Cristi Burca: Command Line Learnings For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of WordPress
paul de wouters
WordCamp Talk about WP cli, a command line interface for WordPress
Hello, Post Status
Brian Krogsgard
I finally wrote a blog post on my personal blog about Post Status. I share in depth about starting the site, what I've learned, where it's going, how it's doing, etc. I hope you enjoy it.
Gravity Perks exits beta
Brian Krogsgard
Gravity Perks is a add-on functionality plugin for Gravity Forms by David Smith. David is a core developer of Gravity Forms itself, and he also runs the Gravity Wiz tutorial site for Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms is awesome. Gravity Wiz…
Write code every day
Brian Krogsgard
Pippin has written a nice post about why we should be writing code every single day. I love this, in theory :)
WordPress.tv to allow users to submit their own videos
Brian Krogsgard
Pretty soon, you'll be able to submit your own videos to WordPress.tv. This will be a great change, as currently there is a consistent queue for getting new videos reviewed and published. The remaining items are to figure out how…
WP Bytes – evergreen tutorials for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
WP Bytes is an attractive new WordPress tutorial website that, in my opinion, is taking an interesting approach to articles. Kevin Dees started the site, and his main method of categorization is by series. So you can learn all you…
WooCommerce 2.0 is coming March 4th. Final chance for testing!
Brian Krogsgard
Today we have tagged the second Release Candidate in our version control (you can now download it from GitHub) and this marks the last week of testing. If is it as good as we think it is (and no critical…
Adding Custom Meta to WordPress Taxonomies
Curtis McHale
Part 1 of 3 where we show you how to add custom meta fields to a WordPress taxonomy.
Redesigning Automattic’s websites
Brian Krogsgard
Stéphane Thomas has written a post proposing a more unified design aesthetic for various Automattic properties. It's very thorough, including complete home page wireframes with content. Stéphane doesn't work for Automattic, and the post appears to be fairly random, so it…
11 WordPress extensions you can use with Sublime Text 2
Brian Krogsgard
If you use Sublime Text 2 you probably know of its extensibility. Most modern IDEs have such a feature. Or, if you're like me, you tend to use certain text editors for certain projects. Here are some cool extensions for…
Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?
Brian Krogsgard
Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…
WordPress admin styles checklist
Brian Krogsgard
Tung Do, owner of DevPress, shared a checklist of things to pay attention to when creating an admin theme, as he did. It looks... intimidating.
Tools for growth at WordPress.com
Brian Krogsgard
Pete Davies is a growth engineer for WordPress.com. That basically means he uses many tools to help analyze data so they can better market the platform for more people. This post on Pete's personal blog is a fantastic description of…
How websites are making money
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a really interesting slide deck from Flippa's operations manager analyzing how websites are making money. He used 8,000 Flippa sold sites as examples. Toward the end, he notes an 8% growth for WordPress' marketshare of the CMS driven sites sold in…
Are home pages dead?
Brian Krogsgard
Quartz makes the argument that every page is the home page, because more and more sites are accessed first from within. I'm pretty sure I disagree. I get the point that interior pages need to be better focused for users first…
Properly instantiating WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin discusses various methods for instantiating WordPress plugins. There are some good comments as well.
