WordPress News

WordPress 4.6 to be a release for refinement

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2016

WordPress 4.6 is officially underway, and release lead Dominik Schilling announced in the weekly chat that the goal of this release is to fix as many longstanding bugs as possible, and to refine existing features, rather than to focus on…

WordPress 4.5 — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

April 16, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian talk about the release and features of WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”. They also discuss the earliest stages of WordPress 4.6 -- no rest for the wicked.

WPLift is for sale, and with…

April 15, 2016

WPLift is for sale, and with 12 days remaining, the bidding is at $95,000. That's already about $20,000 more than the last twelve months of revenue for the site. Most of the revenue is from affiliates, but he has a…

Pippin Williamson’s post about hardships and…

April 15, 2016

Pippin Williamson's post about hardships and victories on four years of running Easy Digital Downloads is just perfect. Must read.

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked…

April 15, 2016

Business

Weekend listening: The A16Z podcast talked about open source business models in a short episode the other day. Automattic isn't mentioned, but the conversation around investing in community influencers, winning over developers, and building out a sales team is pretty…

The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for…

April 15, 2016

The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for the Customizer is being formed, and here's a sneak peak. Features being considered are basic content authorship in the Customizer and Customizer Transactions, which would allow revisions to changes in the Customizer, among other perks.…

Daniel Bachhuber reviews some recent changes…

April 15, 2016

Daniel Bachhuber reviews some recent changes to WP-CLI related to the WordPress REST API. I love the lightweight profiling and I know this is going to help out some developers quite a bit.

Here’s a statistic from 10up: WordPress powers…

April 15, 2016

Here's a statistic from 10up: WordPress powers at least 1 of every 7 Webby nominees in the "General Websites" and "Website Features and Design" primary categories. I'm not surprised, and honestly thought it might be more, but I forget sometimes the…

This post on moving from Squarespace…

April 15, 2016

This post on moving from Squarespace to WordPress reveals a few interesting tidbits that were new to me. Apparently Squarespace makes changes to the photos you upload (renaming and even disabling search engine optimization, according to Scott Kivowitz). Yikes. Scott…

WordPress Global Translation Day is a…

April 15, 2016

WordPress Global Translation Day is a full day (Sunday, April 24) of live training sessions on WordPress i18n & L10n. If you know of WordSesh, think of it as that but devoted to translations. If you have any interest in…

Bridget Willard reviews what qualities might…

April 15, 2016

Bridget Willard reviews what qualities might make a plugin feel and work better than the norm. She uses a restaurant analogy to drive the points home. The owner of a web company I used to work for loved restaurant analogies, so this made…

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally…

April 15, 2016

Hosting

You might have heard the story of how someone accidentally deleted his entire hosting customers' websites (1500+ customers). Last night I accidentally ran, on all servers, a Bash script with a rm -rf {foo}/{bar} with those variables undefined due to a bug in the…

Threaded messages are apparently coming to Slack.…

April 15, 2016

Threaded messages are apparently coming to Slack. When I saw this, I tweeted that while trying to replace email, Slack is becoming more like it. I'm personally more excited about the recent release of reminders.

Shared hosting is hard, and EIG owns a lot of shared hosting companies

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

Hosting

Chris Lema recently shared his opinion on some hosting companies to avoid. Spoiler: generally he doesn't care for hosting companies owned by EIG. You've probably never even heard of many of the companies in the list -- though you've probably all heard of…

WordPress 4.6 wishlist

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

No rest for the wicked. WordPress 4.6 development is officially underway. To start, 4.6 Release Lead Dominik Schilling (you may better know him as Ocean90) has followed the recent trend of opening up Make Core for an ideas "wishlist". There…

Yoast Google Analytics plugin acquired by Awesome Motive

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2016

AwesomeMotive -- the company lead by Syed Balkhi -- has acquired Yoast's Google Analytics plugin, which boasts over one million active installs of the free plugin, plus a commercial version that was generating revenue that was at least low six…