WordPress News

WordPress, .com vs .org

Brian Krogsgard

November 18, 2013

There's a new post on The Daily Post of WordPress.com that does a nice job explaining the differences between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, and gives some advice on when someone may want to use each. It's a good one to keep…

Crowd Favorite to be acquired by VeloMedia

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Crowd Favorite and VeloMedia have reached an agreement where VeloMedia will acquire Crowd Favorite, with the transaction to occur early next year. Crowd Favorite was founded by Alex King, one of the earliest regular contributors to WordPress. King's freelance web…

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

BusinessHosting

ZippyKid is a managed WordPress host that's been around around three and a half years. They have grown their business consistently since their launch in May 2010, and today have a number of high profile blogs and corporate profiles as…

UpThemes retires all old themes, sets clean slate for the future

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

WordPress News

UpThemes has retired all of their old themes, and released their first new theme. It's part of an ongoing effort the better define who they are and what their goals are in their themes. According to my conversation with Chris…

WPML 3.0 introduces new GUI and better eCommerce support

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

WordPress News

WPML is probably the largest multi-lingual plugin for WordPress. In their latest release, they overhaul their user interface and implemented better support for eCommerce, specifically WooCommerce. WPML has been around quite some time now, so I'm happy to see it…

I can haz braces?

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress core is debating a change to always require braces, even for one line, in PHP if statements. Looks like the +1's are winning. That's a good thing in my opinion. Is this the most detail oriented thing I've ever…

Turn WordPress into a Twelve-Factor App

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

Development

If you’re going to be creating complex websites with WordPress, then you need to get serious about it. This series of posts is based on the Twelve-Factor App methodology, adapted for large scale WordPress projects.

Theme frameworks explained in an animated infographic

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

WordPress News

This animated infographic provides a visual explanation of how theme frameworks work, as defined by WordPress.org.

The BuddyPress default theme is being phased out

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress has worked well with most WordPress themes for the last two major releases. Therefore, the BuddyPress team has decided it's time to retire the default theme from shipping with BuddyPress core. Boone Gorges gives the details on the BuddyPress…

Basis, a business theme with an intuitive content builder

Brian Krogsgard

November 13, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The Theme Foundry has released their vision of a business WordPress theme, called Basis. Basis is yet another theme by The Theme Foundry that reiterates why I like having them as a partner. Basis has a content builder in it…

WordPress for large scale publishing

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

WordPress News

Felix Salmon talks Content economics on the Reuters blog. Off-the-rack CMSs like WordPress and Drupal are OK for small-to-medium sites, but aren’t particularly well suited to be the framework for a major publishing operation. Okay. Though I find it hilarious…

Interview with Mark Forrester, co-founder of WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 12, 2013

BusinessDraft

Last week I had the pleasure of visiting WooThemes HQ in Cape Town, South Africa. Throughout the week I had the opportunity to interact with WooThemes' co-founders Mark Forrester and Magnus Jepson, as well as the rest of the Cape…

iThemes enters the WordPress site management sphere with Sync

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

HostingWordPress News

iThemes has announced a new product today, called Sync. It's a tool to manage WordPress website updates, including themes and plugins. Sync is free for up to 10 sites for all iThemes account holders. They will announce plans soon for…

WordPress 3.8 schedule, and how to explain WordPress vs WordPress.com

Brian Krogsgard

November 11, 2013

WordPress News

Bob Dunn put together a few weekend conversations in this summary where Matt Mullenweg notes that WordPress 3.8 will be released on December 12th. Also, there's a nice screenshot in there from Matt's Joomla! conference keynote that explains the relationship…

WordPress isn’t falling behind

Brian Krogsgard

November 7, 2013

WordPress News

When Tumblr first appeared, everyone wanted WordPress to begin emulating its features. Then came Medium and the same cry. Then Ghost launched and again the retort sounded that “WordPress is falling behind!” But is WordPress really lagging behind the pack?…