WordPress News

A WordPress podcast, one year in

Brian Krogsgard

October 7, 2013

Matt Medeiros reflects on the past year of running the Matt Report, a podcast about WordPress businesses and entrepreneurs. It's one of my favorites. He also talks a bit about his opinions on the state of podcasting in general, with…

How to make your customers better at customer support

Brian Krogsgard

October 7, 2013

Business

Most end-users want to ask good questions, they just don't know how. Copy and paste this guide into your own support center to help your customers ask better support questions.

WP Remote enters the WordPress website management big leagues

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2013

WordPress News

WP Remote has had a few years to grow and mature since its inception in 2010. For an interesting backstory, you can read the history of WP Remote. WP Remote was a free product for years. It was a solution from…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

Retroactive Composer support for WordPress with ComposerPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Development

Tom Nowell has created a project called ComposerPress which analyses an existing WordPress install and creates a Composer .json file in your root directory. If you've already gotten to know the value of Composer, but need something to help bring…

Take the WordPress economy survey

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

Business

The folks behind Pressnomics are asking business owners to fill out a survey to help them put together some statistics on the WordPress economy. It's an anonymous survey about your company and revenue. Make sure only one person from each…

Markdown tools for bloggers

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

WordPress News

I've written an introduction to markdown as a language for writing for the web, and a look through the various tools available for crafting markdown'd content, split up by device.

Polish your code

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

Development

If we can polish a

Top ten search terms for themes on the MOJO Marketplace

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

Business

Here's a quick but interesting little post. MOJO Themes has shared their top ten searched terms for themes on their website. Does it shock you as much as it shocks me that 'Real Estate' is number one? The others are a…

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I've hated every instance I've ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin…

WordPress security tips for your website

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Security

Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner are co-founders of WebDevStudios and last week they teamed up with SiteGround to do a security presentation. They offer some scary statistics on security, go over an example hack, cover ways to secure your website,…

How WordPress evolves without breaking everything

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

DevelopmentMake WordPress

This is a great flash talk by Andrew Nacin, where he discusses the decision making process for evolving WordPress while maintaining backward compatibility. Included are some explanations of the struggles with terms, term meta, and more. This was part of…

Bring any slides to WordPress with seoslides

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Business

A new WordPress plugin called seoslides aims to bring slides straight to your WordPress website. Alorum worked with 10up to build seoslides. You can build presentations right in the WordPress admin using a fancy HTML 5 canvas interface, and you…

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.7 Beta 1 is ready for testing. For such a quick release cycle, there are features in WordPress 3.7 that are going to be big for the platform. Andrew Nacin highlighted a few items in 3.7 Beta 1 that…

The case for WordCamp speaker reviews

Brian Krogsgard

September 27, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Lema makes the case for implementing WordCamp speaker reviews. I think it's a great idea, and you should definitely read his full proposal. I do have some concerns on it though. For one, reviews are subjective, so organizers would…

What fold?

Brian Krogsgard

September 27, 2013

Design

It doesn't matter how many times we explain it, clients are still concerned with the fold. The fold does not exist on the web, especially when we do our jobs as web designers and developers. The fold is a print…