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WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard

Brian Krogsgard

August 12, 2015

WooCommerce 2.4 has been released, and its signature user-facing feature is a new onboarding wizard that makes new store creation a smoother, more intuitive process. The wizard makes common settings easier to configure, enables simpler Paypal setup, and uses geolocation…

Rogue shortcodes cause controversy for 4.2.3 security release

Brian Krogsgard

July 25, 2015

Security

The WordPress 4.2.3 security release looks like most security releases on the surface, but it has caused a good bit of controversy. The release includes a number of fixes, but one involving shortcodes is the focus of attention. Immediately after…

Ad networks’ grip on news outlets

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2015

Ben Thompson's latest post tackles how web pages -- especially web pages driven by advertising and ad networks -- are bloated. Ad networks have gained huge adoption amongst big news websites, which largely cannot manage to sell their own inventory,…

WordCamp US needs some attention, like ASAP

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

WordCamp US is supposed to happen this year after a seven year run as WordCamp San Francisco. But it is June and there is no host city. There is no organizer. There is no WordCamp. And it's supposed to be…

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Brian Krogsgard

June 1, 2015

BusinessHosting

WP Stagecoach is a tool that's been in development, alpha, and beta testing for around two years. It's a host agnostic tool that allows website owners to create staging sites and merge changes back to the live site. Morgan Kay announced…

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Security

Sucuri is seeking to build a full CloudFlare alternative, according to WP Tavern: “The fundamental difference is that it’s security first, performance second,” Perez said. “So yes, in the coming months you’ll see more as our solution blossoms into a…

Enterprise selling

Brian Krogsgard

May 22, 2015

Selling is an art. And we are all sales people (I wrote that in 2013 and stand by in now). This post on the Andreessen Horowitz blog talks about enterprise selling. This is my favorite block, though I gained value from…

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Brian Krogsgard

March 31, 2015

DesignDraft

StoryCorps.me enables anyone to create and share powerful stories. Just launched as an iOS and Android app, the website that provides the app infrastructure is built on WordPress, utilizing the WordPress REST API. Here's how StoryCorps.me came to be.

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

I want to take a moment to link up a few interviews you might be interested in this week. AMA with Tom McFarlin In the second WP Chat Ask Me Anything, Tom McFarlin takes the stage. Tom is a great…

BuddyPress 4.2, “Spumoni”, released

Brian Krogsgard

February 5, 2015

BuddyPress 2.2 has been released, with contributions from 45 different people. this looks like a great release for BuddyPress, with a member types component that seems particularly nice. From the post: Here’s our favorite changes 2.2 features, in no particular order.…

New journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).

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.

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…

WooCommerce 2.4 released with new onboarding wizard

Rogue shortcodes cause controversy for 4.2.3 security release

Ad networks’ grip on news outlets

WordCamp US needs some attention, like ASAP

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Sucuri want to compete with CloudFlare

Enterprise selling

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

How StoryCorps uses WordPress to enable storytelling everywhere

Interviews to read / listen to / watch this week

BuddyPress 4.2, “Spumoni”, released

New journalism

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

A new look and a new domain

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

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