WordPress News

WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.0 makes huge strides

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2015

Subscriptions is a hugely popular paid WooCommerce extension. It initially launched three years ago, and some of the concepts in the big 2.0 release have been planned and developed over a period of about 18 months. Prospress has six full time employees and…

What makes some companies in the open source software world different

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2015

Business

For a long time, I've debated with myself about what makes some consulting companies get a lot more attention in the open source software world versus others. The key factor, I think, is community engagement -- and I mean engagement…

Weekend edition

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2015

Hosting

Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

How WordPress core development happens — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

October 3, 2015

DraftHosting

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Brad Williams. We talk about the WordPress core development process and term meta.

WP101 is seven years old. That’s…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

WP101 is seven years old. That's an amazing achievement for an indie business, and Shawn was ahead of his time. I just wanted to give him a shoutout as a great partner, and you should check it out if you…

Gravity Flow, which I recently wrote about,…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

Gravity Flow, which I recently wrote about, has launched. Steve wrote about the end of the beta cycle and you can now buy it. I got a good bit of feedback from folks that were really impressed with what this offers.

Aaron Rutley is playing with sending…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

Aaron Rutley is playing with sending WordPress events to Slack. Some folks should combine forces on one of these tools.

Nuzzel is one of my not-so-secret-anymore…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

Nuzzel is one of my not-so-secret-anymore weapons for staying on top of the best links that come from Twitter. Don't know renew because I shared this interesting (text) interview with their founder. There's a good bit of chatter about publishing…

The cost of mobile ads on…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

The cost of mobile ads on 50 top news websites. Gross.

This is why so many people…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

This is why so many people like PHPStorm for WordPress, with lots of gifs.

GlotPress is a translation tool, built…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

GlotPress is a translation tool, built on BackPress. bbPress used to be on BackPress, if you need a refresher. BackPress is like an underbelly of WordPress-ish functions, but it's quite old and no longer maintained. GlotPress has had some maintenance…

Responsive images look likely for WordPress 4.4

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

An official merge proposal was created for the responsive images plugin, and during the weekly Core dev chat a lively discussion took place discussing its merits and the variety of issues with enabling responsive images in WordPress. The candidate plugin…

GoDaddy is highlighting the top trending plugins and themes installed on their servers

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2015

Hosting

Well, data is awesome and this is pretty good data. GoDaddy announced what they are calling the Hot 100 that highlights the top 100 trending themes and plugins. The list updates net gains in active installs, so it's a trend measurement, versus…

Bonus links & tidbits

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2015

18F and the United States Digital Service…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2015

Design

18F and the United States Digital Service (they are different, here's a description) are doing amazing things to advance government web properties. I think it's a pretty non-political statement to say their work could be a lasting legacy item for President…