WordPress News

All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2015

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss the WordPress REST API and the recent proposal for it to be merged into WordPress Core.

Term meta lands in core

Brian Krogsgard

September 24, 2015

Term meta has been committed to core in changeset 34529. This is a hugely anticipated change, and will excited a whole lot of developers. I've covered term meta a good bit the last several weeks, so I'll spare the justifications.…

I got an email from a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

I got an email from a friend today, who is hosted on DreamHost, saying they had upgraded her company's website to PHP 5.6. In it, they also noted they are removing PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 completely from their system…

Egyptian developer Shady Sharaf has an…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Egyptian developer Shady Sharaf has an incredible story on HeroPress on how he created his own path from being stuck in an education system that didn't suit him, to teaching himself web development and WordPress. Today he works for XWP doing…

The Lede does an audio interview…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

The Lede does an audio interview with Dave Pell, who is one of my inspirations for how to write a great newsletter.

This isn’t WordPress related but if…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

This isn't WordPress related but if you want to learn a cool Photoshop trick from AudioTheme to make your pictures look like those colored FiveThirtyEight avatars, you can do it.

Review Signal has released the performance…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Review Signal has released the performance benchmark tool they use for testing hosts. It's a great way to measure your own setup.

CodePen Radio goes in depth on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

CodePen Radio goes in depth on Amazon RDS. It really does a great job describing the nitty gritty of why Amazon is so awesome at web services, and in this case database management.

Twitter’s sharecount is going away, because…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Twitter's sharecount is going away, because Twitter just hates everyone. Maybe that's why they call it flipping the bird.

In depth report on affects to publishers of iOS 9 content blockers

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Hosting

10up President & CEO Jake Goldman and 10up Lead Audience & Revenue Strategist have released a report/PDF that discusses, in depth, the impact of ad blocking for publishers. The data is based on some of their own large publishing clients,…

WordPress core happenings and roadmaps

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

There are a few roadmaps and active core components that are worth keeping an eye on right now. I figured I'd just lump them together: Preparing your plugins and client sites for term meta Term meta basically got a "clear…

Nginx now supports HTTP/2

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

After an alpha release, Nginx now supports HTTP/2 in version 1.9.5. Importantly, with the support of HTTP/2, sites that support it must also use SSL/TLS, and SPDY is no longer supported in Nginx. Please note that this release removes support…

Put your WordPress posts in your WordPress posts

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

One of the feature plugins for WordPress right now is an oEmbed API. I spent a little time playing with it and talking to its maintainer, Pascal Birchler. The plugin has some interesting potential use cases, and really works quite well.…

Benedict Evans says the network is…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Benedict Evans says the network is far more important than the publishing tool, "you want to be part of a network - a platform - of some kind, not just a publishing tool. A platform can create new revenue models…

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Security

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on Product Hunt. There's not a ton you haven't seen, but apparently there's a new WordPress mobile app that's still in "internal" beta. I wonder if it's using the new REST API? I hope it's…

Pippin Williamson didn’t officially hire a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Pippin Williamson didn't officially hire a full time employee until one year ago, and now his team is six people full time. Amazing growth, and I just love his outlook on things.