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Building a better WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Chris Hutchinson has ideas for a better WordPress. Imagine a world where WordPress is lean, fast, and efficient. In this world, WordPress has just one task: to manage your content. >And he lays out his ideas for what WordPress would…

Want to learn JavaScript in 2015?

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Of course you do. Or you should. JavaScript is more popular than ever for all aspects of web development, including in WordPress. Eventually, JavaScript could make up most of the codebase. If you want to stay on your game with…

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…

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

September 2, 2015

DesignPlanet

A Day of REST is an event devoted to the WordPress REST API. It'll happen on January 28th 2016, with a follow-on hack day on the 29th, in London. It's an exciting opportunity for developers to learn how to interact with the new WordPress REST API, and Post Status will be an official partner.

Bootstrap 4 alpha released and includes huge changes

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Bootstrap 4 is now in alpha, and includes a ton of changes that will be popular. These are my personal favorites: Moved from Less to Sass. Improved grid system. Opt-in flexbox support is here. Dropped IE8 support and moved to rem…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

Two performance boosts for font loading with Typekit

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2015

Two Typekit performance boosts are worth noting. I know a lot of theme shops include Typekit in their themes, and it's also one of the most popular ways to use custom fonts on custom client work. If you use Typekit…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Using the WordPress Media Loader in the Front-End

Japh Thomson

June 22, 2015

A little while ago at LoopConf, Derek Springer wrote up some code samples and explanations to help kick start anyone wanting to use the WordPress Media Loader on the front-end of their site. It's a great little example, with a…

Customizer code examples on GitHub

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

The theme review team is putting Customizer code examples on Github, according to an announcement today: The first area to tackle is example Customizer code, which currently includes examples for adding panels, sections, settings, basic core controls, specialized core text…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

"What is code?" Paul Ford answers the question, with a 38,000 word masterpiece in Bloomberg. This is the first article I'd tell an aspiring programmer to read, and the one that anyone working in technology should have in their permanent collection.

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.

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

Brian Krogsgard

March 18, 2015

From the Chromium blog, one of the more impressive performance improvements I've seen yet: Ideally every part of a user's interaction with a browser is fast, starting with loading web pages. Chrome is introducing two techniques called script streaming and…

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.

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…

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.

Building a better WordPress

Want to learn JavaScript in 2015?

Intro to Underscore.js templates

A Day of REST — a conference devoted to the WordPress REST API

Bootstrap 4 alpha released and includes huge changes

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Two performance boosts for font loading with Typekit

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Using the WordPress Media Loader in the Front-End

Customizer code examples on GitHub

What is Code?

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Chrome 41 making a big step for faster page speeds

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

A(nother) new era of WordPress

The WordPress REST API

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