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Envato getting into video app space

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2015

In a bit of a surprise move, Envato is getting into the video mobile app space. With a clever video app that nicely highlights their VideoHive market, the new Envato Video app allows people to create simple marketing videos, straight…

State of the Word, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Brian Krogsgard

November 24, 2015

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

Responsive images for WordPress and mobile pages with AMP — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

October 9, 2015

DraftPlanet

This week’s Post Status Draft podcast is hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. The topics are responsive image support in WordPress and Google’s new AMP specification.

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

Business

AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It's an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook's "Instant Articles" feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it's a not…

Weekend edition

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2015

Hosting

Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

The cost of mobile ads on…

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2015

The cost of mobile ads on 50 top news websites. Gross.

All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 25, 2015

DraftPlanet

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss the WordPress REST API and the recent proposal for it to be merged into WordPress Core.

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Security

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on Product Hunt. There's not a ton you haven't seen, but apparently there's a new WordPress mobile app that's still in "internal" beta. I wonder if it's using the new REST API? I hope it's…

Open source has reach, but no influence

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

Steve Burge has an interesting post on his personal site on why he thinks open source has no reach, but no influence. Despite the widespread open source, we’re entering a world of closed platforms: Today’s iOS9 launch shows what incredible…

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

BusinessDesign

I'm a pretty big fan of Dave Pell's NextDraft newsletter (subscribe and read my interview with him and Andrew Norcross!). It's a mix of tech and current events, and today he talked about the bubble in tech. I'll show the quote…

Speed as a feature

Brian Krogsgard

August 19, 2015

Performance optimization can be a hard sell inside an organization that has a lot of needs and not a lot of resources. GQ recently has page loads upwards of 7 seconds and bounce rates 10-20% higher on mobile than desktop,…

A generic WordPress site management mobile app

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Scott Bolinger has released a boilerplate app that uses Angular and the Ionic Framework to create a generic WordPress site management mobile app. It's available on Github for those that want to contribute or fork it for your own purposes.…

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.

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

Automattic has been working on Mesh for a while. I first posted about it in March, around when they rolled out an early alpha for employees and created the landing page. Now it's on the iPhone and available as a web…

Envato getting into video app space

State of the Word, 2015

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Responsive images for WordPress and mobile pages with AMP — Draft podcast

Google’s AMP and what it means for WordPress

Weekend edition

The cost of mobile ads on…

All about the WordPress REST API and its current state — Draft podcast

Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on…

Open source has reach, but no influence

Showing up at a gold rush with a shovel and a pan

Speed as a feature

A generic WordPress site management mobile app

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Automattic’s Mesh photo app is now ready for iPhone and web

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