WordPress News

Take a trip down memory lane…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Take a trip down memory lane (assuming you are actually old enough) to “web 1.0”, the very early days of the web… it was a terrifying and in some ways glorious time. Really though, I laughed throughout while reading this.…

How can you do more with…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

How can you do more with less code? That’s a question that developers constantly think about, and Itamar Turner-Trauring has an interesting article that covers high-level concepts that a developer can apply, such as: “Your goal as programmer is not to…

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

HostingSecurity

iThemes Security Pro introduces a new feature – WordPress version management. This feature automatically updates your site to new versions of WordPress, along with themes and plugins, and has the ability to, “scan for other out of date WordPress sites,” on…

Igor Benic writes how to create…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Igor Benic writes how to create a WordPress login plugin with React. I haven't tried it, but it looks like a fun experiment.

Scott Taylor has proposed adding a composer.json…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Scott Taylor has proposed adding a composer.json file to WordPress. The changeset states, “this first step will hopefully encourage the perfectionists of our world to scrutinize each line.”

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data analysis, and as another marketing opportunity for the new TLD. Data for Breakfast will feature posts about our data stack, trends in WordPress.com usage, and whatever currently tickles our data fancy. We’re data scientists…

Margaret Gould Stewart discusses the importance of…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Margaret Gould Stewart discusses the importance of delegation, and how team members need the space to fail in the short term to allow them to succeed and grow in the long term.

Pantsuit is the name of Hillary…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Pantsuit is the name of Hillary Clinton's UI pattern library, and it might be the best name of anything ever. Mina Markham describes their team's process and links out to several good resources.

In case you haven’t heard, it…

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

In case you haven’t heard, it was recently reported and confirmed by Dropbox that the service was hacked back in 2012. Troy Hunt gives us a closer look at the hack, and from that post I learned about Have I…

Jetpack 4.3 to include React-based settings, further integrated marketing

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Jetpack 4.3 Beta was announced today, and includes a new React-driven interface, as well as more integrated marketing pitches for the WordPress.com apps and paid upgrades. The new interface is an improvement, but there are several changes functionally. One I noticed…

Testing hosted eCommerce, with Pippin Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

I spoke to Pippin Williamson for the Post Status podcast, and in the podcast proper (which will come out soon), we discussed the revival of Restrict Content Pro. It was a lot of fun, and we talked about why he…

ButterBean is a new drop-in custom fields suite by Justin Tadlock

Brian Krogsgard

August 31, 2016

Justin Tadlock has released ButterBean, the custom fields drop-in he's been working on for some time. I'm quite drawn to the UI he's created, and that it's been developed completely in JavaScript, using bundled WordPress Backbone.js and Underscore.js. ButterBean supports…

Mobile apps that work with WordPress — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

August 30, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about various third party publishing apps available and how they work with WordPress.

Catalin Rosu and a team looked…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Catalin Rosu and a team looked at the source code and markup of 8 million websites and came up with some interesting statistics as a result. All the information is in the form of charts so you’ll have to check…

Speaking of analyzing websites, Datanyze recently…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

Speaking of analyzing websites, Datanyze recently released some interesting facts on data collected from 45 million websites and mobile apps. A fact you find most interesting perhaps: “Only 22% of YC [Y Combinator] sites use a third party CMS. Of those, 83%…

The Awesome Motive team (the same…

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2016

The Awesome Motive team (the same people behind Envira Gallery, OptinMonster, and other plugins) created SupportAlly – a page meant to give tech support teams better ways to confirm a client’s web environment (browser, etc) and thereby able to provide better support.…