WordPress News

How to take advantage of WordPress 3.7’s language packs

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

In order to take advantage of the WordPress 3.7 "language packs" functionality, Otto Wood lays out some ground rules that plugin and theme authors should be following. This is an excellent resource. If Otto's post looks like a foreign language…

WordPress websites and businesses acquisitions

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

Oli Dale has done a pretty thorough roundup of the history of WordPress websites and businesses that have been purchased. I'm a little disappointed that so many people do not reveal the price of their transactions. I know there is…

Why did Automattic gobble up an iCloud alternative?

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

You should remember from earlier this year that Automattic acquired Simperium, maker of Simplenote. Simplenote is a great app by the way. John Paul Titlow, of FastCompany, interviews Matt Mullenweg and writes about the technology behind Simperium and how their…

Interview the interviewer: Matt Medeiros of Matt Report

Brian Krogsgard

October 22, 2013

BusinessDraft

Matt Medeiros is a WordPress entrepreneur and podcaster from a town between Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Matt is also a co-founder of Slocum Studios, a web consultancy. One of Matt's podcasts is the Matt Report, where he interviews…

Brace yourselves, WordSesh 2 is coming

Brian Krogsgard

October 21, 2013

WordPress News

The second ever WordSesh, 24 hours of live streaming WordPress presentations, is coming soon. The first WordSesh was a crazy idea that was wildly successful. I love stuff like that. Scott Basgaard is the lead organizer, and he's announced the…

Interview with Kurt Payne, core contributor, GoDaddy developer

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

WordPress News

Kurt Payne is a PHP developer, WordPress core contributor, and GoDaddy employee. In this Code Poet interview, he talks about what he's learned and what he works on. I've used the GoDaddy P3 Profiler plugin he's the main author of,…

WordPress 3.7 RC1 released

Brian Krogsgard

October 18, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7 RC1 has been released, which means the official release of WordPress 3.7 is near. Auto-updates have been refined a bit, and based on some tweets I saw from Andrew Nacin and reports of Beta testing, they are very…

Lessons learned trying to convert customers and monetize

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

Business

Groove is a support software that markets itself for SaaS and eCommerce services. It looks pretty nice, kind of like a Help Scout Plus, maybe. I read a post on their blog about 7 lessons they learned to reach $30,000…

Plugin readme file generator

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

GenerateWP has released a plugin readme file generator. This is the 17th tool released by GenerateWP, yet another user-friendly tool for WordPress developers that allows you easily create valid readme.txt files for your plugin.

WordCamp Europe rewound

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

The WordCamp Europe team has put together a "buzz" list of wrap-up posts and responses to WordCamp Europe. I've heard nothing but positive feedback, and it's really fun being able to read these experiences and see just how impactful an…

Don’t update your theme

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin Obenland talks about the concept of the Underscores (_s) theme being unversioned, and how theme authors shouldn't worry too much about updating their themes based off of _s every time _s updates. It's a dilemma I've struggled with myself.…

Let’s learn in Cape Town

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

WordPress News

WordCamp Cape Town is November 7th, and I'm really excited to have an opportunity to take part. The timing worked out perfectly, and it will be an excellent chance to learn, get to know people, and achieve some things for…

Rewrite rules made easy

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

Development

Getting rewrite rules and Regex right is an often painful task in WordPress. Conflict solving, commenting the expressions, et cetera is something most people want to avoid. To be honest, every modern PHP or JS framework nowadays has a very…

How to be a good product support provider

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

WordPress News

Pippin Williamson shares his story of learning to be good at supporting his products. Pippin highlights one of the hardest challenges, that a good support person is both good at problem solving and good at being empathetic with the customer.…

Partner spotlight: The Theme Foundry

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2013

DesignWordPress News

It was just over three months ago that I redesigned Post Status, re-focused the site's purpose, and partnered with The Theme Foundry. Today, I'd like to share that The Theme Foundry has opted to continue the relationship for another quarter.…

( intuition + investigation ) > memorization

Brian Krogsgard

October 15, 2013

WordPress News

Lance Willett is the theme team lead at Automattic, and in this post he describes the power of intuition and investigation, and how much more powerful these characteristics are than memorization. If you are passionate and curious, you can achieve…