WordPress News

Open source has reach, but no influence

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

Steve Burge has an interesting post on his personal site on why he thinks open source has no reach, but no influence. Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms: Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible…

eBook guide to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

WP Engine has sponsored Josh Pollock to write an eBook on the WordPress REST API. This is an excellent opportunity to learn from Josh, who has done a great job creating highly digestible resources on the new API. I just…

More on custom database tables

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

Pippin Williamson has a second part out in his series on creating an API for custom database tables. He and Brad also talked about custom tables, when to use them, how to use them, and things to look out for…

Send to Apple News from your WordPress site

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

WordPress VIP announced the launch of Apple News for WordPress today. The plugin was developed by VIP partner Alley Interactive, and released for VIP and for WordPress.org websites using the free plugin. It's on Github as well. This is awesome.…

Building a better WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Chris Hutchinson has ideas for a better WordPress. Imagine a world where WordPress is lean, fast, and efficient. In this world, WordPress has just one task: to manage your content. >And he lays out his ideas for what WordPress would…

Publishers and ads

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

iOS9 enabled content blocking in Safari, which means the onslaught of ad blocking apps. I downloaded Peace by Marco Arment today and I must admit it is wonderful. The debates about ad blocking have been steady and fierce. Yesterday, I…

Want to learn JavaScript in 2015?

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Of course you do. Or you should. JavaScript is more popular than ever for all aspects of web development, including in WordPress. Eventually, JavaScript could make up most of the codebase. If you want to stay on your game with…

Custom post types in v2 of the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Scott Bolinger has a very useful post that describes changes between v1 and v2 of the WordPress REST API in regard to custom post types. In v1, custom post types were made available by default, whereas now they need to…

Popping the publisher bubble

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Business

Ben Thompson does excellent analysis. In his latest post he talks about the big problems facing journalism and publishing online. Here's my favorite part: It is easy to feel sorry for publishers: before the Internet most were swimming in money,…

Is there a downside to transparency reports?

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Chris Lema thinks there are a few. Primarily, these: Things will go worse later if you decide to stop You might be hurting yourself if you decide to sell People may be motivated differently than you hoped He makes good…

Intro to Underscore.js templates

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Justin Tadlock has an excellent tutorial for Underscore.js templating beginners. I'm guessing that's a lot of us. The Underscore.js library has been in WordPress for many versions now. However, it’s next to impossible to find good tutorials that walk you…

Are you an expert?

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2015

Calling myself an expert -- about anything -- feels icky to me. I think this oldie but goodie from Jeff Atwood helps identify why quite well: Being an expert isn't telling other people what you know. It's understanding what questions…

Consequences of bumping PHP minimums, from a Joomla lead that’s been there

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

There's a mega Trac ticket to, "strategize the updating of minimum PHP version." Joe and I talked about this on the latest podcast too (in the last segment), if you're curious. The Trac ticket goes every which way, as you'd expect.…

Duck Duck Go WordPress shortcuts

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Duck Duck Go is such a cool search engine, though I've never pulled the trigger to actually switch to it. I've accepted my place in the world where Google knows absolutely everything about me. But this WordPress cheat sheet built…

iThemes Security is integrating Sucuri malware scanning

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

iThemes announced today that both their free iThemes Security and their commercial iThemes Security Pro plugins are integrating Sucuri's malware scanning service. The free one is just an opt-in one off option, which is nice but can also be accomplished…

The WordPress security trilogy, parts 2 and 3

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

Security

I love trilogies, and a WordPress security trilogy was completed today. I'm now in that weird state of having just finished a series I was super into and didn't want to end (well minus the security implications). In early August I…