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Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

Plugin up for adoption: Idea Factory

Brian Krogsgard

March 23, 2015

Nick Haskins has a neat little plugin called Idea Factory, which allows website visitors to submit and vote on ideas (demo video here). He's put it up for adoption so he can focus on his full-time job and his Aesop…

GoomWay

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2015

Development

Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!

Tom McFarlin is transferring ownership of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Tom McFarlin created and has lead the development of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate for nearly four years now. I've used the boilerplate many times in my own work. The project has evolved and gained traction by the WordPress community and…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It's pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here's a rundown of some of the features and background.

Be on the lookout: Shop Plugins is an upcoming eCommerce marketplace

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

eCommerce is getting pretty darn big for WordPress. Daniel Espinoza knows eCommerce. He's built extensions for both WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads, not to mention some non-WordPress entities. He's working on a third-party marketplace aiming to allow anyone to sell their extensions.…

WooCommerce is going after photography

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WooThemes announced a new product today, aimed at selling photography with WooCommerce. This is a good first step, and I'm excited to see an eCommerce product target the photography super-niche. That said, there is a ton of room in this market, and WordPress isn't really solving photographers' problems yet.

WordPress 4.2: what you need to know going into the development phase

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

WordPress 4.2 kicked off last week with the announcement of Drew Jaynes as release lead. Drew works at 10up, and is a prolific Docs committer for WordPress. The tentative project schedule for 4.2 is up and some key dates are as…

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

Today marks two years since I launched Post Status. It's been an incredible two years. Today, I'm thrilled to announce that the Post Status Membership Club is open.

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They've learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.

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.

WordPress is an army

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2014

WordPress News

I'm going to make an analogy and it isn't a perfect one. That's the thing with the vast majority of analogies. This is an overly long and perhaps unnecessary post to dissuade us from writing or caring about "top" lists…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

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,…

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Plugin up for adoption: Idea Factory

GoomWay

Tom McFarlin is transferring ownership of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

The most popular WordPress plugins

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Be on the lookout: Shop Plugins is an upcoming eCommerce marketplace

WooCommerce is going after photography

WordPress 4.2: what you need to know going into the development phase

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

A new look and a new domain

WordPress is an army

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Automating i18n in WordPress themes

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