The WordPress design and development process
Brian Krogsgard
Tammy Hart, a designer and developer with 10up, shares her process with us. Everyone's varies a little bit. How does it stack up to yours?
Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates
Brian Krogsgard
Tom McFarlin, doing what Tom McFarlin does over on wpTuts+. Go read about why boilerplates matter. I personally use versions of both of his settings and plugin boilerplates, which you can get from the links in his post. Go read…
Memberful wants to help you sell stuff
Brian Krogsgard
Memberful is a project by Drew Strojny and the folks at The Theme Foundry. It's not on WordPress, but it will have easy integrations built in. The Theme Foundry has been using it for over a year to process payments.…
WordPress mentioned in top 7 in demand tech skills for 2013
Brian Krogsgard
PHP is number 3 in ReadWrite's list of top 7 most in demand tech skills for 2013. And WordPress is noted specifically within that section. Editor's note: Not bad! But where's your capital P, ReadWrite?
WordPress meetup best practices
Brian Krogsgard
If you're involved with your local meetup (or want to start one), you should be following along the current series on the Make WordPress Events blog from Aaron Jorbin discussing meetup best practices. Today's comments were surprisingly thorough over a…
Ain’t nobody got time for spam
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a bunch of keywords you can sift through and use for your comment blacklists. Some of these look pretty agressive (especially for a blog like this where we legit use words like blog and SEO), but all in all,…
Plugins vs themes developer chat
Brian Krogsgard
I took part in a chat yesterday to discuss some of the nitty gritty details around splitting code between plugins and themes. Aaron Holbrook kindly shepherded us together and hosted. There were ten or so of us in and out,…
A WordPress news resurgence
Brian Krogsgard
Ben Gillbanks reflects on the state of "WordPress news" in the community. I have much I'd like to say on this subject. Alas, time.
The periodic table of WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
This periodic table formatted list of the most downloaded plugins is interesting. That doesn't mean I have to know why they made it. But it's fun to look at :) Even if it's slightly depressing how popular some of these…
Understanding The Difference in WordPress.com, WordPress.org, Automattic, and Audrey Capital
Tom McFarlin
A concise breakdown of the various organizations involved with WordPress, how they are related, and how they are different, and their role in the WordPress economy.
Helen Hou-Sandi interview on Code Poet
Brian Krogsgard
I really love the Code Poet interviews. Today, Helen Hou-Sandi's interview is featured. Helen does a ton for the WordPress community. Go check out her nice interview.
Introduction to the WordPress rewrite API
Brian Krogsgard
The rewrite API can be confusing (to me at least). Remi Corson walks you through it on the WP Explorer blog.
Envato is reviewing their licensing
Brian Krogsgard
Collis Ta'eed has posted on WP Daily again, to say that Envato is doing a survey of their authors to gauge interest in a 100% GPL option for sellers. I can't imagine how Collis could've written this post in a…
Oh Yeah, and the P is Capitalized
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress is spelled with a capital “P”. It’s not Wordpress, or wordpress, or Word Press. It’s WordPress. I assume that sentence was included on the speakers page as a way of saying “If you intend to speak at this WordCamp,…
What is the WordPress Foundation?
Brian Krogsgard
What is the WordPress Foundation, and who is in charge? These are the questions asked in this article - questions we should all be asking as the foundation wields its power without transparency.
Using plugin pointers, much like pointing, is rarely appropriate
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress introduced pointers just a couple versions of WordPress ago. They've pretty quickly gained adoption by some popular plugins. I hesitantly link to this post on Paulund that shows you how to make a plugin pointer, because I think they're…
