WordPress News

WordPress 4.2 field notes

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Aaron Jorbin has a helpful post on Make WordPress Core that offers notes on some developer centric changes in 4.2 that folks should know about. I'll cover a few of these items more on the main blog, and some I've…

Where style guides fit process

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Design

If you've ever worked on a site that evolves over time or for one that has pre-existing brand guidelines, then you probably know a bit about style guides. Chris Coyier has kindly named some common style guide strategies, and talked…

Facebook has abandoned their official WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

From Sarah Gooding on WP Tavern: The official Facebook plugin for WordPress launched in 2012 with the help of engineers from Automattic and currently lists 14 contributing authors. The plugin is active on more than 200,000 websites, but Facebook has…

Postmatic begins rollout of commercial version at $9 per month

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Business

Late last year I wrote about Postmatic, a plugin that aims to improve your WordPress email and commenting experience. The plugin allows for comment management directly from your email, as well as handles post and comment subscriptions for your blog. The…

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

WordPress showcase: Politico for Europe

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Design

Politico.eu just launched. Politico is a big political news outlet here in the United States, and their push to European politics is a major initiative for them. And they're making the push using WordPress as their CMS. I was surprised…

How to decide what should be a paid add-on

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Business

James Laws writes about what to consider when determining whether a new plugin feature should be a paid add-on or not. At NinjaForms, they balance a number of criteria, but in the end he says it comes to a gut…

Custom settings screens no longer allowed in WordPress.org themes

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Custom settings screens are no longer going to be allowed in WordPress themes submitted to WordPress.org. All settings are to go through the Customizer now, after a theme review team meeting in Slack today, where the change was championed by Justin…

WordPress security release for all versions

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

All past versions of WordPress "are affected by a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability, which could enable anonymous users to compromise a site," according to the release post by Gary Pendergast. WordPress 4.1.2, 4.2 RC3, and new tag releases on past versions…

What we learned today

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2015

Security

In my blog post about today's coordinated plugin update, I discussed the logistics of many of the top WordPress plugins working together to put out an update to fix the misuse of add_query_arg() and remove_query_arg(). Throughout the day, I've tracked other…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

WordPress News with Daniel Espinoza

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

DraftPlanet

Daniel Espinoza and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Automattic versus WordPress, the 4.2 release candidate, clever REST API uses, taxes, and hosted website solutions' marketing.

WordPress, the conduit

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

From John James Jacoby, he discusses WordPress's role as a conduit: WordPress, the software, is a conduit for creativity, discussion, and innovation. You are introduced to it in such a simple way, but it’s potential is immediately recognizable so you…

How long it takes to write an in-depth blog post

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

I don't think I've ever really tracked my own time for blogging, but the content guy at Buffer did, and he broke his process down to a very granular level. It turns out, his average Buffer post takes about three…

Mega marketing of hosted website solutions

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Wix, Shopify, and Squarespace are marketing absolutely everywhere, and spending fortunes to do so. The 3 companies listed here are on course to spend well over $200 million on marketing in 2015. In total, the 3 companies had revenues $141…

All about WordPress web addresses

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Simon Wheatley has a really nice slidedeck that dissects WordPress URLs and shows you what they really mean, do, and how to play with them. The "URL to query" concepts in WordPress are really powerful to fully understand. You can…