WordPress News

WordPress News with Beka Rice

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools', and Array's year in review.

Don’t poop on Emoji in WordPress 4.2

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Aaron Jorbin wins the post title of the week award. Don't poop on Emoji, he argues, in response to some (shortsighted) backlash from the Twitters. Fixing WordPress to work in more languages exposes emoji. Since emoji support isn’t great yet,…

Productivity in a design agency

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Design

Paper Leaf does mostly WordPress-centric design and development. Jeff Archibald shared an infographic with their productive breakdown: hours logged billable versus non-billable, projects won, etc. My favorite part was the breakdown of tasks in the hours that were logged. I've…

A theme shop year in review

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Business

Mike McAlister has shared an in-depth post recapping his first year as an independent theme shop, Array. Array sells themes on their website, but has also been on WordPress.com for a while. However, they also experimented with Creative Market. What…

Recommendations for improving WordPress plugin quality

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Daniel Pataki is generally a thoughtful writer, and he knows his stuff with WordPress. He's written in-depth articles for Smashing Magazine and others. I hesitate to link to anything on WPMUDev, but this post is worth reading. Daniel advocates that…

A deep dive into “passive” income and online marketing

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Hosting

I've been doing a lot of research on the empire that Pat Flynn built. He discovered the potential for passive income after he realized a website he made to take notes for an architecture exam was getting a lot of traffic. He…

A tale of contributing to WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Derek Herman, a longtime Envato employee and WordPress specialist, tells his tale of learning how to contribute to WordPress core. I like Derek's post because it's personal, and not just technical; and he gives advice for how and where to…

Release leads for WordPress 4.3 and 4.4 announced

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Konstantin Obenland will be lead on WordPress 4.3, after a number of years of experience as a contributor. His focus has historically been on themes, but he's been involved in many aspects of WordPress. Konstantin works at Automattic as a Code Wranger.…

Drupal and WordPress have sold us out

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi dives into the hosting recommendations from both Drupal and WordPress, calling them out as false and with little-disclosed intentions.

We must be our own beta audience

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

With 5,000+ installs, according to WordPress.org, the Beta Testing plugin needs more adoption. Ryan Boren tells us why: Every day, your site will auto update to the latest nightly build. We committed long ago to ensuring that trunk is continuously dogfoodable…

April Fools’ roundup

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Today is April 1st. Trust nothing and nobody, including me. Yoast + Crowd Favorite are not really happening, but this one had pretty much no hint to the contrary. AutoMatton -- the WordPress.com auto-blogging tool. Pagely is partnering with U-Haul…

WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

WordPress News

WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt's mission to power 50% of the web.

How a happiness engineer uses Alfred

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

Ryan Cowles is a happiness engineer at Automattic, and he's featured on Alfred's blog with some helpful workflows, tips, and use cases for the popular Mac tool. I love Alfred, though I really only use it for finding stuff. I…

Behind the curtain with DerpPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

Sarah Gooding got her Christmas wish: an interview with DerpPress. She doesn't find out the identity, but she does ask good questions and Derpy gives (mostly) insightful answers. 'Ole DerpPress is one of my favorite WordPress characters, despite the anonymity.…

Angular plus the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

More and more examples are popping up of the WordPress REST API and other platforms playing together. Michael Bromley has a post and source code for how he built his blog with AngularJS and the WordPress REST API. I really…

Tips for Chrome DevTools

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

This post highlights some Chrome DevTools tips that I've never seen before. Many are ridiculously useful, and the whole post is gifified, making it easy to digest. I didn't expect much when I clicked on it, but I wish I…