WordPress News

WordPress at 10: Time for a fork?

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

Over the last couple of years I have done a lot of thinking about the evolution of WordPress and how the application can best meet the needs of the ever more fragmented user base. In this article I make the…

Yet another Columns plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin's attempt at a cleaner, easier to use columns shortcode for WordPress.

WordPress.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress.org has made incredible strides the last few years on improving the quality of the themes in the repository. Every theme goes through a stringent approval process, thanks to the WordPress Theme Review Team. But discovery can still be challenging on WordPress.org.

Pressnomics, the WordPress business conference, to be held October 17-19th

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Pressnomics has announced the dates for its second annual event. The WordPress business conference will be held October 17th-19th, in Phoenix, Arizona. The conference, started by Pagely founders Joshua and Sally Strebel, was a huge hit last year, according to…

ThemeForest theme nets over $100,000 per month, sadly

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The Envato blog highlighted a record breaking theme on their blog today, for achieving $100,000 in revenue per month, two months in a row. All in all, this theme, Avada, has achieved nearly a million dollars in revenue since its…

New WordPress host, Flywheel, raises funding

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

Hosting

In an interview on Silicon Prairie News, Flywheel hosting has announced that they received funding for their WordPress hosting startup. It's worth noting that Silicon Prairie News and Flywheel share a co-founder, so the article seems very much like self-promotion.…

Working with WordPress and Vagrant – Basics

Curtis McHale

May 3, 2013

Development

An overview of using Varrying Vagrant Vagrants as your local development environment.

Level up your WordPress development skills

Curtis McHale

May 3, 2013

Development

Great talk by Tom about how to take your WordPress development skills to the next level.

How to Programmatically Populate a WordPress Template

Curtis McHale

May 2, 2013

Development

I haven't had to do this yet, but seems to be a pretty easy thing to do with Tom's code.

Wizards are busy people

Brian Krogsgard

May 1, 2013

WordPress News

Curtis McHale wins today's award for the most creative post title. He shares a valuable lesson for freelancers, service providers, and even clients. The best ones are busy, because a lot of people need their help. Expect to wait.

Questions for WordPress Calendar Users

Brian Krogsgard

April 30, 2013

WordPress News

I'm part of the team behind The Events Calendar and we would love to learn a bit more about how people use a WordPress calendar and who our own users are. Events 3.0 is getting close to launch and my…

Only 24 hours left to submit a talk to WordCamp Milwaukee

Brian Krogsgard

April 30, 2013

WordPress News

WordCamp Milwaukee is looking for speakers and the deadline is looming. Submit your talk today for a great opportunity to speak and learn about WordPress. Also, Beer.

Why you should join the theme review team

Brian Krogsgard

April 30, 2013

WordPress News

Fränk Klein makes a case for why it's advantageous for theme developers to join the theme review team.

Towards a partial page templating system in WordPress

Curtis McHale

April 30, 2013

Development

Here's a great article by Zack Tollman exploring ideas around caching parts of pages for views in WordPress.

Validation and sanitization in the theme customizer

Brian Krogsgard

April 30, 2013

WordPress News

Konstantin Obenland has posted some tips for proper validation and sanitization on the Themeshaper blog. For those that recall Otto's definitive post on the subject, this one adds a couple of tips in addition that have been added to core…

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 released, post formats stay in

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.6 Beta 2 was released this evening. After the debate on whether post formats should be punted to 3.7, it appears they are here to stay in 3.6. They have been iterated on, and I like them much, much…