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Live sandboxes versus admin screenshots

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

Leland Fiegel posed the question on WP Chat, "why don't we seem to see more live sandbox sites set up?" I know I heard from someone that A/B tests didn't show higher sales from using a sandbox/demo plugin. Personally, I'm…

Easily test low vision support

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

A website was shared at the CodePen Boston meetup that makes it easy to test for various low-vision disorders, called lowvision.support. It's really simple and quite useful, especially for the varieties of color-blindness. Here's Post Status in one of them:…

How to deduct travel expenses

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

This is geared toward lawyers and lawyerish travel, but I found it quite thorough and applicable for WordPress nerds that travel for client work, conferences, etc. Steven Chung goes into detail about how to properly deduct travel expenses for your…

WP Rollback makes changing to specific versions of plugins easy

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

WP Rollback is a new free plugin by WordImpress that makes switching to a specific version of a plugin easy. As Matt Cromwell (of WordImpress) noted on WP Tavern, incremental updates on a complex plugin like WooCommerce could be easily…

Custom links in the Customizer

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

Speaking of the Customizer, Devin Price has a short and sweet tutorial on inserting a custom text link into the customizer. As he notes, it can be useful for links to documentation, upsells, etc.

Customizer resources

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2015

There is still some negative feedback floating around about converting theme settings to the customizer. I was going to make a list with some good resources in response, but Tom McFarlin did it for me, like the nice guy he…

Adii Pienaar raises half a million for Receiptful from Matt Mullenweg, Collis Ta’eed, and more

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

WooThemes co-founder Adii Pienaar -- who sold his shares in late 2013 -- has raised half a million dollars for Receiptful, his newish eCommerce receipt sending SaaS. Adii boasts 2,500 active subscribers (of 5,000 signups) for Receiptful. More interesting to…

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

Brian Krogsgard

May 12, 2015

DesignSecurity

Two of the initiatives for WordPress 4.3 are for further improving WordPress (especially mobile) UI and re-evaluating password management. Starting Thursday, lead developer Helen Housandí will host UI chats in the WordPress Slack #design channel. Additionally, lead developer Mark Jaquith further laid…

Loopconf highlights

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2015

I mooched off of Loopconf for two days straight, watching the live stream for free. I caught at least half of the sessions, and most of the speakers were terrific. I highly recommend you just peruse the Loopconf Youtube channel to…

In defense of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2015

Security

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares…

The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

A basic example of fetching posts with the WP API

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2015

Andy Adams offers a simple example on CSS Tricks for fetching a random post with the click of a button, using the WordPress REST API. His example is similar to how I run the ad system on Post Status (I…

A commitment to backward compatibility

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2015

Pippin Williamson did an

(Almost) nobody uses social sharing buttons on mobile

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2015

In a new post on Moovweb, they highlight that only 0.39% of mobile users use social sharing buttons. That's quite low. And it doesn't get that much better for desktop. It's a compelling argument to not have them at all,…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

How to save image media data in the customizer

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

I love me a good Justin Tadlock tutorial. I really don't have to tell most of you anything else. I "grew up" in WordPress reading Justin's tutorials. In this tutorial, Justin walks through how to save more data than just…