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Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

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…

Why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environement

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

Brad Touesnard shares why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environment. He gives three reason, but the one I never would've thought of is regarding plugin load order and how that could allow tools like Query Monitor to miss…

The WordPress REST API

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2015

DevelopmentMake WordPress

The WordPress REST API is a huge initiative and feature plugin being developed for the core WordPress project. But it can be a bit confusing if you don't know much about it yet. Let's discuss what this project is, why it's important, and how to get involved.

What’s your WordPress wishlist?

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2015

The good fellas over at WP Shout are doing a survey: they want to know what's on your WordPress wishlist. You can describe three features you'd like to see in WordPress. I did this last night, and I'm always moody…

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

Brian Krogsgard

July 28, 2014

The Week in Review

Welcome to the fifth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Sass is coming to Underscores A long-awaited feature, the first pass…

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

Brian Krogsgard

March 4, 2014

WordPress News

ManageWP announced some big updates to their site management services this morning. The highlights are as follows: A much faster base plugin that uses over 80% less memory than before Increased speeds and codebase for both backups and site cloning…

Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

Brian Krogsgard

November 22, 2013

WordPress News

Jeffrey Zeldman announced in a tweet this morning that he's joining Automattic's board of advisors. Zeldman is the king of web standards and has been a huge presence in the web community for over 15 years. He's the founder of…

Polish your code

Brian Krogsgard

October 2, 2013

Development

If we can polish a

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

Our code in WordPress plugins and themes should follow some basic standards. Here are a few simple tips to make your code more aligned with the standards of the core project. Prefix everything Nacin said it best. Prefix everything. Prefix…

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

Robert Neu

August 2, 2013

Business

I didn’t get into SEO because I thought it was a way to get rich. In fact, I sort of learned about it against my will, but I stuck with it because I enjoy helping people. Let me give you…

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

Brian Krogsgard

June 6, 2013

Development

Tom McFarlin has written another useful post on the wpTuts+ blog. He reminds us to stick to the WordPress coding standards for our naming conventions and function arguments. As you start working with other developers on projects, or see your…

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

Brian Krogsgard

January 31, 2013

WordPress News

It was brought up recently that a couple of theme shops were selling commercial themes on both Theme Forest and WordPress.com. In light of recent GPL Drama, that caused some confusion about licensing allowances. StudioPress almost immediately took their themes…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Why you should use WP_DEBUG_LOG in your development environement

The WordPress REST API

What’s your WordPress wishlist?

Week in review: Sass in _s, CPT standards, MailPoet vs Sucuri, and meet me in New York

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

ManageWP undergoes overhaul to improve multiple services

Jeffrey Zeldman is joining Automattic’s advisory board

Polish your code

WordPress code conventions for easy wins

How to avoid getting scammed by an SEO

WordPress coding standards: you’ll thank yourself later

Obox temporarily removed from WordPress.com marketplace due to Theme Forest conflict

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