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Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2016

There is really only one existing WordPress integration for Facebook Instant Articles. It is from Jack Spurlock, a developer at WIRED. Facebook has a limited spec for supporting Instant Articles, which at a base level can just use RSS, but deeper integrations would…

A few (surprisingly good) things I have recently learned about PayPal

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2016

Business

PayPal is one of those companies people love to hate. I know I do. But sometimes, PayPal shows how good it can be. And in some ways -- please don't hate me for saying this -- PayPal has some WordPress-y-ness…

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

Brian Krogsgard

February 9, 2016

BusinessDesign

The WordPress REST API is at a bit of a crossroads. There is a proposal on the table by the core team of four contributors — Ryan McCue, Rachel Baker, Daniel Bachhuber, and Joe Hoyle — to ship endpoints to WordPress core iteratively. There is a pushback on this proposal by WordPress Project Lead and co-founder Matt Mullenweg.

The first WordPress REST API conference, in review

Brian Krogsgard

February 3, 2016

PlanetWordPress News

I had the privilege to attend and be the media partner at A Day of REST, the world's first conference devoted to the WordPress REST API. Here's my initial review, and some pictures, from the event.

Twitter and WordPress — going beyond 140 characters

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2015

Chris Sacca is one of Twitter's largest shareholders. He's a billionaire that's gotten really lucky, is really smart, or both. He also owns stock in Medium and Automattic (ugh, in the post he just says "WordPress"). Anyway, he has opinions…

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.

Gravity Forms integrations for Slack and HipChat

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

Gravity Forms has released new add-ons, free for developer plans, that integrate with Slack and HipChat services. You can customize the details of the form inputs to send to Slack and HipChat. This is super useful for me, and I'm…

Tax day in the US

Brian Krogsgard

April 14, 2015

It's tax day in the United States. Today, I had some conversations about taxes in the Post Status Slack (if you haven't joined, you should!) and elsewhere. It's actually not that easy to track specific income for product revenues for…

Happytables 3 is taking on Squarespace and Wix for restaurant websites with a brand new platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

The new Happytables is a slick setup, and they've invested more time and energy into a hosted WordPress solution than perhaps anyone but Automattic on WordPress.com. The difference here is they are going after a niche, and it's a huge one with a big need: restaurants.

Post Status on Slack

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

I'm happy to announce that the Post Status Slack is ready for members. All registered members should have invites in your inbox from Slack. As new members subscribe, they'll be invited to join as well. Everyone is already in the…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Render is a project by Real Big Marketing that attempts (and succeeds, I believe) to offer a more intuitive UI for handling shortcodes in the WordPress admin. The video to see how Render works is 7 minutes, but I think…

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

"Oh, my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way. Nice to meet you." After the WordPress co-founder welcomed the largest WordCamp San Francisco audience ever, he introduced himself and began this year's State of the Word -- the annual talk where…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity

Brian Krogsgard

April 29, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Stream is a WordPress plugin by X-Team that allows site owners to track all activity on their website. The free version of the plugin was released in December of 2013, and this last weekend they announced their first commercial extensions.…

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Andrew Munro have just launched Version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, an affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Pippin is well known in the WordPress community for his work as a plugin…

Facebook Instant Articles to be available to all publishers in April

A few (surprisingly good) things I have recently learned about PayPal

Complete coverage should not be a requirement for core inclusion of WordPress REST API endpoints

The first WordPress REST API conference, in review

Twitter and WordPress — going beyond 140 characters

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Gravity Forms integrations for Slack and HipChat

Tax day in the US

Happytables 3 is taking on Squarespace and Wix for restaurant websites with a brand new platform

Post Status on Slack

The WordPress REST API

Render gives a more intuitive UI to shortcodes

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

The Stream plugin lets you track all WordPress user activity

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

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