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Features as plugins hit core for 4.4

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2015

The WordPress 4.4 train is rolling and rolling fast still. oEmbed, Responsive Images, and the REST API infrastructure have all been committed to core. The links for the merge tickets are as follows: oEmbed, #32522 Responsive Images, #33641 REST API…

Review Signal has released the performance…

Brian Krogsgard

September 23, 2015

Review Signal has released the performance benchmark tool they use for testing hosts. It's a great way to measure your own setup.

Send to Apple News from your WordPress site

Brian Krogsgard

September 18, 2015

WordPress VIP announced the launch of Apple News for WordPress today. The plugin was developed by VIP partner Alley Interactive, and released for VIP and for WordPress.org websites using the free plugin. It's on Github as well. This is awesome.…

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2015

Hosting

WordPress will support PHP7 officially immediately upon its planned November release, says PHP7 testing extraordinaire Aaron Jorbin. As Aaron notes, PHP7 has significant speed improvements on past versions, and it will be great to be able to use it right…

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

WordPress 4.3, "Billie", has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.

WordPress hosting performance benchmarks, 2015

Brian Krogsgard

July 29, 2015

Hosting

Kevin Ohashi has this year's WordPress hosting performance benchmarks review up on Review Signal, and it's another great analysis. He reviewed 19 hosts and for some of them testing multiple configurations. He covers the biggest players and some I had…

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…

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API released

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2015

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API has been released on WordPress.org as a whole new plugin. The decision to do this was so that backward compatibility could be maintained on version 1 on a permanent basis. So if you…

WordPress 4.3 Beta and some fun features

Brian Krogsgard

July 6, 2015

WordPress 4.3 is chugging along toward it's slated August release. Beta 1 was released on July 2nd. The release includes a number of big new features, and a couple of smaller features I personally am excited about. The release post…

Google Analyticator sold to SumoMe, the team behind AppSumo

Brian Krogsgard

June 15, 2015

Business

Troy Dean -- of WP Elevation and Video User Manuals -- was until recently also the maintainer of Google Analyticator, the WordPress analytics plugin with 400,000+ active installations. Troy sold Google Analyticator to Noah Kagan and SumoMe. SumoMe is directly related…

Cowboy coding as a service

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2015

WP IDE is a service to take "WordPress development to the cloud." It's a bit facetious of me to call it cowboy coding as a service, but it's what it reminds me of. It's made by a guy named Wesley…

How we deploy WordPress themes

Brian Krogsgard

June 5, 2015

Brady Vercher shares on the Cedaro blog how their team deploys WordPress themes. While researching potential solutions, I had a few goals and loose requirements in mind: During development, we should be able to deploy a theme to a testing…

The Menu Customizer has been proposed for core and opinions abound

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2015

The customizer really is quite polarizing in the WordPress world. People often either love it or hate it. We're definitely getting some more of it each release. Nick Halsey has submitted a proposal to put WordPress menus into the customizer (here's…

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…

Updates to the theme review and directory debate

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Matt Mullenweg dropped in on the conversation surrounding the theme review debate last night, and dropped hammer. To try and summarize, he basically opened the door for all sorts of potential changes for both the theme review process and the…

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

Brian Krogsgard

May 6, 2015

BusinessHosting

OptinMonster has changed the very core of their product today, and it is now a standalone SaaS (software as a service) product, versus a plugin that runs on users' servers.

Features as plugins hit core for 4.4

Review Signal has released the performance…

Send to Apple News from your WordPress site

WordPress to support PHP7 immediately upon release

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

WordPress hosting performance benchmarks, 2015

Rogue shortcodes cause controversy for 4.2.3 security release

Version 2 of the WordPress REST API released

WordPress 4.3 Beta and some fun features

Google Analyticator sold to SumoMe, the team behind AppSumo

Cowboy coding as a service

How we deploy WordPress themes

The Menu Customizer has been proposed for core and opinions abound

WP Stagecoach launches with host agnostic staging site tool

Updates to the theme review and directory debate

OptinMonster goes SaaS in effort to cater for more hosting environments and non-WordPress platforms

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