WordPress News

Use the_title() and the_title_attribute() Correctly

Pippin Williamson

July 12, 2013

WordPress provides a nice little function for displaying the title of the current post: the_title(). This function gets used all over the place: in the site header, at the top of single posts and pages, in the loop, in the…

Gravity Forms the latest provider to move to ticket-based support

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Gravity Forms announced today they are moving to a ticket-based support system, versus their previous forum-based setup. They cite that this will make it easier for them to manage and continue to scale. I've seen a few companies do this…

WordPress themes for comics

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignWordPress News

I saw today that WordPress.com has released a new WordPress theme geared toward comic writers, called Panel. It reminded me of an older project called ComicPress. ComicPress was probably ahead of its time in terms of just how niche it…

New WordPress.org status blog

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Andrew Nacin announced this morning that they've launched a new "status" blog for WordPress.org that is not hosted in the same environment as the rest of WordPress.org. This is common practice for high-scale websites, and I'm happy to see it…

Upgrade your client services with documentation

Zé Fontainhas

July 11, 2013

Development

Curtis McHale defends that including solid and comprehensive documentation with your projects is probably a task you can no longer ignore, if you want to stand out as a more complete WordPress developer.

Filling in WP_Query when it doesn’t come back with enough posts

Curtis McHale

July 11, 2013

Development

Ever need 5 'featured' posts but WP_Query only gives you 2? This tutorial will show you how you can fill in those missing posts.

A refreshed Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignPost Status Team Blog

Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…

WP Daily shuts down

Brian Krogsgard

July 10, 2013

WordPress News

In an incredibly surprising move, WP Daily has closed its doors. In the 8bit post, John Saddington states, "it did not achieve the much larger global goals and strategy of our organization at this present time."

It’s time to take the WordPress 2013 survey

Brian Krogsgard

July 9, 2013

WordPress News

The 2013 WordPress survey is now available. I highly recommend that anyone that uses WordPress in any capacity go take it. This survey is enormously helpful for at least three reasons: It helps those that influence the development of WordPress…

Identifying the right time to sell the rights to your commercial plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 9, 2013

Business

Daniel Espinoza tells a wonderful, and extremely personal, story of how he decided it was time to sell the rights to his most popular commercial plugins. Daniel shares that he was making $4,000-$5,000 per month of recurring revenue on these…

Show your personality on your website

Brian Krogsgard

July 9, 2013

WordPress News

As I read this, I just kept nodding in agreement. On The Theme Foundry's blog, Drew Strojny does a great job of expressing why it's important to tell your story with your website. He also gives a few key tips…

iThemes releases Exchange, a WordPress eCommerce plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes has just released Exchange on the WordPress plugin repository. They've been working for some time their new WordPress eCommerce plugin. They opened up a beta for some users about a month ago. A few days ago, I checked it out…

Diversify your conference schedules

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2013

WordPress News

Ben May advocates why WordPress enthusiasts should attend more conferences than just WordCamps. All of his points are worthwhile, but I especially like his note that it makes for a good opportunity to shoot down other web folks' misunderstandings of…

Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Brian Krogsgard

July 5, 2013

Business

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

Properly using wp_reset_postdata(), wp_reset_query() and variable naming in queries

Brian Krogsgard

July 3, 2013

Development

Understanding how to alter the main query and how to create custom queries in WordPress are two essentials for WordPress developers. You should familiarize yourself with a few things right away: What is the WP_Query class, including creating new custom…