WordPress News

Filters

Gaming ThemeForest

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Jami Gibbs has a worthwhile take on an interesting ThemeForest controversy: the gamification of the top themes list. ThemeForest themes have a tendency to stay at the top once they reach the top. It's hard for new themes to break in.…

WordPress showcase: Wired’s story builder

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Wired has released their first article that uses a story building tool. It's really beautifully done. The tool is based on The Theme Foundry's Make page builder. The choice of tool makes sense; Wired's lead developer is Zack Tollman, the…

Embedded chatrooms for live events

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Embedded chat options for live events on WordPress sites have always been tough. Podcasts often have a live channel, via something like embedded IRC, Tlk.io or Google Hangouts. None of them are really great. I was intrigued to come across…

Isolated and intrigued

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Another outstanding story on HeroPress, this time from Sean Davis: Finally, at 25 years old and 7 years deep into the Army (which was a planned career at that time), the habit of being isolated and intrigued began to serve…

Forking done right

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

I've been thinking more today about forking pre-existing code for new projects, and how Pippin Williamson was happy to see the Give team fork Easy Digital Downloads. At first, it may seem difficult to feel happy about your work being…

Give launches as eCommerce for donations

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Give, which I've covered before, has launched. I learned today, based on a tweet from Pippin Williamson, that it's a fork of one of his projects. I find that interesting, and I love Pippin's view on it. I already have…

WP Starter is a whole site Composer example

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

WP Starter is a good insight to using Composer for a complete site. It looks like a good compliment to Rarst's micro-site. It's worth noting: I spent two days trying to wrangle Composer, and in my case it just didn't…

In depth on the rewrite API

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Carl Alexander goes in depth with the WordPress rewrite API. self described by Carl, this is "for the adventurous" out there.

ISIL and WordPress…

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

The FBI has put out a public service announcement, warning users against "ISIL" attacks exposing existing and previously acknowledged WordPress plugin vulnerabilities. Sucuri has more, but in short, this probably isn't ISIL, but folks riding ISIL's name, so as to…

WP101 and Sidekick are partnered with GoDaddy

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
WP101 has inked a deal with GoDaddy's Pro (WordPress) hosting product to complement their deal with Sidekick, to enable a significant amount of user training for GoDaddy customers. Both deals are part of an overall agenda from GoDaddy to enable…

You are valuable

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

Overuse of constants

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Mika Epstein gives a convincing argument that PHP's define() function is used too often in plugins to declare constants. She gives a few examples of where it doesn't make sense to use constants to her, though she commonly sees them…

A podcast series on web design

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Medeiros is doing a series on web design, and the business of it. In the fourth part, he interviews Carson McComas in regard to managing a $50,000 project. Carson worked on the eCommerce site I shared a while back.…

Subtle changes to the admin color scheme

Photo of author
Brian Krogsgard

Hugo Baeta posted this weekend on the Make WordPress Design blog, noting some upcoming changes in WordPress 4.2 to the default color scheme. The changes are subtle, making the blues bluer and the blacks have small shades of blues. I…

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.