Dive in. Ways to contribute to WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
Carrie Dils tells her story of how she was convinced she could contribute to WordPress, and offers ways for others to get involved as well.
WordPress plugin to embed comparison charts
Brian Krogsgard
The Diffen comparison plugin lets WordPress bloggers easily search and embed comparison charts on their blog, from right within their regular editor. Diffen is the world's largest collection of unbiased comparisons in sports, sci./tech, legal, finance, grammar, health and general…
The Future of Startbox with WebDevStudios
Brian Krogsgard
Startbox is a theme framework built by Brian Richards that was adopted / acquired by WebDevStudios when Brian went to work there full time. In this post on WP Force, Brad Williams answers what the future of Startbox looks like.
Why you shouldn’t remove dates from blog posts
Brian Krogsgard
I was very happy to read this post on WP Beginner in support of leaving dates on blog posts. It's bugged me for years that WP Beginner (and loads of other sites) didn't have them, because like they say in…
Make support easier with the SysInfo plugin
Brian Krogsgard
Dave Donaldson has extracted some code he uses in all of his plugins at Max Foundry to release as a standalone plugin. SysInfo is relatively simple; it shows as much information about a WordPress site and environment as it can,…
MOJO Themes Acquired
John Saddington
Mojoness has been acquired by a company called EIG. Will we see this trend continue in 2013?
WordPress.com partners with ShopLocket for eCommerce
Brian Krogsgard
This is a surprising move. WordPress.com has partnered with a company called ShopLocket to enable eCommerce for WordPress.com customers. Anyone ever heard of or used ShopLocket? Seems like a pretty direct response to Squarespace's eCommerce offering to me.
Why extensions for plugins
Brian Krogsgard
Pippin Williamson describes why the extensions model is a good idea for plugins, and responds to common criticism he sees for the model. I agree with him. I really love the extension model for plugins, and I think there is…
Develop locally with Jetpack
Brian Krogsgard
In the latest release of Jetpack, you can assign a constant in wp-config in order to develop locally. This is long due and welcome news. There are also some nice new filters for refining which widgets and shortcodes are made…
WordPress, a web operating system
Brian Krogsgard
I'm wrapping up listening to the most recent episode of DradCast, hosted by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Matt speaks of what WordPress can be ten years from now, and included in his response mentions, "when you think about it, we're…
Drew Strojny, founder of Theme Foundry, on Code Poet
Brian Krogsgard
Drew Strojny is the founder of Theme Foundry. I had a chance to meet Drew last year at WCSF, and really enjoyed our conversation. Get to know him for yourself in this nice interview with Code Poet.
WordPress.com vs WordPress.org
Brian Krogsgard
Sarah Gooding has done a nice comparison of WordPress.org and WordPress.com. This could be useful for when you're trying to explain the difference to clients.
More Bad Tutorials
Curtis McHale
It always gets my goat when people leave off escaping in tutorials just to make it easier. The code you just provided will be copied and pasted and then you are the cause of bad code out there.
VIP Developer Workshop
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress.com VIP is hosting another developer workshop this year, offering two+ days of hardcore WordPress training from Automattic's VIP team. It's a great opportunity, and comes with a hefty price tag. It'll set you back $3600, but does including hotel…
A Few Lessons I’ve Learned as a WordCamp Organizer
Zé Fontainhas
On his fourth year as an organizer of WordCamp Miami, David Bisset is still learning how to pull off a flawless, successful event. What i’m going to relate to you now are the lessons I’ve learned from drama in past…
The Republic of Colombia is on WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
This is fun. The Republic of Colombia runs on WordPress. Nice design, too. h/t WP Lift.
