The WordPress product market is completely different now
Brian Krogsgard
Building a WordPress-based product business is a much different process than it used to be. People have to do something different and better than what has come before.
A review of Bylines for multi-author and guest-author posts
Dan Knauss
Meet the successor to Co-Authors Plus. It's for multiple authors and guest authors in WordPress without creating additional user accounts.
Plugin authors can now specify a…
Brian Krogsgard
Plugin authors can now specify a minimum required PHP version for their plugin with a new "Requires PHP" in the readme.txt file. As Sergey Biryukov states, this is an effort for WordPress "to move forward and encourage people to use…
HelloSales is a new WordPress Plugin…
Brian Krogsgard
HelloSales is a new WordPress Plugin and iOS App for WooCommerce recently announced by iThemes. According to Cory Miller the first version "will focus on getting accurate, valuable e-commerce reporting for your WooCommerce shop." I talked to Cory about this idea last…
Here’s a unique plugin: Better Plugin…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's a unique plugin: Better Plugin Recommendations for WordPress. It removes the default featured and recommendations tab in the backend WordPress "Add Plugin" screen. It then replaces the recommendations tab with plugins that Nick Hamze hand selects. Joey Kudish assisted…
W3TC, Placester, and Frederick Townes
Brian Krogsgard
Placester is a Boston-based startup that gears toward real estate agents, and they've recently raised $50 million in a Series D round -- bringing their total fundraising to $100 million. Why should you care? Well, two reasons. Placester uses WordPress…
Crate wants to help you escape license key hell
Brian Krogsgard
Crate turns your WordPress site into a plugin repository to improve release management between environments and automate Composer support for commercial plugins. That's the promise of Brady Vercher's idea that he's calling Crate. This is something that I would really,…
Editing and customization core focus areas — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about both the editor and customizer feature projects -- two core focus areas for WordPress in 2017.
Brad Touesnard gives a more detailed…
Brian Krogsgard
Brad Touesnard gives a more detailed peak at Mergebot, a tool that merges local and live databases together. The tool is in beta (with some openings available) and the screencasts Brad includes look impressive. No doubt this will become a…
Matt Mullenweg State of the Word, 2016
Brian Krogsgard
Matt Mullenweg just completed the 2016 State of the Word, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year, and sets the direction for the year ahead for WordPress.
What is a WordPress theme anyway? — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian discuss WordPress themes, the functionality people put into them, and the challenges that face the WordPress ecosystem with the current state of theming.
Static site generators versus WordPress
Sonya Mann
WordPress is the dominant method to build and manage a website, but static site generators are surging in popularity amongst developers and for certain types of websites.
Medium and WordPress — Draft Podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Joe and Brian talk about Medium & WordPress and whether Medium and similar platforms are a significant threat to WordPress.
There’s an effort to we re-focus…
Brian Krogsgard
There's an effort to we re-focus taxonomies to make it easier for users to find quality plugins in the WordPress repo. Plugin builders and developers who regularly search and get plugins from the repo might want to offer input on…
Growing a lifestyle business without losing the lifestyle
Nate Wright
Balancing a lifestyle business -- and trying to grow it -- can be tricky, when you're not willing to give up your lifestyle for that growth. There are ways to grow your business without giving up the lifestyle you began it all for, right?
Plugin repo redesign prototypes
Brian Krogsgard
The first prototypes for the redesigned plugin repo for WordPress.org have been released. I think it's pretty neat that they are on CodePen, as it makes for an environment where more people can engage with their ideas for adjusting the…
