WordPress News

Filters

Easily test low vision support

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

UI and password initiatives for WordPress 4.3

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

(Almost) nobody uses social sharing buttons on mobile

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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

Photo of author
Sami Keijonen
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

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

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…

Gravity Forms integrations for Slack and HipChat

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Gravity Forms has released new add-ons, free for developer plans, that integrate with Slack and HipChat services. You can customize the details of the form inputs to send to Slack and HipChat. This is super useful for me, and I'm…

our sponsors

Hosting.com logo
Omnisend
Kinsta
Progress Planner
Elementor
WP Munich
Atarim
Patchstack

Looking for our logo?

You're in the right spot!

Check out our Logo & Style page.