WordPress News

The complexity of WordPress solutions

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Tom McFarlin has a thoughtful post on the complexity of creating WordPress solutions, partly as a rebuttal to a friend of his citing that WordPress offers opportunities for "stupid simple money." I think it’s fair to say that it’s not terribly…

A UI to manage custom post type titles, slugs, and descriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Brady Vercher has released a clever plugin to manage custom post type title, slugs, and descriptions in the native WordPress interface. This is quite nice for folks that want to give clients access to this data, something that historically is…

Post-acquisition interview with WooThemes co-founder Mark Forrester

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Mark Forrester did his first post-acquisition interview with the South African startup blog, VentureBurn. It's a good interview that has some nice background information as well as a couple of new details on the acquisition. While the figures behind the…

WordPress REST API Beta 2 is available

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Steady progress is being made on the WordPress REST API version 2.0. Beta 2 has been released: A mere four weeks since releasing the first beta of version 2, the REST API team has returned to announce the second beta…

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Security

Sucuri is seeking to build a full CloudFlare alternative, according to WP Tavern: “The fundamental difference is that it’s security first, performance second,” Perez said. “So yes, in the coming months you’ll see more as our solution blossoms into a…

Singular community

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

John Eckman -- the CEO of 10up -- discusses whether there is a singular WordPress community, or a singular Drupal community. He notes that there is often very little overlap amongst communities, and WordPress and Drupal communities have pre-existing opinions…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Fields API, born again

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

A new Fields API has been born again from the Metamorphosis Metadata UI/API project that started in late 2013. It's hard to believe it's been that long. It's getting another, scaled back attempt. First of all, we split off the UI…

Finding stability in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

Business

Lara Littlefield's is the latest story on HeroPress, and it is a moving one. Lara has been using WordPress since the very beginning and today runs SimmerWP, which looks like a really neat tool for managing recipes. Lara really opens up…

Happy 12th birthday, WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

WordPress turned 12 today. Version 0.7 of WordPress was released May 27th, 2003, after Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked the stagnated b2. Matt Mullenweg had cake: He also talked to Jeff Chandler on WP Tavern to mark the occasion.…

2015 internet trends

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

Kleiner Perkins does a yearly internet trends report that I've enjoyed for a few years now. The 2015 report is out and it's really interesting. I learned quite a bit -- it's a whopping 197 slides -- about trends in…

Re/code acquired by Vox Media

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Re/code has been acquired by Vox Media. Re/code was previously All Things D before rebranding a year and a half ago after a split with the Wall Street Journal. Re/code is a popular tech news site that breaks a good…

Multi-checkbox in the Customizer

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Justin Tadlock has an in-depth tutorial for creating a multi-checkbox Customizer control. As is pretty much anything Justin writes, this is a handy tutorial to keep in your arsenal.

A straightforward guide to create an online course

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Paul Jarvis has written an excellent and thorough post about how he built an online course that has generated well over $100,000 in revenue in the last year. He walks through using WordPress, Memberful, and Mailchimp to build a membership…

Publish to WordPress from Microsoft OneNote

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Microsoft OneNote is a part of Microsoft Office that I've never heard of. Apparently it's fairly commonly used amongst Windows users; I guess it came after I left Windows. Anyway, it's a note taking app that's also part of Microsoft's…

Solving plugin dependency

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Ryan McCue and Gary Pendergast have differing viewpoints on plugin dependency and how to solve it (or whether to solve it at all). Watching them debate is music to my ears. From Ryan: Software is invariably never built in isolation (“no…