WordPress News

If you use ElasticPress or know…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

If you use ElasticPress or know someone that does, check out Taylor Lovett's ElasticPress extension to Debug Bar. Also here's an ElasticPress cheatsheet, which might come in handy. Joe and I spent a good bit of time discussing Elasticsearch (and…

WP Encrypt is a new WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

WP Encrypt is a new WordPress plugin that generates and manage Let's Encrypt SSL certificates for your WordPress sites. Let's Encrypt is far easier than normally setting up SSL, but the certificates are valid for 90 days and need constant…

Many of my peers (especially developers)…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Many of my peers (especially developers) have at least one browser extension installed, but as this post illustrates many are unaware of the potential dangers in the form of malware. There are limits to the damage, but there's little protection…

Tom MacFarlin offers some tips on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Tom MacFarlin offers some tips on how to bootstrap JavaScript files in WordPress.

Chris Coyier shows a clever method…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Chris Coyier shows a clever method on how to build full width containers in limited width parents in CSS.

Vova Feldman announced the creation of…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Vova Feldman announced the creation of a, "home for open-source frameworks for WordPress plugins and themes," at IncludeWP. Vova describes it as "leaderboard... A one-stop-shop for developers to evaluate what’s currently out there in the market."

I constantly get asked about which…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

I constantly get asked about which WordPress theme shops I recommend. While I haven't tried all of the ones Sami Keijonen has shared, most of the ones I recommend are on his list.

According to a new SMB Trust…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

According to a new SMB Trust Index, WordPress is "the most trusted brand for small businesses" with a Net Promoter Score of 50 in Q2 2016. The sampling to determine wasn't large but at least it's evidence that some small…

Jordan Staniscia declares using hover for…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Jordan Staniscia declares using hover for key functionality on websites is "dead" thanks to the onslaught of touch-sensitive "laptops" like the Microsoft Surface. Personally I think the trend he talks about in the post has been going on much longer,…

WP Site Care recently did an…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

WP Site Care recently did an experiment where they gave users specific tasks to do on three content management systems (WordPress, Wix, and Squarespace) and timed them to see how long it took. Additionally, they have videos of every single session.…

A bit of additional WooCommerce news:…

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Business

A bit of additional WooCommerce news: Joel Bronkowski, one of the top leaders within WooCommerce -- technically as director of business development -- and mostly dealt with third party partnerships, has decided to leave Automattic. Surprisingly (to me at least),…

WordPress contributions over time

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

After Aaron Jorbin shared a graph of new contributors per release, I gave him some homework to dig further into that data, and he has of course delivered. He looked back all the way to WordPress 3.2 (five years ago…

WordPress 4.6 release candidate, field guide

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

WordPress 4.6 is now in its first release candidate stage. That means that the beta period is over, and though the team thinks they are, "done, with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible we’ve missed something."…

Square for WooCommerce is a big deal for retail operations

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2016

Most Saturdays in my small hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, there's a farmers market at Pepper Place (obligatory photos link). Almost every single one of these little shops started taking credit cards in the last few years, after many years of only…

Scaling WordPress — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

July 29, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk scaling WordPress, and what to do when you think you might’ve reached WordPress’s limits.

Pantheon has raised $29 million to…

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2016

Hosting

Pantheon has raised $29 million to invest more into their WordPress and Drupal hosting platform, with a Series C round, totaling $57 million to date. As is noted in the article, and said to me by a Pantheon employee, they…