WordPress News

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Ben Gillbanks tells us why he didn't use WordPress to build his WordPress themes site. I feel spending too much time in the WordPress bubble can be bad. I’m not going to grow as a developer if I don’t try…

Stig Morten Mire, of Campaign Monitor,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Stig Morten Mire, of Campaign Monitor, shares a super helpful step-by-step guide for coding mobile-first emails. Styling emails is a nightmare, but considering I'm working on exactly that right now, I enjoyed this post.

Daniel Bachhuber’s blog post on open Source,…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Business

Daniel Bachhuber's blog post on open Source, and why "you're doing it wrong" continues to espouse his views on contributing to open source and what it means for your profitability as a developer. "If you think open source is building your business on…

Aaron Jorbin released a graph showing…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Aaron Jorbin released a graph showing new WordPress contributors per release. It's a significant percentage of overall contributors per release, and it makes me wonder how many folks stick around for contribution number two after their first. I think Aaron has…

If you are a user of…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

If you are a user of Dropbox or a fan of image compression technology you might find this interesting: Dropbox has open sourced Lepton, their new streaming image compression format. Lepton achieves a 22% savings reduction for existing JPEG images…

Michael Mifsud writes about how HTTP/2…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Michael Mifsud writes about how HTTP/2 might not be a magic bullet for performance improvement. He relates his particular use case over at 99designs for image-heavy pages. His post makes for an interesting engineering study, but I think it fails to put all…

Joost de Valk was interviewed on…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Joost de Valk was interviewed on the Marketing Nerds podcast, talking about SEO (shocker!) and WordPress plugins. The podcast is only 30 minutes long, so it's a quick investment. I rarely get to hear Joost on any podcast, so I…

David Bisset has a review of…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

David Bisset has a review of the first WPCampus -- a conference that focused on WordPress in higher education. It appears to have been a success, and they are already starting to talk about another event in 2017. It's nice to have…

Many developers think of themselves as…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Many developers think of themselves as perfectionists. It's always worth a reminder, as Matthew Jones offers in a recent article, "that code is never perfect, only good enough."

Wes Bos is a developer and…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Wes Bos is a developer and a gifted teacher. I haven't finished it yet, but what I've watched (and built!) using React For Beginners, I've really enjoyed. Now he's launched core JavaScript skills and ES6. I picked it up today (the last day…

All of us use the web…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

All of us use the web so much each day, but I wonder how many know about the history of the URL itself? After reading Zack Bloom's post about the history of the paths and queries in URLs, I certainly…

GenerateWP has a added a WP_Site_Query…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

GenerateWP has a added a WP_Site_Query Generator to create code for the new WordPress class.

Rachel Baker announced that comments in…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

Rachel Baker announced that comments in WordPress 4.6 can now be cached by a persistent object cache. If you have a plugin which modifies comment data directly, she advises you make code adjustments to make use of the various comment API…

There’s an interesting WP Chat conversation…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

There's an interesting WP Chat conversation underway, thanks to an anonymous ThemeForest author that claims to have a very profitable theme shop, and wants to know the best way to sell it.

I was privileged to join my…

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

I was privileged to join my friend Bob Dunn on his Do The Woo podcast, the only podcast always about WooCommerce that I know of. Subscribe to his show!

A Week of REST scholarships and schedule; A Day of REST date change

Brian Krogsgard

July 20, 2016

If you've been following along with A ____ of REST, then you'll want to pay attention to updates and changes for both A Week of REST (being held in the UK) and A Day of REST (being held in Boston).…