WordPress News

The email line that’s client repellant

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

I've had a lot of email correspondence lately. As a boutique agency, all of us at Range share duties like responding to leads, proposals, and project management. It's been incredibly fun to stretch my legs back into sales and project…

My journey to managing my own WordPress server

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

Hosting

I used to shy away from managing my own server, but with experimentation I got more comfortable with it and now manage my own server.

WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled sites can now be embedded anywhere

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released a feature to create widgets to offer embed-able feeds for WordPress.com and Jetpack enabled blogs, so you can embed your blog anywhere. It looks just like a Twitter feed, but for a blog. From a technical standpoint,…

Woo: You too have woes

Zé Fontainhas

January 28, 2014

WordPress News

For developers, i18n isn't always obvious, not even for large, and well-established theme vendors. In this post, I've tried to outline some of the most obvious issues in some of WooThemes' themes.

How to customize the WordPress theme customizer defaults

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2014

Development

The theme customizer feature was introduced in WordPress 3.4, released June 2012. Since then, it's been a great tool that's allowed theme developers to move away from complex options managers to a simpler, more logical interface where many settings can…

A free documentation theme for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2014

WordPress News

Tareq Hasan has created a free theme called weDocs to help folks manage documentation within WordPress. The theme is on Github and the demo is quite nice. This could be a great boilerplate for those of you looking to integrate…

Support Dash is transitioning to be a HelpScout app

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2014

WordPress News

Support Dash has announced they are transitioning from a standalone in-dashboard customer service app to a HelpScout app. Ben Sibley says the new app "will reduce the time you spend on support by providing you with key information inside every…

Rethinking the WordPress editor

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2014

WordPress News

Jay Hoffman has some good thoughts over on Torque about what lies ahead for the WordPress content creation experience. Between content blocks and front-end editing, writing a post in WordPress two years from now will not be like it is…

A love letter on .pot

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2014

WordPress News

Zé Fontainhas is an extraordinary wordsmith (in my own and many others' opinions) and a polyglots master. In this open love letter to Mike Jolley and his excellent WP Jobs Manager plugin, Zé eloquently highlights some of the finer points of…

Why we love $500 WordPress clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2014

Business

Ryan Sullivan shares excellent reasoning as to why he likes working with small budget clients. In short, with a smaller client the limits are better known and the surprises are fewer. Meanwhile, it's still quite possible to serve a client's…

Required reading for marketers and clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2014

Business

Ryan Holiday gives advice on how to market a "boring" business. He tells of the power of stories, and reminds us that all businesses have them. When we get stuck in a rut as web professionals, this is especially helpful.…

Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2014

BusinessDraft

I had the opportunity recently to talk to Cory Miller, the founder of iThemes. Cory started iThemes in January 2008, so they are currently celebrating their 6th anniversary. Cory is a really thoughtful businessman and leader, and I really enjoyed…

Crowd Favorite to acquire Pixel Jar and AdSanity plugin

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2014

Business

It's been only two months since it was announced that Crowd Favorite would be acquired by VeloMedia; and that deal is nearing completion. Those two brands will be one, under the Crowd Favorite name. Crowd Favorite has just announced another…

WordPress and the Techmeme 100

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2014

WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg did a little research study for himself, based on his own "guilty pleasure" for reading Techmeme. Techmeme's leaderboard, for those that aren't aware, is basically the benchmark all tech sites measure their influence by. Matt analyzed which of…

Rethinking Blogs at the New York Times

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2014

Development

Scott Taylor works at the New York Times. He's also a major core contributor to WordPress. In this post, he describes how the Blogs division of the New York Times rebuilt their setup to fit into the Times' overall redesign…

Google releases an official plugin for publishers

Brian Krogsgard

January 15, 2014

WordPress News

Google has released an official plugin called Google Publisher on the WordPress.org repository. Currently, the plugin is in beta and allows you to easily hook up your website to Webmaster tools and also create and manage Adsense, all from within…