WordPress News

Let’s celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Let's celebrate two website anniversaries: WPBeginner recently turned eight. Syed Balkhi reflects of all the major things happening in the business, along with personal accomplishments. CSS Tricks is now a decade old. Chris Coyier looks back on the first post…

David A. Kennedy posted an update…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

David A. Kennedy posted an update about Underscores, the popular starter theme from ThemeShaper, which is owned by Automattic. There has been no development activity on Underscores for several months, but David says it is still an active project. Ulrich Pogson, who is…

Michelle Schulp has updated a popular…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Michelle Schulp has updated a popular WordPress template hierarchy graphic . It now reflects all the new and removed templates since version 4.4, including oEmbeds and the new post template workflow.

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn's presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and…

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Delicious Brains has launched serializededitor.com, a free online visual editor for PHP serialized data. Gilbert Pellegrom explains how and why this project came about, as well as the unique challenges it posed.

If you can’t attend the second…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

If you can't attend the second WPCampus conference in Buffalo, NY on July 14-15 but would still like to see the sessions, a free live stream will be provided.

I love Mika Epstein’s point about…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

I love Mika Epstein's point about writing insecure code: all developers have written it, and it's actually natural. But we need to get into a mindset that users of our software won't treat our applications like we think they will.

Robot Ninja is an automated testing…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Robot Ninja is an automated testing service for WooCommerce stores. Jason Conroy explains that Robot Ninja uses end-to-end (e2e) testing principles and technologies. They are planning additional features in the future, but in the meantime they are looking for participants in…

Bowe Frankema at WeFoster writes about…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Bowe Frankema at WeFoster writes about how commercial plugin update checks can effect site performance. Bowe provides some examples and troubleshooting tips, but he concludes this is an issue that WordPress really needs to address in core.

Scott Bolinger shows how you can…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Scott Bolinger shows how you can make a WordPress settings autocomplete field, using Ajax. Scott wrote this post because there seems to be no official documentation for "ajax-tag-search," an Ajax function built into WordPress core that he used to accomplish…

Josh Pollock wrote a nice tutorial…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Josh Pollock wrote a nice tutorial for Torque on creating a WordPress settings page using the REST API. According to Josh, using the WordPress REST API instead of admin-ajax is not only more performant, but it also lets WordPress core…

Let’s Encrypt recently passed 100 million…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Let's Encrypt recently passed 100 million certificates issued. In the 19 months since they launched, the percentage of the web using HTTPS has gone from less than 40% to nearly 58%. That's amazing. They will also begin supporting wildcard certificates…

Here’s some sound advice from Wojciech…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Here's some sound advice from Wojciech Adam Koszek: if you want to ship software, add constraints. Wojciech also suggests sticking with you know, and picking a time frame for your project -- especially if what you are working on is…

Peter O’Shaughnessy makes the case why…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

Peter O'Shaughnessy makes the case why browser diversity is good for the web, that "the web thrives on diversity." A single web browser -- from Apple, Google, Mozilla, or anyone -- wouldn't be a good thing. Of course, feature fragmentation…

I was fascinated by this post…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

I was fascinated by this post from Simon de la Rouviere about tokenizing Wikipedia. It started with a half-joke tweet from Michael Arrington, but he's done a lot of research into the idea. The principles he describes around curation markets…

I found Madeleine Dore’s article addressing…

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2017

I found Madeleine Dore's article addressing how we view work and burn out very refreshing: When our workloads increase, many of us decide to up our number of working hours. But harnessing moments of 'unfocus' might be the key to getting…