WordPress News

Jacob Moses covers how to use…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Jacob Moses covers how to use value-based pricing to show customers the "unmatched value" they can get from your digital product or service. Jacob discusses ways to find what your digital product or service is worth to your customers and…

Most developers use an IDE of…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Most developers use an IDE of some sort, and many of these applications share some similar features. Author Ben Frain explains some text editing techniques that might come in handy for front (and backend) developers. If you use Sublime Text,…

If you’re a developer, then i…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Design

If you're a developer, then i highly recommend reading this "Cult of the Complex" post from Jeffrey Zeldman on A List Apart. Zeldman covers the trend in the tech industry to make things (such as front end development) far more…

Sometimes you just need to center…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Sometimes you just need to center something in CSS. This has been around a while, but something I recently discovered: howtocentercss.com. I saw this in a Reddit thread and tweet from Post Status member Gabor Javorsky on the "By the time…

Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Recently a bug surfaced in Yoast SEO that effected search rankings for some. It only effected users that updated from an earlier version of Yoast SEO to Yoast SEO 7.0-7.0.2 (specifically those versions). If you think this pertains to you,…

Pagely has a new interactive sales…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Pagely has a new interactive sales video that I think is a very clever idea for helping personalize sales with leads, prior to talking to humans. It's hosted by Matt Medeiros.

Mark Jaquith recently released ScoutDocs, a…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Mark Jaquith recently released ScoutDocs, a WordPress a file sharing plugin that runs on your website, but stores your files securely in the cloud. Mark is sharing some lessons learned on his blog, starting off with his (not so great)…

By now I’m sure you’ve all…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Business

By now I'm sure you've all heard of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. This is a hugely successful exit for GitHub, and another interesting pickup for Microsoft. Unfortunately I can't find the tweet anymore, but I…

Delicious Brains has decided to shut…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Business

Delicious Brains has decided to shut down Mergebot, after three years of working on it. It was an ambitious project from the start, but they decided that it didn't meet their standards. Mergebot is by far the most ambitious product…

Kjell Reigstad and Allan Cole recently…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Kjell Reigstad and Allan Cole recently published Music, a Gutenberg powered theme, and Kjell blogged about their process for ThemeShaper. Kjell notes "the overall theme development process wasn’t all that different with Gutenberg. Common patterns like headers, footers, and loops work just…

BuddyPress 3.0.0 “Apollo” is now officially…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

BuddyPress 3.0.0 "Apollo" is now officially out. Along with a variety of internal improvements, this major release adds WP-CLI support and JavaScript-powered templates for full integration with WordPress’ Customizer.

Pippin Williamson has confirmed the new owner…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Pippin Williamson has confirmed the new owner of his Simple Google Maps Shortcode plugin is WebFactory, who already own a few Google Map related WordPress plugins.

Although not directed related to WordPress, the…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Although not directed related to WordPress, the acquisition of Magento Commerce by Adobe for $1.68 Billion (USD) — significantly less than Adobe's Q1 2018 net revenues — is big news in the eCommerce community. Magento Commerce is the cloud version of Magento…

Even the best of us struggle…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

Even the best of us struggle to learn new concepts. I highly recommend taking a few minutes to read this post from Brad Frost about his efforts to learn React. I do share Brad's concern that JavaScript is consuming front…

If you know of someone who…

Brian Krogsgard

May 25, 2018

If you know of someone who is hinking about getting into WordPress development, then you might want to share this "basic things you need to know" knowledge from Josh Pollock. It's a quick read but a good starting point.