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The art of the commit message

Brian Krogsgard

September 8, 2015

Commit messages are really helpful, but not always top of mind while you're actually working on something. I'm pretty sure I've got a fair number of commit messages titled along the lines of, "ashdfkafwaieu argh just work already!" WordPress commits…

The CMSs powering American news websites

Brian Krogsgard

September 8, 2015

It might surprise you that WordPress is not the most used CMS amongst traditional news outlets in the United States. Barrett Golding, of the Reynolds Journalism Institute, surveyed over 1,500 news outlets in the US, and attempted to identify their…

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2015

Security

It's been a busy few days for shortcodes. Most, if not all, core committers and project leads would tell you that they'd rather burn the shortcodes API than anything else. But it's one of those things that exists and now…

The case for term meta, and a roadmap for making it happen

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2015

Term meta is one of the most requested developer features for WordPress. When architecting a site's data, most of us have likely had a desire for term meta to add additional text fields, term images, term ordering, or some other data…

Using React with WordPress — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 5, 2015

DraftPlanet

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss plugin and theme language packs, Trac gardening, and using React for WordPress.

New WordPress.org plugin naming policy

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

There is a new WordPress.org naming policy that prevents plugins from using the names of companies and other plugins as the first item in the name and slug. For instance, if a reader submitted, "Post Status Extender Widget" to the…

Extending the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

Jeff Gould has written part two in his series on utilizing the WordPress REST API. Again, he delivers, as this is one of the most in-depth code heavy tutorials I've seen. In part two, Jeff describes how to add fields…

Addressing work life balance from the inside

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

New Club member Chris Klosowski recently wrote a blog post about how his transition to the Easy Digital Downloads team full time changed his life balance. Within that excellent post, I discovered that the EDD team had an all-hands meeting…

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

DesignPlanet

A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It'll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It's an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.

Twenty Sixteen is open for hacking

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

Design

Twenty Sixteen is already on Github and WordPress.org. It's not meant for production, but it's available for hacking. It's much further along than I would've anticipated. I'm not sure if it was under development by someone during the design phase…

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

BusinessDesign

I'm a pretty big fan of Dave Pell's NextDraft newsletter (subscribe and read my interview with him and Andrew Norcross!). It's a mix of tech and current events, and today he talked about the bubble in tech. I'll show the quote…

Join me at PressNomics 4

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

PressNomics 4 tickets are out now for general admission. I registered today and look forward to seeing many Post Status members in early March. The Post Status Club launched last year just as I was boarding the plane for Post…

Copyblogger rebrands to Rainmaker

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

Put this in your "good to know but not a huge deal" bucket: In many ways, this is just a company name change, and nothing more. Copyblogger.com will continue to be an important content platform that fuels this company, as…

Language packs for WordPress themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

Sam Sidler announced today on Make WordPress Plugins that WordPress plugins will soon be able to utilize the WordPress.org language pack feature that ships with WordPress core. Language packs were introduced to core in WordPress 3.7. As I noted then:…

Map Builder Pro is now available

Brian Krogsgard

August 28, 2015

Not too long ago, I did a bonus link for the upcoming Map Builder Pro plugin. Now it's out and it looks quite good. Pippin Williamson has done a thorough review by video that really shows you what's possible, and…

Don’t promise dates for new features

Brian Krogsgard

August 28, 2015

I've seen so many people I respect give this warning that it's worth its own little post: don't ever promise dates for new features. Today, I was reading the co-founder of Freckle (an indie time tracking app) discuss some things…