WordPress News

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

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

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…

Taking value-based pricing too far

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

Jonathan Christopher writes about taking value-based pricing too far. He addresses the popularity of value-based pricing, as well as its tendency to be defined many ways. But he ends up focusing largely about some of the common pitfalls of not talking money…

Starting a mastermind

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

Business

Today, I had my first meeting with my new (and first ever) mastermind group. Not heard of a mastermind? It's typically a small group of individuals connected by at least some common thread, where the group meets periodically to discuss…

Postmatic comments

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Finally, I saw this tease today of Postmatic ajaxified comments, which is aiming to be a full Disqus or Jetpack replacement. I wrote about Postmatic when it came out, and this looks like a fun iteration that's on the way.…

Learning Javascript

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Every year it seems, I say I'm going to learn Javascript. Over the last few years, I've finally gotten to where I can do some very small things, but I don't understand it really. I started taking some Lynda courses…

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Render is a project by Real Big Marketing that attempts (and succeeds, I believe) to offer a more intuitive UI for handling shortcodes in the WordPress admin. The video to see how Render works is 7 minutes, but I think…

I have x and y, I just need to…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

I didn't expect to answer a question on Quora today. Most days I'm just annoyed by their emails. But today a question caught my eye, purely because I was curious what the answers were. Here was the question: I need…

New user experience working group for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2015

Drew Jaynes has introduced a new user experience working group for WordPress, which will begin during this WordPress 4.2 release cycle. I'm really excited to be a member of this (now 20) person team, who were "invited to participate were…

Women, WordPress, & the web

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2015

Mel Choyce is an outstanding member of the WordPress community. In this post, which is actually a follow-up to one she wrote two years ago, she talks about the environment for women in the WordPress and web communities. Quite honestly, you…

Intentional networking

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2015

A lot of people find networking and getting to know people at events quite difficult. It can be a challenge, especially in an event venue where there are hundreds of new faces all around. My lawyer -- yes, my lawyer…

BuddyPress 4.2, “Spumoni”, released

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2015

BuddyPress 2.2 has been released, with contributions from 45 different people. this looks like a great release for BuddyPress, with a member types component that seems particularly nice. From the post: Here’s our favorite changes 2.2 features, in no particular order.…

WordPress lead developer changes

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Yesterday and today there has been some significant news for the WordPress project. We now have two new lead developers, and two long-time leads are stepping down after outstanding tenures assisting with steering the ship.

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse added as WordPress lead developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2015

Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse have been added as WordPress lead developers. Straight from Andrew Nacin's announcement on Make WordPress Core: The two are already highly respected leaders in the community. Dion has architected some of the most important code…

Matt Mullenweg on profits and losses

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2015

Business

Matt Mullenweg has written a rare bit of in-depth insight to decision making at Automattic. The framework for his post is for balancing advice from advisors with the goals of the company, and how those things aren't always on the…

Sennza joins Human Made to expand enterprise Australian presence

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2015

From the Human Made blog: I’m really excited to announce our acquisition of well known Australian WordPress agency Sennza. It’s fantastic to be able to welcome Bronson, Lachlan & Tarei to Human Made and our growing Australian agency team. Sennza have long punched well above…

The 99% of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

Mario Peshev knows a lot about the long tail of the WordPress "community". He notes that they really aren't part of a community at all. Highlighting the thousands upon thousands that offer WordPress services on freelance websites like oDesk, he…