WordPress News

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…

Ahmad Awais made a nice looking…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Ahmad Awais made a nice looking Sublime package for working with the WordPress Customizer.

This change in WP CLI means…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

This change in WP CLI means that the popular utility won't have to maintain a fork of WordPress settings code anymore, and therefore shouldn't run into the issues they've had before where you always had to be on the latest…

If you’re looking for a non-WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

If you're looking for a non-WordPress podcast, add CodePen Radio to your list. This particular show involves the three founders of CodePen answering a Twitter question from Brian Krogsgard (Who is that guy? Name sounds awfully familiar...) involving how they divide…

PluginTut has just been launched by Matt Medeiros. It’s…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

PluginTut has just been launched by Matt Medeiros. It's the companion tutorials site for his new PluggedIn Radio podcast. Also catch three good Matt Report episodes out: Brad Williams of WDS, Chris Lema on life after Crowd Favorite, and Daan Tol on his $205,000 acquisition of…

Joseph Lichterman writes about The Pew…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Joseph Lichterman writes about The Pew Research Center's annual State of the News Media report. Quick highlights: Nearly half of American adults now get news from Facebook. Daily newspaper circulation fell 7 percent from 2014 to 2015, and newspaper ad…

Facebook is wrong, text is deathless.…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Facebook is wrong, text is deathless. There's a title that sucks you in, especially considering it's an article authored by Jason Kottke. It's a wonderful piece on why a quote from a Facebook representative is and will ever be so, so…

Setting a web performance budget helps…

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

Design

Setting a web performance budget helps affect site performance; they are values you set that should not be exceeded in the design and development of a site. Brian Jackson shows what's involved in putting one together.

Four questions with Andy Wilkerson, on his UpThemes purchase

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2016

BusinessDesign

I did an email based interview with Andy Wilkerson -- owner of Parallelus and acquirer of UpThemes -- to learn more about the decision to purchase the small theme shop. Here it is (I added links where it helps): Why…

How WordPress news happens — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

June 15, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Sarah and Brian discuss how they do WordPress news, manage working remotely, and handle family life.

The new Google Fonts page is…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

The new Google Fonts page is wonderful. You can decide whether you want the preview to be in paragraph form, display, set custom text and size, and apply it across the grid of fonts you're viewing. It's so, so, so…

I love this point from Una Kravets…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

I love this point from Una Kravets regarding accessibility: Accessibility is not just about morals and making the web usable to a small group of citizens. It’s about making the web usable to the masses. Using proper markup, clear vocabulary, legible…

WordExpress is an open-source experiment by Ramsay…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

WordExpress is an open-source experiment by Ramsay Lanier that "aims to provide a better development experience" in WordPress using Javascript instead of PHP. It is a Node.js application using Express on the back end and React components on the template, and…

In case you missed the last…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

In case you missed the last WooConference or perhaps want to revisit a talk, all the conference talks have been posted.

I stumbled on this nice list…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

I stumbled on this nice list of CSS tips that might come in handy.

Yevgeniy Brikmanhas has an enlightening post…

Brian Krogsgard

June 14, 2016

Yevgeniy Brikmanhas has an enlightening post on why the "best" companies and developers give away, "almost everything they do." If you have been in the WordPress community beyond a brief amount of time, you'll get the correct impression that many…