The Long Game
Brian Krogsgard
Noel Tock describes ways to invest in yourself today that will pay bigger in the future.
Eliminating ambiguity in WordPress page template file naming
Brian Krogsgard
The template hierarchy is a big part of the structure of WordPress themes, but as its parts were added over time, it now has some strange and confusing file naming. For example, why are so many people naming their templates…
WordPress documentation for free and commercial projects
Curtis McHale
Way to many developers leave documentation to the end, and that's not what we should be doing. Documentation is a very important part of your project.
Myths of running a WordPress theme business
Brian Krogsgard
Bill Robbins runs the WordPress theme shop, Organized Themes. In this post, he explains many common myths about running a theme shop. Bill's a great guy, and his honest depiction of running a theme business is refreshing. Also, it turns out our…
Responsive deliverables
Brian Krogsgard
Dave Rupert, of Shop Talk Show and Paravel fame, shares his ideas on creating deliverables for responsive design. I think it could be rephrased to just creating deliverables. He advocates breaking the website functionality into modules, independent from page structure.…
Tools for building better WordPress projects
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin outlines the tools the 8Bit team uses when developing projects on WordPress. There are a number of good debugging tools and plugins listed here.
WP Roll is a new way to find WordPress news sources
Brian Krogsgard
WP Roll is curated blogroll of people and blogs writing about WordPress. It uses RollRank which is a unique and custom built ranking algorithm that relies on various social signals for sorting blogs by their popularity, quality and relevance to…
A Year Without Pants
Brian Krogsgard
Scott Berkun spent a year working for Automattic as research for his upcoming book, A Year Without Pants. The book will focus on remote work, for which Automattic is well known. Berkun is going to, "share what I learned about…
Dive in. Ways to contribute to WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Carrie Dils tells her story of how she was convinced she could contribute to WordPress, and offers ways for others to get involved as well.
WordPress plugin to embed comparison charts
Brian Krogsgard
The Diffen comparison plugin lets WordPress bloggers easily search and embed comparison charts on their blog, from right within their regular editor. Diffen is the world's largest collection of unbiased comparisons in sports, sci./tech, legal, finance, grammar, health and general…
The Future of Startbox with WebDevStudios
Brian Krogsgard
Startbox is a theme framework built by Brian Richards that was adopted / acquired by WebDevStudios when Brian went to work there full time. In this post  on WP Force, Brad Williams answers what the future of Startbox looks like.
Why you shouldn’t remove dates from blog posts
Brian Krogsgard
I was very happy to read this post on WP Beginner in support of leaving dates on blog posts. It's bugged me for years that WP Beginner (and loads of other sites) didn't have them, because like they say in…
Make support easier with the SysInfo plugin
Brian Krogsgard
Dave Donaldson has extracted some code he uses in all of his plugins at Max Foundry to release as a standalone plugin. SysInfo is relatively simple; it shows as much information about a WordPress site and environment as it can,…
MOJO Themes Acquired
John Saddington
Mojoness has been acquired by a company called EIG. Will we see this trend continue in 2013?
WordPress.com partners with ShopLocket for eCommerce
Brian Krogsgard
This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace's eCommerce offering to me.
Why extensions for plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Pippin Williamson describes why the extensions model is a good idea for plugins, and responds to common criticism he sees for the model. I agree with him. I really love the extension model for plugins, and I think there is…
