WordPress News

Mel Choyce recently published a working…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Mel Choyce recently published a working docoment for tickets and improvements under consideration for WordPress 4.9. Among them are improvements to the code editor, customization efforts, better theme switchingm, improved processes for uploading updated theme and plugin zip files, iteration…

Gutenberg development continues to move at…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Gutenberg development continues to move at a fast clip. Here's the most recent changelog. Tammie Lister recently shared milestones that are "not set in stone" but roughly slate the merge proposal for the end of the year. That's optimistic, but I like…

Ryan McCue has recently posted an…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Ryan McCue has recently posted an update and roadmap for the WordPress REST API. Getting the API used in the WordPress admin is the primary focus moving forward, along with solving problems related to external authentication. It's an encouraging update…

There’s been talk of how difficult…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Design

There's been talk of how difficult it is to stand out in the WordPress professional theme space lately. David A. Kennedy at ThemeShaper says Gutenberg is going to change this "in a big way." David thinks the new editor will add such…

If you’re looking for some good,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

BusinessSecurity

If you're looking for some good, recent podcasts, you might want to check out this interview with Brad Williams over at Robojuice. It's an hour-long show focused on security and the question of whether WordPress is secure enough for Microsoft. The…

WP-CLI reached version 1.3.0 recently. New…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

WP-CLI reached version 1.3.0 recently. New features include a mechanism to install external commands more easily, some new commands, and a number of bug fixes. And Shawn Hooper shows us how to run commands on a remote server. This could…

Here’s an important milestone for WordPress.org:…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Here's an important milestone for WordPress.org: according to the statistics page, half of all installs are now non-US English. No doubt this is in part due to the efforts of the Polyglots team and everyone else working on translations for WordPress.…

Also a milestone of sorts, .blog…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Also a milestone of sorts, .blog domain registrations recently passed 100,000. Get.blog now redirects straight to WordPress.com, too; I found that interesting.

Ghost reached it’s 1.0.0 milestone at the end…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Ghost reached it's 1.0.0 milestone at the end of July. Ghost 1.0.0 is a major overhaul with an impressive list of features. Defaulting to MySQL, a new editor, and theme API changes were among the changes that stood out to me, as…

HelloSales is a new WordPress Plugin…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

HelloSales is a new WordPress Plugin and iOS App for WooCommerce recently announced by iThemes. According to Cory Miller the first version "will focus on getting accurate, valuable e-commerce reporting for your WooCommerce shop." I talked to Cory about this idea last…

And Metorik, my favorite SaaS period,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

And Metorik, my favorite SaaS period, is celebrating a year of existence. I'm majorly excited about Bryce's plans for the Engage features.

Pantheon has launched Let’s Encrypt backed SSL,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Pantheon has launched Let’s Encrypt backed SSL, and CDN support through a Fastly partnership. Pantheon manages their full page cache with Varnish, and Fastly is Varnish as well. With their new CDN deployment, they’ll be able to provide cashed assets as…

John Blackbourn has documented all the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

John Blackbourn has documented all the situations where WordPress sends an email, along with how to filter or disable each email. Bless him. I hate WordPress default emails. It's a SaaS opportunity if I ever saw one.

Justin Sainton contributed a helpful post to…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Justin Sainton contributed a helpful post to the conversation about the WordPress economy. He makes some well-delivered points, observing that in some ways the WordPress economy has slowed down. He believes this is a correction and not a "real dip." Justin…

Ahmad Awais shows how you can…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Ahmad Awais shows how you can auto optimize images using NPM scripts and Gulp for WordPress development. He walks you though how he built WPImgOptimizer - which is an image optimization development workflow -- very interesting.

Scott Bolinger gives advice on, “trying…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2017

Scott Bolinger gives advice on, "trying to focus on the system, not the results." In other words, focus on things you can control. You can’t control your traffic or revenue but you can control how much time you spend coding…