WordPress News

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…

Handle your health

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

Rami Abraham compares our bodies to our websites, in that they need preventative maintenance. I could not agree more. However, much like preventive maintenance on a website, what’s really important are not the staccato occurrences of a two-week long vacation once…

Recommendation to improve the WordPress visual editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

TinyMCE has been in WordPress for quite a while now. Mark Root-Wiley has some suggestions that he believes would improve the order and format of the buttons in the WordPress visual editor. I really like his suggestions. Old: New: …

Jetpack brings BruteProtect features under its umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

After Automattic's acquisition of BruteProtect last fall, it is unsurprising that today they bring some BruteProtect features under the Jetpack umbrella. The new features include brute force login attempt protection, as well as a website scanner to check for malicious…

Bower vs npm: taming third party package handlers

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

As part of a series on the command line, the Tuts+ team has a good and very thorough post on taming third party package handlers; and they do a deep dive comparing npm and Bower.

Lessons learned crowdfunding a WordPress project

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

The folks behind VersionPress did a postmortem on what they learned running a crowdfunding campaign. They got less than half of their goal, but learned a lot and still managed to utilize the funding they did get. If you're looking…

WordPress.com VIP partners with CoSchedule, a bad sign for Edit Flow

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

The team at WordPress.com VIP has partnered with CoSchedule, the editorial plugin that's gaining popularity. CoSchedule is mostly a hosted application with a WordPress integration. It's quite nice, for folks that need a variety of editorial tools. Notably, their calendar…

Understanding WordPress security vulnerabilities

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Security

Daniel Cid has a good post on Sucuri that describes how they look at WordPress plugin vulnerabilities. Contrary to popular belief, just because you hear “SQL Injection”, it doesn’t mean someone can actually hack your site. The real problem comes…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

Copyblogger has launched a podcasting network on their Rainmaker platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

Rainmaker is a hosted website platform by Copyblogger, which I covered when it launched last year. It's a big growth area for Copyblogger -- who of course you should know owns the StudioPress brand -- and today they announced a…

Open source government intranet

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

At the Big Media & Enterprise meetup in London, the firm Helpful Technology presented on how they built an intranet to serve various departments within GOV.UK, the often praised website of the UK government. Helpful Technology has a working demo…

Performance management and tooling

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

I ran across two good resources for performance today, thanks to Chris Coyier, who has been on a performance tear of late. Perf-tooling.today is a website with all sorts of performance resources linked. Seriously, there are a ton of them.…

Inherit customizer settings between parent and child themes

Brian Krogsgard

March 16, 2015

I found this plugin today, when I had a situation come up where I needed to convert customizer settings from a parent theme to a newly installed child theme. This isn't my first go at this. In fact, I think…

Post Status on Slack

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

I'm happy to announce that the Post Status Slack is ready for members. All registered members should have invites in your inbox from Slack. As new members subscribe, they'll be invited to join as well. Everyone is already in the…

CodeinWP sees huge growth from free theme exposure

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

Ionut at CodeinWP posted an incredible transparency report on their blog today. He shows how they spent two years getting their foundation setup, and made no money at all in 2013 from themes. Now, they are making tens of thousands…

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.