WordPress News

Reaktiv Studios has released Locomotive, which…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Reaktiv Studios has released Locomotive, which is their take on batch processing in WordPress. When you register a process, you define the parameters of your data query, using all of the arguments available to you in default WordPress queries. Then…

Stephane Thomas announced that Automattic has…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Stephane Thomas announced that Automattic has open-sourced two projects recently: Delphin and Delphin Bootstrap. Delphin is the web application that powers get.blog, and is used on other parts of WordPress.com.

10up has released a WordPress component…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

10up has released a WordPress component library, which is, “a collection of front-end components constructed with WordPress and accessibility at the forefront.” Jon Bellah says that each component in the library is WCAG 2.0 accessible, and they're hoping to make…

Another really neat project from 10up…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Another really neat project from 10up is the SaaS version of their ElasticPress product. The tagline for ElasticPress.io is, "WordPress Search, Solved." It's fully hosted, and geared specifically for WordPress. It's not cheap (starts at $299 per month), and you…

A very early and initial prototype…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

A very early and initial prototype for the upcoming WordPress editor revamp (codenamed Gutenberg) is available to test. Tammie Lister and other folks on the WordPress Design group are looking for input and your test results. Again, this is in…

WooCommerce has merged a revamping of…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

WooCommerce has merged a revamping of their product gallery into core. The feature, coming in WooCommerce 2.7, allows visitors now have access to both magnification and zooming. Also the gallery behavior is much more intuitive. This update on the site…

Scott Taylor has started working on…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Scott Taylor has started working on a GraphQL extension of the WordPress REST API that I'll be paying attention to.

Josh Pollock has a quality tutorial…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Josh Pollock has a quality tutorial series going on Torque to get you started understanding Vue.js in a WordPress context. I really like Vue.js. Also, I look forward to seeing what he and Roy Sivan are up to with Caldera…

Years ago, Harry Roberts wrote about…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Years ago, Harry Roberts wrote about "code smells" on CSS Wizardry. He has a follow-up that I really enjoyed, and can give you an idea whether you've got some underlying problems with your Sass/CSS.

My friend Brian Richards has a…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

My friend Brian Richards has a survey he'd love for you to take for WP Sessions. In a few weeks this anonymously collected data will be aggregated and shared so that the greater development community can benefit from knowing the…

Scott Arciszewski wrote a post about…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Scott Arciszewski wrote a post about how WordPress.org handles auto update signatures that had several good points, but it was written with ridiculously bad delivery. It was full of unnecessary assumptions, ridicule, and even an attempt to shame Matt Mullenweg…

Edith Harbaugh rode her bike across…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Edith Harbaugh rode her bike across America. She also manages software teams. These experiences are not mutually exclusive, she learned. This is a great weekend read -- one of the better conceptual pieces I've read in a while.

And let me leave you with…

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Business

And let me leave you with one more weekend read: Business Insider goes in-depth on why Medium's business model isn't lining up with their funding model. And it might cost them the company. I hope they crawl out of it;…

Rapid, automatic upgrades are pivotal to the future of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2017

Security

Mika Epstein has a way of being super logical and level-headed about everything. She has written a post in defense of the WordPress REST API -- that really is applicable to security in WordPress in general -- that I wish…

LoopConf in review

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2017

BusinessPlanet

LoopConf 2, hosted in Salt Lake City, was a great WordPress developer-focused event. Post Status was there, taking pictures and video. Here's our review.