WordPress News

A(nother) new era of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…

A proposal to open WordPress core inline images in a modal window

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

I wrote a blog post on the Make Flow blog today regarding an initiative for a more intuitive image detail viewing experience. I think it would be good to have a modal option for viewing image details, versus linking to…

WordPress.org launches brand new theme directory experience

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

The team behind WordPress.org has launched a brand new, and improved, theme directory experience. The directory also goes into a customizer-like experience when you click to preview a theme. My one beef is that I wish the demos themselves could…

WordPress accessibility and how it’s misunderstood

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

Joe Dolson has a really information post about why WordPress accessibility is often misunderstood. In short, it's because the front-end is incredibly variable depending on the theme and plugins installed. WordPress itself, with any generated output and the admin, are…

A little perspective

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

From Club member Gerasimos Tsiamalos -- also known as Tsiger from CSSIgniter -- I got one of the best comments I've read in a long time. He has a very personal story about how he got involved in WordPress theme…

Story.am launches as hosted version of Aesop Story Engine

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

Story.am launched today. It's a project by Nick Haskins that offers a hosted, Mediumesque version of his Aesop Story Engine plugin. From the press release: Story.AM allows users to sign up and publish stories within their own private “collection.” Story…

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled "Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions", Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I'll call the "big theme" market. Envato theme authors…

It’s time to ditch download counts on WordPress.org and get real stats

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

Security

I'm grumpy today. Clickbait journalism annoys me, and WordPress security related clickbait journalism especially annoys me. Ars Technica, PC World, ZD Net, and TripWire are just a few sites that reported over a million WordPress sites were susceptible to being hacked…

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It's pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here's a rundown of some of the features and background.

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

I want to take a moment to link up a few interviews you might be interested in this week. AMA with Tom McFarlin In the second WP Chat Ask Me Anything, Tom McFarlin takes the stage. Tom is a great…

Automattic removes Bitcoin payments (for now)

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

CoinDesk reports that Automattic has removed Bitcoin from accepted payment options. The original news by Automattic to support Bitcoin in 2012 was heavily covered and applauded. Matt Mullenweg commented on the CoinDesk article that it's perhaps not gone forever: We're still…

The problem of link rot and data loss

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

Planet

Link rot is a serious issue on the web, as many links of the past are going away. We lose that data for good if we don't back it up somewhere. It may seem insignificant now, but we simply don't know what is being published today that we'll wish we'd kept in the future. But we can solve this issue.

Pattern library for accessible WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

Back in January, a team was formed to create a pattern library for accessible WordPress themes. They stated their goals for the new pattern library: The goals are simple: Become a central resource for WordPress theme developers to learn about…

Press This and copyrights

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

I participated in last week's core dev chat, and in my feedback for feature plugin Press This, I raised a question with the team about copyright infringement possibilities. I asked, because when testing, I used a full-size image from Politico…

Keeping my eye on GravityPDF

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

I found GravityPDF today, thanks to a tweet from David Bisset. Pro tip, David is full of interesting twittering. The plugin and service combination makes it possible to create downloadable PDFs based on Gravity Forms entries. And it looks pretty…

Competitors as a source of motivation

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

Pippin Williamson blogged about why he believes competitors should be a source of motivation. I absolutely loved it: One of the best changes I have made in my professional career is adjust how I look at my competitors. I look…