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All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2015

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss the WordPress REST API and the recent proposal for it to be merged into WordPress Core.

WordPress core happenings and roadmaps

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

There are a few roadmaps and active core components that are worth keeping an eye on right now. I figured I'd just lump them together: Preparing your plugins and client sites for term meta Term meta basically got a "clear…

Obox’s DevKit allows for CSS and JS editing on the fly

Brian Krogsgard

September 8, 2015

Obox recently released DevKit as a CSS and Javascript add-on for any theme. What they've released as DevKit on CodeCanyon is what has been powering the user-added code features for their builder theme, Layers. Layers was released early this year with a lot of good…

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Brian Krogsgard

August 26, 2015

Design

Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into…

Hybrid Core 3.0 makes sweeping changes

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Hybrid Core 3.0, released today by Justin Tadlock, makes some big changes to the popular drop-in theme framework. Justin has never been afraid to release new stuff in Hybrid Core, and he's not afraid to take stuff out either. Many…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

GenerateWP is introducing a monthly subscription…

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2015

GenerateWP is introducing a monthly subscription starting at $7 per month for access to a tier of commercial only generators. A number of generators are part of the offering, including for metaboxes and widgets, and customizer and admin settings generators…

The commercial theme tides

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2015

Business

Commercial WordPress theme sales is a known business today. Folks have been selling themes since 2007 and many sellers experienced some very good years. The market commoditized itself quite significantly, and it's harder and harder each year to stand out. Of…

WordPress 4.3 Beta and some fun features

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

WordPress 4.3 is chugging along toward it's slated August release. Beta 1 was released on July 2nd. The release includes a number of big new features, and a couple of smaller features I personally am excited about. The release post…

Two big 4.3 commits

Brian Krogsgard

June 17, 2015

I don't often talk about specific commits to WordPress pre-release, but two went in today that are familiar topics, and it's worth noting their inclusion in WordPress Trunk. First, changeset 32814 includes the third part of the shared terms issue…

Customizer code examples on GitHub

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

The theme review team is putting Customizer code examples on Github, according to an announcement today: The first area to tackle is example Customizer code, which currently includes examples for adding panels, sections, settings, basic core controls, specialized core text…

Port settings from the Settings API to the Customizer API

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Chip Bennet has a tutorial on Make Themes that outlines how to port from theme settings pages using the Settings API and into the customizer. The Customizer API has the option to store settings in the options table, which the…

Goals for live previews in the customizer

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2015

In a Make Core post co-authored by Ryan Boren, Helen Hou-Sandí, and Sheri Bigelow; they attempt to highlight some bigger goals for live previewing WordPress websites via the customizer. One of the most important things in WordPress is users being able to…

Justin Tadlock has another tutorial in…

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

Justin Tadlock has another tutorial in his customizer series this time on templating with Javascript, which is a much needed topic for a tutorial.

The Menu Customizer has been proposed for core and opinions abound

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

The customizer really is quite polarizing in the WordPress world. People often either love it or hate it. We're definitely getting some more of it each release. Nick Halsey has submitted a proposal to put WordPress menus into the customizer (here's…

Multi-checkbox in the Customizer

Brian Krogsgard

May 26, 2015

Justin Tadlock has an in-depth tutorial for creating a multi-checkbox Customizer control. As is pretty much anything Justin writes, this is a handy tutorial to keep in your arsenal.

All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast

WordPress core happenings and roadmaps

Obox’s DevKit allows for CSS and JS editing on the fly

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

Hybrid Core 3.0 makes sweeping changes

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

GenerateWP is introducing a monthly subscription…

The commercial theme tides

WordPress 4.3 Beta and some fun features

Two big 4.3 commits

Customizer code examples on GitHub

Port settings from the Settings API to the Customizer API

Goals for live previews in the customizer

Justin Tadlock has another tutorial in…

The Menu Customizer has been proposed for core and opinions abound

Multi-checkbox in the Customizer

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