WordPress News

Properly using wp_reset_postdata(), wp_reset_query() and variable naming in queries

Brian Krogsgard

July 3, 2013

Understanding how to alter the main query and how to create custom queries in WordPress are two essentials for WordPress developers. You should familiarize yourself with a few things right away: What is the WP_Query class, including creating new custom…

Excellent customer service tips

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

WordPress News

The Help Scout blog is quickly making its way to being one of my must-reads. In their latest post, they give 20 customer service tips that we can all apply to our businesses. Whether you sell a product, do client…

Get WordPress posts based on date ranges

Curtis McHale

July 2, 2013

Development

Some things you just can't do with WP_Query like get posts in the last 10 days from today. Here, we show you how to do that by using the posts_where filter.

Disturbing report On WordPress plugin security

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

Checkmarx, a company founded in 2006 that specializes in automated security code reviews has published a security vulnerability report on the top 50 plugins on the WordPress plugin repository. As WP Tavern's Jeff Chandler summarizes, more than 20% of the…

WP Revisions Control lets you easily manage revisions to keep by post type

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

WordPress News

I love when I run across utility plugins that solve problems I didn't realize I had. Eric Hitter is a super smart developer that works at Automattic. His latest plugin solves a simple but real problem. He's released WP Revisions…

Yoast’s WordPress SEO to offer commercial support and bonus features

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk announced that his insanely popular WordPress SEO plugin is soon going to have commercial support options. He's going to charge $89 / year for a single site, or $349 / year for unlimited sites for support. I've…

How the Washington Post used WordPress to power The Grid

Brian Krogsgard

July 2, 2013

Development

The Washington Post has a feature called The Grid that tracks realtime events in, well, a grid. It's a combination of tweets and other things they find interesting, and in this profile, they show how they used WordPress and other…

WordPress quotes collection

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

WordPress News

Nearly everybody knows that WordPress.Stackexchange is a nice place to go if you need help. But there's also the #loopchat where most of the high rep users hang out. And when you help users with WordPress on a day-to-day base,…

The new News Corp runs on WordPress VIP

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

WordPress News

News Corp recently split their publishing and entertainment divisions into two companies. The new News Corp, the umbrella organization for their publishing arm, unveiled a new logo about a month ago, and now they've launched their new website on WordPress…

A seller’s decision to leave Code Canyon

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Business

Scott Evans shares why he decided to remove his plugins from Code Canyon. I'm sure each seller's mileage varies as far as their level of concern for the reasons Scott brings up, but I'm at least happy he'll be releasing…

Access external WordPress data

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Development

Zach Schnackel gives an example of an interesting use case for WordPress. He wants access to some WordPress functions, but doesn't really want to use the WordPress theming system or load most of WordPress itself.

Simple changes, big results

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Design

Design is about much more than art. In this interesting case study from Visual Website Optimizer, they highlight an eCommerce store that achieved a 56.43% increase in revenue by removing a mega-dropdown menu and replaced it with a category landing…

How to pick the WordPress plugin with the best support

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter gives some good tips on the WP Engine blog about how to pick WordPress plugins that are likely to have good support. It's definitely a bit of a science, and when you think of picking plugins that will…

What is the future of commercial plugins?

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2013

Business

Every now and then there are discussions and debates that arise to the forefront of the WordPress community. One of these discussions caught our attention: paid products based in WordPress and how they are (or are not) promoted within the…

Teach yourself programming in ten years

Brian Krogsgard

June 30, 2013

WordPress News

Peter Norvig is the Director of Research at Google. Years ago, he wrote this essay on how to teach yourself programming in ten years. Somehow, I've just now read his excellent advice for the first time. I'm only a few…

WordCamp Europe tickets are on sale

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2013

WordPress News

WordCamp Europe tickets are on sale now. The tickets cost 60 Euros for the October 5th-7th conference. This event is still months away, but I can already tell from chatter that it's going to be epic, and that I will…