WordPress News

If you have any clients that…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

If you have any clients that might run into something funky (or perhaps a bug) since upgrading to WordPress 4.6, then you might want to refer to this "Read First" post prior to raising alarm. This post is primarily for the WordPress…

Here’s a pretty comprehensive guide to…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Here's a pretty comprehensive guide to font loading strategies from Zach Leatherman.

Libscore scans the top million sites…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Libscore scans the top million sites on the web to collect stats on JavaScript library usage. It has been around for a while, and this article goes into more how it works. You can dig into individual scripts, like for…

When you’re young and in the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

When you're young and in the web development field, you are prepared to work extremely long hours. But all developers, young and not so young, should consider these guidelines for your daily life. Being a great developer is a worthy goal,…

Speaking of podcasts, a recent episode…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Speaking of podcasts, a recent episode from CodePen on the ins-and-outs of providing employees stock and equity is super valuable and informative, no matter whether you are on the employer or employee side of the equation.

PayPal is still king of the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Business

PayPal is still king of the hill as a merchant provider. Jean Galea (from WP Mayor) has written this article to help you decide whether you should open a separate business account for each of your brands or products, or…

The WordPress.com REST API now includes…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

The WordPress.com REST API now includes improved support for custom taxonomies. This includes a handful of new endpoints and enhancements to existing endpoints. So you can retrieve a single term or list of terms for a site, create or update…

Automattic announced that all Simple note clients…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Automattic announced that all Simple note clients (iOS, Android, and macOS Apps) are now open source under the GPLv2 license. As you might recall, Simplenote was acquired by Automattic in 2013. I'm a big fan of Simplenote and use it every…

The pluginkollektiv team is looking for…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

The pluginkollektiv team is looking for people to help out with supporting, maintaining and developing plugins such as Antispam Bee, AntiVirus, Cachify, Statify and Crazy Lazy. Some of these plugins have impressive install bases (Antispam Bee has 200,000+ installs and…

WPComplete is a new WordPress plugin…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

WPComplete is a new WordPress plugin that allows subscribers/students mark pages as read, and helps them keep track of progress through a course or membership site. The plugin comes from Paul Jarvis and Zack Gilbert, and includes a commercial version as…

This trac ticket by John James Jacoby proposes…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

This trac ticket by John James Jacoby proposes to make wp-settings.php a series of action calls instead of being, "a mishmash of globals, function calls, class instantiations, and do_action() calls". The proposal makes sense to me, particularly for the reasons John spells out…

If you wanted to improve the…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

If you wanted to improve the accessibility of your website but haven't found the time to dive too deeply into the provided information from those in the community, give Rachel Carden's recently released Wa11y plugin a try. The plugin is…

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

Aaron Jorbin shares his WordCamp personas technique he used for WordCamp US last year. Personas are regularly used in web design to make sure that you are solving your users problems, and not your own.

“If you’ve not been paying attention…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

"If you've not been paying attention to Restrict Content Pro you should start." These words start Chris Lema's latest blog post, and if you are looking for a membership plugin, you'll be interested in the renewed effort and transformation Pippin…

Currently the WordPress customizer provides media…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Currently the WordPress customizer provides media controls that only allow one image to be selected. If multiple images are needed, each one of them would need to have a separate control and setting created statically. The Customize Image Gallery Control…

If you use Ninja Forms, then…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

If you use Ninja Forms, then you might want to make sure you are updated to the latest version due to a recently discovered SQL Injection Vulnerability.