WordPress News

Site feature: The Washington Post

Brian Krogsgard

August 28, 2015

The Washington Post has completed a pretty long redesign process with the launch of their new homepage. Journalism.co.uk has an article on it and note that about 70% of The Washington Post content is powered by WordPress. If I were…

So you want responsive images in core?

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

Yeah, who doesn't! Well, The Responsive Images Community Group has been working hard on an official feature plugin. Joe McGill recently posted an update in regard to what's going on, the scope of the plugin, and how folks can help. He…

Put a bow tie on it

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

Aaron Jorbin shared some bullet point thoughts on default themes and their role in the WordPress core development flow. I like them all, and you should check out what he has to say. But one resonated especially as both different…

Million dollar products

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

BusinessDesign

Kyle Neath isn't a fan of Unicorn culture in tech-land. He would like to see more people aim to create what he qualifies as family businesses, and aim for smaller (more niche) customer bases, provide better service, build companies that…

The term gates are open

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

WordPress 4.3 completed the three-release process of eliminated shared terms, and it marked an important step to allow future term feature development and API simplification. Today, Boone Gorges expertly and simply (two things that are hard to combine) explained how…

Our WordPress 4.4 wishlist — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

August 27, 2015

DraftPlanet

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss WordPress 4.3, our 4.4 wishlist features, and the WordPress REST API.

Offer feedback for a new WordCamp theme

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Josh Leuze is requesting feedback for what people want in a new WordCamp theme. WordCamp organizers know that you get some restrictions when you make a WordCamp site, so this is an excellent opportunity to speak up. He hasn't gotten…

Using Timber for Twig support in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

TJ Fogarty writes on CSS Tricks about how Timber and Twig reignited his love for WordPress. His post is useful in a variety of ways. For one, it's a very nice introduction if you are interested in using the Twig…

LeadPages CEO response to pushback from Elegant Themes fork

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Yesterday I wrote a bit about LeadPages forking Elegant Themes' Bloom plugin to create Rapidology, a popup plugin. Late last night, LeadPages CEO Clay Collins wrote about their thinking when deciding to fork Bloom. When I wrote about the fork…

WordPress plugin repo forking policy clarified

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Hosting

Mike Epstein clarified a policy for the WordPress.org plugin repo this morning, based on some recent issues that cropped up (likely the Elegant Themes / LeadPages thing yesterday). Basically, GPL-compatible unchanged copies are not allowed as part of an "above and…

WordPress community summit dates are set, and it will prepend WordCamp US

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

The third WordPress community summit will be right before WordCamp US in Philadelphia, December 2nd and 3rd. This is the second time the event has coincided with WordCamp SF/US, and the third time it's taking place in the United States.…

New WordPress committers

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

WordPress 4.4's start includes updates to the WordPress committer list. For 4.4, one new guest committer was added, three guest committers were renewed, and two were made permanent. Added: Tammie Lister Renewed: Ella Van Dorpe, Weston Ruter, Konstantin Obenland Made…

The WordPress 2015 survey is out

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

The 2015 WordPress survey is out and you should all take it. It's really short and simple and your answers will go towards the data Matt Mullenweg shares during his annual State of the Word. I always love seeing the…

Stream 3 goes back to self hosted site logging, looks more like 1 than 2

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Business

Stream is one of those plugins that I've always seen the potential in but it's never quite nailed it. I was a pretty big fan of Stream 1, and I wrote about my experience, but in the end it ended…

Brewing fuss over a fork of an Elegant Themes popup plugin

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Folks are making a bit of a fuss about a commercial plugin -- Bloom, a lead generation and popup plugin -- getting forked and released for free. It all started with an Elegant Themes tweet: Looks like @LeadPages took our plugin, replaced…

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Design

Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into…