WordPress News

The value of niche content

Brian Krogsgard

January 15, 2015

Brad Williams put together a list of the recommended WordPress sites from the three editions of his book, Professional WordPress Design & Development. In the list, he notes whether these sites are active or inactive today. It's a sad list.…

WordPress allows for more rapid innovation of local news

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2015

The Charlotte Observer has created an experimental site, adjacent to their main web property, called the Charlotte Five. It's a WordPress website that highlights five articles a day, in a mobile-first layout. I love seeing sites like this at a local level, despite not having a big…

Should we ditch the WordPress file editor?

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2015

Ryan Sullivan makes a pretty compelling argument to ditch the file editors built into the WordPress admin. Anyone that's been working with WordPress for a while has either heard horror stories or has some of their own, of either being…

GravityView raises the bar for WordPress video advertisements

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Okay, maybe it doesn't raise the bar the way you think I mean. But this is worthwhile. I'm pretty busy building the new Post Status infrastructure, but not too busy to post this. GravityView is a WordPress plugin by Zack…

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They've learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.

The ABCs of the web

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

DevelopmentPlanet

We like to say it's easy to build a website, and to build it on top of WordPress. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But for just about anyone, it can be intimidating when you're just digging in. You've got to learn your ABCs before you can tell a great story. On the web -- especially as it gets more complicated -- there's a lot to learn to build and maintain a modern website.

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Website micro services provider, Elto, is shutting down for now

Brian Krogsgard

December 22, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Elto, formerly Tweaky, is a micro services provider, for lack of a better term. They started with $25 tweaks, which until they shut down services today, worked it's way to a $199 minimum. WordPress is a high focus vertical for…

WordPress 4.1, “Dinah”

Brian Krogsgard

December 18, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.1, "Dinah", has just been released. WordPress 4.1 is the result of months of work and includes a number of excellent new features. WordPress 4.1 was led by John Blackbourn, who did an outstanding job. Two hundred and eighty three…

WordPress is an army

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2014

WordPress News

I'm going to make an analogy and it isn't a perfect one. That's the thing with the vast majority of analogies. This is an overly long and perhaps unnecessary post to dissuade us from writing or caring about "top" lists…

Let’s WordSesh together

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2014

Planet

This weekend, WordSesh 3 will begin. WordSesh is 24 straight hours of live streamed presentations and discussions from a variety of intelligent folks in the WordPress world. It starts at 0:00 UTC Saturday, which really means 7:00 p.m. Eastern time…

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

"Oh, my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way. Nice to meet you." After the WordPress co-founder welcomed the largest WordCamp San Francisco audience ever, he introduced himself and began this year's State of the Word -- the annual talk where…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

LoopConf: A new WordPress conference that’s only for developers

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2014

HostingPlanet

Early May 2015 will be the first ever LoopConf, a WordPress conference that's geared solely toward developers. Ryan Sullivan, the owner of WP Site Care, is hosting the conference that is to be held in Las Vegas. LoopConf describes…

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…