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WordPress in a next generation PHP world

Brian Krogsgard

April 15, 2015

"It's a great time to be writing PHP," is not something you hear in all corners of the programming world. But in Aaron Jorbin's mind, this is the case. Aaron notes that the growing popularity of HHVM and the upcoming…

You are valuable

Brian Krogsgard

April 7, 2015

Design

The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.

New WordPress core stats signal better software update adoption across the board

Brian Krogsgard

March 2, 2015

Andrew Nacin updated the WordPress core stats this weekend, and the update signals that WordPress and its underlying technology has better update adoption rates than was previously thought. Thousands of new WordPress sites come online every day. Some others, though, stop pinging…

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…

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

Brian Krogsgard

February 17, 2015

Andy Adams (a Post Status Patron!) has written a great post, where he discusses the perceived WordPress talent shortage that exists today, as well as the perception of WordPress developer skills by potential clients. Andy is a Rails developer and a…

WPupdatePHP wants to be BrowseHappy for servers

Brian Krogsgard

February 13, 2015

Hosting

WPupdatePHP is a project by Coen Jacobs to evangelize the need for people to use modern PHP versions for their WordPress installs. It's both a website and a script people can include in their plugins, to function like BrowseHappy does.…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

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…

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2014

BusinessDesign

Chris Coyier is not a stranger to most of us web workers. He's a designer at CodePen, a writer at CSS-Tricks, and a podcaster at ShopTalk. He uses WordPress on all three of his primary projects. For years, Chris has been…

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,…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "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. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

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…

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…

WordPress in a next generation PHP world

You are valuable

GoomWay

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

New WordPress core stats signal better software update adoption across the board

A(nother) new era of WordPress

WordPress talent shortage versus WordPress pricing

WPupdatePHP wants to be BrowseHappy for servers

The WordPress REST API

Contribution as culture

WordPress and Drupal teams collaborate for simultaneous security releases

Chris Coyier on WordPress, business, and building the web

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

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

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

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