Easier Excerpts For WordPress is a plugin that automatically changes the size of the excerpt field to fit the length of the content. Tom McFarlin has the backstory about his new plugin. It’s short and sweet, but often I like reading from developers what their reasons were for building a plugin.
It’s also worth noting this is the first plugin from the newly formed Pressware Plugins so we should be seeing more of them in the near future.
It was the first truly busy day in WordPress core land since the release of WordPress 4.4. Two big things happened: A maintenance and security update was released in WordPress 4.4.1, and the security component affected all versions back that can be auto-updated, to 3.7. WordPress 4.5 kicked off with the first meeting to discuss some…
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. News WordPress 6.0 Beta 3 People of WordPress:…
Placester is a Boston-based startup that gears toward real estate agents, and they’ve recently raised $50 million in a Series D round — bringing their total fundraising to $100 million. Why should you care? Well, two reasons. Placester uses WordPress — big time. Their real estate websites are made with WordPress. It’s a big real…
There’s an effort to we re-focus taxonomies to make it easier for users to find quality plugins in the WordPress repo. Plugin builders and developers who regularly search and get plugins from the repo might want to offer input on the proposed categories, “built for”, and “business model” taxonomies Samuel Sidler shares in this post.
Most of the questioners in this Pro Plugin Directory interview, as well as the answerer and site owner, are all Post Status members! So go read Jeff Chandler’s answers to your questions.
Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are being followed by authors. This is an enormous undertaking, and there has already been an…
