WordPress News

Six figure WordPress consulting

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2013

Curtis McHale debunks the myth that making good money with WordPress is easy. This is a good read for anyone looking to dive deeper into a WordPress-oriented career. Like most things, a highly rewarding career working with WordPress requires work,…

Maintainn acquires WPSell, an eCommerce support and development business

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2013

WordPress News

WPSell.net is a site that helps people get support and development services for eCommerce websites. David Rojas launched the site in April of this year, after working with Cart66 as a support technician and seeing that there "were a lot…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

iThemes acquihires Better WP Security, a million+ download WordPress security plugin

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

BusinessSecurity

iThemes has hired Chris Wiegman and taken over his very popular plugin, Better WP Security. Better WP Security has over a million downloads on WordPress.org and sells commercial support and installation services on FooPlugins. Better WP Security also has excellent…

WordPress through the ages

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

Jeff Matson has gathered up screenshots of every major design change of the WordPress admin and default themes on Inmotion Hosting's blog. It's fairly interesting to take a bird's eye view on the evolution of the visible aspects of WordPress.

The motivations of a blogger

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

WordPress News

When I blog, I don't do it so I can read the post myself. I want you to read it, just like you are doing right now. But I don't just want you to read it. I want you to…

A glossary of WordPress terms for beginners

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2013

WordPress News

WP Beginner has created a very handy glossary of various WordPress terms. I looked through a few of them, and they are pretty thorough in their descriptions, and each has relevant WP Beginner posts below for further reading. This is…

Advanced PHP developer? WordPress is a better starting point for your project than you think.

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

Development

Gabriel Koen describes ten reasons why he believes WordPress is a better starting point for projects than many advanced PHP developers would think. Some of the points are even known pain-points in WordPress, but as he notes, "even a half-assed…

Understanding _n_noop()

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

Development

How a function that doesn't do anything can save your life. Well, not really, but close. _n_noop() can be very interesting, especially for APIs in larger plugins.

WP Bacon expanding beyond a podcast

Brian Krogsgard

December 2, 2013

WordPress News

WP Bacon is a relatively new podcast, and they are already deciding to expand into written content as well. They plan to write tutorials, reviews, and even a little news. There's a lot of good content being written in the…

Barley for WordPress is a simple and effective inline editor

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I've had an opportunity to play with Barley for WordPress, an inline editor plugin. Barley is a two-sided product. Barley is a hosted, PHP based CMS, and Barley for WordPress is a WordPress plugin that extends the hosted Barley editing…

Beware of a spam email disguised as if it’s from Yoast

Brian Krogsgard

November 26, 2013

Security

An email spam campaign disguised as being from Yoast is making the rounds. If you get an email from Yoast linking to their latest post, be sure to verify the sender and the link before you click it. According to…

A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Eric Andrew Lewis started a new topic this morning on the Make WordPress Core blog to introduce a new core plugin team. The Post Meta team's goal will be to improve the "developer’s experience from the back-end – creating input…

ThemeForest authors can now ditch support for Internet Explorer 8

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2013

DesignWordPress News

ThemeForest announced that authors can opt not to support Internet Explorer 8, citing the widespread adoption of Windows 8 and jQuery 2.0 dropping support for the old browser. We're finally entering an era of only modern web browsers.

Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

WordPress News

Jeffrey Zeldman announced in a tweet this morning that he's joining Automattic's board of advisors. Zeldman is the king of web standards and has been a huge presence in the web community for over 15 years. He's the founder of…

Understand how to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

Development

Samuel "Otto" Wood describes the prepare() function, and why it matters. For anyone playing with SQL in their work, you should make sure you understand these basics that Otto quite clearly explains.