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A 50 person survey on how…

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2017

A 50 person survey on how they use the customizer ended up in some inconclusive, but still interesting to read results. Tammie Lister broke down the answers and charted them for easier reading, and also pulled quotes from different bits…

Love the style of the MailChimp’s…

Dan Knauss

March 3, 2017

Love the style of the MailChimp's 2016 Annual report. Also 246,148,661,219 emails sent in a year is definitely an impressive number. Speaking of annual reports, I enjoyed reading SkyVerge's 2016 Year In Review. The majority of SkyVerge's work is with…

The theme directory disconnect

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2017

BusinessDesign

In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

Editing and customization core focus areas — Draft Podcast

Katie Richards

February 2, 2017

DraftPlanet

In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about both the editor and customizer feature projects -- two core focus areas for WordPress in 2017.

The editor and customizer aren’t the…

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

The editor and customizer aren't the only parts of core getting attention. Felix Arntz has posted about improving the, "well-known, but not well-loved Settings API." Improvements include a long-desired default callback option for common field types. Felix also posted about…

Customization opportunities

Brian Krogsgard

January 26, 2017

Business

Mel Choyce laid out a slew of customization opportunities for the next several months. Customization is one of three core focus areas, along with the editor and the REST API. She defines the goal for the customizer work as this:…

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

Brian Krogsgard

January 5, 2017

Design

The three focus areas for WordPress core for 2017 have been assigned leads. The focus areas are replacing the WordPress major release cycle, as described in the State of the Word, and expanded on in my interview with Matt Mullenweg.…

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

Brian Krogsgard

December 13, 2016

Hosting

I think bringing Automattic resources into core WordPress development to put a huge effort into improving the WordPress editing experience is a good thing. An email went out last week to the authors of all plugins with more than one million active…

WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan”, released

Brian Krogsgard

December 6, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

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.

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the…

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2016

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the information posts for new features are showing up. For example, Jeremy Felt shared with us about the latest tweaks to multisite. Pascal Bichler also recently shared the new Post Type labels feature and Post…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Brian Krogsgard

December 3, 2016

BusinessDesign

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.

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

October 11, 2016

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress Trac that I'd love to see get more participants. It involves the role "dummy content" -- or demo content that would appear during live previews in the customizer -- could play to give users an idea of…

Nick Halsey from the WordPress Design…

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2016

Nick Halsey from the WordPress Design team did some user tests for the customizer theme experience. Just like every user test I've seen, it is enlightening to how much of a struggle our interfaces often are to end users, even when we're…

The content in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2016

One of Pippin Williamson's repeated concerns during his review of page builders was over data loss. He praised the plugins that, when deactivated, maintained HTML markup and content in the_content() so the site owner could still use their content without the…

Weston Ruter has come up with a…

Brian Krogsgard

September 22, 2016

Weston Ruter has come up with a snippet that can serve as a starting point for those writing WordPress plugins that want to "reset" the WordPress customizer. This "reset" means that when the customizer opens, only the section containing the controls…

Justin Tadlock is building a repository…

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

Justin Tadlock is building a repository that will contain examples of using the Customize API for advanced things. He explains: The goal is to provide examples so that theme authors are not bypassing the core API and doing weird things…

A 50 person survey on how…

Love the style of the MailChimp’s…

The theme directory disconnect

Editing and customization core focus areas — Draft Podcast

The editor and customizer aren’t the…

Customization opportunities

Core focus areas get leads, clarity

Automattic, Calypso, and the WordPress project

WordPress 4.7, “Vaughan”, released

With WordPress 4.7 nearing release, the…

Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016

Helen Hou-Sandí started a conversation in WordPress…

Nick Halsey from the WordPress Design…

The content in WordPress

Weston Ruter has come up with a…

Justin Tadlock is building a repository…

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