WordPress News

Free theme highlight: Hueman

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

In terms of free themes, Hueman sure is a knockout. I'm not even much for magazine themes, but if you have a photo-heavy site with plenty of content, I really love the design and feel of this theme. Built by Alexander…

WP Engine raised $15 million in VC, grew customer base 27% last quarter

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

HostingWordPress News

WP Engine is making another splash with the announcement of a $15 million round of venture capital from North Bridge Growth. I first saw the announcement on TechCrunch, but it's also on VentureBeat. Torque, WP Engine's WordPress publication, also noted…

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

Development

While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his…

Let’s use WordPress to help make a difference

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

WordPress News

Today you have an opportunity to help people that are using WordPress to help others. I hope you'll read this fully and consider helping. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease that has devastating effects on the lungs especially.…

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about the…

Tom McFarlin and Japh Thomson are shifting roles at Envato and Wptuts+

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

CareersWordPress News

In November, Envato announced that they were looking for a new Wptuts+ editor on their blog. The position requires considerable skill with WordPress and effective communication. Japh Thomson has done a fantastic job heading up the Wptuts+ blog effort for two…

WordPress is not easy, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

January 2, 2014

WordPress News

Morten Rand-Hendriksen has put together one of the more thoughtful posts I've seen about the complexity of WordPress. As he notes, "the way we talk about WordPress to new users and clients gives them a distorted picture of what the…

How blogging has kickstarted my career

Brian Krogsgard

January 2, 2014

WordPress News

In early November I had the privilege to attend, sponsor, and speak at WordCamp Cape Town. I had a great time, and got to spend time getting to know some wonderful people in the South African WordPress community. I traveled…

Quick lessons in typography

Brian Krogsgard

January 1, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Want to learn something new to ring in the year? Check out Benedikt Lehnert's A Pocket Guide to Master Every Day's Typographic Adventures. It's short, easy to understand, and offers great advice. And trust me, I've seen your sites (and…

Theme Friendly, an upcoming site for commercial theme reviews

Brian Krogsgard

January 1, 2014

WordPress News

Theme Friendly is a project by Alex Mansfield that will serve to offer commercial WordPress theme reviews. Alex is also blogging his efforts to build the site itself, which is fun. It looks like Alex will be running each theme…

Get a WordPress mentor

Brian Krogsgard

December 24, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros recently wrote a post encouraging WordPress folks to both mentor others and find mentors for themselves. Now he's taken it to the next level with WP Mentor, a site dedicated to the effort. This is a great little…

Bedrock — a modern WordPress stack

Brian Krogsgard

December 23, 2013

WordPress News

Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure. Dependency management with Composer Automated deployments with Capistrano Better folder structure Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files Environment variables with…

It’s time for a simpler default WordPress theme

Brian Krogsgard

December 20, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin Obenland has been involved with the development of the last three default WordPress themes. In this post, he makes a great case for simplifying the default theme with Twenty Fifteen; and he goes as far as advocating simply using…

WordPress Foundation financials

Brian Krogsgard

December 19, 2013

WordPress News

As a non-profit organization, the WordCamp Foundation publicly files financials. However, they've gone an extra step and broken down their costs for the 2012 tax year on the website. The Foundations expenses were $580,161 for the year, and the breakdown…

WordCamp San Francisco 2014 announced

Brian Krogsgard

December 18, 2013

WordPress News

With perhaps the earliest announcement I've seen for a WordCamp, WordCamp San Francisco 2014 has been announced to occur October 24th - 26th. It appears the contributor day is going to flip this year, and be before WordCamp instead of…

“Patches Welcome”

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Business

As a phrase, this is often more of a conversation killer rather than encouragement for collaboration. The delivery method of this popular phrase is paramount, and the audience needs to be genuinely considered when we say "patches welcome" to those…