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Unsplash has released an official WordPress…

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2020

Unsplash has released an official WordPress plugin that integrates their stock image service with WordPress. Features include quick intuitive search, easy insertion of images into posts, native support for the WordPress Media Library, automatic alt descriptions for improved accessibility and…

Sarah Gooding did a nice job…

Brian Krogsgard

August 9, 2019

Sarah Gooding did a nice job summarizing the changes Jetpack is testing for paid block upgrades. It is controversial in the community as it fits within the gray zone of what should or should not be allowed. I appreciated Jeremy…

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2017

Iain Poulson from Delicious Brains explains the risks of relying on third party libraries and codebases that are maintained by a single person. In the current discussion about JavaScript frameworks for WordPress Core, this is a timely question to ask. Iain mentions Vue.js as an example. Vue.js…

Speaking of survey results, the Editor…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2017

Speaking of survey results, the Editor Experience Survey results are in. 2,563 responses anonymous results in total. You should read the results and the analysis, but here's some tidbits: Not surprisingly, most filling out the survey identified with being a…

Many of you have probably followed…

Brian Krogsgard

July 8, 2016

Many of you have probably followed Dan Cameron's saga of losing all of his Sprout Invoices plugin reviews on WordPress.org. It's a complex story, and I certainly see both sides. Fortunately for me, Sarah Gooding wrote pretty much a perfect…

O2 is finally out, but no longer a focus for Automattic

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

For so long, people wanted to get their hands on O2, the long promised successor to P2. Alas, O2 ran out of oxygen at Automattic, and is no longer a focus for the company. As noted by Sarah Gooding at…

Facebook has abandoned their official WordPress plugin

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

From Sarah Gooding on WP Tavern: The official Facebook plugin for WordPress launched in 2012 with the help of engineers from Automattic and currently lists 14 contributing authors. The plugin is active on more than 200,000 websites, but Facebook has…

Theme design for developers

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

Design

Yes! This is important. I get really worked up when I see basic concepts of design ignored by developers. I mean, I'm not a great designer by any means, but we can all learn a few things. Here are some…

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled "Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions", Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I'll call the "big theme" market. Envato theme authors…

BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress 1.9, "Sammy" was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.

Sarah Gooding joins Audrey to write for WP Tavern

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has written for WPMU for years. I was able to track her archive page back to October 2009. She announced this morning she's joined Audrey, Matt Mullenweg's research and investment arm, and is going to write about WordPress…

CodePen embeds for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

This looks awesome. Sarah Gooding featured this CodePen embed plugin for WordPress over on the WPMU blog. CodePen is a great tool that I've been wanting to use more. If you're not familiar, it's a project from Chris Coyier and…

Unsplash has released an official WordPress…

Sarah Gooding did a nice job…

JavaScript frameworks and bus factors

Speaking of survey results, the Editor…

Many of you have probably followed…

O2 is finally out, but no longer a focus for Automattic

Facebook has abandoned their official WordPress plugin

Theme design for developers

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications

Sarah Gooding joins Audrey to write for WP Tavern

CodePen embeds for WordPress

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