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WordPress.com, 8th most visited website in the world

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress.com recently passed Yahoo! in Quantcast's rankings of the world's most trafficked websites. It's now number 8. What I find most interesting though, is that according to Matt Mullenweg this does not even count mapped domains, or sites on WordPress.com's…

php[architect] online summit for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

Andrew Nacin, Aaron Jorbin, Benji Regan, and Jason Rhodes are participating in php[architect]'s Online Summit Series, presenting on WordPress. It's $49 per person, with discounts for larger groups. This looks to be a very technical lineup, and it'd be tough…

First look at a front end editing concept for WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Front end editing was highlighted as a possible "feature as plugin" concept last month. Now, some initial concepts and a (very raw) plugin are out with some ideas and concepts. It's a good time to have your say on how…

Blogging is narcissistic

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

WordPress News

"Ultimately, my point is that for those of you who are blogging to keep at it and keep sharing. The majority of us love to see what it is that you’re working on, and we love to get into the…

Niche themes: How to research, create, sell

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2013

Business

Can you make the best WordPress theme in the world? You can if you target a niche. Here's how to find and target niches for your next theme, and a list of 230 niches included to kickstart your research.

Home and front page templates in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

WordPress News

Chip Bennett has done an outstanding job thoroughly describing the issues handling home and front page templates in WordPress. This is a part of WordPress with some of the most confusing nomenclature for folks just getting started (and some experienced…

The Year Without Pants

Brian Krogsgard

September 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress Community

Scott Berkun's The Year Without Pants is a first person narrative of his time employed at Automattic from August 2010 to May 2012. Berkun entered Automattic as employee number fifty six when the company was replacing its totally flat structure…

WP Weekend Phoenix to merge back into WordCamp Phoenix

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

It's been confirmed that WP Weekend Phoenix is merging back into an official WordCamp as WordCamp Phoenix. I first heard about the announcement on Twitter and confirmed with Andrea Middleton today. As you may recall, I posted about WP Weekend…

Creating a JSON REST API for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding talked with Ryan McCue on WP Tavern about his Google Summer of Code project to build a JSON REST API for WordPress. This is a great project, and Ryan is the perfect person to lead it, in my…

The ThemeForest experiment, one year later

Brian Krogsgard

September 12, 2013

WordPress News

A year ago, Justin Tadlock submitted a theme to ThemeForest to experiment and see a different side of the theme community than he's been a part of for some time. His results, and more importantly much of his additional insight…

The collision of journalism and digital technology

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

Riptide is "an oral history of the epic collision between journalism and digital technology, from 1980 to the present." It is a collaborative project of interviews and an essay between Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman…

Building Collections: a series on building a theme with Backbone.js

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

Zack Tollman has begun a series of blog posts for The Theme Foundry to walk through how they built Collections, their single page application (SPA) theme that utilizes Backbone.js. You may recall I covered Collections when they released it, and…

WordPress 3.6.1 security release is out

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.6.1 is out as a security release. Three security fixes were made, plus an additional security hardening measure. The security fixes affect all previous versions of WordPress. Check out the release details, and go update your sites.

Yoast introduces commercial version of WordPress SEO

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2013

WordPress News

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…