WordPress News

Understand how to prevent SQL injection vulnerabilities in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

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.

Automattic files two lawsuits and strikes back at fraudulent DMCA takedown notices

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

WordPress News

Citing two recent cases of copyright law abuse, WordPress.com-owner Automattic has announced it’s backing ‘censorship’ victims by filing two lawsuits to deter future misuses. [editor's note: this is awesome.]

What screens want

Brian Krogsgard

November 21, 2013

Design

This is one of the most fun and thought provoking reads on design I've read in a really long time. Frank Chimero has put together what he calls "thoughts on digital canvases", and it's really worthwhile. If you do any…

Documentation marketing: how opening up docs turned into 60% of the sales funnel at WooThemes

Brian Krogsgard

November 21, 2013

Business

Warren Holmes is the Chief Information Officer at WooThemes. He tells a story on his personal blog how WooThemes opened up their documentation site from behind the paywall, and now that site is the referrer for 60% of their revenue.…

Case study: building a front-end managed web app using WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

November 20, 2013

Design

The folks at Voltronik have put together a pretty interesting case study going over their processes and considerations for building a project management system for a client, managed on the front end, all with WordPress. The result is a Bootstrap…

WordPress code snippets ’til Christmas

Brian Krogsgard

November 20, 2013

WordPress News

Elliott Richmond is in the second year of his advent calendar for WordPress code snippets. You can sign up on the site for the 2013 version and he'll email you the snippets every day. I enjoyed this last year, as…

Sources of growth for a membership site

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2013

Business

Shawn Hesketh runs WP101, a WordPress tutorials membership site. He recently received a question about how he markets his site, and his answer is thorough and insightful, and definitely worth a read for anyone trying to grow their product or…

Another take on redesigning the WordPress admin

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2013

Design

George Kordas has put together a tremendous effort on his concept for a new WordPress admin design. It's very, very pretty I think. I love seeing what people are coming up with. This skin, and the DevPress one, are fun…

WordPress, .com vs .org

Brian Krogsgard

November 18, 2013

WordPress News

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.