Rachel Vasquez has written a nice…
Rachel Vasquez has written a nice post on things she's learned while at 10up. If you're a developer, might be worth to at least glance at this list if nothing else but to get a glance what development in a…
WordCamp Central has made public some…
WordCamp Central has made public some statistics of WordCamps that occurred in 2015. Among the highlights: WordCamps were held in 34 different countries with over 600 organizers (nearly half of those first time organizers) and over unique 1670 speakers. This…
Developers looking to up their control…
Developers looking to up their control and productivity in their local development environments might want to check out Matt Shaw's post on ways to speed up WordPress development using tools like WP CLI, custom shell scripts, and Alfred.
This might not be news to…
This might not be news to some, but I recently discovered Automattic has provided some tools for theme builders. Also, they've redesigned Themeshaper again with the nicest Twenty Sixteen child theme I've seen yet.
Bill Erickson and Jared Atchison have recently…
Bill Erickson and Jared Atchison have recently released a plugin called EA Share that leverages the SharedCount.com API to quickly retrieve, cache, and display various social sharing counts. I actually started integrating this plugin for a recent plugin and I can say…
If you ever wanted to know…
If you ever wanted to know what hardware makes a large site like Stack Overflow tick, then this "behind the scenes" look will be of interest. Lots of pictures that I would imagine only an IT person would love. I…
Finding yourself doing a migration of…
Finding yourself doing a migration of CMB to CMB2? You might have something to learn from Mika Epstein's latest adventure. CMB2 has been out a while, and I use it to power a lot of Post Status stuff -- great…
It’s a constant war trying to…
It's a constant war trying to avoid your code looking like a rat's nest. When it comes to nested conditionals, Fred Meyer has some friendly advise and code examples that might help you win more battles in the war.
WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on…
WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on communication, especially when it comes to developers informing their users about the status of their projects. Developers give little thought to how they would handle emergencies -- such a security breach -- until it…
The Telegraph rebuilt their CMS. Here’s…
The Telegraph rebuilt their CMS. Here's an Upworthy headline for you: You'll never believe how bad their old CMS was until you see it (Pics inside!).
Mailtrap looks pretty sweet. Someone…
Mailtrap looks pretty sweet. Someone (sorry can't remember who) sent this to me after I had troubles with my staging domain emailing people.
In a great episode of Shop…
In a great episode of Shop Talk Show, Chris and Dave talk to Hillary Hartley and Maya Binari about 18F and the United States Digital Service. The government (government!) is doing some exciting things with the web and it's probably…
Today is the last day to get a pretty cool Mailchimp course
Brian Krogsgard
So, Post Status is terribly manual. Almost nothing is automated. In seeking to change that, I decided to buy a Mailchimp automation course from Paul Jarvis, called Chimp Essentials. Hat tip to Jenny Beaumont for being the first to recommend…
Restrict Content Pro 2.5 is an all new take on the product
Brian Krogsgard
Restrict Content Pro has been around for a long time, but for a few years it was the third leg on Pippin Williamson and friends' product landscape. It's always been a solid, but limited product. It's still limited, but their…
WordPress 4.5 field guide includes possible action items you should check
Brian Krogsgard
Aaron Jorbin has listed a number of WordPress 4.5 changes that are especially relevant to developers that interact with particular features of WordPress. You are those people, so I'll tl;dr them for you here so you can check it out…
From “Feature Plugins” to “Feature Projects”
Brian Krogsgard
I've been looking forward to a post like this. Helen Hou-Sandà has written about an evolution of the feature plugin model. Over the last two and a half years, we’ve had successful feature plugins that were merged into core, efforts…
