WordPress News

Adii Pienaar on The East Wing podcast

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2013

Recently, Adii Pienaar appeared on The East Wing podcast. Adii is a cofounder of WooThemes. I've always enjoyed this podcast, and Adii's interview provides great insight into WooThemes and Adii's perspective on business and the WordPress community. Definitely give it…

Gravity Forms 1.7 beta out with new features

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2013

WordPress News

Gravity Forms has released beta 1 of Gravity Forms 1.7 and it's got all sorts of nice new features. I really like the attention paid to improving the UI in the backend. Developers can check out another post where they…

Introduction to pluggable functions

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2013

Development

Rakhitha Nimesh has done a nice job on wpTuts+ with his introduction to using pluggable functions in WordPress. I personally tend to prefer filters for adding flexibility in my projects, but there are times where a custom pluggable function is…

Siobhan McKeown joining Audrey Capital to work on docs and history

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2013

WordPress News

Congratulations to Siobhan McKeown, who announced this morning that she's joined Audrey Capital full time. Audrey is Matt Mullenweg's angel investment company. She'll work on the docs project as well as a history of WordPress, which is really exciting. I…

A South African province spent millions for a website built with a Themeforest theme

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Oops. As seen on a blog called Tech Central, a South African province seems to have spent around $15 million on a new website that turns out to be a slightly customized Themeforest theme. I've got no problem with people…

WooCommerce 2.0 released

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

I use WooCommerce quite a bit, and today their big 2.0 update was released. There are many, many improvements, and I'm excited too see such active development. The new product data panel is probably my favorite thing. Congratulations to Mike Jolley,…

Site showcase: Batman News

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

Design

Here's an awesome WordPress site to check out: Batman News. It's a blog about all things Batman, and it is pretty awesome. I think it's really well designed and put together. It was built by Brady and Brody Vercher, of…

Nerdy WordPress rap

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

Yep. I just don't know how to describe this. Treehouse apparently has a new podcast, called "Blogcast Podcast News", and they've started with this

The dangers of type coercion and remote management plugins

paul de wouters

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

Using remote updating services for your WordPress sites could compromise it and make it vulnerable to attacks. This article explains in detail the technique that could be use to exploit the vulnerabilities.

The WordPress Handbook – 57 Resources For First Time WordPress Users

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

Here's a list of resources for new WordPress users.

Disable revisions

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

WordPress News

How to disable the by default enabled revisions to save a lot of database space.

Building and managing WordPress websites? You should check out Admin Restriction.

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

Admin Restriction is a plugin that disables installing, updating and removing plugins and themes, and disables updating the WordPress Core for all users except for the Administrator user with ID 1.

Swiftype Search for improved WordPress search

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter has done a nice feature on the WP Engine blog on a new plugin called Swiftype. It seems the folks behind Swiftype have been "blessed" by the WordPress.com VIP team as a more relevance-based search solution. I'm certainly…