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You forgot about user experience

Brian Krogsgard

June 27, 2014

Web professionals talk a lot about the importance of writing great code. We should talk even more about providing great user experiences for websites and products we build. Code quality is really important. We should have standards, and utilize them…

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Brian Krogsgard

June 19, 2014

BusinessDraft

Finally, finally someone has done it. They've combined the power of self-hosted WordPress with the ease of hosted WordPress.com. Evermore is WordPress for everyone. It comes with "the most important functionality built in." There aren't loads of tiny upsells like…

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 4, 2014

HostingWordPress News

Josh Koenig is a co-founder of Pantheon, the Drupal hosting platform turned Drupal and WordPress hosting platform. I interviewed Josh when they launched their WordPress product in March, and also wrote about their Series B financing round of $21.5 million. In…

Ninja Demo, formerly Demo WP Pro, is now live

Brian Krogsgard

May 14, 2014

WordPress News

A few weeks ago I covered Demo WP Pro, a service by the folks behind Ninja Forms to help WordPress product creators create demo sites for their users. Since then, they've launched and rebranded to Ninja Demo. The rebranding was…

The cost of running a WordPress website

Brian Krogsgard

May 3, 2014

HostingSecurity

A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here's the list…

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

Travis Northcutt

April 14, 2014

Development

Matt Cromwell compares a few different image optimization methods for WordPress sites, including EWWW Image Optimizer, manual optimization, and WPInject. Matt also mentions the WP Smush.it plugin, but interestingly, implies that it produces results similar to EWWW, only less effective. I…

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Brian Krogsgard

April 8, 2014

Make WordPressSecurity

All of your websites are ready for updates. There is a security and maintenance release ready for WordPress 3.8.2 and WordPress 3.7.2. It's being released for both 3.7 and 3.8 due to the auto-updating feature released in WordPress 3.7. One…

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2014

BusinessDraft

Pantheon is a website development, deployment, and hosting platform. But they aren't just any host. They like to think of their product as a hosting killer, because in their mind, they do much more than just hosting. I heard about…

PushUp offers push notification integration for WordPress and Mac OS X

Brian Krogsgard

March 7, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

PushUp is a new product from 10up that offers push notification integration between WordPress and Mac OS X Mavericks. Currently, only Safari is supported and users must opt-in by viewing a website in Safari, where they are greeted by a…

The rise of WordPress maintenance services

Brian Krogsgard

February 11, 2014

Business

WordPress maintenance services seem to be all the rage. As people are using WordPress to do more, more maintenance is sometimes required. Also, having a seasoned development team on hand for when things go wrong can be quite valuable. There…

Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL

Travis Northcutt

February 5, 2014

DevelopmentSecurity

A great post from Zack Tollman at The Theme Foundry on why defaulting to what most consider best practices can sometimes be detrimental to performance. Using a CDN (content delivery network) for the new site was a forgone conclusion, as…

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

Brian Krogsgard

December 4, 2013

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.8 Release Candidate 1 is out. This means that the next major version of WordPress is getting close. I was pretty entertained by Matt Mullenweg's slug of "3-8-almost" in the announcement post. As he notes, it's definitely time to…

Lessons learned trying to convert customers and monetize

Brian Krogsgard

October 17, 2013

Business

Groove is a support software that markets itself for SaaS and eCommerce services. It looks pretty nice, kind of like a Help Scout Plus, maybe. I read a post on their blog about 7 lessons they learned to reach $30,000…

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2013

DesignWordPress News

WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I've hated every instance I've ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin…

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

AB Press Optimizer wants to be your WordPress A / B testing solution

Brian Krogsgard

August 15, 2013

WordPress News

Ivan Lopez has released a new commercial WordPress plugin called AB Press Optimizer that's aiming to be the de facto WordPress A/B testing solution. If you've never experimented with A/B testing, you're missing out. I've seen results from theme and…

You forgot about user experience

Evermore, hosted WordPress with power and ease of use

Impressions from a Drupal professional new to WordPress

Ninja Demo, formerly Demo WP Pro, is now live

The cost of running a WordPress website

Image optimization and automation in WordPress

WordPress 3.8.2, 3.7.2, and 3.9 Release Candidate 1 have been released

Pantheon for WordPress: a website hosting and management platform

PushUp offers push notification integration for WordPress and Mac OS X

The rise of WordPress maintenance services

Why we don’t use a CDN: A story about SPDY and SSL

WordPress 3.8, “almost”

Lessons learned trying to convert customers and monetize

OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

AB Press Optimizer wants to be your WordPress A / B testing solution

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