Tech

Access external WordPress data

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Zach Schnackel gives an example of an interesting use case for WordPress. He wants access to some WordPress functions, but doesn't really want to use the WordPress theming system or load most of WordPress itself.

Simple changes, big results

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Design

Design is about much more than art. In this interesting case study from Visual Website Optimizer, they highlight an eCommerce store that achieved a 56.43% increase in revenue by removing a mega-dropdown menu and replaced it with a category landing…

Page.ly acquired BlogDroid

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Page.ly, the oldest managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired BlogDroid. BlogDroid is a newer player in the WordPress managed hosting market. According to Page.ly's blog post, it was an all cash deal for the acquisition.

Designing in the browser

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2013

Design

Designing in the browser has been talked about by many industry leading designers. Here are some tips on how to to make in-browser design a little bit easier.

Seriously awesome tutorial on Git branching

Curtis McHale

June 25, 2013

Development

It's a given that you need to know SVN to work with WordPress, but more and more developers are starting to use Git. If you're just starting out then here is an awesome interactive tutorial on Git branching.

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.5.2 has just been released. As this is a maintenance and security release, there is no reason not to update right away. The releases fixes some fringe vulnerabilities and minor bugs.

How to build websites your customers will love

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

Design

I've really been enjoying Help Scout's blog the past few months. In a recent post, they give a bunch of good advice on tips for designing websites that appeal, achieve goals, and make your visitors happy. Be sure to check…

WYSIJA is a surprisingly delightful WordPress newsletter plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for "What You Send Is Just Awesome." Yeah, it's tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from…

What’s your WordPress job title?

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Job titles can be confusing. If you've ever tried to hire a WordPress consultant to build you a website, or you've had inquiries about your services, you've likely encountered some level of confusion trying to decipher what an individual (or…

Dealing with query variables in RSS feeds

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

Development

This episode modifies the ICS calendar feeds so that we can accept an author parameter and send only the posts that match the author provided.

How much are the big WordPress companies making?

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

BusinessHosting

It's a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these "big" WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to…

WordPress.com launches MP6 dashboard redesign

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas' announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are…

Local development tips for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2013

Development

Jon Brown has a very nice post up on his blog with some tips for better local development with WordPress. There are a lot of ways to go about this, but I like the way Jon organizes things. h/t Ben…

Styling comments based on custom user role

Curtis McHale

June 12, 2013

Development

WordPress provides classes for stock roles on comments, this tutorial shows you how to add them for custom roles and how to style the comments.

You probably don’t need do_shortcode()

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

Development

Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings.…