WordPress News

A new WordPress editing concept: Inline access

Mark Root-Wiley

September 26, 2013

Previously mentioned on Post Status, there's a Front End Editor "Feature as Plugin" in the works. The idea of front end editing (aka "inline editing") has been around for a long time and may make it into Drupal 8. Medium…

Behind churchthemes.com

Brian Krogsgard

September 26, 2013

BusinessHosting

I've written a non-traditional "launch post" for churchthemes.com, telling the story of how this theme shop came together in the last year. Included are thoughts and experiences relating to business, development philosophy, pricing models, web hosting and marketing.

The new WP Remote API is fancy

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

WordPress News

WP Remote is really starting to mature as a site monitoring and backup service. With their new API and integration with WP CLI, there's some seriously awesome potential. Read more from Human Made developer Daniel Bachhuber. They are also hiring…

Automattic has acquired Cloudup

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

Business

Matt Mullenweg recently teased a large acquisition for Automattic, and today they've announced the acquisition of the Cloudup service. Cloudup is a file sharing service that's still in beta. However, it looks like a promising project with a lot of…

WYSIJA is now MailPoet

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2013

WordPress News

WYSIJA is a popular email and newsletter plugin, built right into the WordPress dashboard. The name is confusing, but as I have talked about before, the product is pretty great. They have cleared up the name part, re-branding as MailPoet.…

WordSesh 2 is coming soon

Brian Krogsgard

September 24, 2013

WordPress News

The First WordSesh was a huge success and we are crazy enough to do it again. We’re currently pulling ourselves together and have begun planning the next event. We hope to have firm dates and additional details for you as soon…

Why the WP App Store failed

Brian Krogsgard

September 24, 2013

Business

Brad Touesnard shares the story of his WP App Store project, with a sobering but super insightful account of why it failed. This is a great read for anyone that's got "a great idea" and is ready to pounce on…

Automatic updates for WordPress 3.7 are ready for testing

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Dion Hulse has been working on the automatic update functionality for WordPress 3.7, and he's ready for you to test it. His update on the Make WordPress Core blog has a lot of detail about how it works, and what…

A Backbone.js powered starter WordPress theme

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2013

WordPress News

Tareq Hasan has begun development on a Backbone powered single page application starter theme for WordPress. It uses the JSON REST API plugin as backend. A number of features are left to integrate, but if you're interested in learning more…

Better collaboration in WordPress with Post Forking

Brian Krogsgard

September 20, 2013

WordPress News

Post Forking is a plugin all about collaboration. Released almost a year ago, the plugin introduces Github's style of collaboration into the WordPress post editing experience. The plugin works, and it's awesome. The biggest problem is it's not intuitive enough…

Jetpack 2.5 gets deeper Google and Facebook integrations

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2013

WordPress News

Jetpack 2.5 was just released and comes with a number of new features. The most interesting is the new integrations with Google, including the ability to easily embed maps, calendars, and more. For those that are big Facebook users, you…

WooThemes acquired Standard Theme from 8bit

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2013

WordPress News

WooThemes and 8bit both announced this morning that WooThemes has acquired the Standard Theme. WooThemes said in their announcement that they will not be selling Standard on their website, but will extend the support period for at least a year.…

Automattic to acquire unnamed service

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

BusinessSecurity

Automattic is acquiring a security firm that has yet to be named or officially announced. The acquisition is said to be Automattic's largest yet. Matt Mullenweg spoke to TechWeekEurope about security within WordPress and a bit about this acquisition. Well,…

Tips for handling icon fonts

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

Design

Joen Asmussen is a designer for Automattic, and in addition to many things, he works on the Genericons project. In this post, he gives some great advice for using icon fonts in your projects. If you're doing client work or…

Customers don’t care about ideas

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

Business

Brian Casel has written a great post debunking a never-ending myth that ideas by themselves are valuable. Brian tells us how to differentiate ourselves with how we solve problems and how we serve our clients. I also love his note…

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for…