WordPress News

Using the magnifying glass icon for search

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

I love reading user studies like this recent one from Nielsen Norman Group, where they talk about the user experience for using the magnifying glass icon for search. All in all, they say it works quite well. Users tend to…

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

BusinessDesign

AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that's an absolute titan in a broad range of…

WP Dev Table: A monthly online geeky WordPress podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

WordPress News

WP Dev Table is a monthly podcast created to talk about the kinds of topics that would rarely get more than 20 people listening if they were a WordCamp talk in any city, but worldwide they'll get hundreds of "virtual…

WordPress core proposal: portability

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

Akismet releases update to address pingback vulnerability reports

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

Security

Akismet, the popular WordPress spam prevention plugin by Automattic, has released an update with a number of fixes, including two to address recent reports of DDOS risks in WordPress related to pingbacks. The post describes the two points that address…

WordPress.com has opened applications for commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

Automattic has added a new page on WordPress.com inviting theme makers to submit their theme shops to the platform. Historically, Automattic has invited particular theme makers to be a part of the WordPress.com commercial theme program. I have heard from some…

The evolution of 10up

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…

How a high school student became a professional WordPress developer

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

WordPress News

I've followed Sunny Ratilal since his earliest days contributing to Easy Digital Downloads. I remember Pippin Williamson raving about how good he was at contributing to EDD code and supporting EDD customers. Then I found out he was in high…

Everything I know about the news business

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I thoroughly enjoyed a recent Medium post by Sean Blanda, where he discusses the news business. I have a lot of interest in publishing and news, something WordPress is core to. Sean highlights a number of challenges for the news…

Quick tip: Freelance toolkit by Modern Tribe

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2014

Business

I found the Freelance Toolkit landing page on Modern Tribe's website today thanks to a Tweet from Tom Willmot: https://twitter.com/tomwillmot/status/444143641569660928 It's apparently been around for a while, but this was the first time I've seen it. The toolkit is a…

WordPress core needs a writing style guide

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2014

WordPress News

Does WordPress core have a voice and tone problem with its automated messages? That's the argument from Fred Meyer on WP Shout. He gives a compelling argument: One of WordPress’s greatest and most fixable weaknesses is its own use of…

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 released

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9 Beta 1 is out and ready for you to test. There are loads of enhancements that you can see a basic description of and hop into the tickets on Trac where they were hashed out. I'll be covering…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

PushUp offers push notification integration for WordPress and Mac OS X

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

PushUp is a new product from 10up that offers push notification integration between WordPress and Mac OS X Mavericks. Currently, only Safari is supported and users must opt-in by viewing a website in Safari, where they are greeted by a…

WordPress.org now delivered over SSL

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

WordPress News

WordPress.org is now delivered over SSL. I saw an exchange between John Turner and Pippin Williamson that noted the change, visible as the default result in Google's search engine results. https://twitter.com/pippinsplugins/status/441594775997648896 If you visit WordPress.org over Http, it won't redirect…

Getty Images are now “free” to embed, but they are awful

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

I read an article on The Verge this evening about how Getty Images have made their images freely embeddable. The photo above of Matt Mullenweg is an example. Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection,…