Caleb Mellas wishes WordPress had the intuitive interface and ease of use for CMSs that Square does for payments. It’s a popular topic of late, and Caleb gives a strong argument that WordPress needs to simplify.
Matt Medeiros is doing a series on web design, and the business of it. In the fourth part, he interviews Carson McComas in regard to managing a $50,000 project. Carson worked on the eCommerce site I shared a while back. This interview follows others on the discovery process, setting expectations, and managing $5-15k projects. It’s…
I’m tired. Really, really tired. I’ve been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it’s been slow around here. I’ve only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that’s three to four times less than normal. I’m not burned out, but I’ve definitely been on…
Cory Miller gives some career advice for programmers. Cory has been in the web business for a long time, and as the owner of iThemes, has significant authority in this arena. If you’re a web developer and looking for some great career advice, think of Cory as if he was your boss and read what…
WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for “What You Send Is Just Awesome.” Yeah, it’s tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from all over the world; and their plugin has steadily grown over the last year to…
WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe’s Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe
The fabulous documentation site, QueryPosts, has you covered with the new functions added to WordPress 3.7. Take a look around and jump right to the source to get familiar with the new things to play with in your next project. You can also get to know the new features in WordPress 3.7 in my release…
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Brian, thanks for the link to my article. I’m writing this series to give ideas to other designers/developers on ways we can make WordPress into something that is much more streamlined and user friendly. Some of these problems will have to be addressed in the WordPress core. But some things can be solved from designers creating their own addons/plugins to improve the overall Content Managing Experience.
My main goal is to get discussion churning in the creative community about different ways people have solved these issues, and any ideas they may have for the future.