I recently discovered devhints.io, which has…
Brian Krogsgard
I recently discovered devhints.io, which has a nice collection of developer cheatsheets.
WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2 was released,…
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2 was released, and along with some enhancements and bug fixes this release contains the "Try Gutenberg" callout. The release candidate is scheduled for Tuesday, July 24th and final release is scheduled for Tuesday, July 31st.
Susty WP is an experiment by…
Brian Krogsgard
Susty WP is an experiment by Jack Lenox to see how small a WordPress theme can get. Jack got the homepage of his website to about 7KB of data transfer earned — not at all surprisingly — top scores in…
More than 11,000 people are paying…
Brian Krogsgard
More than 11,000 people are paying for email newsletters on Substack, a publishing service which combines composition and billing features. There is a market out there for email newsletters. Substack is not only surviving but expanding their services.
Weston Ruter notes there is now a…
Brian Krogsgard
Weston Ruter notes there is now a progressive web app feature plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its purpose is to "to curate Progressive Web App capabilities for proposed merging into WordPress core: service workers, the web app manifest, and improved…
Jaime Sparr, Senior UX Designer at…
Brian Krogsgard
Jaime Sparr, Senior UX Designer at Opendoor, lists a few ways you can improve your skills at giving good creative feedback about someone's product. The first is framing your feedback appropriately and asking open-ended questions that allow your teammates to…
Jeff Gould takes a beginner-focused look…
Brian Krogsgard
Jeff Gould takes a beginner-focused look at how one might go about building a simple polling plugin for WordPress with Vue JS.
I’ve been seeing more and more…
Brian Krogsgard
I've been seeing more and more frustrated comments, especially in social media, about products getting more complex and not "just working." I recently found this post from Drew DeVault and thought it was appropriate to consider especially with the point…
A recent ticket committed to WordPress…
Brian Krogsgard
A recent ticket committed to WordPress trunk seems to be addressing the first in a series of steps to enforce a "Requires PHP version" message for WordPress plugins. This is encouraging to see. Alain Schlesser shows a preview of what…
Greenpeace wanted to move towards open…
Brian Krogsgard
Greenpeace wanted to move towards open and collaborative working practices so they chose WordPress as a solution. This article, authored by a number of people at Human Made, briefly recounts the story of this project, noting how "Open source inspires…
Here’s an amazing stat: Amazon ‘s share…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's an amazing stat: Amazon 's share in the US eCommerce market is now 49%. That's 5% of all retail spending.
Raelene Morey has written a guide…
Brian Krogsgard
Raelene Morey has written a guide to user roles and permissions in WordPress. She walks you through how to manage users in the WordPress admin, the best plugins for customizing roles, along with best practices when dealing with user permissions.
Brian Gardner shares his thoughts about…
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Gardner shares his thoughts about the acquisition of StudioPress to WP Engine. In the end, StudioPress "was bigger" than Brian's personal reasons not to move forward. "Sometimes you have to let go to grow....For as many reasons as there…
Southern Web, a digital agency based…
Brian Krogsgard
Southern Web, a digital agency based in Georgia (USA), has acquired WP Site Care. Ryan Sullivan notes in his post that not much will change in the day-to-day but additions like hosting, SEO, and email marketing will be added to…
The 3rd WPCampus conference, focused on…
Brian Krogsgard
The 3rd WPCampus conference, focused on higher education and WordPress, was held recently in St. Louis. For those unable to attend, there was a live stream, and session videos will be placed on the site within the next couple of…
A reminder that WordSesh is happening…
Brian Krogsgard
A reminder that WordSesh is happening next week on Wednesday, July 25th. If you haven't already gotten your ticket for this online event, get your now and join in for some great talks from some great speakers in the WordPress…
