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The Grid and artificial intelligence for website creation

Brian Krogsgard

July 14, 2015

The Grid is a hosted website creation tool that promotes its ability to build a website using AI, or artificial intelligence. The project has nearly 52,000 "founding members" that have pre-paid $96 for a year long subscription to the service.…

Port settings from the Settings API to the Customizer API

Brian Krogsgard

June 11, 2015

Chip Bennet has a tutorial on Make Themes that outlines how to port from theme settings pages using the Settings API and into the customizer. The Customizer API has the option to store settings in the options table, which the…

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Brian Krogsgard

June 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Mike Jolley has agreed to terms to sell WP Job Manager to Automattic. Mike is already joining Automattic after the WooThemes acquisition -- under his role as WooCommerce lead developer -- and the sale of WP Job Manager is in part due to Automattic's rules for employee side projects.

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2015

Business

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation.…

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

Brian Krogsgard

May 20, 2015

BusinessHosting

Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Sami Keijonen

May 7, 2015

DesignDevelopment

Accessibility is an important part of modern web development. It is our responsibility as creators of WordPress themes to make them accessible to all users, on any device. In this article, I'll offer some simple tips to create better, more accessible WordPress themes.

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Devin Price

April 22, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

All theme options must now be included in the Customizer for themes submitted to the WordPress theme repository. Custom theme options pages will not be allowed. The change will have implications for authors, reviewers, and users of WordPress themes.

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

April 20, 2015

PlanetSecurity

A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.

April Fools’ roundup

Brian Krogsgard

April 1, 2015

Today is April 1st. Trust nothing and nobody, including me. Yoast + Crowd Favorite are not really happening, but this one had pretty much no hint to the contrary. AutoMatton -- the WordPress.com auto-blogging tool. Pagely is partnering with U-Haul…

The most popular WordPress plugins

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

In a provocative article on WP Tavern titled "Envato Continues to Rake in the Cash from WordPress Themes Packaged as Complete Website Solutions", Sarah Gooding slams Envato for their role in what I'll call the "big theme" market. Envato theme authors…

Layers, by Obox, introduces a beautiful page building interface

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

DesignPlanet

Layers is the latest WordPress theme with page building as the core feature. Obox has made a heck of an effort to ship 1.0, and while I have some issues, I'm incredibly impressed with the overall user experience. I think Obox has created something that's worth checking out, though I think this market has plenty of maturing to do yet.

New journalism

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).

WooCommerce is going after photography

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

BusinessPlanet

WooThemes announced a new product today, aimed at selling photography with WooCommerce. This is a good first step, and I'm excited to see an eCommerce product target the photography super-niche. That said, there is a ton of room in this market, and WordPress isn't really solving photographers' problems yet.

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

Brian Krogsgard

January 21, 2015

BusinessDesign

Today marks two years since I launched Post Status. It's been an incredible two years. Today, I'm thrilled to announce that the Post Status Membership Club is open.

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

Brian Krogsgard

August 11, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the seventh “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. A whole bunch of good stuff to read from the last…

The Grid and artificial intelligence for website creation

Port settings from the Settings API to the Customizer API

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

How to create better, more accessible WordPress themes

Theme Review Team to require using the Customizer for all theme options

Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins

April Fools’ roundup

The most popular WordPress plugins

Envato’s role in the “big theme” market

Layers, by Obox, introduces a beautiful page building interface

New journalism

WooCommerce is going after photography

Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club

Week in review: theme shops, hub and spoke, you can’t afford me, and much more

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