Jetpack

Postmatic comments

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2015

Finally, I saw this tease today of Postmatic ajaxified comments, which is aiming to be a full Disqus or Jetpack replacement. I wrote about Postmatic when it came out, and this looks like a fun iteration that's on the way.…

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They've learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Brian Krogsgard

August 4, 2014

DesignPlanet

Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven't posted since the last week in review. Trust…

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2014

The Week in Review

Welcome to the fifth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Sass is coming to Underscores A long-awaited feature, the first pass…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

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…

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Brian Krogsgard

June 3, 2014

Business

WordPress.com VIP has a fancy new stats page. Of course I immediately wanted to know how it stacks up to WordPress.com stats as a whole. Here's the math: WordPress.com VIP: 2,441,299,137 pageviews in the last 30 days All WordPress.com: 14,512,740,573*…

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2014

WordPress News

Jetpack 3.0 has just shipped with a major overhaul of the admin area. I've long desired change, and Jetpack has finally made quite a significant one. The settings page is still very heavily Jetpack branded, but the interface for activating,…

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released an interesting new tool, called Postbot. Postbot is a webapp, at Postbot.co, which allows WordPress.com authenticated users to upload photos in bulk and schedule them as posts. There is, of course, a fun little gif. Once I…

WordPress.com introduces a Portfolio content type

Brian Krogsgard

April 11, 2014

WordPress News

I'm honestly surprised it took this long, but WordPress.com has introduced a Portfolio custom content type for their platform. Current themes that support the new content type are Espied and Illustratr, however I think that many themes will begin introducing…

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

A severe Jetpack vulnerability has been disclosed and patched in Jetpack. The bug allows attackers to publish posts, and has existed since 2012. The Jetpack blog post states the following: During an internal security audit, we found a bug that allows an…

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

BusinessMake WordPress

There are a number of things that concern me in regard to WordPress comments. They are one of those features that I have a love hate relationship with. Comments are great for active, well moderated communities. I genuinely enjoy receiving…

Postmatic comments

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

A new look and a new domain

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

VIP accounts for nearly 17% of WordPress.com’s “network” pageviews

Jetpack 3.0 includes major admin UI overhaul

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

WordPress.com introduces a Portfolio content type

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Recommendations for improving WordPress comments

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