WordPress News

Five minutes with Philip Arthur Moore

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2013

Philip is the Team Lead for Automattic's Theme Team, and he's the focus of WordPress.com's "Five Minutes with" series this week. I personally admire the work that Philip does, and it's a pleasure to get to know him a little…

Tips for a better user interface

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2013

WordPress News

GoodUI is a simple website that attempts to educate visitors on how to create good user interfaces. The tips are practical and easy to apply to a variety of mediums.

Redesigning the WordPress Post Editor

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2013

WordPress News

Inspired by Ghost, I have put some thought into the WordPress Post Editor and what I would do to improve it. This blog post outlines my thought process, and shows the outcome of those thoughts. Would love to get some…

Owning Your Content: A WordPress User’s Guide

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2013

WordPress News

In light of a seemingly endless onslaught of legislation and privacy policy changes, there's an inevitable point at which moving your content onto your domain is the best option. That point might as well be now - this is a…

Filtering Classes on wp_nav_menu

Curtis McHale

May 14, 2013

Development

Today we look at making a WordPress page appear to be the ancestor of a single custom post type by filtering the classes on wp_nav_menu.

Why are clients shocked by the price of web development?

Brian Krogsgard

May 13, 2013

WordPress News

Many comments in this Hacker News thread are bound to frustrate those of you who provide WordPress based solutions for clients. The HN user notes, "it seems that many clients are shocked by the price for a website where they…

Ludicrous speed: WordPress caching with Redis

Brian Krogsgard

May 11, 2013

Hosting

WordPress, loaded through Nginx is fast. Placing a Redis-powered page cache in front of WordPress is even faster. How much faster? Pages are returned in < 10ms.

GigaOM’s need for speed

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2013

WordPress News

GigaOM recently launched a redesign, and in their development, really focused on improving page load times. The results are especially impressive, considering how much content they are loading per page view. Their interview with WordPress.com VIP is definitely worthwhile.

No code required, eh?

Curtis McHale

May 9, 2013

WordPress News

After looking at WP App Studio, I really wonder if it's a good plugin for users and WordPress in general.

Live workshop: How to build a WordPress plugin with Tom McFarlin

Curtis McHale

May 9, 2013

Development

I'm sure we can expect nothing but awesome from Tom.

Core plugin dependency is necessary for a better WordPress ecosystem

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2013

WordPress News

The debate over plugin dependency has been around WordPress for years. I strongly believe that WordPress core needs a simple plugin dependency API for a healthier WordPress ecosystem. Building plugin dependency into core does more than make something already possible…

WordPress Core is Secure

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

Make WordPressSecurity

Jason Cosper writes on the WP Engine blog that people need to stop saying WordPress is not secure, because it is. WordPress Core is rarely cause for security concerns, and hasn't been for some time. However, due to WordPress' massive…

VaultPress Lite

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2013

WordPress News

VaultPress, the Automattic backup solution, has introduced a "Lite" plan to their repertoire. It allows you to receive daily backups with a thirty day archive for only $5 per month. It also includes their site restore service. This is the first…

WordPress Plugin Boilerplate 2.0

Tom McFarlin

May 8, 2013

WordPress News

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate serves as a foundation and aims to provide a clear and consistent guide for building your WordPress plugins. The second version includes a number of new additions, features, and improvements many of which have been made…

Vagrant and Custom Domains with WordPress

Curtis McHale

May 8, 2013

Development

Here we learn to do your own custom WordPress install in Varrying Vagrant Vagrants on a custom domain for a client site.

Om Malik on blogging and conversations

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

WordPress News

Siobhan McKeown interviewed Om Malik for her pending book on WordPress, and came away with some interesting insight from Om that I think is valuable for any of us that take part in online conversations.