Sami Keijonen shares his experience as a first time contributor to the WordPress default theme building process. He primarily worked within the realm of SVG icons for the Twenty Seventeen theme.
Not all of these are new, but they are new to me. Here are several interesting plugins I've discovered recently: The Mozilla web apps team has released a free plugin called Offline Content that uses the Service Workers API and…
WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan”, has been released with the all new WordPress REST API Content Endpoints, a new default theme, many customizer features, and much, much more.
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.
WooCommerce Subscriptions 2.1 is out the door, after more than a year of development. It's a large upgrade and packs a ton of features, as highlighted on the features page. If you're interested in subscriptions for your website, or already run…
Chris Lema has a follow up post to his in-depth analysis last year of the top WordPress membership plugins. It's a shorter post -- this time offering up his top three recommendations -- and he compares them based on features he believes are most…
Readers know that the WordPress REST API has had a lot of activity this release cycle. There has been a concerted effort to get the API ready for a core merge in 4.7. The release isn't slated until December, but…
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Brian talks to Pippin Williamson, and they examine the efforts he and his team have made while breathing new life into Restrict Content Pro.
I spoke to Pippin Williamson for the Post Status podcast, and in the podcast proper (which will come out soon), we discussed the revival of Restrict Content Pro. It was a lot of fun, and we talked about why he…
"If you've not been paying attention to Restrict Content Pro you should start." These words start Chris Lema's latest blog post, and if you are looking for a membership plugin, you'll be interested in the renewed effort and transformation Pippin…
WordPress needs big data -- knowledge of how the product is used -- to make better decisions as to how to direct the future of the software. To make my point, allow me to drift off into the wonderful world…
Restrict Content Pro has been around for a long time, but for a few years it was the third leg on Pippin Williamson and friends' product landscape. It's always been a solid, but limited product. It's still limited, but their…
I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world's first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here's my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.
I reported in mid-December that Easy Content Types -- one of Pippin Williamson's oldest commercial plugins -- was for sale. He has now announced that he sold the plugin to the owners of CodeInWP. The sale amount was $15,000 for…
Pippin Williamson is selling his Easy Content Types plugin, after five years of managing it under Pippin's Plugins. Easy Content Types spent two years on Code Canyon before he moved it to his personal site. It still sells pretty well,…
I'm going to give Ryan McCue a big hug next time I see him. The WordPress Importer is key to a tonne of different workflows, and is one of the most used plugins on the repo. Unfortunately, the Importer is…