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Build a business without the marketplace

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Brian Krogsgard
Drew Strojny, of Theme Foundry, describes how people should not be afraid to try selling themes on their own, and be willing to forgo the marketplace. He also mentions Memberful as an easy way to ease the technical burdens of…

Base plugin from Chris Wallace

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Brian Krogsgard
Chris Wallace has put up a Github repo called Base WP Plugin, a base for your plugin development. It's got a structure and base setup that you can use for your own development. He's asked for contributors to hop in…

An interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little

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Brian Krogsgard
Prolific North has published an interview with WordPress co-founder Mike Little that's a very interesting story of the earliest days of WordPress. If you haven't been around the platform for long, you may not know much about Mike. He owns…

Women in WordPress

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Brian Krogsgard
This is a great story from Mel Choyce. She reflects on her positive experience as a woman in the WordPress community. She talks about being inspired by other women in the community, and how it encouraged her to get involved.…

The Best Time to Buy is Now

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Brian Krogsgard
A low-price guarantee where you refund the difference for customers who purchased within 30 days of a promotion may actually increase sales.

Notifications in WordPress for iOS

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Brian Krogsgard
I like this very much. If you're using Jetpack with a self hosted install, you can now get more advanced notifications, and do a bunch of pretty cool stuff from within the iOS app.

Customer happiness reports

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Brian Krogsgard
I've admired WooThemes' openness as long as I've been reading their blog. Last week, Adii Pienaar laid out exactly how WooTheme's transition to ZenDesk support has gone, including their number of tickets, response times, and more. As a WooThemes customer…

Don’t dequeue WordPress’ jQuery

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Brian Krogsgard
Eric Mann describes why you shouldn't dequeue WordPress' version of jQuery. Unless you have a really, really good reason to use a CDN for jQuery (you probably don't), then stick with what WordPress ships with. You'll likely save yourself many…

Multi Page Navigation with Gravity Forms

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Brian Krogsgard
David Smith is a developer for Rocket Genius, the makers of Gravity Forms. And on the side, he runs the Gravity Wiz website for adding additional functionality to Gravity Forms by way of "Perks," plus general tips and tutorials. His…

Sticky posts in custom post type archives

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress has post sticky option only for posts post type. So if you are going to create a new custom post type, there is no native way for adding support for sticky posts. With this trick, you can show your…
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