React

Modern Tribe has an beautiful new…

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Modern Tribe has an beautiful new website, built with React and the WordPress REST API. David Hickox wrote about their rebranding effort as well. This is the nicest agency redesign I've seen in a long time, and using pretty new…

State of the Word, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

December 5, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg has just completed the 2015 State of the Word, the annual speech where he highlights the last year of everything WordPress and what we can anticipate in the future.

Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more

Brian Krogsgard

November 25, 2015

DraftHosting

Matt Mullenweg is the co-founder of WordPress, and founder and CEO of Automattic. In this interview, we talk about their new WordPress.com editor, and more.

Do you just need to nom…

November 25, 2015

Do you just need to nom nom nom on some developer-y stuff so bad right now? Okay, I'll leave you with a couple of very technical links. First, a very long, but educational, case for using Nginx. I don't think…

Extra bits and bobs around the new WordPress.com Calypso project

Brian Krogsgard

November 24, 2015

Phew, it's been a bit of a whirlwind couple of days, and I don't work at Automattic. The Calypso project sparked a lot of conversation, and confusion. Calypso is the name of the effort, but the result was the WordPress.com…

“React Toolbox is a set of…

November 18, 2015

"React Toolbox is a set of React components that implements Google Material Design specification." I know, so much React stuff lately, but I bet you're going to click it.

React for Beginners is a course…

November 4, 2015

React for Beginners is a course by Wes Bos that looks outstanding. You don't seem to need much prior knowledge to get going, and it's a very affordable $59 for just a few hours more. I signed up today! I…

Lessons for WordPress, from Drupalcon

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Drupalcon is happening, and Drupal founder Dries Buytaert has made his keynote slides available. They are highly informative and well worth looking through, even without the presentation audio. I'll highlight the big items, but seriously just see the slides, because it's…

Building a better WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2015

Chris Hutchinson has ideas for a better WordPress. Imagine a world where WordPress is lean, fast, and efficient. In this world, WordPress has just one task: to manage your content. >And he lays out his ideas for what WordPress would…

Using React with WordPress — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

September 5, 2015

DraftPlanet

Post Status Draft is a podcast about WordPress news and events hosted by Brian Krogsgard and Joe Hoyle. This week we discuss plugin and theme language packs, Trac gardening, and using React for WordPress.

A New York Times liveblog that starts in Slack and ends in WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

August 7, 2015

Scott Taylor put the flow like this: Slack > Slack > Invisible City > Redis > Pusher > Web socket > React > WordPress Those were the steps to make a real time liveblog even more real time. Scott works at…

A series on creating apps with the WordPress REST API and React

Brian Krogsgard

July 31, 2015

I really am excited about a new series on the Delicious Brains blog, where Jeff Gould is demoing how to use the WordPress REST API and React to create a mobile app. My favorite part is that they are creating…

Design before discovery

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2015

Design

Guillermo Rauch has written a post about the development of the new VideoPress, titled Pure UI. In it, he describes the workflow for creating the new player and how it was managed between design and development. He says that the…

Greenfield front-end development with the REST API… what tool would you use?

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

I recently submitted an audio question to my favorite web podcast, the Shoptalk Show. Chris Coyier and Dave Rupert are mega smart and I wanted to know what front-end development methods they'd want to explore for a greenfield project based…

Embedded chatrooms for live events

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2015

Embedded chat options for live events on WordPress sites have always been tough. Podcasts often have a live channel, via something like embedded IRC, Tlk.io or Google Hangouts. None of them are really great. I was intrigued to come across…

A(nother) new era of WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a "new era", which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it's good…