WordPress 4.3 field notes are out and…
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.3 field notes are out and has a definitive list of links to the Make WordPress posts you need to read behind the variety of new features.
Bitnami and Digital Ocean have partnered…
Brian Krogsgard
Bitnami and Digital Ocean have partnered up, Techcrunch reports, and now you can access the wealth of Bitnami's application install packages with your Digital Ocean account. It's more thorough than Digital Ocean's packages and a good option for more catered WordPress…
Josh Pollock has a really nice…
Brian Krogsgard
Josh Pollock has a really nice post on the AppPresser blog for submitting posts on the front-end, using the WordPress REST API.
Sucuri explains the security vulnerability they…
Brian Krogsgard
Sucuri explains the security vulnerability they were credited with reporting in the WordPress 4.2.4 release.
Bill Erickson explains complex meta queries…
Brian Krogsgard
Bill Erickson explains complex meta queries and ordering with code examples, and identifies new features that made it possible in recent versions of WordPress.
Ben Word at Roots explains why…
Brian Krogsgard
Ben Word at Roots explains why they use the variety of advanced tools they use for their WordPress projects.
“If you ever want to effect…
Brian Krogsgard
"If you ever want to effect change, in your work, in your life,you must learn to persuade others." This is an excellent post by Stack Overflow and Discourse founder Jeff Atwood.
Barry Kooij has a neat new…
Brian Krogsgard
Barry Kooij has a neat new plugin for managing cars, and has some good lessons for plugin authors in the release post. There could be (or perhaps there are) hundreds of commercial plugins like this for various niches.
GenerateWP is introducing a monthly subscription…
Brian Krogsgard
GenerateWP is introducing a monthly subscription starting at $7 per month for access to a tier of commercial only generators. A number of generators are part of the offering, including for metaboxes and widgets, and customizer and admin settings generators…
WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce 2.4 has been released, and its signature user-facing feature is a new onboarding wizard that makes new store creation a smoother, more intuitive process. The wizard makes common settings easier to configure, enables simpler Paypal setup, and uses geolocation…
Takeaways from interviewing 13 great WordPress developers
Fred Meyer
After interviewing thirteen WordPress developers for a book on getting up and running with WordPress development, I have some key takeaways that I'd like to share with you.
WPDrama, the song
Brian Krogsgard
Well hey, what can I say... it's Friday. Zack Katz sent me this a week or so ago to make sure I thought it wasn't stirring up the pot again, and I don't think it does. It's pretty fun. He…
A New York Times liveblog that starts in Slack and ends in WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Taylor put the flow like this: Slack > Slack > Invisible City > Redis > Pusher > Web socket > React > WordPress Those were the steps to make a real time liveblog even more real time. Scott works at…
Restaurant Engine sold for “low six figures”
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Casel has sold Restaurant Engine for a "low six figures" sum. His asking price was $185,000, according to FE International, the site he used as a broker. Restaurant Engine was a very early entrant as a hosted WordPress website provider…
Two performance boosts for font loading with Typekit
Brian Krogsgard
Two Typekit performance boosts are worth noting. I know a lot of theme shops include Typekit in their themes, and it's also one of the most popular ways to use custom fonts on custom client work. If you use Typekit…
A sample .gitignore for WordPress projects
Brian Krogsgard
Recently, I've been dealing with changing how I manage version control on most of my plugins and themes. Historically, I've had all of wp-content in Git, updated locally, and pushed everything. Unfortunately, that gets a boatload of other people's code…
