WordPress News

WP Forms has acquired the WP…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WP Forms has acquired the WP Mail SMTP plugin -- which has 600,000+ active installs -- in order to bolster their mail sending reliability, without having to recommend tools they don't control. Awesome Motive (the team that makes WP Forms)…

Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Design

Scott Amerman unveils a new WPEngine feature called "Flexible Workflows." As the name suggests, Flexible Workflows allows teams to design their own development and deployment workflows. Some teams might want only a staging and production environment. Others might want a…

These great tips on thoroughly preparing a…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

These great tips on thoroughly preparing a conference talk come from Hynek Schlawack. It's a good-sized post as Hynek breaks down every step. Even if you have given or heard talks on this subject before it's definitely worth a full read.…

Lift Off summit is a free-online…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Lift Off summit is a free-online conference (June 19-23) designed "to get your new eCommerce store off the ground." It is hosted by Bob Dunn of BobWP.com and Patrick Rauland. The speakers showcasing the event include well-known names in the…

WP-CLI version 1.2.0 has been released…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WP-CLI version 1.2.0 has been released with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. In a big organizational change, the main wp-cli/wp-cli repository only contains the framework itself now. All the bundled commands can be found in separate repositories. This…

On the heels of Tachyon just…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

On the heels of Tachyon just over a month ago, Human Made has released another interesting tool to the public. It's called Cavalcade, and it's a horizontally-scalable WordPress jobs processing solution. It was built to address the limitations of wp-cron. Cavalcade…

Chris Lema is back to blogging,…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Chris Lema is back to blogging, and a recent post of his covers how you can get free users to subscribe to paid memberships. The entire post is a good read for anyone trying to make it with subscriptions. Some…

WordPress 4.8 is around the corner,…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WordPress 4.8 is around the corner, and Jeffrey Paul has produced a nice field guide to the improvements, features, and new hooks/filters.

If you do front-end work and…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

If you do front-end work and aren't familiar with Babel, Autoprefixer, or Browserslist yet you should take a few moments to read this post on CSS Tricks.

Anjana Menon, a content designer at…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Anjana Menon, a content designer at Paypal, shares some practical writing tips to keep in mind when you are writing for user experience. Some of her advice is to "say what you need not what you want," organize your content,…

I enjoyed this guest post by…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

I enjoyed this guest post by Arjun Bhattarai on the BuddyPress blog. Arjun is the founder and developer of StudentsNepal.com — the first and largest community website for students in Nepal with 9,700 registered members and 50,000 subscribers. It was built…

Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report will…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Mary Meeker's Internet Trends report will always make you smarter, and the latest edition is out. It's an epic and long slide deck that's well worth going through.

Cory Miller and Dr. Sherry Walling…

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Cory Miller and Dr. Sherry Walling are partnering up for ZenTribes, a peer group program designed to help, "like-minded entrepreneurs walking together, sharing stories, experiences and life in order to encourage and support one another." It looks really great, and…

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js…

WooCommerce is offering 20% higher rates in trade for third party developers offering all support

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

WooCommerce announced on an internal blog post they are increasing their revenue sharing with third party developers from 50% to 60%. This means third party developers will get 20% more revenue per sale than they did previously. In return, developers…

Human Made has made its staff handbook…

Dan Knauss

May 29, 2017

Human Made has made its staff handbook public. The handbook shows how the company is organized, and it documents all their work–related guidances and human resources policies. This could be a great blueprint for other companies looking for a successful model. I would…