The future of SEO plugins for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Joost de Valk talks about what he sees as the future of SEO plugins. In short, most of them suck. Joost's and a couple others are good, but don't trust most of what you see out there.
Different ways of instantiating WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Many different ways exist to structure WordPress plugins. You can use singletons, global references to your plugin class instance, static classes, namespaces and so forth. In this article, many different ways are outlined in the context of extensibility.
SEO tips for shifting your site to WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
If you want to upgrade your site from ASP, Joomla, Drupal, HTML etc to WordPress you can follow the following steps in order to preserve your SEO rank and traffic.
Shortcode attributes filter added in WordPress 3.6
Brian Krogsgard
Mark Jaquith shares a nice new feature of WordPress 3.6 with his latest blog post: a shortcode attribute filter. So, if the person who registers the shortcode adds this third parameter, it makes it possible to extend the existing attributes…
10 useful WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
These plugins are quite handy for someone that makes websites for clients. Most of these are in my default setup, but I hadn't seen Content Aware Sidebars before, so I'll need to check it out.
Restaurant Engine Q&A with Brian Casel
Brian Krogsgard
Brian Casel has answered some questions about his WordPress SaaS project, Restaurant Engine. The questions are some he's gotten over time that he decided to put into one blog post. It's great to see his thought processes behind his project.
BackupBuddy 3.3 includes file integrity scans and improved user interfaces
Brian Krogsgard
BackupBuddy 3.3 has been released. The update includes a file integrity scan that is run during backup, as well as improvements for debugging plugin conflicts, canceling backups, and manually running scheduled backups.
WordPress 3.6 Beta 1 is out
Brian Krogsgard
Time to test! It's great to see a beta out. I'm excited to check out the post format work that's gone into this release, amongst other things.
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…
