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.
There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern‘s Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff’s journey running the Tavern and then selling it. I’m glad how it was sold is finally out in…
BackupBuddy 3.3 has been released. The update includes a file integrity scan that is run during backup, as well as improvements for debugging plugin conflicts, canceling backups, and manually running scheduled backups.
I’m super excited to finally be able to say that tickets for Publish 2017 are available. The event, as many of you already know, is in Atlanta, on August 3rd and 4th. That’s a Thursday and Friday. Go straight to the ticket purchase area if you want to skip the pitch. It’s being held at…
Layers is the latest WordPress theme with page building as the core feature. Obox has made a heck of an effort to ship 1.0, and while I have some issues, I’m incredibly impressed with the overall user experience. I think Obox has created something that’s worth checking out, though I think this market has plenty of maturing to do yet.
Kailey Lampert has started a list of class and function names that should not be used in plugins and themes. These come from popular tutorials, common unprefixed names, or other methods she’s run across at various times. Rule of thumb? Prefix everything.
WordPress 5.4.2 is a security and maintenance release that rolled out on June 10. It features 23 bugfixes and enhancements. Make sure your sites are updated if that hasn’t happened automatically. One maintenance update was also deployed back to versions 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. 📦 Of note: In 5.4.2, there is only a brief window…
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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.