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The anatomy of a security breach, and how to do good in a bad situation

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2014

On Tuesday, iThemes posted an announcement that they had suffered from a security breach of their website and servers. The attackers had reached the servers which stored customer information, including email addresses, IP addresses, full names, and yes, passwords. iThemes…

The future of Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2014

DesignPost Status Team Blog

I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…

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…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "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. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

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.…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

Development

PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it's notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

Clef offering password-less integrations for WordPress plugins that enable user registration

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

Security

Clef is a password-less login solution that utilizes a phone app and WordPress plugin for more secure logins. You can get more specific information about two-factor authentication (which is different than this, but along similar lines) on my post where…

Learn WordPress from Bob Dunn

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2014

WordPress News

Bob Dunn has released his latest project, many months in the making. BobWPTutorials is a tutorial and course website powered by WooCommerce, and offers tutorials on general WordPress usage, as well as Genesis and WooThemes products. He already boasts 48 published…

Sources of growth for a membership site

Brian Krogsgard

November 19, 2013

Business

Shawn Hesketh runs WP101, a WordPress tutorials membership site. He recently received a question about how he markets his site, and his answer is thorough and insightful, and definitely worth a read for anyone trying to grow their product or…

iThemes Exchange adds support for memberships and physical goods

Brian Krogsgard

October 10, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes Exchange was released only a few months ago, but they've been iterating quickly. As I shared then, they released Exchange without support for physical goods. Now they've not only added support for physical goods, but memberships (recurring and non-recurring)…

Anonymity is bullshit

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

I'm a little fired up. Tonight, I saw an open-ended and, honestly, silly post from Torque about a strange WooCommerce extensions shop called WP Avengers. WP Avengers, as it turns out, is a group of essentially anonymous folks who claim…

WP Elevation wants to help make you a better consultant

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2013

Business

Troy Dean wants to help other consultants be better at what they do. He's starting a new monthly membership site he calls a WordPress business coaching program to train consultants through every step of the web development process. It's $97…

Core plugin dependency is necessary for a better WordPress ecosystem

Brian Krogsgard

May 9, 2013

WordPress News

The debate over plugin dependency has been around WordPress for years. I strongly believe that WordPress core needs a simple plugin dependency API for a healthier WordPress ecosystem. Building plugin dependency into core does more than make something already possible…