WordPress News

“Friends of Pods” is a program to help keep Pods active and free

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

Scott Kingsley Clark announced a program today called Friends of Pods. It's a donation system (one time and recurring) that aims to raise support to keep Pods active and free. They already have a partnership for funding with Automattic, but…

SIDEKICK is offering free access for some plugin and theme walkthroughs

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

SIDEKICK is a tool that offers guided walkthroughs for the WordPress admin. They have a new program that allows plugin and theme authors of free plugins to create guided walkthroughs for free. Normally plugin or theme authors have to pay…

WordPress showcase: The Travel Episodes

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

I stumbled upon this website today, thanks to the Smashing Magazine newsletter. The Travel Episodes is a group of stories that uses a combination of text, photography, and video to tell compelling stories of travelers. The stories are in English…

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API released

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

Version 1.2 of the WordPress REST API was released today. It's release follows nine months of work, and it will be the last pre-2.0 release for the API. Development on the 1.2 branch has been active, but was entirely on…

Happytables 3 is taking on Squarespace and Wix for restaurant websites with a brand new platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

The new Happytables is a slick setup, and they've invested more time and energy into a hosted WordPress solution than perhaps anyone but Automattic on WordPress.com. The difference here is they are going after a niche, and it's a huge one with a big need: restaurants.

Escaping all the things

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Andy Adams just keeps delivering the goods. This time, he guest posts on CSS Tricks with an excellent introduction to front-end escaping of data. I'm really glad this is on a blog as popular as CSS Tricks, because it's a…

How to write awesome support requests

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Maybe this is preaching to the choir (as many of my readers provide support), but that's okay. If nothing else, this post by Ryan Sullivan can be a resource to send folks to for writing better support tickets.

Open metrics from UltimateMember

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

I've had my eye on UltimateMember since it launched. It's been quite popular on the WordPress plugin repo and they now have paid add-ons as well. The plugin makes member directories much easier to make. Honestly, I wish I found this…

Cache Buddy and other caching notes from Mark Jaquith

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Mark Jaquith did a session at WordCamp London on caching. He probably knows as much as anyone in the world on the topic. Fortunately, Duncan Stuart took some really helpful notes on his session. Included in the notes is a…

Plugin up for adoption: Idea Factory

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Nick Haskins has a neat little plugin called Idea Factory, which allows website visitors to submit and vote on ideas (demo video here). He's put it up for adoption so he can focus on his full-time job and his Aesop…

WordPress News with Brian Richards

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

DraftPlanet

Brian Richards and I cover the week in WordPress news with a new short format (15 minute) podcast. The Excerpt is part of the Draft podcast, and will be balanced by long form interviews.

A few follow-ups on recent news

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

There are a few items from the last few days I'd like to follow up on, so figured I'd just lump them in here together. First off, Jetpack had a bit of a rocky update to 3.4. Version 3.4.1 came…

Segmentation and pricing

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

Chris Lema has written a really great series of posts -- I'll call it a trilogy -- on segmentation and pricing. It all came together today where he uses Gravity Forms as an example product and segments their user base…

WordPress 4.2 Beta 2 released

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

Beta 2 for WordPress 4.2 is out. If you don't already have trunk running somewhere, you might consider running the beta tester plugin so you can give it a spin. Press This has continued to get a lot of attention,…

A developer’s guide to contributing to WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

Ian Jones has written an incredibly comprehensive guide to contributing to WordPress core on the Delicious Brains blog. They've really been doubling down on good dev-centric content lately, which I love to see. The post includes a focus on an…

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

From the Chromium blog, one of the more impressive performance improvements I've seen yet: Ideally every part of a user's interaction with a browser is fast, starting with loading web pages. Chrome is introducing two techniques called script streaming and…