WordPress News

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility group have created an initial set of accessibility objectives for WordPress. Ultimately, in order to support Matt Mullenweg’s view on the democratization of the web by web-related software, the group wants as many WordPress…

Why every new employee should do customer support

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

Business

Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join…

Gravity Forms releases Zapier addon, enabling massive third party integration opportunities

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

Gravity Forms has released an addon to integrate with Zapier, which is an automation service. Zapier essentially helps various APIs from popular services communicate with one another. If you've heard of IFTTT, it's fairly similar. There are loads of integrations…

WordPress podcasts to keep an eye on

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The WordPress podcast landscape seems to be exploding. I've been keeping my queue filled for a while now with the shows available. Let's talk about a few. The DradCast The DradCast is a carryover from WP Late Night, hosted by Sucuri CEO…

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros, Adam Warner, Curtis McHale, Jeff Chandler, and Pippin Williamson all got together for a great panel discussion on the most recent episode of the Week in WordPress podcast. They talked about a lot of the shifts in the…

An interview with WordPress expert Otto Wood

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

I've had the pleasure of knowing Otto Wood for a couple of years and wanted to ask him a few questions about himself and his thoughts on a couple of topics geared toward the average WordPress user.

Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Design

It appears the WordPress VIP website has a new look and feel. I have to say, I greatly prefer it to the harsh black of the old design. This is one of my favorite blogs for seeing what the biggest…

Automattic acquires domain search website, Lean Domain Search

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has acquired Lean Domain Search, a domain search tool. The website allows users to enter a number of usernames they'd like to search, and then creates a nifty table of potential domain names involving those keywords. Founder Matt Mazur…

Replace the WordPress the default category metabox with radio buttons

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Development

Justin Sternberg posted on the WebDevStudios blog a code example for changing the default hierarchical taxonomy metabox (like for categories) into a radio button select box. This is very handy for limiting end users to choosing only one taxonomy term.

How WooThemes makes distributed team culture work

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

Business

The iDoneThis blog profiles WooThemes and their distributed work culture. The author also learns about their processes, the recruiting advantage of distributed teams, their commitment to transparency, and growing pains.

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

Shortcodes should never be included in themes. Period.

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

Development

Leland at ThemeLab offers a passionate argument that he does not believe any shortcodes should be included in WordPress themes. I think he makes plenty of good arguments, but I do think we should remember that all a shortcode does…

WordPress 3.6 Release Candidate 1 is out

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Mark Jaquith has posted to the WordPress.org blog that the first Release Candidate is available for WordPress 3.6. You know the drill. Test it out, report bugs, etc, etc. Your feedback is valuable and this is one of the best…

100+ WordPress theme shops sorted by Alexa rank

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

This is a really great idea by Devin Price. Devin decided to sort WordPress theme shops based on their Alexa rank. The first three are Elegant Themes, WooThemes, and StudioPress, none of which surprises me. But I bet you there…

Page.ly launches PRESSCDN, a host-independent WordPress CDN

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Page.ly has launched a new product they are branding as a "WordPress CDN" service named PRESSCDN™ (not sure why the emphasis on the trademark), specifically for "those that love WordPress." The service has it's own website as well, and starts…

FooCamp – a blog series on how to make a WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Follow along as FooPlugins Lead Developer guides our Support Manager in building his first plugin through a series of blog posts. We invite both developers and would-be developers to join in the discussion so we can all learn from each…