WordPress News

Google has recently released an open-source…

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Google has recently released an open-source font system called Noto. It covers more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters. It was designed with the intent to get rid of what they call "tofu", or the little squares indicating a character isn't…

SiteGround expands remote support with 32 former Site5 team members

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Hosting

SiteGround's team has been almost exclusively based out of their offices in Bulgaria until now. Lilyana Yakimova announced on their blog that they have hired 32 former support personnel from Site5, employees whom hail from 10 countries, including the United States. Site5…

Why grow a service agency?

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2016

Business

Shane Pearlman is a partner and the CEO of Modern Tribe. In his ManageWP AMA, Ahmad Awais asked him a great question, and I really enjoyed his answer. Ahmad has observed that it's difficult to advance in the WordPress economy…

WordPress REST API content endpoints proposed for core

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2016

Readers know that the WordPress REST API has had a lot of activity this release cycle. There has been a concerted effort to get the API ready for a core merge in 4.7. The release isn't slated until December, but…

Custom bulk actions, coming in WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Custom bulk actions, coming in WordPress 4.7, look really awesome. I can see a great deal of practical use cases for hooking into WordPress list tables to take advantage of this feature. Eric Andrew Lewis shows how to use them…

Theme Juice is a Mac desktop…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Theme Juice is a Mac desktop app that, "enables you to create, manage and deploy local WordPress development projects." I actually mentioned this product in March, and hated on its name then, but really it is bad. I was reminded…

IndieHackers is a cool website that…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

IndieHackers is a cool website that profiles... wait for it... indie hackers. Park.io is an awesome story, and that dude is leaving the dream, making over $1 million per year on a solo-run business.

While talking to Barry Kooij about…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

While talking to Barry Kooij about how he sells his products, I discovered that he and Mike Jolley worked together to make LicenseWP, an alternative licensing plugin to WooCommerce's official Software Add-on. It has a couple advantages, one of which is…

It is proposal season on Make…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

It is proposal season on Make Core. Three proposals are interesting to explore further: Notifications API: proposed by John Blackbourn, a notifications API would enable developers to hook into WordPress email notifications to change the notification venue (to Slack, etc)…

Adrian Spiac shares a detailed post…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Adrian Spiac shares a detailed post on how Cozmoslabs created a $4,000 per month membership product. "Build something people asked for, repeatedly." That can be dangerous advice sometimes, but in this case it paid off.

When not running iThemes, Cory Miller…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

When not running iThemes, Cory Miller is the President of The Div, an organization that helps folks learn the web. The Div is teaming up with Code.org to help folks in Oklahoma learn computer science.

I wish I wrote this post…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

I wish I wrote this post by Nick Hamze. He highlights the dangers of control, using the WooCommerce Storefront theme Powerpack addon as an example. Plugins like that exist as it is assumed that people want total control over their…

Jose Aguinaga shares how it feels…

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Jose Aguinaga shares how it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016. I think everyone agrees, but hey, it's 2016! On the same blog, Liz Bennett shared why learning Angular 2 was an excruciating experience. Food for thought. Sometimes WordPress's philosophies…

WPtouch — the mobile WordPress theme company — wants $1.39 million

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

WPtouch is a mostly pointless product. Well, it's not pointless for everyone, but it the base version of the product gets more and more pointless every year. Yet, they are still making $730,000+ in revenue per year. The product is also…

Loopconf postponed indefinitely

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2016

Business

Force majeure is a term that you don't pay too much attention to in contracts until it matters. It means "superior force" in Latin, and typically refers to uncontrollable events like natural disasters, that prevent something in the contract from happening…