WordPress News

Interesting test data from HubSpot: HTML…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Interesting test data from HubSpot: HTML emails reduce open rates and clickthrough rates. "Ultimately, in email, less is more." Of course, your results may vary depending on your content and audience, but if you send out email newsletters on a…

BuddyPress is 10 years old! Congrats…

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

BuddyPress is 10 years old! Congrats to the contributors and those who have supported this project over the past decade. I remember using BuddyPress right around the time when it was first committed. I've personally seen it grow from its…

An interview with The Theme Foundry

Dan Knauss

April 3, 2018

BusinessDesign

The Theme Foundry may be best known today for its builder theme, Make. They recently rolled out HappyForms, a custom form builder plugin.

WordSesh online conference is back, on July 25th

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2018

Hosting

Brian Richards has taken over WordSesh from Scott Basgaard, and is hosting the online event on July 25th. It's being revised from 24 hours to 12 hours, which should be a plenty big window for people around the world to…

Contextualized Learning in or around WordPress — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

April 2, 2018

BusinessDraft

In this episode, the dynamic Brian duo discuss the highly-anticipated return of WordSesh, the different ways in which we all learn the same, and some of the problems we face in skill building.

First, some recent highlights from the…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

First, some recent highlights from the ongoing effort to get ready for Gutenberg. Dev4Press has a summary of the current state of Gutenberg (version 2.4). Antonio Villegas shows how you can create your first Gutenberg block. He briefly covers the edit…

Congrats to WordCamp Miami which celebrated…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Congrats to WordCamp Miami which celebrated its 10th anniversary with over 1,000 attendees over three days. Guest speakers included John James Jacoby, John Maeda, John Blackbourn, and Matt Mullenweg. Speaking of conferences, here's a reminder the LoopConf 2018 session videos are…

Teams for WooCommerce is an exciting…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Teams for WooCommerce is an exciting new extension for WooCommerce that adds to the functionality of WooCommerce Memberships -- enabling team management for membership and subscription websites. I'm looking forward to having it active on Post Status soon, and it…

WordPress’s 15th Anniversary is May 27th.…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

WordPress's 15th Anniversary is May 27th. If you want to run an official celebration meetup (and request special anniversary swag), you can learn how to do that here.

Bridget Willard announced the debut of…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Bridget Willard announced the debut of the "WordPress Jargon Glossary." The Jargon Glossary was created by the WordPress Marketing Team to help newcomers to the WordPress community understand some of the terms and acronyms commonly used in it, like LEMP…

Pagely has posted a comprehensive guide to…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Pagely has posted a comprehensive guide to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and WordPress. The GDPR covers both the European Union and Great Britain — which amounts to more than 500 million users. The GDPR will affect web development not…

Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Brian Jackson over at Kinsta has a complete guide for anyone who needs to set up Yoast SEO on a WordPress site. It goes into great detail, and the screenshots are very helpful — perfect for a client who needs a…

Eric Mann announced the release of…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Eric Mann announced the release of DGXPCO: Digital Guarantees for eXplicitly Permitted Core Operations plugin. This plugin (available on the WordPress plugin repo) integrates directly with the WordPress core updater and ensures that any core package being installed has a…

Scott Deluzio is the new caretaker…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Scott Deluzio is the new caretaker of Pippin Williamson's Full Screen Background Images plugin. Scott explains on his blog why he wanted to obtain a plugin with an active user base, and he mentions he'll be tackling some highly requested…

Brent Shepherd shares his knowledge of…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

Brent Shepherd shares his knowledge of WooCommerce Subscriptions and offers helpful tips in three areas: 1) choosing a host, 2) choosing a payment gateway and extension, and 3) being discerning with the code you run on your site.

The second round of WordCamp incubation is happening after…

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2018

The second round of WordCamp incubation is happening after some beautiful successes in the first round. If you have always wanted a WordCamp in your city but haven’t been able to get a community started, the incubator program is a great opportunity.