Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.
Envato is introducing a hosted website platform
Brian Krogsgard
It's easy to see some parallels between ThemeCloud and Envato Sites in terms of goals, but they are vastly different in execution. The basic goals for each is to make making websites easier. Envato has chosen to go with a fully…
Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…
Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more
Brian Krogsgard
Welcome to the third “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. It's been a busy week, and there's a lot to share,…
The ins and outs of code blocks in WordPress content
Brian Krogsgard
Chris Coyier has done a nice job going through the various considerations to make when posting code in WordPress content. He covers using <pre> and <code> tags in the WordPress editor directly, using Markdown and Github flavored Markdown, and third…
The rise of WordPress maintenance services
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There…
Rethinking the WordPress editor
Brian Krogsgard
Jay Hoffman has some good thoughts over on Torque about what lies ahead for the WordPress content creation experience. Between content blocks and front-end editing, writing a post in WordPress two years from now will not be like it is…
First look at a front end editing concept for WordPress core
Brian Krogsgard
Front end editing was highlighted as a possible "feature as plugin" concept last month. Now, some initial concepts and a (very raw) plugin are out with some ideas and concepts. It's a good time to have your say on how…
Art direction for publishing with WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
One of the most exciting conversations for WordPress 3.8, in my opinion, is around creating content blocks and art direction for editing with WordPress. This is probably the direction core is going to go for handling post formats, and any…
