WordPress News

Congratulations to Ninja Forms for their major…

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Congratulations to Ninja Forms for their major release, version 3 (they annoyingly but cleverly named it "THREE" in all caps). It's a complete rewrite of the interface and codebase, built with Backbone, Underscore, and Marionette, along with using an interesting front-end templating system.…

Statistics on search within WordPress plugin directory

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

One of the things I said was important in my WordSesh talk on the future of WordPress was better access to WordPress.org data. Well, Greg Ichneumon Brown has posted a gold mine in an update regarding the new WordPress plugin…

WordPress support forums wrapping up migration

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Design

The WordPress support forums are wrapping up a migration and upgrade to bbPress 2.x. They have long been on old forum software and the migration was much needed. It has caused planned partial downtime for several days, but with something…

Renewed push for WordPress REST API content endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

September 7, 2016

Security

There's a renewed push going on right now to try and get what is being termed "content endpoints" into WordPress core with the 4.7 release -- which is being led by Helen Hou-Sandí of 10up. In the first core development…

Rejuvenating old software products, with Pippin Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2016

BusinessDraft

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian talks to Pippin Williamson, and they examine the efforts he and his team have made while breathing new life into Restrict Content Pro.

GoDaddy has acquired ManageWP

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2016

BusinessHosting

GoDaddy has acquired the WordPress website management service, ManageWP. ManageWP will remain a standalone app, and GoDaddy will integrate several features into their GoDaddy Pro and WordPress hosting plans.

Google announced recently that they will…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Google announced recently that they will punish “intrusive interstitials” with a ranking penalty in 2017. The article attempts to define what “intrusive” means in this context. When this news broke, many in the WordPress world turned attention to plugin authors…

Bryce Adams recently left Automattic, and…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Bryce Adams recently left Automattic, and today revealed that his first entrepreneurial project is Metorik, a WooCommerce analytics tool. Pippin and I talked about how needed this is in our podcast, so I was thrilled today to see someone so…

John Saito, a designer from Dropbox,…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

John Saito, a designer from Dropbox, has seven tips for “designing words”. The advice is consistent with everything I've ever read about writing well, and always reminds me that I'm a terrible writer. It applies to writing generally, but is directed…

Sacha Greif’s shares the interesting results of…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Sacha Greif’s shares the interesting results of his State of Javascript survey. React has the highest satisfaction rating -- 92% would work with it again -- and Backbone (which WordPress core uses) has the lowest -- only 32% would use it again.…

A new WP-CLI command allows you to login…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

A new WP-CLI command allows you to login as other users on your WordPress site quickly, without passwords. Evan Mattson has a screencast here showing how it works.

Daniel Bachhuber has released his first…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Daniel Bachhuber has released his first paid WP-CLI add-on, called wp profile, which, "monitors key performance indicators of the WordPress execution process to help you quickly identify points of slowness." It's $49 for early access.

WebPageTest is an open source performance…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

WebPageTest is an open source performance testing tool, maintained primarily by Google. Developers can use to extract vital information you can use to optimize the performance of a site. A well-written article on CSS-Tricks from Eduardo BouÇas shows how you can…

Lori McLeese, the HR Lead at…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Lori McLeese, the HR Lead at Automattic for the past five years, shares her wisdom on vacation policies. Automattic's earned sabbatical policy is perhaps their greatest benefit; it's really amazing. However, I'm personally a fan of "minimum" vacation policies versus open ones…

Let’s go to podcast corner: HowIBuiltIt…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Let's go to podcast corner: HowIBuiltIt is a new podcast from Joe Casabona who interviews product owners and developers to see how they built specific products. The first official episode is with Jason Coleman, creator of Paid Memberships Pro. I recorded an episode…