WordPress News

There are no small changes

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

"Scope grows in minutes, not months. Look after the minutes, and the months take care of themselves." Des Traynor gives an example account of a "small" change that probably feels familiar with any client services provider. I personally believe that…

The truth about building commercial WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

Business

It's not easy to make good, sustainable income selling commercial WordPress plugins. Tom McFarlin does a great job highlighting many things you should be considering if you are thinking about getting into the WordPress commercial product business.

The Styles plugin integrates a ton of customizer options into the default themes

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

WordPress News

I ran across the Styles plugin today, thanks to a tweet from Brady Vercher. I was intrigued because Brady said, "I really think this plugin could be the standard for easily customizing themes." That's quite a statement. But after installing…

Page.ly acquired BlogDroid

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

HostingWordPress News

Page.ly, the oldest managed WordPress hosting provider, has acquired BlogDroid. BlogDroid is a newer player in the WordPress managed hosting market. According to Page.ly's blog post, it was an all cash deal for the acquisition.

Designing in the browser

Brian Krogsgard

June 25, 2013

Design

Designing in the browser has been talked about by many industry leading designers. Here are some tips on how to to make in-browser design a little bit easier.

Seriously awesome tutorial on Git branching

Curtis McHale

June 25, 2013

Development

It's a given that you need to know SVN to work with WordPress, but more and more developers are starting to use Git. If you're just starting out then here is an awesome interactive tutorial on Git branching.

A/B Testing in WordPress

Curtis McHale

June 25, 2013

Business

If you use WordPress for your business website or to run your business entirely, you should be split testing to improve your conversions on products, form entries, and even email lists. WP Lift has done a nice run-through with tips…

WordPress 3.5.2 released (maintenance and security release)

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

WordPress 3.5.2 has just been released. As this is a maintenance and security release, there is no reason not to update right away. The releases fixes some fringe vulnerabilities and minor bugs.

Week in WordPress podcast: How much is WordPress worth?

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

WordPress News

I was just on the Week in WordPress podcast with Jeff Chandler, of WP Tavern, and hosts Scott Sousa and Matt Madeiros. Check it out on the Slocum Studio website. We talk WordPress News, the value of WordPress and more.

How to build websites your customers will love

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

Design

I've really been enjoying Help Scout's blog the past few months. In a recent post, they give a bunch of good advice on tips for designing websites that appeal, achieve goals, and make your visitors happy. Be sure to check…

Lessons for plugin developers from Joost de Valk

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk published to his blog this morning about a mistake he made with an update to his WordPress SEO plugin. He used a feature in PHP that isn't supported in PHP 5.2, and therefore his plugin didn't work…

WYSIJA is a surprisingly delightful WordPress newsletter plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for "What You Send Is Just Awesome." Yeah, it's tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from…

A call to change WordPress widgets

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Jesse Friedman has written up how he thinks that WordPress widgets and widget areas should operate more like WordPress menus. I agree with him that currently, things like conditional sidebars can be a bit annoying. But I'd like to see…

Who should decide what features WordPress gets next?

Curtis McHale

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

It seems that some people don't feel the community gets enough input in to what 's happening in WordPress. Is that a valid point, or are they just not stepping up to the plate in Trac, IRC, and on the…

Team of 10 set roadmap for the future of WordPress documentation

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

A team of 10 WordPress folks just spent three days at the Open Help Conference and Sprints in Cincinnati in order to analyze a variety of issues with current WordPress documentation practices, and to create a roadmap moving forward. The…

WordPress theme for presentation slides

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2013

WordPress News

Otto Wood has created an initial version of a WordPress theme intended for use as presentation slides. It's called Slides. Hosting slides on the web makes complete sense, and making slide templates WordPress themes is just as logical. I can…