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WordPress 4.3 kicking off

Brian Krogsgard

April 28, 2015

WordPress 4.3 lead Konstantin Obenland has created a kickoff post for the release to highlight some areas of focus. The first meeting for the release will be tomorrow, and the target release date is August 18th. There will be about two…

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2015

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, has been released. The release was lead by Drew Jaynes and includes contributions from 283 community members.

Inside Jetpack

Brian Krogsgard

April 13, 2015

Hosting

Sarah Gooding has an interesting long form piece that goes inside Jetpack's multiple team setup at Automattic, and how they think about development and the structure of the plugin. I found the bit about installs... odd. Automattic is aware of…

A tale of contributing to WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

April 2, 2015

Derek Herman, a longtime Envato employee and WordPress specialist, tells his tale of learning how to contribute to WordPress core. I like Derek's post because it's personal, and not just technical; and he gives advice for how and where to…

We must be our own beta audience

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

With 5,000+ installs, according to WordPress.org, the Beta Testing plugin needs more adoption. Ryan Boren tells us why: Every day, your site will auto update to the latest nightly build. We committed long ago to ensuring that trunk is continuously dogfoodable…

Mesh, by Automattic, promises “effortless photo galleries”

Brian Krogsgard

March 30, 2015

I stumbled upon a new app by Automattic today. Mesh, it appears, is another project in the works by the "Skunkworks" labs team at Automattic. The app promises "effortless photo galleries" and "lets you share stories from your phone to…

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

Brian Krogsgard

March 13, 2015

BusinessDraft

This interview is with Jonathan Williamson, co-founder of CGCookie. He’s going to talk to us about running a real world membership website on WordPress. Jonathan is Pippin Williamson's twin brother, and he has years of experience running membership websites. There is much that we can learn from him.

WordPress 4.2 Beta 1 is available for testing

Brian Krogsgard

March 12, 2015

Drew Jaynes announced the release of WordPress 4.2 Beta 1. In the post, he highlights Press This, Theme switching in the customizer, shiny (plugin) updates, and emoji support as the primary user facing features. There are some big developer focused…

A case for the front-end editor

Brian Krogsgard

March 3, 2015

Hosting

On WP Shout, Fred Meyer makes an impassioned case for the front-end editor, and why he believes it deserves a renewed effort as a WordPress feature plugin and eventual WordPress core inclusion. It's a really thoughtful post, and at well…

The problem of link rot and data loss

Brian Krogsgard

February 24, 2015

Planet

Link rot is a serious issue on the web, as many links of the past are going away. We lose that data for good if we don't back it up somewhere. It may seem insignificant now, but we simply don't know what is being published today that we'll wish we'd kept in the future. But we can solve this issue.

A/B test suspicion

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2015

What an A/B test doesn’t show, though, is how much a customer hates you for it. …it misses the human element. I could not agree more. A/B testing is awesome, but consider the humans.

Press This and Customizer Theme Switcher slated for WordPress 4.2 merge

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

During the weekly core dev chat, held on #core of chat.wordpress.org, two feature as plugins candidates were up for merge consideration: Press This and the Customizer Theme Switcher. Both candidates were given conditional approval, meaning they are now preparing patches…

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.

Your website is not allowed to be fast

Brian Krogsgard

September 10, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

There could quite realistically be a day that your blog or website is not allowed to be fast. Not because you didn't do proper performance testing and optimization, but because a corporatocracy won't allow it. And your website is small potatoes…

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

July 13, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the third “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. It's been a busy week, and there's a lot to share,…

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 7, 2014

HostingPlanet

Welcome to the second "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. WP Sessions VIP My friend Brian Richards is going full-force…

WordPress 4.3 kicking off

WordPress 4.2, “Powell”, released

Inside Jetpack

A tale of contributing to WordPress core

We must be our own beta audience

Mesh, by Automattic, promises “effortless photo galleries”

Running a successful membership site in real life, with Jonathan Williamson

WordPress 4.2 Beta 1 is available for testing

A case for the front-end editor

The problem of link rot and data loss

A/B test suspicion

Press This and Customizer Theme Switcher slated for WordPress 4.2 merge

The WordPress REST API

Your website is not allowed to be fast

Week in review: Beta 1, WooThemes is seeing double, and much more

Week in review: VIP learning, Javascript pervasiveness, and changing lives with WordPress

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