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From homeless to boundless

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

I met Dan Griffiths in a beer joint in Phoenix, after a full day of PressNomics. Hearing his story for the first time made my jaw drop with surprise for how he got to where he is and admiration for…

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

One year of Post Promoter Pro

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Business

We often hear of big fails and big success stories with WordPress plugins and products. It was refreshing to hear Chris Klosowski blog about his experience selling Post Promoter Pro, his commercial buffer-style plugin that has done okay, but certainly…

BackupBuddy introduces deployments in 6.0

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BackupBuddy is introducing a deployment feature in BackupBuddy 6.0. BackupBuddy Deployment is a new beta feature in BackupBuddy 6.0 that allows you to easily push or pull a site’s database, media files, plugins and active theme back and forth between…

The six month speed bump

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

The six month speed bump is just one bit of great information I got from Andrew Spittle's advice on scaling support teams, based on his tenure as Automattic's head of support (Note, I'm inserting my own paragraph breaks for the sake of…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

A guide to wp_cron

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2015

Chris Reynolds has done an excellent and thorough walkthrough of wp_cron, WordPress' cron system (that as he notes, isn't really a cron system). He walks you through a lot of code snippets, the right way to use it, some potential…

Theming in the future

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2015

Kirk Wright recently spoke at a meetup about theming in the future. In it, he shares links to projects and information to support the talk, and through that I landed on Tango. He describes Tango like this: I recently started building…

Professional users

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2015

Dave Winer says why he loves what he calls professional users: We should be teaching young people how to be great users. How to contribute to the projects that make them more effective at doing what they do. The best form…

Talking pay

Brian Krogsgard

May 4, 2015

The #talkpay hashtag has taken off lately. My favorite take on it is likely Emily Dreyfuss on Wired, describing her, “struggle with the last great taboo.” Another favorite of mine on open salaries is from Planet Money, where the podcast goes inside…

An interface for the WordPress Settings API

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Tom McFarlin has a nice six post series on his blog that walks through creating a PHP interface for the WordPress Settings API. It's yet another great way to learn from Tom. By the way, he's also looking to sell…

WordPress.com suspends open theme submissions

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

WordPress.com has changed their policies a couple of times on theme submissions. It was closed, then it opened up, and now it's closed again. Sarah Gooding did the hard work on this one: I contacted Automattic to find out why…

A six figure side project

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Tommy Griffith has a pretty thorough case study for how he created ClickMinded as a WordPress-based course / membership website, which in 2014 crossed into six figure revenue as a side project. It's worth reading in general, but I really…

Audience Ops aims to offer regular editorial content for your business blog

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Business

Brian Casel, who is half of the Bootstrapped Web podcast and the founder of Restaurant Engine, has a new project called Audience Ops. Audience Ops is a recurring service business that offers content marketing for online businesses. Brian is a…

WordPress showcase: The New York Times Journeys

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

The New York Times Journeys site won a Webby for the best general website category. I learned this thanks to Scott Taylor, who also shared that his co-worker (and fellow prolific core developer) at the Times, Eric Lewis, created the Journeys…

The best WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2015

Rob Neu wrote a ridiculously long, but very high quality, listicle of the best WordPress plugins "since the dawn of time." I don't agree with every single one of his picks, but he has tested them all and they definitely each…