WordPress News

VersionPress, which does Git version control…

April 8, 2016

VersionPress, which does Git version control for WordPress, has gone fully Open Source. Borek Bernard documents the history of the plugin and what the new direction means for VersionPress's development, including the release of a beta of VersionPress 3.0. I'm…

The aftermath of the Panama Papers…

April 8, 2016

Security

The aftermath of the Panama Papers is going to be happening for a long time, but a few sources that are trying to figure how exactly the link happened have been recently mentioning a three-year old install of Drupal. A…

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report…

April 8, 2016

WordPress Community

The WordPress Community Team quarterly report is out, and reports 4,500 tickets from 9 WordCamps (with Miami topping the list with 1300+ tickets). Andrea reports that WordCamp applications coming in at an average rate of 13 per month -- and…

Medium is releasing “Medium for Publishers”…

April 8, 2016

Hosting

Medium is releasing "Medium for Publishers" which provides publishers a "free CMS", a standalone URL, ability to host promoted posts, and paid memberships functionality. It's being branded by some as a WordPress competitor, which is ridiculous. With Medium, you are still…

If you need a guided tour…

April 8, 2016

If you need a guided tour through WP_Query (or perhaps you know a developer new to WordPress coding) then Carl Alexander has a well laid out walkthrough of it here.

AffiliateWP just turned two years old. Pippin…

April 8, 2016

AffiliateWP just turned two years old. Pippin reflects on it's history, along with some revenue numbers and lessons learned along the way. AffiliateWP is now regularly surpassing $30,000 in revenue, but as Pippin mentions in the post, not everything has been rainbows…

We use Slack at Post Status,…

April 8, 2016

We use Slack at Post Status, and while I love it, it isn't perfect. I am regularly impressed with their enhancements, updates, and even their changelogs. So I'm happy to see their recently published platform roadmap. It's a quick read. I especially like…

When it comes to eCommerce, mobile…

April 8, 2016

When it comes to eCommerce, mobile usually doesn't do as well as desktop when it comes to conversions. Part of the reason is the checkout experience. This is how Scott Bolinger's post on making WooCommerce checkout better starts, and then…

Here’s a very detailed look from Aaron…

April 8, 2016

Here's a very detailed look from Aaron Orendorff on what you can do to make your landing page more effective and keep visitors coming back to your site.

1.4 million WordPress.com custom domains have just gone fully SSL

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2016

WordPress.com makes up for a huge number of LetsEncrypt's total SSL certificates. This morning, Automattic flipped the switch on enabling LetsEncrypt certificates for 1.4 custom domains on the platform. They had already enabled SSL on all WordPress.com subdomains, but this…

Early takeaways from WooConf

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2016

I'm at WooConf right now, watching my friend Daniel present on using the WooCommerce REST API. I have a few takeaways from this conference so far that I thought would be fun to share. This conference is extremely well produced.…

The WordPress REST API endpoints aim for stable 2.0

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2016

Ryan McCue has posted an update on Make WordPress Core that aims to bring the WordPress REST API plugin to a stable 2.0 version, which would be an official sign of enforcing non-breaking changes from then on. The team has…

WordPress Questions & Answers — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2016

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian answer listeners' WordPress questions, from topics like Multisite, to understanding taxonomies versus posts, the state of the WordPress importer, and more.

Here’s an interesting post from Damir…

March 31, 2016

Here's an interesting post from Damir Kotorić going "behind the scenes" at Envato, covering how they have tackled user testing, redesigns, and their workflow. Regardless of one's feelings about certain ThemeForest items, it provides fascinating insight to a company that is…

Recently, HappyTables posted this photo on Instagram…

March 31, 2016

Recently, HappyTables posted this photo on Instagram showing off a company that is using it's new revised functionality. They are shifting the product form being about a website builder to being an API connector of sorts. It's really neat, and I…

Matt Geri gives some insightful thoughts…

March 31, 2016

Matt Geri gives some insightful thoughts on why WordPress coding standards are important. He includes tips on how to implement automated checking with the WPCS project and the WP-Dev-Lib library, and even provides videos for both.