New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers
It’s a new year, and a great time to set some New Year’s resolutions as a WordPress developer. Here are some practical tips to up your game working with the WordPress code base.
WordPress.com VIP is close to launching VIP Go — their next generation of hosting
WordPress.com VIP is working hard on launching new infrastructure that allows for a more traditional WordPress setup for VIP clients, and makes a variety of improvements that their service partners will enjoy. Called VIP Go, it’s basically a VIP 2.0. Many parts of VIP will stay the same: every commit will be code reviewed by…
Enterprise hosting options
Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks’ go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and services, and compelling new WordPress products that they are using themselves and I’ve heard some…
WordPress to be bundled in Jetpack with mission to power 50% of the web
WordPress co-founder and Jetpack enthusiast Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress is to be bundled in future versions of Jetpack as a module, to fulfill Matt’s mission to power 50% of the web.
Pagely has new plans, a new dashboard, and a new Amazon Web Services infrastructure
Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They’ve moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by pageviews is a popular method for WordPress hosting companies, but Pagely doesn’t do that. They…
Security updates for 3.5 and 3.6
The good folks over at interconnect/it have backported the recent security updates for WordPress to the 3.5 and 3.6 branches, due to having some clients running older versions that, for whatever reason, aren’t able to upgrade at this time. They’ve included both SVN patch files and a full zip of changed files for sites not…
Seriously awesome tutorial on Git branching
It’s a given that you need to know SVN to work with WordPress, but more and more developers are starting to use Git. If you’re just starting out then here is an awesome interactive tutorial on Git branching.
Automate Git to SVN with Scatter
Evan Solomon has completely rewritten a command line automation tool for deploying to SVN with Git. It’s called Scatter, and it looks pretty awesome. He’s also got usage examples and a fully updated readme. This looks like a nice way to interact with WordPress and its SVN workflow if you’re more familiar with Git.
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