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Second draft of the shortcode roadmap

Brian Krogsgard

September 30, 2015

The shortcode roadmap has a second draft ready, and it's a big improvement over the first draft (better off to read the extended discussion on that if you need to catch up). It's obvious a ton of thought has gone…

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

Brian Krogsgard

September 6, 2015

Security

It's been a busy few days for shortcodes. Most, if not all, core committers and project leads would tell you that they'd rather burn the shortcodes API than anything else. But it's one of those things that exists and now…

Addressing work life balance from the inside

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

New Club member Chris Klosowski recently wrote a blog post about how his transition to the Easy Digital Downloads team full time changed his life balance. Within that excellent post, I discovered that the EDD team had an all-hands meeting…

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…

IDX+ real estate plugin sold to own customer

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2015

Zack Katz has sold his IDX+ plugin to one of his customers, Bruce Hiatt. The IDX+ is a super niche add-on plugin that enhances functionality in the free dsIDXPress plugin. I talked to Zack about the sale and a number…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

Updates to the theme review and directory debate

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Matt Mullenweg dropped in on the conversation surrounding the theme review debate last night, and dropped hammer. To try and summarize, he basically opened the door for all sorts of potential changes for both the theme review process and the…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

The trojan emoji

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

Andrew Nacin, lead developer of WordPress, just finished a talk at Loopconf, where he talked about a series of related WordPress security fixes that spanned two years, with the final fix included into WordPress core under the guise of emoji support.

Recommendations for improving WordPress plugin quality

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Daniel Pataki is generally a thoughtful writer, and he knows his stuff with WordPress. He's written in-depth articles for Smashing Magazine and others. I hesitate to link to anything on WPMUDev, but this post is worth reading. Daniel advocates that…

Press This and copyrights

Brian Krogsgard

February 23, 2015

I participated in last week's core dev chat, and in my feedback for feature plugin Press This, I raised a question with the team about copyright infringement possibilities. I asked, because when testing, I used a full-size image from Politico…

Taking value-based pricing too far

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2015

Jonathan Christopher writes about taking value-based pricing too far. He addresses the popularity of value-based pricing, as well as its tendency to be defined many ways. But he ends up focusing largely about some of the common pitfalls of not talking money…

I have x and y, I just need to…

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

I didn't expect to answer a question on Quora today. Most days I'm just annoyed by their emails. But today a question caught my eye, purely because I was curious what the answers were. Here was the question: I need…

New journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

Brian Krogsgard

August 22, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

Post formats were introduced in WordPress 3.1. They were, and still are, little more than an organizational feature that allows themes to support ten custom content formats such as asides, links, quotes, video, and audio. They are just a taxonomy…

Second draft of the shortcode roadmap

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

Addressing work life balance from the inside

Twenty Sixteen gives me a bit of a sour taste

IDX+ real estate plugin sold to own customer

What is Code?

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Updates to the theme review and directory debate

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

The trojan emoji

Recommendations for improving WordPress plugin quality

Press This and copyrights

Taking value-based pricing too far

I have x and y, I just need to…

New journalism

Post formats are slowly dying, and that’s okay

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