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SublPress: WordPress actions in Sublime Text

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Brian Krogsgard
This is an interesting package for Sublime Text that brings actions in the WordPress dashboard to your text editor. Though, to me, it seems if you are going to do it this way, why not just go straight to the…

Wptuts+ Resources

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Brian Krogsgard
Wptuts+ has created a WordPress resources page. It includes a variety of categories, including development tools, hosting recommendations, and reference websites. Many of the links are affiliates.

Developing a WordPress site on a live url

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Brian Krogsgard
There are a many ways to develop a website in WordPress, locally, on a sub-domain or on a staging server but these ways mean that you will eventually have to migrate the site to a the live url at some…

WordPress’ unhappiest user

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a fun story of a WordPress meetup where the author was a bit starstruck by Matt Mullenweg, and came away with a great quote that makes me happy about WordPress' future.

Yoast… themes?

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Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk posted this morning that they are trying ditch their clients, and want to focus on their own products more. This includes plans to start selling WordPress themes. They are focusing on the Genesis child theme market. It'll…

Pay-What-You-Want Theme Experiment: Empty Spaces

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Brian Krogsgard
I released a WordPress theme on my site recently, and I'm running a little experiment with it -- it's available as "pay what you want", with no minimum price. I'd appreciate if you took a moment to check it out!…

WordPress Theme Development Best Practices

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Brian Krogsgard
In reaction to recent criticism about a lack of rules or best practices for WordPress theme development, I've compiled an overview of resources to help developers create themes according to best practices.

A great UI is invisible

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Brian Krogsgard
Here's a really inspiring post on Codrops. It talks about solving problems in UI, not just adding features.

Bulk reports and digests for Gravity Forms

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Brian Krogsgard
Gennady Kovshenin has written a really nice looking add-on for Gravity Forms that enables bulk reports and digests of form entries. It appears you can set the frequency for the notifications for each form. He also links a couple of…

Code Poet interview about Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
Sorry for the shameless plug, but I thought I'd share my interview with Code Poet. I talked about my path into web development and WordPress, but also went into some depth about Post Status.

Problems with the WordPress plugin repository

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Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin makes a well-reasoned article on his issues with the way the WordPress plugin repository works. I disagree with some of what he says, but he definitely makes some great points. I especially agree that the repository is extremely…
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