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A series on creating apps with the WordPress REST API and React

Brian Krogsgard

July 31, 2015

I really am excited about a new series on the Delicious Brains blog, where Jeff Gould is demoing how to use the WordPress REST API and React to create a mobile app. My favorite part is that they are creating…

Ad networks’ grip on news outlets

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2015

Ben Thompson's latest post tackles how web pages -- especially web pages driven by advertising and ad networks -- are bloated. Ad networks have gained huge adoption amongst big news websites, which largely cannot manage to sell their own inventory,…

Growth in the French community

Jenny Beaumont

June 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

After the first WordCamp in France in 2008, organizer Xavier Borderie, co-founder of the WordPress Francophone Association and one of the principal contributors to the French translation of WordPress, wrote, "We're calling it 'WordCamp Paris' and not 'WordCamp France' because…

The Funnel Framework

Japh Thomson

June 22, 2015

There's a really interesting write up comparing the success of Microsoft in the Windows-dominant era versus Apple in the mobile era called The Funnel Framework. It's really on point at the moment, and also mentions some other examples you'll recognise.…

A future API

Ryan McCue

June 19, 2015

BusinessPlanet

The year is 2020. WordPress powers over 35% of the web now. The REST API has been in WordPress core for a few years; the year after the REST API was merged into core, WordPress gained nearly 5% marketshare. Almost…

What is Code?

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2015

BusinessDevelopment

Today I read perhaps the single best article I've ever read on programming. Paul Ford has written the definitive guide for explaining a profession that employs 11 million people and occupies 7 million more hobbyists' time by answering the question, "What is…

Effects of freemium, money back guarantees, and free trials

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2015

Two conversion articles I read this weekend have stuck with me through the day on Monday. First, Indy mobile app developer Shevub Hussain describes how moving from a paid-only model to freemium for his (really handy looking) Comfy Read app…

2015 internet trends

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

Kleiner Perkins does a yearly internet trends report that I've enjoyed for a few years now. The 2015 report is out and it's really interesting. I learned quite a bit -- it's a whopping 197 slides -- about trends in…

The slowness of the WordPress admin is a liability

Brian Krogsgard

May 18, 2015

The WordPress admin is not fast. In fact, due to a variety of reasons, it can become quite slow even for relatively normal sites. And even a brand new install doesn't have completely "snappy" page loads on the admin. Put it…

(Almost) nobody uses social sharing buttons on mobile

Brian Krogsgard

May 7, 2015

In a new post on Moovweb, they highlight that only 0.39% of mobile users use social sharing buttons. That's quite low. And it doesn't get that much better for desktop. It's a compelling argument to not have them at all,…

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

http://wordpress.tv/2015/04/23/powell/ The consistency of WordPress WordPress 4.2, Powell, marks the impressive sixth major version in a row on a four month average development cycle. WordPress 3.7: October 24th, 2013 WordPress 3.8: December 12th, 2013 WordPress 3.9: April 16th, 2014 WordPress 4.0: September…

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

DesignDraft

StoryCorps is an organization that aims "to provide people of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share and preserve the stories of our lives." Featured stories are broadcast nationally on NPR. StoryCorps has published more than 50,000…

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

Brian Krogsgard

March 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

The Human Made team has been hard at work preparing Happytables 3, an all new platform for the restaurant website builder. Happytables was one of the first major hosted initiatives after WordPress.com, and launched in early 2012. You can see the post…

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…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API project is the most exciting project for the platform since custom post types were introduced in WordPress 2.9 and 3.0. I really believe that. While the project is under a major rewrite and not yet slated for…

WordPress lead developer changes

Brian Krogsgard

February 4, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

Yesterday, it was announced that Helen Hou-Sandí and Dion Hulse are now lead developers of the WordPress project. That announcement, we learned today, is tied to another: that Peter Westwood and Ryan Boren are stepping down from their lead developer roles.…