WordPress News

You probably don’t need do_shortcode()

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings.…

How NASA is promoting open source technology

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has a nice post on WPMU describing how NASA is promoting open source, and WordPress specifically. It's great to see huge organizations like this realize the power of open source development.

WooThemes integrates with Creative Market

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Creative Market hit the scene pretty quickly earlier this year as a 100% GPL theme marketplace. Now, WooCommerce has announced that they have made some of their themes available on Creative Market.

Core caching concepts in WordPress

Curtis McHale

June 10, 2013

Development

Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.

Sub Posts helps you link WordPress posts to one another

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

WordPress News

Linking posts to each other is quite a hassle in WordPress, especially if they are of different post types. Sub Posts enables you to setup these links, link the posts and display them on your website in minutes.

Automated WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

Development

Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…

Please do not use curly brackets {} in template files

Pippin Williamson

June 8, 2013

WordPress News

My thoughts on why you should NOT use curly brackets in theme and plugin template files.

Bundling plugins into themes is really dumb

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Coen Jacobs posted about a couple of examples where theme authors were bundling commercial plugins into their commercial themes. This is incredibly dumb, which Coen gives good reasons as to why. The comments are also worth reading. And for an…

Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Mike Jolley, the lead developer and original creator of WooCommerce, has released a beta version of a new plugin called WP Job Manager. It's free and available on Github. Knowing how WooCommerce works, I'm really excited to try this out.…

How to adopt a WordPress plugin, or to put it up for adoption

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Jeff Chandler has put together a good post on how to adopt abandoned WordPress plugins, or to put your own plugin up for adoption. One of the toughest things about using other people's plugins is that it's hard to know…

Holy Crap – Adobe Brackets

Curtis McHale

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

At the very least, it's probably time to give Brackets a serious look for your WordPress theme building.

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…

Automatic remote backups added to WP Remote for $5 per month

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2013

WordPress News

WP Remote, the update and backup solution from Human Made, has announced their first commercial plan for their popular product. You can now pay $5 per month per site to get automated backups stored remotely. This sets them up as…

The Mojo Marketplace integrates with Bluehost cPanel

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2013

HostingWordPress News

The Mojo team has teased work they've collaborated on with Bluehost that will offer Mojo products within the cPanel dashboard of Bluehost accounts. The integration includes single sign-on between a Bluehost account and Mojo, as well as one-click buying from…

Making customer service human

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2013

Business

For too long, companies have been automating customer service, but that depersonalises the relationship. It’s time to make customer service human again.

WP101 extends their video service with Spanish versions

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2013

WordPress News

WP101 has extended their potential user base significantly by producing all of their WordPress user videos with Spanish versions. These are fully translated and re-recorded videos, not just subtitles. This is a huge, and impressive, investment into what must be…