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Forking done right

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2015

I've been thinking more today about forking pre-existing code for new projects, and how Pippin Williamson was happy to see the Give team fork Easy Digital Downloads. At first, it may seem difficult to feel happy about your work being…

Don’t poop on Emoji in WordPress 4.2

Brian Krogsgard

April 3, 2015

Aaron Jorbin wins the post title of the week award. Don't poop on Emoji, he argues, in response to some (shortsighted) backlash from the Twitters. Fixing WordPress to work in more languages exposes emoji. Since emoji support isn’t great yet,…

WordPress showcase: Washington State homepage

Brian Krogsgard

March 25, 2015

I have another gorgeous WordPress showcase to show you today, and it's Washington State University. Jeremy Felt -- an extremely reputable WordPress developer (and club member!) -- works there and has a great summary post. [caption id="attachment_12054" align="aligncenter" width="752"] One…

The book about the story of WordPress is open source and ready for preview

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

Siobhan McKeown is in the final stages of the official book about WordPress, which details the history and significant milestones of the project. I have much more to come about the book on the main blog. But I wanted to send a Note now…

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…

Cedaro

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

Design

Keep an eye on Cedaro, the general purpose "playground" by the folks of Blazer Six. I discovered Cedaro last week using magic tricks, and asked Brady Vercher about the project. We enjoy the technical aspects of design and development, so…

Contribution as culture

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2014

BusinessHosting

This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2014

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress and Drupal are both releasing security updates today that affect all supported versions of the two popular CMS platforms. Nir Goldshlager, a security researcher and part of the Salesforce.com Product Security Team, discovered a PHP-level vulnerability that could result…

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

Brian Krogsgard

June 29, 2014

The Week in ReviewWordPress News

I thought it'd be fun to try something new here. As you've probably noticed, I've been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I'll dive more into that later. I'll…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

I encountered an article today that made my blood boil. Phillip Thomson wrote about the cost of three websites for the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Sydney Morning Herald. The article blasts Julie Bishop and her department for…

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

There's a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structured around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose which themes get featured on the WordPress…

The evolution of 10up

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

BusinessDesign

The ecosystem of businesses that have been built around WordPress is huge, but shallow. Few companies are both large (relatively speaking) and central to a broad WordPress community. With 60+ employees, some of which are very well-known WordPress developers, 10up…

Meet Joshua Benton, Director of Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2014

BusinessDraft

Joshua Benton runs a small newsroom of four full time staff. They publish around fifteen items a week on Nieman Lab, their WordPress based website. Their newsroom is different than most newsrooms though, because they mostly publish about other newsrooms.…

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9 hasn't quite reached beta, but many of us are already looking ahead to WordPress 4.0. I know, I know: 4.0 is no more significant than 3.9 or any other major release. It just so happens that WordPress' twenty-third major…

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

Brian Krogsgard

January 14, 2014

Development

While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his…

Forking done right

Don’t poop on Emoji in WordPress 4.2

WordPress showcase: Washington State homepage

The book about the story of WordPress is open source and ready for preview

A(nother) new era of WordPress

Cedaro

Contribution as culture

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Fear mongering journalist pointlessly blasts WordPress

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

The evolution of 10up

Meet Joshua Benton, Director of Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab

Battling round numbers with WordPress 4.0

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

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