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Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

Brian Krogsgard

September 11, 2015

This week on the Draft podcast, Joe and Brian discuss justification for attending WordPress events, WordPress comments, and WordPress PHP version support, PHP7, and HHVM.

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.

The third step for shared terms: elimination

Brian Krogsgard

June 9, 2015

You may even call it... termination. Okay, I'm sorry. This is from Boone Gorges: Work on the taxonomy roadmap, started in earnest during the 4.1 dev cycle, continues to chug along for WordPress 4.3. We’ve been focusing on the elimination…

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.

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%.

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.

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…

A developer’s guide to contributing to WordPress core

Brian Krogsgard

March 19, 2015

Ian Jones has written an incredibly comprehensive guide to contributing to WordPress core on the Delicious Brains blog. They've really been doubling down on good dev-centric content lately, which I love to see. The post includes a focus on an…

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2015

PlanetWordPress News

Twitter has finally announced an official WordPress plugin. It's pretty thorough, and on a quick test run, works as advertised. Here's a rundown of some of the features and background.

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).

Get your favorite Trac ticket some attention

Brian Krogsgard

February 2, 2015

For WordPress 4.2, Scott Taylor has published a blog post so that folks can submit Trac tickets they believe deserve special attention this release. There are already a few dozen tickets on the thread, but at a minimum this is…

WordPress 4.2: what you need to know going into the development phase

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

WordPress 4.2 kicked off last week with the announcement of Drew Jaynes as release lead. Drew works at 10up, and is a prolific Docs committer for WordPress. The tentative project schedule for 4.2 is up and some key dates are as…

Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

Brian Krogsgard

January 17, 2015

DesignMake WordPress

Distraction-Free Writing in WordPress changed in 4.1. It's now an extension of the regular post editor, and it's had some critics and resistance (like all new WordPress features). I took some of the complaints to see if they could be integrated into the DFW editor to make the feature better.

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

Brian Krogsgard

January 8, 2015

BusinessPlanet

Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They've learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2014

BusinessDesign

Two themes were released in the last few days by a couple of theme shops I hugely respect: Bailey by The Theme Foundry (above) and Designer by Array (below). Both themes are for portfolio websites, and both themes use a…

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2014

BusinessDraft

WP eCommerce is one of the oldest WordPress plugins you'll find. That it's an eCommerce plugin -- built on WordPress, well before such a thing seemed sensible -- is even more of a testament to just how impressive this plugin…

Justifying conferences, improving WordPress comments, and WordPress’s PHP version support — Draft podcast

WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released

The third step for shared terms: elimination

Automattic to acquire WP Job Manager from Mike Jolley

Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce

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

A tale of contributing to WordPress core

A developer’s guide to contributing to WordPress core

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

New journalism

Get your favorite Trac ticket some attention

WordPress 4.2: what you need to know going into the development phase

Ideas for small improvements to the new Distraction-Free Writing

Yoast Google Analytics plugin introduces stats dashboards, with lessons learned along the way

WordPress.com and Jetpack should lead the way toward standardizing custom post types

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

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