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Andrew Youderian wrote an incredibly thorough…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Andrew Youderian wrote an incredibly thorough post on everything you should consider when selling your business. It's specific to eCommerce businesses -- as he has sold two of them -- but it's applicable to pretty much anyone that runs a…

Laura Hazard Owen wrote another great…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Laura Hazard Owen wrote another great post on Nieman Lab, this time closer to home. She featured Longreads, the member-driven journalism site Automattic acquired in 2014. I learned a few things from this feature, including that Automattic is matching $3…

Human Made announced the release of…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Human Made announced the release of Tachyon, their open-source scalable image service. It integrates with Amazon S3 and can be used with or without WordPress. When it does work with WordPress, it integrates with the Tachyon plugin and Human Made's…

Daniel Bachhuber — maintainer of WP-CLI…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Daniel Bachhuber -- maintainer of WP-CLI -- has released Bylines, to handle modern multi-author blogs. He knows what he's doing with a project like this, as the past creator of Edit Flow and Co-Authors Plus. Bylines will be a no-brainer…

John Jacoby writes his thoughts on…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

John Jacoby writes his thoughts on the structure of wp_options, noting that its current approach was good approach 13+ years ago, what seems good now, and what problems might exist improving on it going forward. Also, recently the A Healthier…

For those possibly curious about Jekyll,…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

For those possibly curious about Jekyll, a static website generator, Mike Neumegen has written an introduction to it with WordPress developers in mind over at Smashing Magazine. I think the post does a good job touching on the pros and…

Chris Coyier asks when a project…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Chris Coyier asks when a project needs React. His take: (1) if your application has a lot of "state" (2) if you're looking to avoid spaghetti code and looking to build things into modules and (3) there's a high need…

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Taylor Lovett posted on the 10up blog the release of WP Docker, an open source Docker configuration optimized for local WordPress development. WP Docker is meant to address shortcomings of running multiple VVV and Vagrant instances while providing greater flexibility…

Ethan Marcotte offers a reminder for…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Ethan Marcotte offers a reminder for designing website and applications, to keep in mind not everyone has super fast wifi. Even those that do at home don't always when they travel and visit your site on a mobile device, especially…

Genesis 2.5 is now available. It…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Genesis 2.5 is now available. It includes filters and helper functions, an expanded layout engine, full support for the WordPress title tag feature, and accessibility improvements.

Joseph O’Connor notes that there are…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Joseph O'Connor notes that there are over 140 themes in the WordPress Theme Directory tagged as 'accessible' -- far more than the handful that existed a few years ago. He also reviews some of the history and how much effort…

Front end developers might enjoy reading…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Front end developers might enjoy reading this piece from Stuart Frisby on how booking.com was able to deploy system fonts across their website.

Matt Medeiros sits down with JR…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

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Hallway Chats is another WordPress podcast,…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Hallway Chats is another WordPress podcast, started by Tara Claeys and Liam Dempsey. The podcast focuses on those in the community that haven't "yet popped onto the radar." As the website states: "We’re specifically looking to meet people who are…

More from Tara! If you’re a…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

More from Tara! If you're a BuddyPress developer or thinking of using it, you might want to check out the latest published case study on the official blog. Tara Claeys built the Total Wellness Challenge website using BuddyPress, and the…

Setting up HTTPS locally can be…

Brian Krogsgard

May 5, 2017

Setting up HTTPS locally can be a pain depending on your approach. Brad Touesnard writes on how to do this without getting annoying browser privacy errors. Brad walks through generating a self-signed certificate on the command line, then installing and…