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Two AMAs to make you smarter

Brian Krogsgard

October 14, 2015

Two AMAs happened today with people I respect a lot, in different walks of life. AMA with Pippin Williamson Pippin Williamson, you all know, makes plugins. He did a great AMA on ManageWP. I'm going to steal some nuggets: On…

Weekend edition

Brian Krogsgard

October 4, 2015

Hosting

Friday was a bit slow so I figured I'd wait for a weekend edition. We're going to pack it all into one Note. Jetpack had two vulnerabilities: one in the contact form (technically explained by Sucuri) and one limited to…

Gravity Flow makes custom form administrative workflows simple

Brian Krogsgard

September 15, 2015

BusinessDesign

"RE: RE: RE: RE: Needs input." Gravity Flow helps organizations get rid of this nonsense, by extending Gravity Forms to make custom form-based workflows for administrative approval and user input processes.

The art of the commit message

Brian Krogsgard

September 8, 2015

Commit messages are really helpful, but not always top of mind while you're actually working on something. I'm pretty sure I've got a fair number of commit messages titled along the lines of, "ashdfkafwaieu argh just work already!" WordPress commits…

Language packs for WordPress themes and plugins

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2015

Sam Sidler announced today on Make WordPress Plugins that WordPress plugins will soon be able to utilize the WordPress.org language pack feature that ships with WordPress core. Language packs were introduced to core in WordPress 3.7. As I noted then:…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

Format your WordPress plugin readme properly

Brian Krogsgard

July 31, 2015

David Decker goes into detail on the Pippin's Plugin blog for how to properly format your readme.txt files. Sometimes it can be a bit confusing the best way to set things up, so if you haven't submitted many -- or…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Growth in the French community

Jenny Beaumont

June 24, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.

A review of WP Rocket

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2015

A number of Post Status members have talked in Slack about WP Rocket, discussing whether it was a worthwhile caching solution. Steven Gliebe tested it for his new Pro Plugin Directory project. He shows the graphs and summarizes like this:…

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

The official stance of WordPress.org is that WordPress is supported on PHP 5.2.4 or greater. The official stance of the Plugin Team regarding what version of PHP your plugins can use is .. not that. We don’t have an official…

A commercial plugin directory

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

Business

Steven Gliebe has launched a commercial plugin directory called Pro Plugin Directory. My point is that commercial plugins are a big deal but there is no central place to locate them. I usually search WordPress.org and find something free that…

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Two AMAs to make you smarter

Weekend edition

Gravity Flow makes custom form administrative workflows simple

The art of the commit message

Language packs for WordPress themes and plugins

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Format your WordPress plugin readme properly

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Growth in the French community

A review of WP Rocket

A non-policy policy on PHP versions

A commercial plugin directory

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

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