Plugins

All plugins are (not) created equal

Sarah Pressler

July 30, 2013

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…

WordPress Multisite versus “Minisite”

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

I work a decent amount with Multisite. Not a ton, but maybe on about 10% of the websites I build. There's sometimes confusion at work as to what's a good use for Multisite and what is not. I also see…

On WordPress themes and frameworks

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

DesignWordPress News

Let's pull the bandaid off real quick, and it won't hurt as bad: Theme Framework has turned into a marketing term. I lean more every day to giving theme framework the premium treatment. Just because a product costs money doesn't…

iThemes releases Exchange, a WordPress eCommerce plugin

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes has just released Exchange on the WordPress plugin repository. They've been working for some time their new WordPress eCommerce plugin. They opened up a beta for some users about a month ago. A few days ago, I checked it out…

Envato announces new theme check guidelines for ThemeForest

Brian Krogsgard

July 4, 2013

WordPress News

Japh Thomson has made a huge announcement on the Envato Notes blog. Starting in a few weeks, Envato will be enforcing a new theme check process for all WordPress themes to ensure high quality code and WordPress best practices are…

The Styles plugin integrates a ton of customizer options into the default themes

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2013

WordPress News

I ran across the Styles plugin today, thanks to a tweet from Brady Vercher. I was intrigued because Brady said, "I really think this plugin could be the standard for easily customizing themes." That's quite a statement. But after installing…

WYSIJA is a surprisingly delightful WordPress newsletter plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 21, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WYSIJA. A play on WYSIWYG, WYSIJA stands for "What You Send Is Just Awesome." Yeah, it's tough to remember. But once you check it out, this plugin is hard to forget. The team of seven people behind WYSIJA is from…

Tweeple plugin offers tweet feeds compatible to Twitter V1.1 API

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2013

WordPress News

If you're like most of the internet, you probably didn't update your Twitter feeds embedded on your site to comply with Twitter's V1.1 API. Well, their V1.0 API fully deprecated about a week ago, and a ton of Twitter WordPressplugins…

iThemes is entering the WordPress eCommerce landscape with Exchange

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2013

WordPress News

iThemes announced this morning that they are entering the eCommerce landscape with a new product called Exchange. Based on their announcement post, it seems the product will be a classical physical goods eCommerce product, in the same realm as WooCommerce,…

WP App Store removes top-level menu item from their plugin

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2013

WordPress News

Based on customer feedback, we’ve removed the top-level menu item and added submenu items under Plugins and Appearance. Good move? Bad move?

Plugins vs themes developer chat

Brian Krogsgard

January 30, 2013

WordPress News

I took part in a chat yesterday to discuss some of the nitty gritty details around splitting code between plugins and themes. Aaron Holbrook kindly shepherded us together and hosted. There were ten or so of us in and out,…