Leaders and the greater good
Brian Krogsgard
What is leading when it comes to open source? How much transparency does a project like WordPress need and what is the state of the word right now?
I thought I knew about responsive design
Brian Krogsgard
I thought I knew a lot about responsive design, but I learned a ton in this post by Paul Stamatiou. He recently redesigned his blog, and he goes into great length into how he did it, and what he learned.…
If you build it, they will come. But you have to drag them.
Brian Krogsgard
If you're not following Dave Donaldson's blog this year, you're doing it wrong. His openness is so refreshing. Dave runs Max Foundry, and has been pouring out every detail of how running the plugin business has been a struggle. Today,…
Justin Tadlock released a plugin for your portfolios (and a theme too)
Brian Krogsgard
Justin Tadlock released a new plugin and theme today. The plugin is a custom post type and taxonomy for managing portfolios, called... wait for it... Custom Content Portfolio. It is available for free in the WordPress plugin repository. He released…
Introduction to WordPress Filters
Brian Krogsgard
This short guide, aimed at beginner/intermediate developers, introduces WordPress filters, explains their basic use, and provides some examples on the topic of cheese sticks.
WordPress Gear: useful developer tools
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Gear is a "compendium" of useful developer tools for working with WordPress. I like what I see. h/t @paul_wp
It’s the information, stupid
Brian Krogsgard
That's why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, "they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement…
How to Make Fields Read Only with Gravity Forms
Brian Krogsgard
Using this snippet, you can make Gravity Forms fields read only, or greyed out, by simply applying a CSS class to the field, thus disabling user edits to the field: useful for displaying information.
Nevermind
Brian Krogsgard
"Nevermind". A human, friendly example of nice messaging in a web interface. I love stuff like this. Also, I started reading this blog tonight because Tina Roth Eisenberg, the site's owner, did an interview with Jeffrey Zeldman on the Big Web…
Designer vs Developer: be the unicorn
Brian Krogsgard
I wish I could've seen this presentation by my fellow Birmingham cohort, Sara Cannon. The deck alone has great advice. Sara breaks down the barriers and self-assigned exclusions between designers and developers. Key: we all solve problems in the middle.…
Batch Resizing 45,000 images in WordPress (via the command line)
Ben May
I wasn't able to find anything on the web about the problems faced with trying to regenerate the thumbnails for this many images at one time, so I solved my problem, and thought I'd blog what I did!
Who Owns WordPress? Or How to Make Money in a GPL Universe
Brian Krogsgard
In light of the recent WordPress GPL debate it is worth taking a look at who really owns WordPress, how this is impacted by the GPL, and how you can make money while still staying through to the open principles…
Popular 1 Pixel Out audio player vulnerability
Brian Krogsgard
I read today that the popular 1 Pixel Out player has a vulnerability. The "Audio Player" plugin has been removed from the WordPress repository, and the PowerPress plugin (a very popular podcasting plugin) has removed the 1 Pixel Out player…
Outside the WordPress bubble, what people are saying about it and other CMSs
Brian Krogsgard
I don't know about you, but I am usually within a pretty "Yay WordPress!" bubble. It's a goal of mine to branch out more and see what I can learn from other systems, and perhaps use what I learn to…
Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate
Brian Krogsgard
Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger's voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers' cumulative voices can spark change in government,…
If you store WordPress code on Github think about your wp-config.php
Travis Northcutt
tl;dr - put wp-config.php in your .gitignore file!
