Customizer

Twenty Seventeen is 🔥

Brian Krogsgard

September 9, 2016

I have not been stunned -- in a positive way -- about a default WordPress theme design preview since Twenty Twelve. I haven't had a major beef with any of the other default themes, but I haven't been really wowed. Twenty Ten…

Currently the WordPress customizer provides media…

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Currently the WordPress customizer provides media controls that only allow one image to be selected. If multiple images are needed, each one of them would need to have a separate control and setting created statically. The Customize Image Gallery Control…

WordCamp Europe takeaways

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

BusinessDesign

After a whirlwind WordCamp Europe, I've had some time to sit back and consider some of the common conversational threads. When a big group of people gets together in the WordPress space, you can start to identify what folks are…

Helen Hou-Sandí to lead 4.7, and committers for 4.6 announced

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2016

Matt Mullenweg announced that he is not going to lead WordPress 4.7 anymore, "due to some unexpected constraints on my time this year." Helen Hou-Sandí -- a WordPress Lead Developer -- will take the lead for 4.7. Her last tenure as…

Notes from a recent meeting of…

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2016

Notes from a recent meeting of the Theme Review Team reflect a discussion of what methods for upselling are currently allowed in the theme repo. A majority involved in the discussion so far are in favor of enacting some restrictions, which…

The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for…

April 15, 2016

The WordPress 4.6 roadmap for the Customizer is being formed, and here's a sneak peak. Features being considered are basic content authorship in the Customizer and Customizer Transactions, which would allow revisions to changes in the Customizer, among other perks.…

WordPress 4.5, “Coleman”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2016

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.5, "Coleman", has just been released. The release includes new inline editing features, custom logo support, customizer enhancements, and some under the hood changes that you'll like.

WordPress 4.5 field guide includes possible action items you should check

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2016

Aaron Jorbin has listed a number of WordPress 4.5 changes that are especially relevant to developers that interact with particular features of WordPress. You are those people, so I'll tl;dr them for you here so you can check it out…

WPTavern highlights the new Customize Snapshots plugin…

March 26, 2016

WPTavern highlights the new Customize Snapshots plugin that lets you draft and preview customizer states and then be able to share those states via a private URL. I like the concept of making customizer customizations more collaborative and can't wait to…

Konstantin Obenland has written up exactly…

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Konstantin Obenland has written up exactly how to make use of the new Custom Logo feature in WordPress. I'm really pleased to see this in the customizer so themes can quit doing this a million different ways. It requires add_theme_support()…

Selective refresh paves a path for frontend editing

Brian Krogsgard

February 16, 2016

The selective refresh feature plugin for the customizer makes for a better customizer experience. Weston Ruter summarized the feature on Make Core, and describes its functionality in depth. But also hints at what it makes possible. Currently, postMessage enables live…

If you want to understand how…

January 12, 2016

If you want to understand how to bridge the gap between the REST API and the Customizer, Weston Ruter has you covered. With an incredibly detailed blog post and a sample plugin, you can get started taking advantage of manipulating…

WordPress security release, and 4.5 development kicks off

Brian Krogsgard

January 6, 2016

DesignSecurity

It was the first truly busy day in WordPress core land since the release of WordPress 4.4. Two big things happened: A maintenance and security update was released in WordPress 4.4.1, and the security component affected all versions back that can…

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

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.

Features as plugins hit core for 4.4

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

Design

The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API…