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The Grid and artificial intelligence for website creation

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2015

The Grid is a hosted website creation tool that promotes its ability to build a website using AI, or artificial intelligence. The project has nearly 52,000 "founding members" that have pre-paid $96 for a year long subscription to the service.…

The commercial theme tides

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2015

Business

Commercial WordPress theme sales is a known business today. Folks have been selling themes since 2007 and many sellers experienced some very good years. The market commoditized itself quite significantly, and it's harder and harder each year to stand out. Of…

An honest post about the WordPress community

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2015

I've been on the outside looking in these last few weeks. Siobhan McKeown's post on some of the latest community drama resonated with me. Write your posts. Wring your hands. Join comment mobs. But the sheer number of posts of…

Grudge match over thesis.com

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg and Chris Pearson do not get along. I'll refer to Siobhan McKeown's chapter in the WordPress history book on Thesis for those that want to learn the specifics. Last year, Automattic bought thesis.com from a third party. The issue…

The unicorn in the zoo

Brian Krogsgard

July 9, 2015

This zoo is a good zoo. In many ways, it's like a lot of other zoos. There are a lot of different kinds of species and exhibits and it's a popular zoo to go to. There are some patrons that…

The role of a senior developer

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

Matt Briggs has one of the best posts I've ever read on the stages and mindsets of a software developer. He notes that years of experience does not make a "senior" developer: The reality we live in is that “Senior…

Publishing checklist

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

Daniel Bachhuber and the team at Fusion has created a plugin to enable a publishing checklist in the WordPress post editor. It's convenient, customizable, and I think in the perfect spot over on the right side widget area. It also…

PressNomics 4 set for March 3-4, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

Business

PressNomics 4 is set. You can (and should) start planning to visit sunny Phoenix March 3-4th next year. This is one of the best events of the year, and probably the best event for business oriented WordPress professionals. I launched…

WordPress 4.3 Beta and some fun features

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

WordPress 4.3 is chugging along toward it's slated August release. Beta 1 was released on July 2nd. The release includes a number of big new features, and a couple of smaller features I personally am excited about. The release post…

Lasso adds real time revision restoring to WordPress

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Nick Haskins and team released an update to Lasso, the most excting feature of which is revision restoration. It's interesting to see these recent attempts to add front-end editing to WordPress and how they're progressing. Nick is planning for a…

WordCamp US update

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Applications to host have now closed. Hopefully this means the announcement for dates isn't far away either, and we'll see if there'll be a WordCamp US in 2015 still.

WordPress.org revamping hosting recommendations

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Hosting

It looks like a change is coming to the WordPress.org hosting recommendations page. Companies will now be able to request a presence, though they have to part with quite a bit of information to do so. It will certainly be…

Switching away from Disqus review – increased comments by 304%

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Blog owners swap and change between the various commenting solutions available, but they don't always explain why or what impact it had. Syed Balkhi explains the recent change on wpbeginner.

Give your WordPress client an Apple experience

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Hosting

We're all familiar with the Apple ecosystem to some extent, even if we don't own any Apple products. We know it stands for polish, accessibility, and a complete solution. Carl Alexander wishes that the situation with WordPress hosting was more…

How we built our blog

Japh Thomson

July 3, 2015

Have a read of Jon Chan from StackExchange talking through the migration of their blog from WordPress to Jekyll. There's a lot that we, as a WordPress community, can learn from other open source projects and the reasons people decide…

GlotPress as a WordPress plugin, first pass

Japh Thomson

June 28, 2015

GlotPress is the software that powers translations for WordPress, and now also themes and plugins. It was originally written on top of BackPress (which has seen some recent revival of interest). There have been a number of discussions about the…