WordPress News

How to run a viable freelance business

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2013

Curtis McHale has released his latest book: Don't be an idiot: Learn to run a viable business. Curtis has experience as a WordPress consultant and freelancer. His previous book released from WP Theme Tutorial on how to become a WordPress…

Cheers to the GPL

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2013

WordPress News

This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y'all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were "In Open Source We Trust" and "Cheers to the GPL." So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through…

WordPress VIP Training Days

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.com has introduced a new teaching service called VIP Training Days to offer workshops for superusers and developers. The classes are one day workshops and the first round is October 14th (superusers) for $600 and 15th (developers) for $850. The…

WordPress.com, undeletable accounts

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2013

WordPress News

I discovered a website recently called JustDelete.me that serves as a way to help people delete troublesome online accounts that make it hard to delete them. WordPress.com is one of the worst offenders; it doesn't allow accounts to be deleted at…

Wordless brings Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2013

Development

All the buzzwords, right? Wordless is a plugin and theme structure to help you integrate Haml, Sass, Compass, and Coffeescript into your WordPress web development workflow. Check out the Github for more info. (h/t David Bisset)

How to build a crazy good support experience

Brian Krogsgard

August 23, 2013

WordPress News

Eric Hoanshelt shares how to build better online support experiences on the SalesForce Desk.com blog. Eric is from The WP Valet, where they've grown from a team of two to a team of eight in just over a year. He's…

Sucuri Security plugin gets nice new features

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2013

WordPress News

Sucuri Security is well known in the WordPress community for being the go-to place for WordPress site monitoring and malware cleanup. Their free WordPress plugin just got some nice new features, too. It now comes with core files integrity checking,…

WordPress and JavaScript with Backbone

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2013

Development

I recently ran across this excellent slide deck from K. Adam White on evolving your JavaScript with BackBone.js. It's a really great deck that I highly recommend you fully digest. It's simple enough for people not yet well versed in…

8Bit is shutting down

Brian Krogsgard

August 21, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

8Bit, the maker of the Standard Theme, is shutting down. The four founders of 8Bit are all significantly involved in various parts of the large WordPress ecosystem. You can follow John, Tom, Jared, and Chris going forward. The Standard Theme…

Tips for marketing WordPress products

Brian Krogsgard

August 21, 2013

Business

I see a lot of WordPress products and product websites as a consultant. I also get "pitched" a pretty decent amount, requesting me to check out someone's new product to blog about here. Because of this experience seeing and judging…

Best practices for WordCamp forkers

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

In light of some recent WordCamp "forks", Andrea Middleton has posted a draft of policies for people that are WordCamp organizers and decide to organize non-WordCamp affiliated conferences. This is a really good proactive approach in my opinion, and Andrea…

How to embed audio and video players in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

One of WordPress 3.6's most useful features is the ability to embed a player for uploaded audio and video files. This guide was written for site owners who are not yet aware of this mostly-undocumented feature.

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

The ethics of open source

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock has written about the four core freedoms of open source, and warned that with some of the WooThemes drama that happened in the last couple of weeks, he heard some words and tones that didn't match the ethos…

The state of WordPress themes (infographic)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

We've done some theme research to discover about 1,000 theme shops online and we looked at 300 of them one-by-one. We collected some really cool data, like that 88% offer lifetime support, the average shop has 13 themes on average,…

WordPress wallpapers

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2013

WordPress News

Alison Barrett is a Code Wrangler at Automattic, and has created a new website for people to dowload WordPress themed wallpapers. Nick Hamze (who has WordPress everything) and Michelle Schulp have contributed the original designs, but it's open to anyone…