WordPress News

If you work with BuddyPress, you’ll…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

If you work with BuddyPress, you'll be happy to know progress is being made on its own REST API. Check out some recent chat summaries like this one and consider joining in to help develop, test, or just provide feedback.

Firefox discontinued the Firebug addon, and…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Firefox discontinued the Firebug addon, and now it's back. I recently switched from Chrome to Firefox because I was so sick of the RAM hogging by Chrome, so I'm glad to see Firefox doubling down on Firebug.

Vova Feldman has done another deep…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Vova Feldman has done another deep dive in an Envato marketplace -- this time with an analysis of CodeCanyon. Vova attempts to determine if a developer can make a living just from commercial WordPress plugins on CodeCanyon. An interesting takeaway:…

Theme Isle has a short interview…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Theme Isle has a short interview with Andrey "Rarst" Savchenko who is a community elected moderator at WordPress Stack Exchange. In classic Rarst form, when asked what he'd change in WordPress: "I have no interest to change WordPress left. I…

Plasso is an online subscription service…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Design

Plasso is an online subscription service that enables payments and membership functionality using the Stripe platform. Tom Mcfarlin wrote about Plasso's recently released plugin and themes for WordPress -- which WordPress veteran Jason Schuller had a hand in. Plasso is…

Also in Stripe subscriptions land, Shane…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Also in Stripe subscriptions land, Shane Harter covers some lessons he learned shipping a product using Stripe subscriptions. The tips break down to embracing the platform, keeping the primary source of data in Stripe itself, and realizing that while it's…

David Cramer has a fascinating new…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

David Cramer has a fascinating new plugin in pre-release, DB Post Types, which allows you to dynamically link database tables to custom post types. It's not a "table to post type importer" but rather an interpreter. Check out the video…

David Cohn hits on a good…

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

David Cohn hits on a good point that, "technical features of a CMS dictate editorial. It’s as simple as that." For example, if Twitter removed the character limit, it would affect the content output on Twitter; the same is true…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Jack Lenox

January 12, 2017

DevelopmentPlanet

It's a new year, and a great time to set some New Year's resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.

In WordPress core development, user trust…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

In WordPress core development, user trust is considered paramount. Aaron Jorbin illustrates this with a post quoting several WordPress core contributors, including a response from Helen Hou-Sandí's to a suggestion made in Slack to rewrite WordPress core. Aaron illustrates that…

Morton Rand-Hendriksen documents his proposal for…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Morton Rand-Hendriksen documents his proposal for shipping an opt-in Telemetry feature that collects anonymized data, which would result in better understanding WordPress users. Better understanding users would of course allow core contributors to add, remove, or alter WordPress features to…

Jason Fried nails it: a good…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Jason Fried nails it: a good "work ethic" doesn't mean putting in long hours.

Brad Williams pointed this out on…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Brad Williams pointed this out on Twitter, and I haven't seen it before: WordPress.com has a page that allows users to inquire about a charge they didn't recognize. You type in your name, last four digits of your card, the…

If you are looking for WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

If you are looking for WordPress basics in video form to share with someone, there are a few really great solutions out there; WP101 is my favorite, due to the high quality, consistent updates, and ability to put them right…

Year In WordPress is a really…

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Year In WordPress is a really cool micro site by Jesper van Engelen. You get to see a personalized review of your work on WordPress.org, which includes plugin downloads, WordCamp talks, and other data snagged from various WordPress.org APIs attached…

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Security

WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…