WordPress News

I thought Russell Aaron writing of…

Dan Knauss

December 9, 2016

I thought Russell Aaron writing of a "beginners guide" for "better" WordPress support was very relatable to some of those less technical WordPress site owners I know. Russell touches on how to ask the questions, not just where to ask…

Photos from Post Status Publish and WordCamp US 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 8, 2016

PlanetWordPress News

The first Post Status Publish and WordCamp US 2016 were both last week. Brian Richards and I took some pictures, and here they are.

WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan”, released

Brian Krogsgard

December 6, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan”, has been released with the all new WordPress REST API Content Endpoints, a new default theme, many customizer features, and much, much more.

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the information posts for new features are showing up. For example, Jeremy Felt shared with us about the latest tweaks to multisite. Pascal Bichler also recently shared the new Post Type labels feature and Post…

“You Might Not Need JavaScript” is…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

"You Might Not Need JavaScript" is a site that showcases examples of UI elements and interactions that you can accomplish with HTML and CSS alone. There is more than one way to tackle something, and an experienced developer chooses which…

Facebook recently announced the open source…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Facebook recently announced the open source release of Yarn, a JavaScript package manager that provides a "fast, reliable, and secure" alternative npm client. According to the release, Yarn can install packages more quickly and manage dependencies consistently across machines or…

Mozilla introduced Firefox Focus – a…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Mozilla introduced Firefox Focus - a simple-to-use and free private iOS browser. Interesting in that it also offers a system-wide content blocker that seems primarily focused on privacy invasive trackers. I don't use browsers outside of Mobile Safari, but I'm…

Dev7studios.com has been acquired by CodeInWP,…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Dev7studios.com has been acquired by CodeInWP, with all of their free and premium WordPress plugins (plus related jQuery/JS plugins) to be developed and maintained by the CodeInWP team. If you own a Dev7studios product, you should take the time to…

Tumblr shares some statistics after their…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

Tumblr shares some statistics after their move to PHP 7. Almost immediately they saw their latency drop by half and the CPU load on the servers decrease "at least 50%." I like their very short but true summary at the end…

GoDaddy reportedly in talks to acquire Host Europe Group, gaining 1.7 million customers

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

BusinessHosting

Claire Ruckin is reporting for Reuters that GoDaddy is in talks to acquire the Host Europe Group, known as HEG. HEG describes themselves on their website: HEG is now one of Europe’s leading hosting providers, one of the largest domain…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

BusinessDesign

Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.

Pantheon removed from WCUS sponsorship: what you should know

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

Pantheon was removed from WordCamp US sponsorship the night before the event started. It was the result of a series of disagreements and discussions that led to a fairly drastic result. The price to sponsor WCUS was $100,000 for Pantheon. Additionally,…

I enjoyed this post from Justin Sainton on…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

Business

I enjoyed this post from Justin Sainton on the self-asked question of, "What advice would you give your younger self?" He says: margins. Creating margins – and avoiding having no margins, or negative margins – is the key to improving your business…

Joyent and 10up have introduced what…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

Joyent and 10up have introduced what they call an “Autopilot Pattern WordPress” implementation who’s goal is to make building WordPress sites at scale easier. It’s a fully Dockerized implementation of WordPress that includes MySQL, Memcached, Nginx, NFS, and Consul. There’s…

Also from 10up: a React and…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

Also from 10up: a React and Node driven version of Twenty Sixteen that I haven't gotten deep into yet, but I'm pumped to learn more.

There’s a remote conference happening Nov…

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

There’s a remote conference happening Nov 29th dedicated to those who work remotely called Out of Office. It has an interesting speaker lineup – including Basecamp CEO Jason Fried and Tom Willmot from Human Made. Human Made are in fact the…