WordPress News

Underscores meets Sass with sassy_s

Brian Krogsgard

January 24, 2013

Amy Hendrix has released a nice integration of Sass for the Underscores theme by Automattic. Underscores, or _s, has gotten a lot of traction as an easy to fork base theme, and it's maintained by some truly great theme wranglers…

Eve.io – Is 8Bit getting into hosting?

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

Hosting

I was reading the new WP Daily site earlier today and noticed in their footer that they're hosted by "Eve." Intrigued, I clicked it to see a simple landing page, but it's clearly branded as a future 8Bit product. I…

wpXtreme 1.0.0 beta 3 is here!

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

Today wpXtreme 1.0.0 beta3, a plugin to enhance WordPress user experience, was released. More then 250 fixes, lots of improvements and 3 new fundamental features.

How to lose money as a freelancer

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

Business

Here's a nice post from WordPress community member James Dalman. He give you all the right tips on how to fail as a freelancer. He's right too, people are doing it every day. If you're struggling as a freelancer, or thinking…

YinPress and YangPress: learn to make themes and then to sell them

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Here's a pair of sister sites I've never heard of, but they look to have some pretty useful content. They're for people that want to learn to make themes (on YinPress) and to sell them and market their business (on…

Up your game and debug JavaScript with console.log

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

Development

A nice intro post for a series on front end techniques from Pete Schuster. He talks the basics of debugging JavaScript with console.log. A good read.

Where do independent commercial theme authors go from here?

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

After reading Jake Caputo's post that went nuts, Matt's comments there, and Collis' reply on WP Daily, I'm left feeling lost. If individuals want to stay involved in the community, but also want to sell themes, what do they do?…

Envato’s Collis Ta’eed on ThemeForest Authors and WordCamps

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

Envato founder Collis Ta'eed gives his take on the ThemeForest - GPL - WordCamp fiasco.

The case against Singletons in WordPress

Brady Vercher

January 23, 2013

Development

Mike Toppa makes a case against Singletons in the ongoing discussion regarding best practices for object oriented WordPress development.

Restaurant Engine Year 1: Learning Lessons the Hard Way

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Outstanding post by Brian Casel on his experience running Restaurant Engine this last year. This is a must read for anyone running (or thinking about running) a business with WordPress, especially SaaS ones. I absolutely love openness and honesty like…

How to debug your work in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

DevelopmentHosting

As a hosting company, I beg and plead with you, the developer of sites, to do some basic sanity checks, before you upload your code, for the world to experience. Your clients will thank you. So will our monitoring systems.

Grandchild themes – solving a problem to a bad architecture

Brian Krogsgard

January 23, 2013

WordPress News

Little bit of an opinionated title, I know. Mark Barnes does a nice job describing how to create grandchild themes by way of a plugin, in order to alter child theme functionality in themes like Genesis. The problem is Genesis…

How to Win & Work with Big Clients

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Tom and Joe from Human Made Limited share experience and tips on how to win and work with big [good] clients, mostly learned through making every mistake in the book whilst going from being freelancers working on small sites to…

500 Site Reviews and Lessons Learned by Joost de Valk

Brian Krogsgard

January 22, 2013

WordPress News

Joost de Valk wrote a great post that highlights a real achievement of 500 site reviews; but he also gives some great tips on how people can make their sites better with relatively simple steps. Definitely worth a read to…