WordPress News

Benefits for importing old archives, versus separate sites

Brian Krogsgard

November 2, 2015

Running large, long running publications can come with significant challenges. I think one of the shining examples of WordPress in action on the web today is WIRED. In their latest engineering update, Kathleen Vignos shares that they've moved more than…

The REST API infrastructure is officially…

October 30, 2015

The REST API infrastructure is officially officially (I meant to say that twice) in core now. The integration required a new beta for WordPress and some changes to the plugin, so if you are using the v2 of the plugin,…

Orion is ManageWP’s new dashboard design…

October 30, 2015

Design

Orion is ManageWP's new dashboard design and complete rebuild. They've set it up as a toggle-able environment from the old one, so you can adjust at your own pace. It looks quite nice. I'd be interested in feedback from ManageWP…

Rarst talks about the ages of…

October 30, 2015

Rarst talks about the ages of WordPress code as he's seen his own progression as a developer.

The Multisite focused changes for WordPress…

October 30, 2015

The Multisite focused changes for WordPress 4.4 are yet another awesome iteration on the feature.

Importing a blogger blog to WordPress…

October 30, 2015

Importing a blogger blog to WordPress is really annoying. Ryan Sullivan has a great writeup of the right way to do it while maintaining proper redirects, categories, and everything. I wish I had this in 2012 when I last imported…

Speaker applications are open for WordCamp…

October 30, 2015

Speaker applications are open for WordCamp Europe already!

A chat with Barry Kooij, on running an indie plugin shop

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Barry Kooij (pronounced "Coy", America! I just learned it...) runs Never5, an independent plugin shop. He's been running Never5 for a while, but went full time in July after the Woothemes acquisition to Automattic was made official. He has four…

Organizational decentralization and web governance

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Design

Big organizations have many different strategies -- or sometimes lackthereof -- for managing their web presence. One of the biggest decisions to make organizationally is whether or not to centralize or decentralize website management and decisions across departments. The concepts…

The dangers or selling under non-disclosure

Brian Krogsgard

October 30, 2015

Business

Gilbert Pellegrom has written a post that somewhat tells the story of what happened with WP Updates. Most of you know that WP Updates was acquired, and as I previously reported, was under a non-disclosure agreement as part of the…

Using WordPress as an application framework — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

October 27, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week, they talk about using WordPress for complex blogs, websites, and applications.