WordPress News

New journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).

Get your favorite Trac ticket some attention

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

For WordPress 4.2, Scott Taylor has published a blog post so that folks can submit Trac tickets they believe deserve special attention this release. There are already a few dozen tickets on the thread, but at a minimum this is…

Complexity in web development

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2015

Fred Meyer has a nice post up that outlines the various complexities we face in web development. His purpose is to explain, as best as he can, just why it's so hard to estimate pricing for websites. He kindly references…

Listen & Watch

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2015

Ah, Friday. If you're slacking a bit, or just looking for some good stuff to listen to or watch this weekend, let me help. Here are some of the best things I've seen this week: A look at WordPress performance…

MOJO Marketplace by the numbers

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2015

While at PressNomics, I heard interesting stats from both Envato (proprietors of ThemeForest) and the MOJO Marketplace, which has was acquired by hosting giant EIG in April 2013. You can catch some of the numbers from Envato from this WP Chat thread.…

A deep dive into wp_kses performance that you must read, even if you don’t care about wp_kses

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2015

Zack Tollman, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my favorite people in the world. Let's preface with that. He does not blog often, but when he blogs, it is fantastic. Go ahead and read everything he's ever written if you're…

WordCamp Europe is going to be in Seville, Spain in June

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2015

Yep, WordCamp Europe is on the books for smack-dab in the middle of the year-- June 26th - 28th -- approximately a week after our baby is due (enter combination of happy faces for baby and sad faces another missed trip to…

Gravity Forms introduces some big new features

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

Gravity Forms 1.9 came out today. This is a major release for the popular form product. It includes a few features I'm really excited about: Native placeholders -- This prevents nasty label hacks people have been doing for years. Granular control…

Be on the lookout: Shop Plugins is an upcoming eCommerce marketplace

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

eCommerce is getting pretty darn big for WordPress. Daniel Espinoza knows eCommerce. He's built extensions for both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, not to mention some non-WordPress entities. He's working on a third-party marketplace aiming to allow anyone to sell their extensions.…

Licensing matters

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

Security

There's a popular WordPress vulnerability scanner called WPScan. To validate its popularity: it has over 1,800 commits, 750 stars, and 165 forks on Github. The scanner is used by a lot of security folks, as well as other service and…

The road to 50% marketshare, and more

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

I've never heard of KitchenSinkWP -- a WordPress podcast that's 48 episodes in (shows what I know) -- but this interview with Matt Mullenweg is quite good. Of note, Adam Silver asks Matt about the road to gaining 50% marketshare for…

WooCommerce is going after photography

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WooThemes announced a new product today, aimed at selling photography with WooCommerce. This is a good first step, and I'm excited to see an eCommerce product target the photography super-niche. That said, there is a ton of room in this market, and WordPress isn't really solving photographers' problems yet.

Another Sucuri “responsible disclosure” postmortem

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

Business

James Giroux manages operations at PageLines. Last week, they were notified of a vulnerability by Sucuri, and he went through the rigmarole most of us are familiar with of juggling responsible disclosure and implementing a fix. James did a postmortem on…

WordPress 4.2: what you need to know going into the development phase

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

WordPress 4.2 kicked off last week with the announcement of Drew Jaynes as release lead. Drew works at 10up, and is a prolific Docs committer for WordPress. The tentative project schedule for 4.2 is up and some key dates are as…

eCommerce plugin marketshare stats

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

Beka Rice has done an awesome write-up on SellWithWP, where she analyzes who is using what WordPress eCommerce plugins out in the wild. Not too surprisingly, WooCommerce is dominate, with over three quarters of marketshare, according to Builtwith. But the…

HeroPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety…