013

Development

Pippin Williamson walks us through the right and wrong ways to build template files for plugins.

WP Engine rebrands and restructures

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2013

BusinessHosting

Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…

Retroactive Composer support for WordPress with ComposerPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Development

Tom Nowell has created a project called ComposerPress which analyses an existing WordPress install and creates a Composer .json file in your root directory. If you've already gotten to know the value of Composer, but need something to help bring…