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Gravity Flow makes custom form administrative workflows simple

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

"RE: RE: RE: RE: Needs input." Gravity Flow helps organizations get rid of this nonsense, by extending Gravity Forms to make custom form-based workflows for administrative approval and user input processes.

Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week on the Draft podcast, Joe and Brian discuss justification for attending WordPress events, WordPress comments, and WordPress PHP version support, PHP7, and HHVM.

Custom routing for the adventurous

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

Every time I read a post from Carl Alexander, I think, "Neat, now show me more examples of this in action!" This one is no different, where he describes how to build a custom routing system for WordPress. If you're…

In Parallel: A conference for open source focused agencies

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

In Parallel is the second of two conference series being put on by Human Made, and organized by Siobhan McKeown. I've already shared A Day of REST with you, which Post Status is a content partner for. In Parallel is…

A good overview of namespaces and how they’re helpful for WordPress developers

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

In the podcast Joe and I just recorded, one of our topics was WordPress PHP version support. In WordPress 5.3, namespaces were introduced, and WordPress core doesn't use them; but WordPress developers use them often in custom work or for…

WordPress Notification Manager

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

Barry Kooij has released a new plugin, called WordPress Notification Manager. I credit myself and my complaining almost completely for this getting done. Thanks Barry. WordPress Notification Manager takes those frustrating WordPress notifications and groups them in a toolbar dropdown…

Comments redux

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Comments are getting a welcome flurry of activity in WordPress 4.3 and 4.4 development. Rachel Baker is the component lead, and WordPress 4.4 release lead Scott Taylor has gravitated toward comments as his pet project this release (bless his soul).…

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Hosting

WordPress will support PHP7 officially immediately upon its planned November release, says PHP7 testing extraordinaire Aaron Jorbin. As Aaron notes, PHP7 has significant speed improvements on past versions, and it will be great to be able to use it right…

Grow with Woocommerce: better eCommerce sales metrics

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Elliot Taylor and his team at Raison have released a nice WooCommerce plugin called Grow with WooCommerce. The free plugin (available on WordPress.org) allows you to set goals and then offers a month by month summary of how you are…

Jetpack now smartly supports development sites

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Heck yes! Finally, Jetpack has really nice support for identifying development websites. When Jetpack sees a URL change on your site, it prompts you to identify whether it's a new site, if your domain changed, or if it's a development…

Work can wait

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Remote work and digital nomad-ing may be the future, but it can have consequences. You are never away from the office when your home is your office, and with workers in all kinds of timezones and on all kinds of…

Successful open source

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Jeffrey McGuire -- of Acquia, the Drupal version of Automattic -- has a great post and accompanying podcast on, "idealism and what successful open source looks like." It does a great job expressing common ideals. My favorite bit: I want…

Discouraging public redistribution of commercial themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

Richard Best did a poll asking people a series of questions regarding redistribution of commercial themes and plugins. Since he did the work, I'd request you go to his site for the full poll results, but this paragraph alone is…

Freelancers and the self-employed are ignored by the government

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

BusinessSecurity

Sara Horowitz -- who is the founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union -- makes a compelling argument for how important freelancers are to the American economy. She highlights just how big the freelancer economy is: For better or…

Yoast to expand to Drupal with SEO product

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2015

Business

It makes sense, given Yoast SEO's recent API changes and adjustment to a real-time Javascript driven SEO analysis, that they can now create a cross platform SEO product. And today they announced that Yoast SEO for Drupal 7 will be available…

Obox’s DevKit allows for CSS and JS editing on the fly

Brian Krogsgard

September 8, 2015

Obox recently released DevKit as a CSS and Javascript add-on for any theme. What they've released as DevKit on CodeCanyon is what has been powering the user-added code features for their builder theme, Layers. Layers was released early this year with a lot of good…