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Layers, by Obox, introduces a beautiful page building interface

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

Layers is the latest WordPress theme with page building as the core feature. Obox has made a heck of an effort to ship 1.0, and while I have some issues, I'm incredibly impressed with the overall user experience. I think Obox has created something that's worth checking out, though I think this market has plenty of maturing to do yet.

A deep dive into wp_kses performance that you must read, even if you don’t care about wp_kses

Brian Krogsgard

January 29, 2015

Zack Tollman, ladies and gentlemen, is one of my favorite people in the world. Let's preface with that. He does not blog often, but when he blogs, it is fantastic. Go ahead and read everything he's ever written if you're…

A new look and a new domain

Brian Krogsgard

January 7, 2015

BusinessDesign

The new Post Status design is an alpha, but I wanted to show readers as soon as I could. Also, the site has a new domain and utilizes HTTPS everywhere. A lot has gone into it so far, and there is much left to do.

Your website is not allowed to be fast

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

There could quite realistically be a day that your blog or website is not allowed to be fast. Not because you didn't do proper performance testing and optimization, but because a corporatocracy won't allow it. And your website is small potatoes…

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “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. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Brady Vercher

July 8, 2014

DevelopmentPlanet

According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…

You forgot about user experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2014

Design

Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

Performance benchmarks for managed WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

March 27, 2014

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi has put together a very thorough comparison of performance benchmarks for a number of managed WordPress hosts on Review Signal. Included in his review: A Small Orange Pressable WP Engine WebSynthesis SiteGround Godaddy (managed) Digital Ocean (VPS) Pagely A…

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

BusinessDraft

Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…

WordPress theme performance tips

Brian Krogsgard

February 6, 2014

DesignWordPress News

Kirk Wight has written a helpful post on the Theme Shaper blog that offers tips on improving performance in WordPress themes. Kirk is a theme wrangler at Automattic and knows his stuff. If you love making themes, but haven't thought…

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Brian Krogsgard

November 14, 2013

BusinessHosting

ZippyKid is a managed WordPress host that's been around around three and a half years. They have grown their business consistently since their launch in May 2010, and today have a number of high profile blogs and corporate profiles as…

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2013

Hosting

Ryan Sullivan compared seven popular hosting companies' shared environments for his experiment to see which ones were performing well and which weren't. I love Ryan's views on hosting, and trust his experiment. This is a valuable resource. However, I'd really…

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

DesignSecurity

Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…

Prefork pre-loads PHP apps (like WordPress) before serving requests

Brian Krogsgard

May 17, 2013

WordPress News

Automattic has released a pretty fancy PHP class called Prefork, that enables pre-loading capability to large PHP apps, such as WordPress. This makes it so that WordPress doesn't have to completely reload itself every time you load the page. It's…

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2013

Hosting

ZippyKid has partnered with Google PageSpeed to "automatically apply web performance best practices" to their WordPress sites. The test cases look pretty promising.

Layers, by Obox, introduces a beautiful page building interface

A deep dive into wp_kses performance that you must read, even if you don’t care about wp_kses

A new look and a new domain

Your website is not allowed to be fast

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

You forgot about user experience

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Performance benchmarks for managed WordPress hosts compared

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

WordPress theme performance tips

ZippyKid relaunches as Pressable, makes changes to business

Performance of 7 top shared WordPress hosts compared

All plugins are (not) created equal

Prefork pre-loads PHP apps (like WordPress) before serving requests

ZippyKid partners with Google PageSpeed

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