WordPress News

Jonathan Christopher linked CSSNano in Slack…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Jonathan Christopher linked CSSNano in Slack today. According to the website, it "takes your nicely formatted CSS and runs it through many focused optimisations, to ensure that the final result is as small as possible for a production environment." It…

What is a WordPress theme anyway? — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 19, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress themes, the functionality people put into them, and the challenges that face the WordPress ecosystem with the current state of theming.

ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

September 14, 2016

HostingSecurity

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He's just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition…

Envato is moving to author driven pricing for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2016

Envato is extending their Author Driven Pricing (ADP) program to WordPress themes on ThemeForest and plugins on CodeCanyon next week. Since inception, Envato has established pricing for the items on their marketplace. They would categorize the theme or plugin and establish…

Carrie Dils should not have had…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Carrie Dils should not have had to write this post about being a decent human being, but she did, and I'm glad she did. Her post is in response to the nonsensical reactions to the GoDaddy ManageWP acquisition.

There’s a reworking of action and…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

There's a reworking of action and filter iterations coming to WordPress 4.7 and Gary Pendergast covers them in this update on the Make WordPress Core site. If you have been using actions and filters "the WordPress way," then you shouldn't…

I enjoy behind the scenes looks…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

I enjoy behind the scenes looks into design processes, so I thought Roscoe Tsalacopoulos tale on how the latest Envato blog was designed was fun. He had eight days to complete the design.

More design fun: I love duotone,…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Design

More design fun: I love duotone, and Sean Hervo discusses its role in web design. And if you like it too, Brody at AudioTheme has a post on how to do it, which I've noted here before, and use myself…

Justin Tadlock is building a repository…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Justin Tadlock is building a repository that will contain examples of using the Customize API for advanced things. He explains: The goal is to provide examples so that theme authors are not bypassing the core API and doing weird things…

Michael Scharnagl shares techniques on how to…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Michael Scharnagl shares techniques on how to minimize content shifting on page load. Reflow, often due to ads on mobile page views, infuriates me every single time.

Troy Hunt explains Subresource Integrity (SRI)…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Troy Hunt explains Subresource Integrity (SRI) using an example of loading jQuery from a third party. SRI enables developers to verify a third party resource is not comprised by comparing it to a known-safe local resource. I've never heard of…

Some special unicorns may want to learn…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Some special unicorns may want to learn how to tackle basic server management tasks, but are unsure how to start. Peter Tasker has written a tutorial for server management beginners using Linode.

Jon Yablonski shares numerous tips and…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Jon Yablonski shares numerous tips and suggestions regarding web performance optimization for designers.

I’ve never actually seen WP Engine…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

I've never actually seen WP Engine referenced as a $100 million dollar revenue company before, but Jason Cohen did so last night.

Sponsoring open source

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Dries Buytaert wrote a post analyzing the contributions to Drupal, and who sponsored them. Despite the large number of individual contributors, a relatively small number do the majority of the work. Approximately 51% of the contributors involved got just one…

The open web’s challenge

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

I missed this article when it was first published, but Zack Rosen has a great post on the open web over at TechCrunch. Zack is the CEO of Pantheon, a web host specializing in Drupal and WordPress sites. He says, “the open web is…