WordPress News

33 unusual tips to being a better writer

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

This is a bit off beat, but I think relevant for our space. We are almost all publishers, after all. James Altucher gives a whole slew of unexpected tips for better writing. If you've never read anything by James Altucher,…

How Templatic develops commercial themes

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

BusinessDesign

Templatic has written a really informative post describing their processes for developing commercial themes. They talk about doing market studies, creating mockups, design and development, project management, quality assurance, documentation, and more.

Code should fail nicely

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Web designers tend to be pretty particular about their designs. However, often times, if you watch how end users use a website, it can be surprising when they don't do things how the designer and developer would expect. Perhaps the…

7 reasons WordPress made PHP popular

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

Development

This site isn't very easy on the eyes, but I think that point 7 is a a valuable lesson, "Pragmatism is better than purism." I don't agree with the entire article, but I really like that one statement.

Why the Washington Post uses WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

WordPress News

Yuri Victor gave one of my favorite presentations at WordCamp San Francisco. His talk is now on WordPress.tv. I highly recommend you spend time watching his presentation to see his team's workflow and decision making process, and why they believe…

WooThemes offers customers the choice to be grandfathered in

Brian Krogsgard

August 5, 2013

WordPress News

After the new pricing and licensing structure got announced, there was a lot of feedback and discussing going on in the comments of the WooThemes blog. They now offer customers the decision between being grandfathered in for the old rates…

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

Robert Neu

August 2, 2013

Business

I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

Running a Viable Freelance Business

Curtis McHale

August 2, 2013

Business

After talking with many small business owners over the years there is one constant, many are good at what they do but bad at business. This book as aimed at helping you be good at business.

John James Jacoby brings Alliteration to 10up

Japh Thomson

August 1, 2013

WordPress News

The witty and charismatic lead of the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, John James Jacoby, recently announced leaving Automattic. Now reveals he's joined Team 10up.

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar”

Japh Thomson

August 1, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The long-awaited release of WordPress 3.6 has arrived.

Modular WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 1, 2013

Development

Matt's vision of future WordPress development (from the SotW) is encapsulated in plugin development. What does that mean for future dev on core APIs? I have one idea on a way that plugin-like functionality could work hand-in-hand with core API…

I am Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress (18% of web!) and Automattic, ask me anything!

Japh Thomson

July 31, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg fields questions in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" thread after WordCamp San Francisco 2013 on July 31 at 3pm Pacific Time.

WordPress Infographic 2013

Brian Krogsgard

July 30, 2013

WordPress News

Elegant Themes team went to WordCamp San Francisco and designed a nice WordPress Infographic with all the stats about how WordPress is used and consumed.

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

Tips for developers adopting a legacy WordPress site

Curtis McHale

July 29, 2013

BusinessDevelopment

Greenfield projects are the dream of most of developers. We have no legacy code to deal with. Just a clean WordPress install and whatever tools we decide best accomplish the goals of the client. Unfortunately you’re not always going to…