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Thomas Maier related lessons learned based…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Thomas Maier related lessons learned based on his experience with his own plugin: Advanced Ads. Thomas relates how "Most WordPress users are not tech-savvy. However, I’ve learned that they are eager to try." Thomas also relates how to handle negative…

Tom McFarlin reminded me recently about…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Tom McFarlin reminded me recently about a site that shows how you could write Git commit messages and why it matters. I'm guilty of this at times, when I have to fight against being a little lazy in my messages, especially…

If you wanted to hear more…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

If you wanted to hear more about Automattic's upcoming launch of the .blog top level domain, then check out Matt Mullenweg's recent interview with Domain Name News on their latest podcast. The importance of domain names in the area of…

Ashley Rich over at Delicious Brains…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Ashley Rich over at Delicious Brains relates some lessons learned from building WP Scanner, a WordPress-centric web app. The app was built on Laravel with Spark, and there's a WordPress plugin that is installed that communicates with WP Scanner's servers. Ashley…

Topher DeRosia finally relates his own…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Topher DeRosia finally relates his own story on his site, HeroPress. About time! It's as inspiring and insightful as the other previous stories, so give it a read.

No matter how you’re involved in…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

No matter how you're involved in WordPress: When Tony Perez writes about WordPress security, you should probably make sure to read it. Especially if the title of that post is 5 Challenges Plaguing The WordPress Security EcoSystem. I won't cover…

Many of you have probably followed…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Many of you have probably followed Dan Cameron's saga of losing all of his Sprout Invoices plugin reviews on WordPress.org. It's a complex story, and I certainly see both sides. Fortunately for me, Sarah Gooding wrote pretty much a perfect…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

BusinessDesign

After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna, was a massive success

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2016

BusinessPlanet

I was thrilled to take part in WordCamp Europe 2016, held in Vienna. The event was highly successful, and I got to meet many members of the community I hadn't met before. Here are some pictures.

Buffer laid off 10 (of 100)…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Buffer laid off 10 (of 100) employees and made other changes that helped them put $1.5 million back into the bank and help them swing their profits and loss chart back positive. It's a very long read, and so worth…

Here’s a nice writeup from Valet on why…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Here's a nice writeup from Valet on why they (a WordPress agency) went to DrupalCon. There are plenty of things to learn from both Drupal and WordCamp teams, and I wouldn't mind going to a Drupal (or Joomla) conference if the opportunity presented…

Amazon does seemingly everything. Here’s a curated…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Amazon does seemingly everything. Here's a curated list of some great Amazon Web Services (AWS) libraries, open source repos, guides, blogs, and other resources.

A new major version of Gravity Forms…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Security

A new major version of Gravity Forms (2.0) was recently released. It's a substantial milestone with focuses on new features and enhancements, under the hood improvements, the API, their add-on framework, and enhanced security hardening.

Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Also in big-plugin-release-land, Yoast SEO 3.3 includes a whole new tab for content analysis (for pairing with the traditional SEO analysis).

Freemius has a nice interview with…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Freemius has a nice interview with Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser. Scott on products: "It’s not that hard to get people to see your product in the WordPress world....but is it interesting enough to take a second look?" And on commercial theme…

CodeInWP did an analysis of over one…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

CodeInWP did an analysis of over one hundred WordPress theme shops and ranked them, based on their Alexa positions. Alexa isn't the best source for true marketplace benchmarks (Syed Balkhi shared why a couple years ago), but it is at least within the…