Themes

The Gatsby WP Themes project has…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

The Gatsby WP Themes project has launched a marketplace that offers Gatsby themes designed to work with WordPress content. They are starting with two “artisanally crafted, expertly designed” themes and five different “starters” with promises of more on the way.…

Attention WordPress themers — there is…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Attention WordPress themers — there is a call for testing theme.json for Full Site Editing. 🧪 The theme.json file contains settings to enable or disable theme features and set default styles for a website and its blocks. It’s all done…

With the Full Site Editing project…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

With the Full Site Editing project well underway, Ben Dwyer says theme developers need to be thinking about what the future holds for them — and Universal Themes might need to be on that list: “We that know that the…

There’s a lot happening in WordPress…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

There’s a lot happening in WordPress Core, including some tweaks that won't make the headlines. For example, here's a real gem for people using WordPress Multisite: the addition of an indicator to make it clear "whether a theme is a…

A New Era for Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2021

BusinessPlanet

I have sold my share of Post Status to Cory Miller as I step aside to explore new opportunities running a product business outside of the WordPress space.

Built by WordPress — .com that is

David Bisset

January 8, 2021

BusinessDesign

Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

Joost de Valk has proposed a…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Joost de Valk has proposed a font enqueue API for WordPress core. 🔡 Explaining why we should implement .wp_enqueue_font, Joost writes: "Building this so that fonts are always loaded the same way allows us to continuously improve the way we…

iThemes has acquired Restrict Content Pro from Sandhills Development

Brian Krogsgard

September 1, 2020

BusinessDraft

In this exclusive interview, Pippin Williamson and Matt Danner discuss the acquisition of Restrict Content Pro by iThemes.

Ad Astra Per Aspera Last week,…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

Ad Astra Per Aspera Last week, the popular Astra theme was suspended from the theme directory for five weeks because it was "violating prohibitions on affiliate links.” Search Engine Journal talked to the theme review team and Brainstorm Force (the…

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review…

Dan Knauss

May 20, 2020

Blocks and Themes The Themes Review Team has been renamed the Themes Team. 📛 WordPress 5.5 will include checks for PHP and WordPress core version requirements in the theme installer. Users won't be able to install themes whose requirements aren't…

Two new and compelling reasons to sign your team up for Post Status

Cory Miller

February 18, 2020

Business

We’re giving you two new and compelling reasons to sign up your Team for a Club Membership at Post Status.

Video and podcast picks

Brian Krogsgard

February 15, 2020

Business

📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…

My mistakes with product-founder fit

Cory Miller

February 9, 2020

Business

I received Matt Medeiros' second email for Business 5000 this morning and the topic was Product-Founder Fit, and it inspired me. So thanks, Matt. He talks about "new ideas fever" that we all get. In my own fever, I've made…