WordPress News

Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced…

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2018

Steve Burge of OSTraining has announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for his relatively new and recently rebranded WordPress-focused business, PublishPress. PublishPress provides an extensible base of useful features for any multi-user editorial workflow. If it reminds you…

Nice point here from Andy Lester:…

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2018

Nice point here from Andy Lester: the best open source project for someone might not be your project ... and that’s OK. "Happy users are why we should be doing this."

PressED is a conference on Twitter…

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2018

PressED is a conference on Twitter happening on March 29th from 10am (BST / GMT+1) to 10pm (BST / GMT+1). According to organizers Pat Lockley and Natalie Lafferty, PressED has a different focus than other education-oriented WordPress events like WPCampus,…

Gravity Forms released a Gutenberg block…

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2018

Gravity Forms released a Gutenberg block add-on to be able to use Gravity Forms, as well as their popular conditional form functionality, within the Gutenberg editor. Carl Hancock tells me it's the first of many Gutenberg focused efforts, and it's…

WordPress minor update blocks future minor updates

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2018

BusinessHosting

WordPress 4.9.3 introduced a bug that causes a fatal error during automatic update attempts — effectively preventing future minor updates triggered by WordPress.org’s update system. The only way to fix it is to either manually upgrade or hosts to take…

WordPress market opportunities: Upmarket edition — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

February 9, 2018

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Brian continue their discussion on WordPress market opportunities with a focus on the upper-market and enterprise clients.

An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge

Dan Knauss

February 7, 2018

BusinessHosting

PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.

Liquid Web has acquired iThemes

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2018

BusinessHosting

Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.

Managing product renewals

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Business

There was an interesting conversation over the last few days in the business channel on Post Status Slack, where members discussed the merits and potential pitfalls of various renewal strategies. Joe Guilmette kicked it off describing how auto renewals for…

Mark Jaquith explains how he solved…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Mark Jaquith explains how he solved a problem with Yoast SEO sitemaps on large WordPress sites. Yoast’s dynamic generation of the sitemap was making his server time out, so he came up with a way to generate a static sitemap.…

It’s good to see LiveBlog getting…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

It's good to see LiveBlog getting some updates. The latest version includes a completely new React-powered front end and support for mobile devices. It's a handy plugin if you're covering live events.

If you are interested in learning…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

If you are interested in learning how to use React to render WordPress content from the REST API, Igor Benić has a nice tutorial here.

Liquid Web announced the launch of…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Hosting

Liquid Web announced the launch of its managed WooCommerce hosting, which has been in the works for some time. It will be interesting to see how other hosting companies respond. The hosted solution space — especially for eCommerce — is just…

Lizzie Kardon over at Smashing Magazine…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Lizzie Kardon over at Smashing Magazine wrote an informative post about internationalizing WordPress sites. It's encouraging to see attention paid to WordPress and translation by people outside the WordPress community. More than half of all WordPress installs today are non-English…

As reported in the Drupal forums,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

As reported in the Drupal forums, it appears that Drupal 8 will require PHP 7.0 or higher starting March 6, 2019. WordPress, in contrast, runs on older PHP versions while PHP 7.2 is recommended. It's not an apples to apples…

The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1)…

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2018

Design

The latest version of Gutenberg (2.1) is out with another healthy list of improvements and additions. As Matias Ventura reports, the update iterates further on aspects of the design and writing flow with enhancements like lighter up/down movers. It also…