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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…

HTTPS everywhere is getting close to reality

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Google has been pushing HTTPS harder than anyone. They haven't been alone -- not by a long shot -- but they are making the most aggressive moves to push the web to full encryption. Their latest move is the biggest,…

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Eric Barnes — creator of Laravel News…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Eric Barnes -- creator of Laravel News -- posts how he uses WordPress as a backend for his Laravel application. He rebuilt the Laravel News site using WordPress as his publishing interface. This is precisely the kind of thing that I'd love to…

David A. Kennedy reports that ThemeShaper…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

David A. Kennedy reports that ThemeShaper has created a, "new set of requirements for all themes on WordPress.com to follow, geared toward making themes easier for people to set up and use." The list also makes theme switching a better…

I’ve been staring at Postleaf a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

I've been staring at Postleaf a good bit recently, since Sonya Mann sent me the link. It's a new and open source PHP and MySQL blogging platform that uses handlebar templates, and it's quite pretty.

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Gary Jones and Weston Ruter have recently updated the PHP_CodeSniffer rules that enforce WordPress coding conventions. PHP_CodeSniffer is a set of two PHP scripts: one "tokenizes PHP, JavaScript and CSS files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards," and…

Simple Regex Language (SRL) looks refreshing…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Simple Regex Language (SRL) looks refreshing with its much cleaner syntax. If you're already using PHP 7, you can require SRL with Composer and use it easily.

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Hosting

Dennis Cooper, whose Blogger-hosted site received attention recently after being disabled without warning, is now back online and on WordPress. A 10 year old blog post was what brought down the site. This is rightly being used as a prime example of why…

Congrats to everyone on the WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Congrats to everyone on the WordPress plugin team for their hard work updating the WordPress.org plugin repository guidelines. Mika Epstein's post in the Make WordPress blog has a little bit of background on how this came together.

AudioIgniter is an audio player plugin…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

AudioIgniter is an audio player plugin for your WordPress site, powered by React. The demos are pretty nice and there's a free version of the plugin that could be worth exploring the code.

Accessibility is important, but still “a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Accessibility is important, but still "a mess." That's how Mischa Andrews starts off her post, and then goes into her thoughts on how to correct the course. I agree with her about the point on accountably; a general lack of…

These are some handy UI/UX tips…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

These are some handy UI/UX tips if you are building a website, app, or product that can be used offline.

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

I found Eric Holscher thoughts on funding open source with marketing money to be insightful. Eric is involved in Read The Docs, a community supported site that hosts documentation for projects, and he relates how he is building an advertising…

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue.…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

Jason Zimdars believes sometimes not shipping is a virtue. He goes into how one Basecamp features he designed never actually made it into the product, and what he learned from it. This quote is so good: Every feature has hidden costs. Some are…

If you’ve ever been interested in…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

If you've ever been interested in AppPresser, then you might like this piece from John Hawkins detailing how he used it for the HotBookDeals app, which launched on iOS recently.