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Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2014

Welcome to the fifth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Sass is coming to Underscores A long-awaited feature, the first pass…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "Week in Review" on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

April 25, 2014

WordPress News

Scroll Kit was a story builder of sorts. They marketed themselves for a while by saying you could build "Snowfall", the New York Times' famous article, in an hour with their platform. An article by the founder on Medium about getting into…

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

There's a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structured around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose which themes get featured on the WordPress…

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2014

BusinessSecurity

Stack Overflow co-founder Jeff Atwood writes why companies are not hiring the best and the brightest employees. While the title says the article is about hiring, it's really about working. His points boil down to a promotion for distributed workforces.…

WordPress core proposal: portability

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

The biggest feature lacking in WordPress is portability. We have an exporter for post content, but this exporter omits settings, widgets, theme options, and a large swath of data necessary for truly moving a site from server A to server…

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

BusinessMake WordPress

There are a number of things that concern me in regard to WordPress comments. They are one of those features that I have a love hate relationship with. Comments are great for active, well moderated communities. I genuinely enjoy receiving…

Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2014

BusinessDraft

I had the opportunity recently to talk to Cory Miller, the founder of iThemes. Cory started iThemes in January 2008, so they are currently celebrating their 6th anniversary. Cory is a really thoughtful businessman and leader, and I really enjoyed…

WordPress Multisite versus “Minisite”

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

I work a decent amount with Multisite. Not a ton, but maybe on about 10% of the websites I build. There's sometimes confusion at work as to what's a good use for Multisite and what is not. I also see…

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros, Adam Warner, Curtis McHale, Jeff Chandler, and Pippin Williamson all got together for a great panel discussion on the most recent episode of the Week in WordPress podcast. They talked about a lot of the shifts in the…

FooCamp – a blog series on how to make a WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Follow along as FooPlugins Lead Developer guides our Support Manager in building his first plugin through a series of blog posts. We invite both developers and would-be developers to join in the discussion so we can all learn from each…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

How split-testing an opt-in form increased conversion rate by 102.2%

Curtis McHale

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

Very interesting look at split testing for your email list opt-ins and social proof. There has also been a decent discussion on this by WordPress people on Google+. Why do you think that social proof hurt the conversion rates?

Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?

Curtis McHale

April 16, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Next time the WordPress Community starts a discussion over GPL, lets try and understand the starting point of the ideas on the other side.

Supporting older versions of WordPress in plugins

Brian Krogsgard

March 8, 2013

WordPress News

There's been some interesting discussion recently about supporting old versions of WordPress in plugins. Joost de Valk explains here why he does not support more than one version behind the latest in his plugins.

A South African province spent millions for a website built with a Themeforest theme

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Oops. As seen on a blog called Tech Central, a South African province seems to have spent around $15 million on a new website that turns out to be a slightly customized Themeforest theme. I've got no problem with people…

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Scroll Kit joins Automattic

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Keys to building a successful remote workforce

WordPress core proposal: portability

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Cory Miller, Founder & CEO of iThemes

WordPress Multisite versus “Minisite”

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

FooCamp – a blog series on how to make a WordPress plugin

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

How split-testing an opt-in form increased conversion rate by 102.2%

Are You An Open Source Pragmatist, Really?

Supporting older versions of WordPress in plugins

A South African province spent millions for a website built with a Themeforest theme

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