WordPress News

WordPress podcast WPWaterCooler passes 2.5 million downloads

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

What is this, podcast week? I talked about my favorite podcasts earlier this week, and I've seen tons of new information and debate about podcasts in the WordPress community since then. Last night, I read from Chris Lema about the…

How to create a podcast with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

WordPress News

Jason Tucker knows a thing or two about WordPress, podcasts, and media. In this writeup, he gives a thorough walkthrough of creating and distributing a podcast with WordPress. With various podcasts I've set up for client work, my process is…

The problem with almost all hosting reviews

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan exposes the sad truth about most hosting reviews on his WP Site Care blog. Frankly, few are truly genuine or considerate of various potential needs customers may have. I could not agree more with his post. Sure, there…

The best things in life are not drag-and-drop

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

WordPress News

How many people build their own house? A few. How many people build their own car? Even less. How many people build anything for themselves anymore? Not many. So we must ask ourselves, will the web really be a better…

Why taxonomy queries are faster than post meta queries

Brian Krogsgard

July 18, 2013

Development

I missed this when it published in March, but Taylor Lovett does a nice job explaining why taxonomy queries tend to be faster than post meta queries in WordPress. So, next time you're trying to decide whether to make some…

Jigoshop announces hosted “Pro” eCommerce partnership

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Business

Jigoshop, a popular WordPress eCommerce plugin, has announced a partnership with Proxar IT Consulting, that offers a managed and hosted eCommerce platform for serious eCommerce customers. The plan levels are £300 for Silver, £500 per month for Gold, or a custom quote…

A series on the WordPress HTTP API

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Development

I always get excited when Tom McFarlin starts a new series on wpTuts+. His latest is going to take a look at the WordPress HTTP API, and his first post is up with an introduction to wp_remote_get(). Tom is one…

BuddyPress 1.8 ships with fancy template hierarchy and better theme integration

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress 1.8 has officially shipped with the codename, "Di Fara". BuddyPress has a much smaller user base than the main WordPress project, but they are passionate users and developers. The newest release continues the trend of reducing barriers between WordPress…

Official WordPress job board is back open, seeks moderators

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Careers

The official WordPress job board is back open. It was down for a while as the primary moderator stepped down. According to a post on the Make WordPress Meta blog by Siobhan McKeown, they are now seeking a few moderators with…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Summer edition)

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Careers

This is the third “Who’s hiring” post, and the last two were very successful. I know of a few people that got full time jobs and contract work based on conversations started from those posts. I consistently find people looking…

Learn three filters a day for 365 days

Curtis McHale

July 17, 2013

Development

Drew Jaynes hast started a new website called Filters of the Day with the goal of documenting 3 filters a day for the next 365 days. I'm sure this will be a great opportunity for us to learn more about…

CrowdFavorite releases Ruby gem for WordPress deployment with Capistrano

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Development

CrowdFavorite has officially released a Ruby gem that they've been using for some time that allows for deploying WordPress sites with Capistrano. They talk about how it's different from Mark Jaquith's WP-Stack, which you may have heard of, in the…

Envato updates recent changes to ThemeForest theme submission requirements

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

Envato has updated some of the implementation schedule and details from the recent changes they made to their ThemeForest theme submission guidelines last week. The update slows down the process of implementing the new guides and breaks them into two…

Floating Social Bar plugin does sticky social buttons with lazy loading

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

Syed Balkhi of WP Beginner and Thomas Griffin, maker of Soliloquy, just teamed up to create Floating Social Bar. It's a plugin that utilizes the Socialite.js script in combination with a sticky bar for displaying social sharing buttons. Socialite.js is…

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I was tagged in a tweet by Brad Williams that referenced The WP Conf, which is currently only a half-finished website, but is an independent WordPress conference slated for late this year, and calls itself, "a WordPress conference forked from…

I was profiled on WooThemes to talk about WooCommerce, WordPress, and maintenance

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

I'm extremely honored to have been profiled on WooThemes to talk about working in client services with WordPress, using WooCommerce, and maintaining WordPress. There is a Q & A along with a video interview I did with WooNinja Matty Cohen.…