WordPress News

The campiness of WordCamps

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2016

Natalie MacLees has been involved with the Southern California WordPress community for a long time, and in a new post, she notes that she believes some of the "camp" feel of WordCamps has been lost. It quite obviously costs a…

A few core highlights and the state of WordPress 4.5

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2016

WordPress 4.5 should hit beta 1 fairly soon -- like probably within the next 24 hours. In some ways, 4.5 has felt like a hangover release, coming (as releases tend to do) right after a monstrous 4.4, a string of…

Rainmaker Digital passes $12 million in revenue, 60+ employees

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2016

Business

Rainmaker Digital is the newish name of the formerly known Copyblogger Media. Brian Clark recently did an interview with Andrew Warner of Mixergy, where he discussed the state of the business, where things are going, and what to expect. It was…

All things HTTP/2 and HTTPS — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

February 20, 2016

DraftPlanet

Joe and Brian talk about HTTPS and HTTP/2, including what they are, what it means, and how they affect WordPress.

The team at Yoast is looking…

February 17, 2016

The team at Yoast is looking to add to their WordPress core contributions, and have three projects specifically they would love help on. They are also interested in hiring a full time developer contributor for core work, if you think…

Jeremy Felt shared how they use…

February 17, 2016

Jeremy Felt shared how they use the WordPress REST API at Washington State, and it's primarily through a nifty content syndication tool. I looked through the plugin's code, and it's a great introduction to querying posts via the API and displaying…

Ayla View shares how she started…

February 17, 2016

Ayla View shares how she started ThemeBoy, a niche sports theme and plugin business. It's a fascinating story, and another in a long line of interesting HeroPress essays.

Matt Medeiros shares how he tried…

February 17, 2016

Matt Medeiros shares how he tried to help some honey entrepreneurs, and ended up Squarespace. I'm pretty disappointed in him about that (what else is new!), but I definitely understand where he's coming from. To reiterate what I said in…

In my opinion, Ben Thompson has…

February 17, 2016

In my opinion, Ben Thompson has the best take on the whole Apple backdoor thing. It's so ridiculous... I'm extremely disappointed with the US government.

Carbon Fields is yet another custom…

February 17, 2016

Carbon Fields is yet another custom fields plugin, but it does look quite nice! I'm not sure I'd want to get in bed with a new one with the core Fields API on the horizon, but if you do find…

Hyperlocal news websites still make most…

February 17, 2016

Hyperlocal news websites still make most of their money from banner ads, and grants are number 2. I think there is a real market for serving micro news organizations with a comprehensive suite of plugins (and maybe services).

Github is adding templating for pull…

February 17, 2016

Github is adding templating for pull requests and issues.

Justin Tadlock has released a plugin…

February 17, 2016

Justin Tadlock has released a plugin for displaying WordPress plugins on your website. It's to complement the one for themes he recently released, and it looks quite nice.

Devin Price shows how to extend…

February 17, 2016

Devin Price shows how to extend background image support in the customizer.

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

Hosting

There is really only one existing WordPress integration for Facebook Instant Articles. It is from Jack Spurlock, a developer at WIRED. Facebook has a limited spec for supporting Instant Articles, which at a base level can just use RSS, but deeper integrations would…

HTTP/2 hits 25% Chrome adoption, SPDY support is ending

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

This is a really impressive achievement in relatively short time for HTTP/2. From the Chromium blog: Over 25% of resources in Chrome are currently served over HTTP/2, compared to less than 5% over SPDY. Based on such strong adoption, starting…