Why Choose WordPress?
Curtis McHale
Clients ask me regularly why WordPress is a good option for them. I finally got around to writing it down.
Twenty Thirteen hits WordPress.com
Brian Krogsgard
Twenty Thirteen is officially available on WordPress.com now. This is very interesting to me, as it leads me to believe the new functions around post formats will remain in 3.6, even if the new UI does not. Designed by Joen Asmussen, Twenty…
Capsule, the developer’s code journal
Brian Krogsgard
Crowd Favorite has released a WordPress app called Capsule. It's a journal of sorts for developers, that enables storing code snippets, notes, and much more. The interface is pretty nice. I look forward to seeing how people use this. It's…
Gravity Forms 1.7 Released – Improved Confirmations and Notifications
Brian Krogsgard
Gravity Forms v1.7 was released yesterday and confirmations and notifications have had a huge facelift, which is really going to expand the power of Gravity Forms.
Upgrade your caching plugins: Vulnerabilities in W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache
Brian Krogsgard
Tony Perez, of Sucuri, has provided a summary, with explanation for the less security fluent of us, of a vulnerability in both W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache. Definitely update right away.
Auto Hosted allows for easy auto updates for self hosted themes and plugins
Brian Krogsgard
David Chandra has released a solution for providing automatic theme and plugin updates for self hosted WordPress products, called Auto Hosted. It looks quite nice. I love that  David's documentation for his product is open to the public. I'm very interested in…
What theme authors need to know about the new post format UI
Brian Krogsgard
Jason Bobich has written a very nice article for wpTuts+ about various new functions and post format changes included in WordPress 3.6 betas. While the post format UI is on the hot seat for 3.6 and may or may not…
ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed
Brian Krogsgard
ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.
Tammie Lister to write BuddyPress theme development book
Brian Krogsgard
Tammie Lister has made a deal with Packt Publishing to write a book about BuddyPress theme development. She plans for the book to be a relatively short, 100 pages, with lots of resources for developers that wanted to get started…
The new WordPress Download Monitor plugin
mikejolley
Announcement post + plans for the (beta) Download Monitor plugin which is being rebuilt.
Check your security settings: Brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites have tripled
Brian Krogsgard
Hosting providers around the world are seeing a massive increase in brute force attacks against WordPress and Joomla sites. Attackers are looking to gain access to and compromise accounts, but failing that, they are slowing down their targets or even…
Choosing a WordPress Theme and Why You’re Doing It Wrong
Brian Krogsgard
Focusing on graphics alone is the main mistake people make when selecting a theme. To help you out, here’s a better approach.
Pro version of WP Migrate DB released
Brian Krogsgard
The free WP Migrate DB allows you to export your database, does a find and replace on URLs and file paths (handles serialized data), then allows you to save it to your computer. The pro version includes these features and…
Handling recurring content in WordPress theme development
Brian Krogsgard
Recurring content is present in just about all WordPress themes, and handling it properly is important to keep themes lean, extensible and scalable. So what’s the right approach for handling recurring content in different situations?
Big update to WordPress for Android
Brian Krogsgard
Android owners will be happy to know that WordPress for Android has received a big update. Personally, 've grown to really like using WordPress with my phone.
Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?
Curtis McHale
Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.
