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GigaOm, an early and prominent WordPress site, shuts down

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

It's a sad day when a seemingly successful niche news operation shuts down. GigaOm stopped operations last night, due to an inability to pay their creditors. GigaOm was started by Om Malik and Om went full time on the project…

WordPress security whitepaper

Brian Krogsgard

March 5, 2015

Security

The WordPress.org website now includes a WordPress security whitepaper, donated by WordPress.com VIP. It's sparse in its current form, but it's a great start. Why does this matter? Well, a whitepaper from the official project is a great tool for…

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.

Cedaro

Brian Krogsgard

February 19, 2015

Design

Keep an eye on Cedaro, the general purpose "playground" by the folks of Blazer Six. I discovered Cedaro last week using magic tricks, and asked Brady Vercher about the project. We enjoy the technical aspects of design and development, so…

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.

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

Brian Krogsgard

February 10, 2015

Matt Mullenweg talked to Tim Ferriss on Tim's podcast for over two hours. It's got a lot of good information, and I listened to it all for you. Why should you care? Well, Tim Ferriss is a WordPress advocate, member…

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).

It looks like WordPress.com has completed the move to HTTPS only

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2015

WordPress.com announced in June of last year that they were going to move all WordPress.com subdomains to be HTTPS only. Be the change you want to see in the world — that’s why we’re joining the many other companies who…

A small Medium experiment

Brian Krogsgard

January 16, 2015

DesignPlanet

I wrote my first post on Medium today. I wanted to see what the hype is about (late to the party, I know), and compare it to what I know and love about publishing with WordPress.

How to find WordPress.com third party themes, now that they don’t blog them

Brian Krogsgard

January 15, 2015

Did you know that WordPress.com doesn't blog about third party themes any more? It's been that way for a few months now. I started following a new Twitter account called @wpcomthemes so that I can keep up with new releases. The…

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.

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

Brian Krogsgard

October 26, 2014

PlanetWordPress News

"Oh, my name is Matt Mullenweg by the way. Nice to meet you." After the WordPress co-founder welcomed the largest WordCamp San Francisco audience ever, he introduced himself and began this year's State of the Word -- the annual talk where…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

BusinessPlanet

Postmatic is a new WordPress plugin that I think is quite promising. It's aim is to eventually change the way you utilize WordPress email in many ways, but its comment functionality is what intrigued me immediately. Postmatic currently allows users…

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Brian Krogsgard

October 8, 2014

BusinessDesign

Pagely is celebrating their fifth year of business right now. They have just launched their newly designed website (note to early readers: it's in process of launching at this moment, so some links may not work until later today) to…

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

Beka Rice

October 6, 2014

HostingPlanet

I'm going to take a leaf out of Chris Lema's book right now to answer whether WordPress should be used for eCommerce: It depends. There are camps of thought that think WordPress isn't right for eCommerce, and there are people…

GigaOm, an early and prominent WordPress site, shuts down

WordPress security whitepaper

Twitter introduces an official plugin for WordPress

Cedaro

The WordPress REST API

Matt Mullenweg talks to Tim Ferriss

New journalism

It looks like WordPress.com has completed the move to HTTPS only

A small Medium experiment

How to find WordPress.com third party themes, now that they don’t blog them

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

Matt Mullenweg’s 2014 State of the Word

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever

Is WordPress right for eCommerce?

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