WordPress News

Managed WordPress hosting companies continue to…

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2018

Managed WordPress hosting companies continue to grow: Flywheel is #344 on Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of the United States's fastest-growing private companies. It is also Nebraska’s fastest-growing company in 2018.

Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Design

Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list of features, but the clear majority of items are improvements that refine and polish the user experience, like styles for checkbox components and states for buttons. About 50% of all Gutenberg downloads have happened…

Daniel Pataki explores some of the…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Daniel Pataki explores some of the changes and new features of WP-CLI v2, which was recently released. This is also a great introduction for anyone new to WP-CLI who wants to jump right in.

Congrats also to Theme Hybrid on reaching it’s 10th…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Congrats also to Theme Hybrid on reaching it's 10th anniversary this year, which is a long time to be in the WordPress theme business. Justin Tadlock shared his thoughts about the decade ahead, and then launched Mythic, a Hybrid-based "next-generation starter theme designed from…

Here’s a nice interview of Bryce Adams,…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Here's a nice interview of Bryce Adams, creator of Metorik, on the How I Built It podcast. Meteorik is a tool that handles reporting and analytics for WooCommerce. Bryce talks about his views on eCommerce, the GDPR, and some tools he's…

Speaking of interview podcasts, Elliot Condon…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Speaking of interview podcasts, Elliot Condon of Advanced Custom Fields spoke about ACF, Gutenberg, and WordPress in general on a recent ShopTalk podcast. If you are a user or developer invested in ACF, you'll be happy to read this update…

Why is it so hard to…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Why is it so hard to make money on the web — in news publishing? Jay Hoffman over at The History of the Web digs deep into that thorny question, from the 19th century to Salon and Slate.

Flywheel has rolled out a whole…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Flywheel has rolled out a whole new cloud platform built on Google Cloud that existing customers will be upgraded to without a change in pricing. CDN and staging add-ons come standard on all new and upgraded plans now. Flywheel's original architecture was…

StyleURL is a neat tool that lets…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

StyleURL is a neat tool that lets you export and share CSS changes directly from Chrome DevTools. Magic CSS is another tool with a similar toolset that came highly recommended.

Steve Burge explains the Gartner Magic Quadrant,…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Steve Burge explains the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Digital Experience Platforms (DXPs) that are on it, such as Acquia, Automattic, and now WPengine. Welcome to the slow-moving but lucrative world of enterprise software.

Congratulations to Memberful on being acquired…

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

Congratulations to Memberful on being acquired by Patreon — Stratechery has a great interview with CEOs Drew Strojny (Memberful) and Jack Conte (Patreon) that goes in depth into the acquisition and both companies' histories. The whole Memberful team is coming aboard…

An Interview with Jamie Schmid, Community Evangelist for SiteLock

Dan Knauss

August 10, 2018

DesignSecurity

What's it like to be a product evangelist in the WordPress space? And how do you get to be one? Find out from Jamie Schmid.

WordPress 4.9.8 was officially released on August…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

WordPress 4.9.8 was officially released on August 2nd. It included "18 Privacy fixes focused on ensuring consistency and flexibility in the new personal data tools that were added in 4.9.6." Also with this version, developers should note the register_meta() function supports registration of…

Gutenberg 3.4 was recently released with “a…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Gutenberg 3.4 was recently released with "a multitude of improvements when converting existing content to blocks," a REST API search controller, additional documentation, and more than a dozen bug fixes. Gary Pendergast also shared a sample plugin on Github that shows how…

Devin Price relates his experience launching an…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

Devin Price relates his experience launching an extension in the WooCommerce Marketplace, and he shares some initial sales numbers. Devin's conclusion: "I have a few additional extension ideas but am hesitant about investing the time until I see how this first…

WooCommmerce has released a revamped WooCommerce…

Dan Knauss

August 6, 2018

WooCommmerce has released a revamped WooCommerce Beta Tester plugin that allows you to try out new versions of WooCommerce before they are officially released. The plugin is hosted publicly on GitHub.