WordPress News

WordPress, forking, and the road to 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2013

At WordCamp San Francisco, Matt Mullenweg presented the future of WordPress versions 3.7 and 3.8. I have a specific vision for 3.9 and 4.0 - one that will keep both end users and developers happy. Can we make it happen?

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

The history of WordPress book is on Github

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The history of WordPres book that Siobhan McKeown is leading is now on Github so folks can help edit, or even contribute. The official title is WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source. Pretty cool that the history…

Thoughts on WordPress affiliate programs

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

Business

Tom McFarlin gives some great thoughts (that I happen to agree with fully) about WordPress affiliate programs. The key is remembering as an affiliate that every product is not for every person. And if you're an affiliate just for the…

Pagelines DMS reviews

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

WordPress News

Pagelines just released their "DMS" (Design Management System). A couple of reviews have already popped up. I'd start here with Leland's at ThemeLab. Of course, you may want to first ask yourself whether you need a drag and drop theme…

WP Weekend Phoenix details emerge

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

WordPress News

I guess we can call it a trend now. For the second time in as many weeks, a WordCamp has been "forked". WordCamp Phoenix has been a tremendously popular event in past years. I know at least one year they…

Stay in tune with WCSF all day with WP Armchair

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

WordPress News

David Bisset is an epic WordCamp follower. He should have a badge. He'll be at WordCamp San Francisco in the flesh today, and he's taken it up a notch. He's custom developed a site soyou can keep track of WCSF…

Interview with wpMail.me and Cozmos Labs founder Cristian Antohe

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Troy Dean, of Video User Manuals, has a new interview up on his CommPress business podcast that features Cristian Antohe. Cristian is a consultant, and also the curator of wpMail.me, a great WordPress newsletter. The interview has quite a few…

Filter existing shortcodes in WordPress 3.6

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

Development

Here's a great post with a working example of the new shortcode_atts{$shortcode} filter available in WordPress 3.6 that allows developers to filter an existing shortcode's parameters. I need stuff like this all the time. The only catch is that the shortcode itself…

WP Push specializes in push notifications for WordPress apps

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

Business

I ran across this one thanks to Pippin Williamson mentioning it. WP Push is a highly focused extension market that creates push notification functionality for WordPress plugins and apps. They've got them for Jetpack, the bb's, various eCommerce software, and…

Five minutes with Dave Martin

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

WordPress News

Dave Martin is an Automattician that worked full time on WordPress.org projects for a pretty considerable amount of time last year (and I think early this year). In this interview on WordPress.com, he talks what he's doing now, how he…

Obox releases SalesGenius, a reporting app for Envato markets

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2013

Business

Obox has been in the theme and plugin business for many years. But they've recently released a web app called SalesGenius that has a variety of tools built in to measure and report sales information for Envato markets. The product…

Blogging is good for business even if you get no traffic

Brian Krogsgard

July 24, 2013

Business

I could not agree with this author more. Rob Fitzpatrick explains why he believes that blogging is good for a business even if the blog gets no traffic. Before you scoff, read the post. It's all logical and after years…

An honest Pagely review

Brian Krogsgard

July 24, 2013

Hosting

I have to admit, when I saw that Raelene at WPMU was going to start a series of reviews on hosting providers, I was skeptical. After all, most hosting reviews suck. But I have to say, she did a great job…

CobaltApps shuttering popular Catalyst theme to focus on Genesis-based products

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

Business

This is pretty big news in theme land. CobaltApps has had a popular following for their options-centric Catalyst theme for some time. But they also have a Genesis-based theme that does everything visually that Catalyst does, plus, well, it's got…