Documentation

iThemes releases Exchange, a WordPress eCommerce plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2013

iThemes has just released Exchange on the WordPress plugin repository. They've been working for some time their new WordPress eCommerce plugin. They opened up a beta for some users about a month ago. A few days ago, I checked it out…

Known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns

Brian Krogsgard

July 5, 2013

Business

There are known knowns; there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns; that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things…

Team of 10 set roadmap for the future of WordPress documentation

Brian Krogsgard

June 20, 2013

WordPress News

A team of 10 WordPress folks just spent three days at the Open Help Conference and Sprints in Cincinnati in order to analyze a variety of issues with current WordPress documentation practices, and to create a roadmap moving forward. The…

Auto Hosted allows for easy auto updates for self hosted themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

WordPress News

David Chandra has released a solution for providing automatic theme and plugin updates for self hosted WordPress products, called Auto Hosted. It looks quite nice. I love that David's documentation for his product is open to the public. I'm very interested in…

Bad documentation is a bug

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2013

WordPress News

"Bad documentation is a bug" is a quote I saw from Jennifer Hodgdon at the Write The Docs conference that really stuck with me. I'm not at the conference; I just saw the quote. I think all developers should think about this quote, and…

WordPress documentation for free and commercial projects

Curtis McHale

April 4, 2013

WordPress News

Way to many developers leave documentation to the end, and that's not what we should be doing. Documentation is a very important part of your project.