WordPress News

Underscores is introducing components for enabling specific types of websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

The team behind Underscores, the popular starter theme, is introducing a "Components" model, where you can generate a base theme with components that cater to a specific type of website: business, magazine, blog, etc. The project is still in early stages,…

WordPress at Scale

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

Hosting

The team at Pantheon has made a nice resource that doubles as smart marketing for a developer focused hosting product. WordPress at Scale is a website that aims to educate and provide resources to developers wishing to, well, scale WordPress.…

Themezilla acquired by Pixel Union

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2016

BusinessDesign

Pixel Union was originally a theme marketplace for Tumblr, that expanded to BigCommerce, Shopify, and WordPress. The founder of Pixel Union is Andrew Wilkinson, who also started Meta Lab and publishes Designer News. Meta Lab is well known for being the…

The first WordPress REST API conference, in review

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2016

PlanetWordPress News

I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world's first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here's my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.

WP Valet has done a very…

January 26, 2016

WP Valet has done a very nice rebranding, and is now going by Valet. Mason James made an announcement of the branding, where he notes that, "WP Valet was founded on the idea of ongoing professional services. It was never meant…

The Give plugin now has support…

January 26, 2016

The Give plugin now has support for recurring donations, which I'm sure their customers are going to be mighty happy about. It would be a core request for me if I were looking for a donations platform, but that doesn't…

Themememe is a free theme directory…

January 26, 2016

Themememe is a free theme directory by Charlie Livingston. Charlie was the buyer of Pro Plugin Directory, you may recall, and Themememe seems to be in the same spirit, except for the whole free versus paid part.

The Linux foundation has quietly dropped…

January 26, 2016

The Linux foundation has quietly dropped community board representatives. This is a disturbing development for the open source project.

GoDaddy is getting into logo design.…

January 26, 2016

GoDaddy is getting into logo design. The big companies are really going for complete vertical distribution.

Nonces are not a catch-all security…

January 26, 2016

Security

Nonces are not a catch-all security mechanism, and Gennady Kovshenin explains why.

Matt Medeiros had Wes Bos and…

January 26, 2016

Matt Medeiros had Wes Bos and Zac Gordon on his podcast to talk JavaScript.

Have you signed up for The…

January 26, 2016

Have you signed up for The First Version with Tom McFarlin yet? Tom is wildly talented and a great teacher. I hope you're either signing up or telling your friends or both.

Matteo Duò goes in-depth on the…

January 26, 2016

Matteo Duò goes in-depth on the landscape of the eCommerce world, and what you should expect to pay when you get into it (3%-10% of revenue, which sounds good to me).

Accessibility draft standards are ready for review

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2016

Accessibility isn't the easiest subject to get mass audiences excited about. Sadly, I know from experience, because accessibility posts haven't performed as well as other types on Post Status. That, however, doesn't make accessibility less important -- not by any…

Ultimate Member is averaging $712 per day in sales in less than a year

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2016

Ultimate Member has really come out of the gate speeding. An impressive free plugin with monetization options via an extensions model, Ultimate Member is proving to be an attractive option for a combination of membership website and community solution. From my…

Effective internal critique for projects

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2016

Design

Tanner Christensen is a product designer at Facebook, and while his post describes what he's learned about effectively holding design critique sessions, it's quite applicable to other areas of work. If you are in a team environment, adopting a clear and…