WordPress News

Regional WordCamps, WCUS 2017, and design kits

Brian Krogsgard

November 16, 2016

There's a good bit of WordCamp news worth covering right now. WordCamp US in Nashville First off, WordCamp US 2017 and 2018 will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is less than a three hour drive from me, because I…

Every year, Inc. ranks the fastest-growing companies…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

Every year, Inc. ranks the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. Ruth Raventós notes that 62% of the top 100 fastest growing companies in the US on that list use WordPress. Last year the number was 42%. The post goes on to…

Kelly Dwan been working in-depth with…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

Kelly Dwan been working in-depth with React at Automattic and has graciously shared some WordPress REST API React/Redux helpers.

Adobe has launched Typekit Marketplace –…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

Adobe has launched Typekit Marketplace – a place to find and purchase fonts. Once purchased, the fonts are added to your personal library on Typekit and are synced to your applications through Adobe’s Creative Cloud. One of the feature highlights…

This Sass styleguide by Hugo Giraudel…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

This Sass styleguide by Hugo Giraudel is really useful for any of you whose stylesheets tend to end up a hot mess once they reach a certain size. I really like the method recommended for using variables for location that…

The first twenty or so minutes…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

The first twenty or so minutes of a recent episode of the Shop Talk Show from Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier is must-listen for all WordPress professionals. A listener complains that WordPress isn’t improving the web because it is too much of an…

Kat Hagan offers details on using…

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

Kat Hagan offers details on using the official WordPress REST API on WordPress.com. This is a huge step for the API content endpoints, which will be in core in WordPress 4.7.

WooCommerce Subscriptions gets big upgrade

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2016

Design

WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.1 is out the door, after more than a year of development. It's a large upgrade and packs a ton of features, as highlighted on the features page. If you're interested in subscriptions for your website, or already run…

Learning WordPress development and how employers should look at candidates — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

November 7, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about how they learned WordPress development, how we think employers should look at skill hiring, and resources for learning.

Financial Review profiled Envato, and in…

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

Financial Review profiled Envato, and in the profile disclosed their revenue and profit margins. Their pre-tax profits last year were $33 million (USD) on $73 million in revenue; the profit margin is listed as double what they made in 2014.…

The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce…

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

The new CRUD classes in WooCommerce will be a huge help for moving the plugin forward. In the future, Woo will deprecate existing methods for grabbing data the traditional WordPress way, in favor of very specific WooCommerce-centric functions, so that…

Modern Tribe has released Event Aggregator, an…

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

Modern Tribe has released Event Aggregator, an add-on to The Events Calendar that imports events using feeds from Facebook, Meetup, Google Calendar, iCalendar, CSV, and ICS. I think this is a big release for that plugin. This new SaaS component of their…

WordPress 4.7 is officially in beta…

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

WordPress 4.7 is officially in beta and there is a lot happening in the new release of WordPress. You should check it out and get testing if you aren't already. I'll have a much more thorough overview of the release…

Matt Mullenweg’s stand for the GPL against Wix

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

You've probably heard about as much as you want to hear regarding Wix and the GPL issues surrounding their mobile app release by now. However, I want to help sift through the noise. First, some links: Matt Mullenweg's open letter…

Publish presentation announcements

Brian Krogsgard

November 1, 2016

BusinessHosting

I'm really excited to finally announce the Post Status Publish presenters. There are twelve awesome folks (plus me) ready to share their knowledge with you. I have already said that I wanted to make Publish feel like the hallway track,…