WordPress News

Yoast introduces commercial version of WordPress SEO

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

Joost de Valk announced on the Yoast blog yesterday that they're pre-releasing a commercial version of the highly popular WordPress SEO plugin. The plugin will come with additional features with the full release, but for now it's an option for…

Xanga now runs on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2013

WordPress News

Xanga is one of the oldest hosted blogging platforms out there. This summer, they embarked on a crowd-funding campaign to reboot the platform, with a goal of porting everything to WordPress. The $50,000 crowdfunding campaign was successful, and now Xanga…

WordPress as an application platform

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2013

WordPress News

Jake Goldman has written a thoughtful post detailing his views on WordPress as an application platform. Jake tells a few stories from his experiences running 10up, but his main point was to note that WordPress would perhaps be better suited…

Nginx is taking over the internet, and Automattic helped make it happen

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

Hosting

This is a nice backstory from Wired on the rise of Nginx, with a focus on how Automattic got involved in the project when they started using it for WordPress.com. Now, Nginx is powering 15 percent of all websites. I especially…

Dave Pell on building the NextDraft platform

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

WordPress News

If you don't already follow NextDraft, then this is your lucky day. NextDraft is a newsletter -- or a column really -- from Dave Pell that contains "the day's most fascinating news." And it is great. NextDraft is the only…

101 reasons to use Hybrid Core

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock took my charge seriously when I said drop-in frameworks are the worst marketed solution to building flexible WordPress themes. Here, he gives the first of many reasons why Hybrid Core could be a great solution for your next…

5 tips you can learn from a car salesman

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2013

Business

Matt Medeiros shares some common sense sales wisdom for making the experience for potential and existing customers better.

Sustainable value in WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

September 5, 2013

Development

Matty Cohen has written a very nice post in Torque Mag about sustaining value in WordPress products. I especially like what he notes on debunking the myth that features are equivalent to value. And as he notes, harmony between two…

WP Curve provides development support for a monthly fee

Brian Krogsgard

September 4, 2013

Business

WP Curve reminds me of Elto (formerly Tweaky), except it's based on monthly fees versus one-off pricing. Dan Norris and Alex McClafferty started WP Curve recently, and Dan notes in this great interview with Brian Casel that WP Curve is…

Faceted search for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 4, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you're unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique…

Sarah Gooding joins Audrey to write for WP Tavern

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has written for WPMU for years. I was able to track her archive page back to October 2009. She announced this morning she's joined Audrey, Matt Mullenweg's research and investment arm, and is going to write about WordPress…

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

Our code in WordPress plugins and themes should follow some basic standards. Here are a few simple tips to make your code more aligned with the standards of the core project. Prefix everything Nacin said it best. Prefix everything. Prefix…

A solution to the infernal WordPress-Importer-not-importing-attachments problem

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

WordPress News

Ready to set WordPress on fire because the importer isn't importing your Attachments? Try exporting All Statuses! For whatever reason WordPress does not consider Attachments as Published posts, so if you export only Published content, Attachments are ignored.

WordPress responsive navigation options

Brian Krogsgard

August 30, 2013

DesignDevelopment

Navigation is one of the most challenging battles for doing responsive design well. To preface this article, I highly recommend you study Brad Frost's collections of responsive navigation patterns and complex responsive navigation patterns. In this post, I'll cover two…

Highlight tweetable text in post content

Brian Krogsgard

August 29, 2013

WordPress News

Joshua Benton, of Harvard's Nieman Lab, has released a plugin to allow authors to highlight text in an article and make it easy for users to tweet that selected text. Extended from Salim Virani's Tweetable Text plugin, and further inspired…

Date queries in WordPress 3.7

Brian Krogsgard

August 29, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Alex Mills highlights the new date_query parameters just committed to WordPress core, slated for release with 3.7. It makes more complex queries to query posts within various date ranges much simpler. Congrats to Alex on the props, and I'm excited…