WP History – links manager
Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has begun her journey of documenting the history of WordPress, and she's already stumbled across this fun little story about an early cease and desist letter.
Matt Mullenweg at SXSW
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg did a short interview with TechCrunch after his SXSW presentation, and he talks about Automattic operating as a remote company, making money without ads, and some of his daily reads. I'm real excited to learn NextDraft (an inspiration behind…
WordPress theme design trends for 2013
Brian Krogsgard
Simon Ward, of Pingable, shares 20 design trends he sees in WordPress themes this year. I think his take is mostly accurate, even if I'm not a big fan of some of them. h/t Mike Schinkel.
Drastic changes to the WordPress UI
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg posted on the Make WordPress UI blog about some drastic changes that are being experimented with, by way of the MP6 plugin. I look forward to seeing how these evolve, and hope they extend beyond simple aesthetic changes…
WordPress vertical case study: ClickBank Powered
Brian Krogsgard
Human Made have published a really interesting case study about their work with Noel Tock creating a new WordPress vertical for ClickBank. Human Made and  Tock also worked together to build happytables, so the ClickBank project marks their second move…
How do you justify traveling to WordCamps?
Brian Krogsgard
WordCamps are awesome. No doubt about it. But from a business perspective, how do you justify attending out of town WordCamps as a freelancer, employee, small business owner, etc? I would love to hear the perspective of people that have…
Supporting older versions of WordPress in plugins
Brian Krogsgard
There's been some interesting discussion recently about supporting old versions of WordPress in plugins. Joost de Valk explains here why he does not support more than one version behind the latest in his plugins.
PressBooks open sourced
Brian Krogsgard
PressBooks, the plugin for WordPress Multisite to make ebooks in various formats, has officially been open sourced. This is really great news. It lowers the barrier to entry for authors even more.
Andrea Rennick Code Poet interview
Brian Krogsgard
Andrea Rennick, a WordPress multisite and support forum legend, has a nice interview on Code Poet today. Check it out to learn about her WordPress story, her job at Copyblogger, communities, and quilting.
WordPress.com menus go Locu
Brian Krogsgard
Techcrunch reports that WordPress.com has teamed up with menu-distributor startup Locu to display menus in their restaurant vertical. Locu customers (and now WordPress.com customers) can add their menus to the Locu interface and Locu integrates those menus with various other…
Better WordPress code reference
Brian Krogsgard
Siobhan McKeown has created some initial concepts for a revised WordPress code reference format. It's time for you to go give your thoughts on what would be useful information.
Random Taxonomy Images – Part 3
Curtis McHale
In the 3rd part of this series we add a random default image when one is not defined for a taxonomy.
What file is this page using? – The WordPress Template Hierarchy
Brian Krogsgard
Find out what template file is used to display the current page. What The File will be visible in the Toolbar when viewing your website.
A case against shortcodes
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin has written a thoughtful article on WordPress shortcodes, and why he generally doesn't like them as a method for enabling custom content functionality in WordPress. I left my own thoughts in the comments of his post.
Let WordPress automatically clean up your trash
Brian Krogsgard
Explains how you can easily let WordPress automatically clean up your trash every certain amount of days.
Never load jQuery from Google in themes and plugins
Brian Krogsgard
If Pippin reminds us to not dequeue the WordPress version of jQuery in plugins and themes enough, maybe people will eventually listen. This goes for custom client sites too, in my opinion. For the minimal savings, it's just too much…
