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Intro to Underscore.js templates

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Justin Tadlock has an excellent tutorial for Underscore.js templating beginners. I'm guessing that's a lot of us. The Underscore.js library has been in WordPress for many versions now. However, it’s next to impossible to find good tutorials that walk you…

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…

So you want responsive images in core?

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2015

Yeah, who doesn't! Well, The Responsive Images Community Group has been working hard on an official feature plugin. Joe McGill recently posted an update in regard to what's going on, the scope of the plugin, and how folks can help. He…

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

Brian Krogsgard

June 16, 2015

Design

Now, don't everybody click at once, as I know it will be tempting. But this article is all about stuff Lee Munroe has learned about building HTML emails. Let me put it this way: making email templates suuuuucks. If you've…

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Security

WordPress 4.2.2 was released this evening in order to protect against a critical security bug in Genericons. From the release post: The Genericons icon font package, which is used in a number of popular themes and plugins, contained an HTML…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2015

Business

iThemes Sync has a decent amount of competition between ManageWP, Jetpack Manage, and others that offer site management services that allow you to manage and update themes, plugins, and WordPress core. But they've recently come out with a feature that…

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

HostingSecurity

Many readers have likely heard by now that WordPress 4.2.1 is out (and probably already patched on your installs). The patch is in response to a zero day vulnerability reported by Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki. WordPress 4.2.1 includes a check on…

Isolated and intrigued

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

Another outstanding story on HeroPress, this time from Sean Davis: Finally, at 25 years old and 7 years deep into the Army (which was a planned career at that time), the habit of being isolated and intrigued began to serve…

You are valuable

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Design

The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

A(nother) new era of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…

WordPress accessibility and how it’s misunderstood

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2015

Joe Dolson has a really information post about why WordPress accessibility is often misunderstood. In short, it's because the front-end is incredibly variable depending on the theme and plugins installed. WordPress itself, with any generated output and the admin, are…

The problem of link rot and data loss

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

Planet

Link rot is a serious issue on the web, as many links of the past are going away. We lose that data for good if we don't back it up somewhere. It may seem insignificant now, but we simply don't know what is being published today that we'll wish we'd kept in the future. But we can solve this issue.

A deep dive into wp_kses performance that you must read, even if you don’t care about wp_kses

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2015

Zack Tollman, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my favorite people in the world. Let's preface with that. He does not blog often, but when he blogs, it is fantastic. Go ahead and read everything he's ever written if you're…

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…

Intro to Underscore.js templates

Shortcode syntax and API changes drafted and under review

So you want responsive images in core?

Things learned building and coding HTML emails

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

WordPress 4.2.2 released to protect against critical security bug in Genericons

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Sync adds customer maintenance reports to their site management tool

WordPress zero day vulnerability on comment text patched in 4.2.1

Isolated and intrigued

You are valuable

A(nother) new era of WordPress

WordPress accessibility and how it’s misunderstood

The problem of link rot and data loss

A deep dive into wp_kses performance that you must read, even if you don’t care about wp_kses

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

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