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The phrase “over budget” is naturally…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

The phrase "over budget" is naturally associated with government projects, but I found this case of Canada government ignoring a lower cost solution particularly interesting. The Canadian government went with Adobe, and since then the costs have gone from $1.95-million…

Over the holidays, WordPress made Forbes.com…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Over the holidays, WordPress made Forbes.com with an article entitled "How WordPress Ate The Internet In 2016... And The World in 2017". Likely you'll learn nothing new - the numbers and information Monty Munford mentions is basic and well-known -…

Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser, shares…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser, shares some thoughts on the WordPress product space in 2016 and what he thinks is in store for next year. He covers his thoughts on SaaS (AppPresser is moving to a SaaS model in 2017),…

W3techs annual “Web Technologies of the…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

W3techs annual "Web Technologies of the Year" came out recently and WordPress wins the CMS spot for the seventh year in a row. PHP also grabs "Server-side Programming Language of the Year" with a growing marketshare.

WordHat is a Behat extension, integrating…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

WordHat is a Behat extension, integrating Behat, Mink, and WordPress. Behat and Mink allow you to describe the behavior of a website in a plain language and then turn that description into an automated test. WordHat helps you implement tests…

I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt’s post…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

I enjoyed reading Jeremy Felt's post on what he's enjoyed about open source in 2016. There are some worthy posts and videos to examine, so it's definitely work a moment of your time to review his list.

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

John Maseda blogged an excerpt of a message he shared within Automattic Design, entitled "Why WordPress?". Highly recommend spending a few minutes to read his thoughts about why WordPress is trust-worthy but especially his point about WordPress - and it's…

With the WordPress editor now gaining…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

With the WordPress editor now gaining additional attention in 2017, Joen Asmussen over at make.wordpress.org is gathering feedback about editor improvements. If you have feedback regarding how the editor can be improved now is a good time to get your…

I enjoyed the interview of Pippin…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

I enjoyed the interview of Pippin Williamson on a recent "How I Built It" podcast. He talks about resurrecting Restrict Content Pro and his thoughts about being in the WordPress product space. Also if you haven't seen it already I…

Let’s Encrypt had an amazing year…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Let's Encrypt had an amazing year in 2016 as it came out of beta. They went from supporting approximately 240,000 active (unexpired) certificates to more than 20,000,000. That's incredible.

2016 was a good year for…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Security

2016 was a good year for PHP according to Zend as they share survey results from 1200 developers. Some interesting results, most notably that over 50% of respondents are planning to move to PHP 7.x within one year (that's good).…

After 2 years of development involving…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

After 2 years of development involving almost 100 people, the WordPress Theme Developer Handbook has been officially released. The site is a central and "official" repository for everything related to WordPress themes, intended to answer many common (and not so…

Interesting announcement from Ghost: they have…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Interesting announcement from Ghost: they have created a $45,000 journalism development program "to help build new and exciting publications". They are looking for 3 teams to work with for the next year, and will be offering financial and technical support.…

Ashley Rich, creator of WP Scanner…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Ashley Rich, creator of WP Scanner and full-time developer for Delicious Brains, takes a look at what’s new in HTTP/2 and what that means for performance best practices going into 2017. Interesting that in one HTTP vs HTTPS test comparing…

Mike Jolley at WooCommerce shares some…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Mike Jolley at WooCommerce shares some notes after his team has looked at updating some extensions for 2.7 compatibility. Notes cover updating the Product Add-ons extension, the Shipment Tracking extension, and the EU VAT extension.

Tom J Nowell, VIP Wrangler at…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Tom J Nowell, VIP Wrangler at WordPress.com VIP for Automattic, covers what's new in Varying Vagrant Vagrants (version 2.0). Tom states that it's "undergone a small transformation for the better" and i would agree. The provisioning system for VVV has…