WordPress News

WordPress showcase: GovLoop

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

GovLoop is an online community built with WordPress and BuddyPress, aimed at connecting government employees. The WordPress.com VIP hosted website has, "over 150,000 members who use GovLoop to get new ideas and tips to do their job better." Peter Slutsky…

Sync local and remote images

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Mark Jaquith has a handy snippet for syncing Photon images between a local install that doesn't have a copy of the uploads folder and the remote, Jetpack enabled site. What if the site you're working on has like, 30GB of…

VersionPress 1.0 — “the undo button for WordPress” — released

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

VersionPress tried and failed to raise $30,000 last year, but it didn't stop them from moving forward. They've now released version 1.0 of VersionPress, which they still call a early access release with a long to-do list. The plugin essentially…

How remote work can help cure homelessness in the bay area

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2015

Eric Elliott has a unique perspective on homelessness and code. He sees the startup scene (and lack of remote work options) as one of the primary drivers of expensive housing -- and therefore homelessness -- in the bay area. And…

Clever ways to use the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

Despite the Upworthiness of the title, Daniel Bachhuber has some interesting use cases for the WordPress REST API in this tech-focused Fusion post. Content analytics, data for split testing, and other ideas are included. It's a good read to help…

Friendlier, safer admin areas

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

Cliff Seal's presentation at WordCamp Atlanta is now available, and in it he discusses creating "friendlier, safer admin areas." His talk is interesting because he highlights some of the scary "dragons" of the admin to those that aren't comfortable with…

WordPress in a next generation PHP world

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

"It's a great time to be writing PHP," is not something you hear in all corners of the programming world. But in Aaron Jorbin's mind, this is the case. Aaron notes that the growing popularity of HHVM and the upcoming…

Three years of building an eCommerce platform

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

Sometimes you read something and it just sticks with you. Pippin Williamson has a way of writing about his own experiences that is raw, honest, humble, and uplifting. In his post where he celebrates three years of running EDD, he shares…

WordPress 4.2 Release Candidate now available

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

The first release candidate for WordPress 4.2 is now available. If you're unfamiliar with the stages of WordPress development, release candidates are intended to be the "finished" product for a WordPress release. You can now rest easy that the feature…

Tax day in the US

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2015

It's tax day in the United States. Today, I had some conversations about taxes in the Post Status Slack (if you haven't joined, you should!) and elsewhere. It's actually not that easy to track specific income for product revenues for…

WP Sessions has new more affordable offerings

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2015

My friend Brian Richards has a new setup for WPSessions coming soon, with free live sessions and more affordable access to recordings. Also, his website mastery class is going to be awesome and you should recommend it to your friends…

Work hard and be nice

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

I love when simple advice just hits the nail on the head. From Jon Hicks -- a prolific designer -- in an interview with WooThemes: My motto is always “work hard and be nice to people.” No one is born…

How to keep leads warm

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Curtis McHale has some excellent advice on how to keep leads warm. He uses an example of when he needed work and was able to get booked up for a month in a matter of hours. His trick is to…

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

Hosting tips for developers

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Mark Jaquith shares some hosting tips for developers using Pantheon's service. I wish I'd seen this before I used Pantheon for the first time. If you're doing client work on Pantheon, Mark's guide is outstanding. Also, it's not a bad read…

Weekend reads

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Here are some articles I liked this week, but didn't do a complete Note for: Improving font performance with subsetting and local storage: font tips I haven't seen before on Sitepoint. BenchPress: count me in, Brad! The fundamentals of clean…