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WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress News

WooThemes has been working on their Bookings extension for quite a while. They had the idea for Bookings before WooCommerce was WooCommerce, and had some form of the product even in December 2011. They wanted to make sure they did…

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

HostingSecurity

A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

WordPress 3.9 roundtable with core contributors

Brian Krogsgard

April 17, 2014

DraftPost Status Podcasts

I was privileged to be joined by six core contributors to WordPress 3.9 for a Google Hangout where we talked about the new release, contributing to WordPress, and more. To learn more about WordPress 3.9, check out our summary. You…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Andrew Munro have just launched Version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, an affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Pippin is well known in the WordPress community for his work as a plugin…

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

Travis Northcutt

February 7, 2014

WordPress News

Andrew Nacin, one of the lead developers of WordPress, posted an excellent read on how to best contribute to the WordPress project, as well as some information on how core committers (that is, people who have access to commit code) are…

“Patches Welcome”

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

Business

As a phrase, this is often more of a conversation killer rather than encouragement for collaboration. The delivery method of this popular phrase is paramount, and the audience needs to be genuinely considered when we say "patches welcome" to those…

The faces behind WordPress 3.8

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

WordPress News

On the "About" page of updated WordPress installs, you can look at a list of all contributors for a given release. Bob Dunn has gone the extra step to make a list and show the face of every contributor to…

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Crowd Favorite to be acquired by VeloMedia

Brian Krogsgard

November 15, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

Crowd Favorite and VeloMedia have reached an agreement where VeloMedia will acquire Crowd Favorite, with the transaction to occur early next year. Crowd Favorite was founded by Alex King, one of the earliest regular contributors to WordPress. King's freelance web…

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for…

Xanga now runs on WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2013

WordPress News

Xanga is one of the oldest hosted blogging platforms out there. This summer, they embarked on a crowd-funding campaign to reboot the platform, with a goal of porting everything to WordPress. The $50,000 crowdfunding campaign was successful, and now Xanga…

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

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…

If you’re serious

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little's fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg's blog. A short history of…

Base plugin from Chris Wallace

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2013

WordPress News

Chris Wallace has put up a Github repo called Base WP Plugin, a base for your plugin development. It's got a structure and base setup that you can use for your own development. He's asked for contributors to hop in…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

WooThemes releases Bookings for WooCommerce

The cost of running a WordPress website

WordPress 3.9 roundtable with core contributors

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

The qualities of a great WordPress contributor

“Patches Welcome”

The faces behind WordPress 3.8

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Crowd Favorite to be acquired by VeloMedia

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

Xanga now runs on WordPress

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

If you’re serious

Base plugin from Chris Wallace

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