WordPress News

Joe Guilmette from WP All Import…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Joe Guilmette from WP All Import created a service that offers, "free, unlimited WordPress installs," for anyone who needs a temporary site. The name of the service is (ridiculously) poopy.life, a clever effort to prevent people from always using the…

Pippin Williamson reflects on his price…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Pippin Williamson reflects on his price increases for Easy Digital Downloads with a pretty incredible in-depth post. While his price increases make perfect logical sense, some of his old pricing didn't, resulting in some plugins seeing as much as a…

Tim Kadlec writes about a discovery…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Tim Kadlec writes about a discovery that is disturbing. He scanned 5,000 of the top Alexa URLs, and, "76.6% of them include at least one vulnerable JavaScript library."

Devin Price has a helpful snippet…

Brian Krogsgard

April 4, 2017

Devin Price has a helpful snippet for accessing an external API through the server, so that the data can be used with with client-side JavaScript. His sample shows how to get shipping rates from an external service, for use in…

The importance of tech in government, from Obama’s chief of staff

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2017

BusinessSecurity

Denis McDonough -- President Obama's chief of staff -- spoke to Ezra Klein about how to run the White House. In it, he described a process where President Obama would meet with cabinet secretaries on a quarterly basis, and the…

What you should know about the Sucuri acquisition deal by GoDaddy

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2017

BusinessHosting

In fewer than six years, Sucuri went from a team trying to decide when the founders should go full time, to a team of more than one hundred people, and an acquisition deal in their hands from one of the…

WordPress.com is testing custom plugins and themes for Business plans

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

BusinessHosting

Automattic is testing the ability for Business plan customers to upload custom plugins and themes on WordPress.com. The test has only been open a few days, and they are enabling the feature for around 10 sites per day, so it's…

The most interesting web-related thing I’ve…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

The most interesting web-related thing I've read in the past few days is Andrew Wilkinson's post on how he thinks the mergers and acquisitions process is broken, and how he wants his company -- Tiny -- to become the Berkshire…

After the hubub around Jetpack’s decision…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

After the hubub around Jetpack's decision to become a theme marketplace, Mika Epstein clarified what constitutes an allowed versus not-allowed third party integration for executable code. Not to any fault of Mika or the rest of the plugin team, it…

I like Ryan Sullivan’s post on…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

I like Ryan Sullivan's post on how WP Site Care is managing to put on a really awesome company retreat without throwing down a ridiculous amount of money. Hosting the meetup in a nice place, but off-season, is one of…

WordPress.com news is coming hard and…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

WordPress.com news is coming hard and fast these days, especially user interface stuff. The new media experience within Calypso is looking pretty nice, and could serve as yet-another template for an improved .org version down the road. They've also updated…

Sugar Events Calendar is a collaborative…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

Sugar Events Calendar is a collaborative project between Pippin Williamson and Daniel Espinoza. It just got some pretty nice updates, if you're looking for a simple calendar option. It's also going to get its own site soon, like RCP, EDD,…

After a super long time on…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

After a super long time on the platform, Smashing Magazine is leaving WordPress. Granted, they are leaving more than WordPress, by moving to a fully static system for their sprawling web application. Their rationale for the drastic changes is pretty…

CodePen Projects is the most interesting…

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

CodePen Projects is the most interesting web application I've seen in a long time. They've launched what is essentially a hosted IDE, but also includes domain mapping so you can create the whole site right there on CodePen. As someone…

Meet me for Publish, in Atlanta, in early August 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2017

Business

I've paid the deposit for our venue for Publish in Atlanta, August 3rd and 4th. If you liked the first first Publish, I think you'll love this one. It's standalone, in a great venue, in an accessible city, and I'm…

John Maeda posted his slides (along…

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

BusinessDesign

John Maeda posted his slides (along link to video) of his 2017 Design in Tech Report at SXSW together with Jackie Xu. Some "key observations" include: - Design isn’t just about beauty; it’s about market relevance and meaningful results. -…