WordPress News

Why semantic versioning is good for complex plugins, and not WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

WooCommerce has announced that they are skipping from version 2.7 to 3.0 and transitioning to SemVer, or semantic versioning. SemVer means that each decimal of a release means something. Whereas WordPress 3.9 and 4.0 were identical in importance, but in…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…

JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 12, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Brian and Joe are joined by Zac Gordon, and the three of them discuss the state of JavaScript and JavaScript frameworks in a WordPress context.

Making a living without client work, with Carrie Dils — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 6, 2017

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Brian interviews Carrie Dils -- a self-employed entrepreneur -- about using multiple channels to make a full time living, and giving up client work.

Freemius is extending their insights functionality…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Freemius is extending their insights functionality for people using their sales and analytics platform to themes. If you use Freemius Insights, your users can opt-in to data gathering, giving you access to specific theme events (activations, etc), a list of…

The WP Site Care team has…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

The WP Site Care team has written exactly how they manage migrations, with a mix of WP Migrate DB Pro and the Interconnect/IT Search and Replace script. It's a good guide, but I've personally not used that Interconnect/IT script since…

My friend Daniel Espinoza is celebrating…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

My friend Daniel Espinoza is celebrating two years of Shop Plugins. In his two year review, he gives an honest assessment of the good and the bad parts of running your own plugin extension shop. It took him two years…

WP Rocket has hit 200,000 active…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

WP Rocket has hit 200,000 active installs, after three and a half years. However, much of that growth was just in the last six months. That's a very high install count for a paid-only plugin, so congrats to their whole…

A 50 person survey on how…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

A 50 person survey on how they use the customizer ended up in some inconclusive, but still interesting to read results. Tammie Lister broke down the answers and charted them for easier reading, and also pulled quotes from different bits…

Esther Harding writes about the “fatal…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Esther Harding writes about the "fatal flaw" of subscription media. I'm not sure I'd call it fatal, but it's a good read on how it could be overwhelming if people feel like they should subscribe to dozens of sources. The…

Automattic has built an importer for…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Business

Automattic has built an importer for folks to move from Medium to WordPress.com, and gave a tiny jab to Medium while at it: With the recent news about Medium’s change in business model we’ve been receiving a number of requests…

K. Adam White is the design…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Design

K. Adam White is the design lead on the WordPress REST API, and has been involved with the project for the last three years. On the Bocoup blog, he gives an in-depth overview of his time with the project that…

Beaver Themer lets you build Beaver Builder layouts for full templates

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

Beaver Themer is the newest product by Beaver Builder, and is now in an alpha testing phase. The new product allows you to use a lot of the features many of you know from Beaver Builder, except it allows you…

High Contrast Admin is a new…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

High Contrast Admin is a new WordPress plugin that "dramatically change the appearance of form fields, table rows, and background colors in the admin pages", particularly useful for those visually impaired.

If you are a Jetpack customer…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

If you are a Jetpack customer with a recently released Personal Plan, note that Jetpack has announced that they are now including "Priority Support" in such Personal Plans. Priority support simply mean you’ll get your tickets responded to faster, but…

Eric Binnion explains what he does…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Eric Binnion explains what he does as a "Code Wrangler" at Automattic. This involves more than many would probably guess. If you wanted to know more about Automattic teams, then add Eric's post to your reading list.