Open Source

Matt Mullenweg is now Automattic’s CEO

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

Matt Mullenweg and Toni Schneider are switching jobs at Automattic. After joining Automattic eight years ago, Toni Schneider is moving into a product-focused role within Automattic, and Matt Mullenweg is the new CEO. Both Matt and Toni blogged about the…

Tom McFarlin and Japh Thomson are shifting roles at Envato and Wptuts+

Brian Krogsgard

January 13, 2014

CareersWordPress News

In November, Envato announced that they were looking for a new Wptuts+ editor on their blog. The position requires considerable skill with WordPress and effective communication. Japh Thomson has done a fantastic job heading up the Wptuts+ blog effort for two…

Automattic trial data and employee retention

Brian Krogsgard

December 16, 2013

Business

Matt Mullenweg does a lot of interviews, and much of this one at the Lean Startup Conference is similar to many others, highlighting how WordPress got started, the culture of open source and how Automattic works. But at the end he mentioned…

Meet WordPress 3.8, Parker

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2013

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 3.8, "Parker", has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8's development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt…

Understand WordPress internationalization and translation

Brian Krogsgard

October 3, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Internationalization (i18n) and translation is one of those fuzzy gray areas for many of us in the WordPress community, especially amongst Americans. We're simply not very accustomed to a multilingual society, therefore we sometimes erroneously don't think about internationalization of our code…

The WordPress mobile app is ready for iOS7

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The WordPress Mobile team has been working hard to get the WordPress iOS app ready for iOS7, which is to be released today. Design was led by Hugo Baeta, but eight contributors took part in the design and development for…

Faceted search for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 4, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you're unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique…

Cheers to the GPL

Brian Krogsgard

August 27, 2013

WordPress News

This past weekend, I co-organized WordCamp Birmingham, or WP Y'all, and a couple of our (many) taglines were "In Open Source We Trust" and "Cheers to the GPL." So naturally we toasted the GPL at the after party. Going through…

The ethics of open source

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

WordPress News

Justin Tadlock has written about the four core freedoms of open source, and warned that with some of the WooThemes drama that happened in the last couple of weeks, he heard some words and tones that didn't match the ethos…

Scared of WordPress core Trac? Try bug gardening.

Brian Krogsgard

August 13, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

Helen Hou-Sandí has some advice for those of you that might be afraid of WordPress core's development processes. You could get involved with bug gardening, which essentially allows you to set milestones and make sure bugs aren't getting left behind…

2013 State of the Word from Matt Mullenweg

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg just delivered the 2013 State of the Word, his annual update about WordPress. He started off discussing the history of WCSF, and the first WordCamp San Francisco 8 years ago. It was pretty low tech at first, and…

The history of WordPress book is on Github

Brian Krogsgard

July 26, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

The history of WordPres book that Siobhan McKeown is leading is now on Github so folks can help edit, or even contribute. The official title is WordPress: Freedom, Community, and the Business of Open Source. Pretty cool that the history…

How NASA is promoting open source technology

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has a nice post on WPMU describing how NASA is promoting open source, and WordPress specifically. It's great to see huge organizations like this realize the power of open source development.

Summer Mentorship Programs: Gnome and GSOC

Siobhan Mckeown

April 25, 2013

WordPress News

Jen Mylo has announced the WordPress summer mentorship programs. Google Summer of Code is for college/university students to get involved with development in an open source project. Gnome is an outreach program for women and is open to contributions in…