Post Formats

WordPress Website Cost to Develop

Brian Krogsgard

March 14, 2023

Every business needs a website. Not only does it tell your customers what you do, but it gives you credibility. WordPress is the best website option, but what will it set you back? The WordPress website cost to develop question…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 62) — The Open Web Universe with Matt Mullenweg

Olivia Bisset

July 6, 2022

BusinessDesign

David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.

Is Tumblr a social network?

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Sharing without a strategy. Blogging without a plan. Connecting without an angle. Maybe that's how Tumblr shines?

After the WordPress 5.2 release was…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

After the WordPress 5.2 release was pushed back to early May and the first release candidate became available for testing, some detailed posts surfaced about 5.2 with some new and more in-depth analysis. William Earnhardt addressed the accessibility changes developers…

WordPress needs bigger data

Brian Krogsgard

August 3, 2016

WordPress needs big data -- knowledge of how the product is used -- to make better decisions as to how to direct the future of the software. To make my point, allow me to drift off into the wonderful world…

Interview with Drew Strojny, Founder of The Theme Foundry

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2014

BusinessDesign

I had the pleasure to interview Drew Strojny, founder of The Theme Foundry, about their work at The Theme Foundry, their philosophies about themes, and their latest theme release, Oxford. [audio src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/PostStatus/DraftPodcast/Post-Status-Draft-3-Drew-Strojny-ThemeFoundry.mp3"] Direct Download Drew is a former Duke football…

Why post formats should be plugin territory

Travis Northcutt

February 19, 2014

WordPress News

A thought-provoking piece by Morten Rand-Hendriksen on why post formats belong in a plugin, rather than in WordPress core. Currently Post Formats themselves remain as a core feature and there is sporadic talk of restarting work on the Post Formats UI.…

The Theme Foundry releases a Backbone powered theme

Brian Krogsgard

August 6, 2013

DesignWordPress News

The folks from The Theme Foundry have released a new theme called Collections, which is a post formats centric, Backbone powered WordPress theme. They emailed me to let me know they were wrapping up a Backbone powered theme, and I…