WordPress News

Version 1 of the WordPress code reference is online

Travis Northcutt

April 28, 2014

In case you missed it last Friday, Siobhan McKeown announced that version one of the new WordPress code reference is now live. The code reference provides for easy exploration of core functions, classes, methods, and hooks, as well as the…

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2014

WordPress News

Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build "Snowfall", the New York Times' famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into…

New Rainmaker, a hosted WordPress service by Copyblogger

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

HostingWordPress News

I have called it the future in the past, and it seems the future is here. I've always wondered why more people haven't created their own little hosted WordPress platforms. In my view, there could be a hundred WordPress.com style…

Demo WP Pro helps you create demo sites for WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

April 24, 2014

BusinessHosting

The folks behind Ninja Forms are working on a new plugin, called Demo WP Pro. Demo WP Pro is pretty meta, as it's intended for people that sell WordPress related products. The plugin allows you to create demo sites available for users…

From the other side, selling ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

WordPress News

Leland Fiegal posted an incredible wrap-up blog post about his journey with ThemeLab and about selling it to Syed Balkhi, as I reported just a bit ago. I love seeing something with this much detail, that's so frank and honest.…

Syed Balkhi, of WP Beginner, enters the commercial theme market with ThemeLab

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

ThemeLab has been around since 2007, started by Leland Fiegel. Leland released dozens of themes on ThemeLab, most of which were free. He also wrote a consistent blog and was generally an active member of the WordPress community. Over time…

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

There's a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structured around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose which themes get featured on the WordPress…

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released an interesting new tool, called Postbot. Postbot is a webapp, at Postbot.co, which allows WordPress.com authenticated users to upload photos in bulk and schedule them as posts. There is, of course, a fun little gif. Once I…

From ThemeForest to Array, the story of a theme business

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

BusinessDesign

Mike McAlister has been an active member of the commercial WordPress theme space since 2009. He started by selling themes on ThemeForest. He transitioned to the Okay Themes brand in December of 2011. And at the end of March of this year, Mike…

Tips for a better eCommerce website

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2014

Business

I've seen it many times. A business owner goes to a consultant, and they want an eCommerce offering for their products. They may even have some functionality in mind that they'll need. But have they considered the things that will…

Lessons learned from the Obox affiliate program

Brian Krogsgard

April 21, 2014

Business

Obox has run their affiliate program since 2009, but made it invite-only last week. It was not an easy decision for them, since there were some months that their affiliates accounted for more than 30% of all revenue. That said, after investigating…

WordPress 3.9 roundtable with core contributors

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2014

DraftPost Status Podcasts

I was privileged to be joined by six core contributors to WordPress 3.9 for a Google Hangout where we talked about the new release, contributing to WordPress, and more. To learn more about WordPress 3.9, check out our summary. You…

Daniel Bachhuber is the new maintainer of WP-CLI

Travis Northcutt

April 17, 2014

Development

Today Cristi Burcă (perhaps better known as scribu) announced on the WP-CLI blog that Daniel Bachhuber will now be the maintainer of the WP-CLI project. As Cristi notes, he's no longer using WordPress, so it makes perfect sense to hand off the project…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

Keep an eye on accessibility in your projects

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

Design

For one of the first projects I ever worked on in an agency setting, we had a monster list of items to either finish, ask about, or respond to. A classic punch list. So, I was given this list in…

Press75, one of the oldest WordPress theme shops, is for sale

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2014

BusinessWordPress Community

Started in 2008, Press75 is one of the oldest WordPress theme shops. Jason Schuller has run the site for years, and according to the listing, it was once a half a million dollar per year business. Now it's for sale. Jason…