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WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

CobaltApps shuttering popular Catalyst theme to focus on Genesis-based products

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

Business

This is pretty big news in theme land. CobaltApps has had a popular following for their options-centric Catalyst theme for some time. But they also have a Genesis-based theme that does everything visually that Catalyst does, plus, well, it's got…

WordPress Multisite versus “Minisite”

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

I work a decent amount with Multisite. Not a ton, but maybe on about 10% of the websites I build. There's sometimes confusion at work as to what's a good use for Multisite and what is not. I also see…

A refreshed Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

July 11, 2013

DesignPost Status Team Blog

Post Status has been iterating quite a bit over the last six months since it launched. However, not everyone noticed. I'm excited to launch a redesign that reflects the changing purpose that Post Status serves. It started as a link…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

ThemeForest theme nets over $100,000 per month, sadly

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The Envato blog highlighted a record breaking theme on their blog today, for achieving $100,000 in revenue per month, two months in a row. All in all, this theme, Avada, has achieved nearly a million dollars in revenue since its…

10 useful WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 5, 2013

WordPress News

These plugins are quite handy for someone that makes websites for clients. Most of these are in my default setup, but I hadn't seen Content Aware Sidebars before, so I'll need to check it out.

Justin Tadlock released a plugin for your portfolios (and a theme too)

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock released a new plugin and theme today. The plugin is a custom post type and taxonomy for managing portfolios, called... wait for it... Custom Content Portfolio. It is available for free in the WordPress plugin repository. He released…