WordPress News

The responsibility of a plugin provider

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2016

The economics of WordPress are tricky. There have been many free plugins that have gained popularity, with demanding users requesting free support, and the plugin author eventually just lets it all go. It's completely understandable. We shouldn't expect something for…

WordPress and SaaS — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 26, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian discuss WordPress in the context of SaaS — or Software as a Service. They dig into WordPress as a tool for a SaaS within another industry, as well as WordPress-centric tools with SaaS based business models.

WordPress 4.5 Beta 4 is out.…

March 21, 2016

WordPress 4.5 Beta 4 is out. This is the final planned beta of WordPress 4.5, with a release candidate scheduled for this week. Please help test and report to the team any bugs.

Good news on the accessibility front.…

March 21, 2016

Good news on the accessibility front. WordPress Accessibility Team announced that "all new or updated code released into WordPress core and bundled themes must conform with the WCAG 2.0 guidelines at level AA". In a nutshell what this means is…

There’s an update from the WordPress Theme…

March 21, 2016

There's an update from the WordPress Theme Review Team on their efforts to reduce manual reviews of WordPress themes, with focus in this post on a proposal for some guidelines relating to template requirements (everything from no PHP/JS errors to spelling…

WordPress.com has a (fairly new) Instagram…

March 21, 2016

WordPress.com has a (fairly new) Instagram account. The lack of an apostrophe in "Lets" of the first picture is killing me.

Easier Excerpts For WordPress is a…

March 21, 2016

Easier Excerpts For WordPress is a plugin that automatically changes the size of the excerpt field to fit the length of the content. Tom McFarlin has the backstory about his new plugin. It's short and sweet, but often I like reading from…

The WordPress design team is looking…

March 21, 2016

Design

The WordPress design team is looking for feedback, which is part of the early exploratory research for revisions to the Plugin Directory. If you have ever used an app store or installed an extension in any major browser... they would…

I recently stumbled upon a plugin…

March 21, 2016

I recently stumbled upon a plugin from 10up called "WP-Hammer" that cleans and removes information from a WordPress site that might be sensitive -- like emails and passwords or undesired users and posts. This might be a quick and dirty tool…

If you use Github, you’ll be…

March 21, 2016

If you use Github, you'll be happy to know they have added more tools that help search and review your code.

Not directly WordPress related, but I…

March 21, 2016

Not directly WordPress related, but I stumbled on this recently: Soundnode App is a SoundCloud desktop app and built with (among other technologies) Angular.js and the SoundCloud API. This is a similar concept to the Calypso project for WordPress. Although…

If you are a WordCamp organizer…

March 21, 2016

If you are a WordCamp organizer or just generally interested in WordCamp/event planning then David Bisset's "Mega-Review" of WordCamp Miami (which happened last month) might be worth a read. It's quite detailed, and some interesting observations from one of the…

Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes had…

March 21, 2016

Mark Forrester, Co-Founder of WooThemes had an AMA at ManageWP. It's brief and doesn't hold any big Woo secrets, but it's interesting to note that Mark considers WordPress "12 years ahead" of Shopify (though obviously not for WooCommerce). One of my…

Developers might be tired of hearing…

March 21, 2016

Developers might be tired of hearing about Google's AMP project... but Delicious Brains Jeff Gould has a good summary. After the summary, Jeff actually goes into a bit on how to customize the output of the AMP WordPress plugin, which…

Scott Bolinger makes a point on…

March 21, 2016

Scott Bolinger makes a point on the AppPresser blog that simply changing the layout of your website for a smaller screen isn't enough and offers some "proven mobile optimization tips."

WebDevStudios blog has been non-stop with…

March 21, 2016

WebDevStudios blog has been non-stop with content and it's worth adding to your reading list. A recent post is about creating an FAQ with the CMB2 plugin -- but they have many recent posts (covering everything from freelancing to design/css topics) worth a look…