WordPress News

A styleguide for effective writing

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2015

Mailchimp has a new styleguide, but it's not for code. It's for writing, and it is awesome. They share it both for internal employees to utilize and for external companies to steal. And steal we should. They go in-depth to…

How WordPress can avoid a Titantic-style fate

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2015

A developer, who I can only identify as CK (Got to love the old school anonymity), thinks WordPress needs to make a change in order to "save" its future. CK starts by highlighting how filters and actions were introduced to b2…

The grind of selling themes

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2015

Chris Warton makes WordPress themes. He doesn't try to persuade you one way or the other on his themes; he thinks they are of good quality, he tries hard, and he avoids one-stop do-it-all type themes. And his work selling…

Bootstrap 4 alpha released and includes huge changes

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Bootstrap 4 is now in alpha, and includes a ton of changes that will be popular. These are my personal favorites: Moved from Less to Sass. Improved grid system. Opt-in flexbox support is here. Dropped IE8 support and moved to rem…

What’s your WordPress 4.4 wishlist?

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Well, if you want to have your say on what you think should go into WordPress 4.4, now is a great time. WordPress 4.4 release lead Scott Taylor has made a call for wishlist features on Make Core. So, you…

Speed as a feature

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Performance optimization can be a hard sell inside an organization that has a lot of needs and not a lot of resources. GQ recently has page loads upwards of 7 seconds and bounce rates 10-20% higher on mobile than desktop,…

Doing what I want after 25 years

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Design

The latest HeroPress essay is by Becky Davis, who describes how she got into web design and development with WordPress after 25 years of doing things for other people and their needs. She finally asked herself what she wanted, went…

WordPress term order and term meta made easy

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

John James Jacoby has released two plugins that make managing more advanced taxonomy use cases simpler. WP Term Order and WP Term Meta do exactly what you'd think, and they do it well. If either of these features make it…

Hybrid Core 3.0 makes sweeping changes

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Hybrid Core 3.0, released today by Justin Tadlock, makes some big changes to the popular drop-in theme framework. Justin has never been afraid to release new stuff in Hybrid Core, and he's not afraid to take stuff out either. Many…

A generic WordPress site management mobile app

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Scott Bolinger has released a boilerplate app that uses Angular and the Ionic Framework to create a generic WordPress site management mobile app. It's available on Github for those that want to contribute or fork it for your own purposes.…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

Reasons for custom tables in WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Pippin Williamson is doing a new series on building a database abstraction layer that's sure to be really educational. The first post in the series offers reasons for using custom tables in WordPress plugins. For a long time, the majority…

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Automattic has been working on Mesh for a while. I first posted about it in March, around when they rolled out an early alpha for employees and created the landing page. Now it's on the iPhone and available as a web…

Events to keep your eye on

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

There are three non-WordCamp events coming up you should check out. A Day of REST A Day of REST is a conference that will be dedicated to -- you guessed it -- the WordPress REST API. Organized by Human Made,…

A WordPress conference for higher education: coming to a campus near you?

Rachel Cherry

August 17, 2015

HostingPlanet

WordPress is used by thousands of universities all over the world. Many universities run large parts of their web infrastructure with WordPress, and it's time for them to have a niche WordPress conference catered for their experiences.