WordPress News

Developing WordPress plugins with boilerplates

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

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

January 30, 2013

Business

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

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 29, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 29, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 29, 2013

Business

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

January 29, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 29, 2013

Development

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

January 29, 2013

Business

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

January 29, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 28, 2013

WordPress News

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

January 28, 2013

WordPress News

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…

SlabText – a jQuery plugin for equalizing line measure in headlines

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

Design

This is a slick jQuery script to make big, fancy, responsive headlines where each line has equal line measure. So it makes it like those posters we all love where the font size varies per line to make the measure…