WordPress News

A look back at 16 Automattic acquisitions

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Jeff Chandler dug through the history books and found all 16 Automattic acquisitions since 2007. He notes a number of failed promises and questions he's left with -- which I guess is a common symptom of acquisitions. It's a fun…

Selling a lifestyle and getting personal

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Business

I'm always intrigued by how companies market themselves, both to clients and potential employers. Envato has put a good bit of effort into their marketing videos, and they are definitely selling a lifestyle -- both to sellers and employees. They recently…

HeroPress Kickstarter canceled, to be rebooted with smaller budget

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Topher Derosia has cancelled the Kickstarter for his HeroPress project, after if was still only about a third of the way to the goal with only three days left. He tells me that he'll reboot the project with lower financial…

WPupdatePHP wants to be BrowseHappy for servers

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Hosting

WPupdatePHP is a project by Coen Jacobs to evangelize the need for people to use modern PHP versions for their WordPress installs. It's both a website and a script people can include in their plugins, to function like BrowseHappy does.…

Revenue per employee

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Business

It's always fun to think about how much money others are making in the WordPress world. We want to know what business models are working, what business models aren't working, and generally get an idea how successful various commercial properties…

SiteGround to sponsor Iseulde Van Dorpe full time on WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2015

From WP Tavern, the decision to sponsor a full-time contributor: SiteGround identified and selected its new contributor based on recommendations from others involved in core development. “In search of developing our WordPress involvement even further, we made some inquiries as…

Tax tips for the self employed

Brian Krogsgard

February 12, 2015

Bill Erickson has posted an incredibly helpful cheatsheet for managing various taxes and deductions for anyone that's self employed. Having recently gone self-employed, I have a lot of stuff I need to get in order. This is super handy.

Emoji support in WordPress is happening

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

Emoji. How does this not already exist already in WordPress? I mean, it's taken over our textual expressions everywhere else. Well, Gary Pendergast and team Emoji have you covered. It turns out your Emoji obsession isn't that easy to support,…

WooCommerce Handsome Hippo

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

WooCommerce 2.3 came out today after a month log beta period. Code-named "Handsome Hippo", WooCommerce 2.3 comes with quite a few changes, but the biggest ones are the UI, which is now flatter and Sass-based versus LESS. I think the…

Why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environement

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

Brad Touesnard shares why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environment. He gives three reason, but the one I never would've thought of is regarding plugin load order and how that could allow tools like Query Monitor to miss…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

WP Rocket and commercial plugin value

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

About a week ago, WP Rocket published a post about how they believe transparency matters. I like it, and I get it. I think so too. It also doesn't hurt that it helped spark a conversation around transparency; it's a…

Big update to Visual Form Builder Pro

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

There are four or five big plugins on the form building front. Visual Form Builder Pro is made by Matthew Muro, who lives in my home state. His plugin is pretty slick, and is on the lower end of the…

Get to know the command line

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Brad Parbs introduces us to the command line, or at least his favorite tools for it. It's a good guide if you aren't yet set in your ways. Though this is for beginners, it's not exactly beginner-ish. So beware. If…

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim's podcast for over two hours. It's got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member…

I peaked across the fence at hosted Joomla, then ran home

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

Hosting

Joomla.com launched as a hosted version of the Joomla! CMS. I was interested because my host (SiteGround) had blogged about how they built the hosting platform for the new Joomla.com site. The tech is neat, as is the fact that…