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Big news! Github has acquired npm,…

Dan Knauss

March 27, 2020

Security

Big news! Github has acquired npm, Inc. the company behind the Node package manager registry. 📦 Github claims npm will "always be available and free." They will integrate GitHub and npm to "improve the security of the open-source software supply…

If you are a Github user,…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

If you are a Github user, you may have seen these announcements recently. The most applicable to many developers is likely to be the GitHub mobile apps currently in beta. The company also released it's State of the Octoverse. 10…

If you work with WooCommerce but…

Dan Knauss

August 26, 2019

If you work with WooCommerce but aren't familiar with the developer chats, you can read summaries of them at woocommerce.wordpress.com. 🛒 Here's a reminder that the recently launched WooCommerce 3.7 requires at least PHP 5.6.20 and WordPress 4.9. It also…

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to…

Dan Knauss

June 20, 2019

Justin Tadlock sees an opportunity to improve the WordPress theme directory and decided to "strike while the iron is hot" — he has a proposal to create standardized packages for common theme features. These packages would be available from the official…

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post…

Brian Krogsgard

March 29, 2019

Kirtan Gajjar has a sweet post on automated WordPress code review and deployment using GitHub Actions. Three actions have been released: PHPCS Code Review – Run PHPCS code review on pull requests. Deploy WordPress – Deploy a WordPress site using…

The Next Web broke a GitHub…

Dan Knauss

January 11, 2019

The Next Web broke a GitHub news embargo by accident when they announced Github's unlimited free private repos. The author of this story, Matthew Hughes, vented on Twitter that it was WordPress's fault for immediately publishing his post because it was…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

Welcome to the Post Status Draft podcast, which you can find on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard. In this episode, I am joined by Matt Mullenweg,…

WordPress 5.0 marks a new era for the world’s most popular CMS

Brian Krogsgard

December 6, 2018

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 5.0, "Bebo," is a shift of the highest order for the platform. Block-based editing, under the name of "Gutenberg," is an entirely new way to publish content. It adds a world of flexibility when writing, and it opens the…

By now I’m sure you’ve all…

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2018

Business

By now I'm sure you've all heard of Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. This is a hugely successful exit for GitHub, and another interesting pickup for Microsoft. Unfortunately I can't find the tweet anymore, but I…

Automattic introduces a Google Docs integration for writing posts

Brian Krogsgard

March 15, 2017

Automattic has created a Google Docs integration to write posts directly in Google Docs and create drafts from them in WordPress. I spoke to George Hotelling, one of the primary developers on the project, about the challenges and process of…

Huh brings documentation to your customer’s WordPress dashboard

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2017

Huh -- like the sound -- is a new documentation plugin by Nick Hamze. It offers a little tooltip to your customer that enables easy to access documentation, right within the WordPress dashboard. Having recently gone through some install processes,…

New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers

Jack Lenox

January 12, 2017

DevelopmentPlanet

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Jack Lenox. Jack is a developer at Automattic and hails from the United Kingdom. For just over a year now, I have been working on the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic. I…

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2017

Security

WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

Contributing to Twenty Seventeen

Sami Keijonen

January 7, 2017

BusinessDesign

Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Sami Keijonen. Sami is a developer, the owner of the Foxland theme and plugin shop, and hails from Finland. Every year since 2010, WordPress has shipped with a new default theme, breaking…

Static site generators versus WordPress

Sonya Mann

August 23, 2016

HostingPlanet

The current state of affairs In 2016, WordPress is far from the only choice for a new website. In fact, website owners have enjoyed a plethora of options (hosted and self-hosted) for many years. WordPress has remained the juggernaut solution for self-hosted websites, with…

If one of your goals has…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

If one of your goals has been to automate web development, then this introduction to WordPress theme automation with Gulp might be something you'll want to read. It's a pretty comprehensive tutorial, and includes a GitHub repo with all the code.