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Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Brian Krogsgard

October 16, 2014

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…

Contribution as culture

Brian Krogsgard

October 1, 2014

BusinessHosting

This post spends a lot of time analyzing and referencing two other blog posts. Excuse me for that, but also be sure to read both, as they are relevant for this post and also interesting in their own right. Matt…

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…

The WordPress community summit is back

Brian Krogsgard

June 18, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

The WordPress community summit was an exciting event in 2012. For the first time ever, over one hundred core contributors, team leads, and community influencers were set to gather with the specific goal to "work together and discuss the vision…

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…

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

Brian Krogsgard

May 28, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

Fundify is a crowdfunding theme and plugin combination, that operates on top of Easy Digital Downloads. Created by Astoundify, the Fundify plugin is a free download on WordPress.org, and they monetized the product through a complimentary WordPress theme, sold on…

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

Travis Northcutt

May 21, 2014

WordPress News

The Theme Foundry today announced Make, a free theme that "takes the drag and drop page builder from Basis to the next level." The fact that Make is a free theme is notable, as most of The Theme Foundry's themes…

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Brian Krogsgard

April 23, 2014

BusinessWordPress News

There's a ton of discussion going on around the WordPress.org theme review incentive program right now. The incentive program was structured around a concept of rewarding reviewers for their work by allowing them to choose which themes get featured on the WordPress…

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

Brian Krogsgard

April 22, 2014

WordPress News

Automattic has released an interesting new tool, called Postbot. Postbot is a webapp, at Postbot.co, which allows WordPress.com authenticated users to upload photos in bulk and schedule them as posts. There is, of course, a fun little gif. Once I…

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Brian Krogsgard

April 16, 2014

Make WordPressWordPress News

WordPress 3.9, "Smith", has just been released. It is named after James Oscar "Jimmy" Smith. WordPress 3.9 is the hard result of hard work from 267 contributors. The WordPress 3.9 release was led by Andrew Nacin and Co-led by Mike…

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

Brian Krogsgard

April 10, 2014

SecurityWordPress News

A severe Jetpack vulnerability has been disclosed and patched in Jetpack. The bug allows attackers to publish posts, and has existed since 2012. The Jetpack blog post states the following: During an internal security audit, we found a bug that allows an…

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

Brian Krogsgard

April 9, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

Pippin Williamson and Andrew Munro have just launched Version 1.0 of AffiliateWP, an affiliate marketing plugin for WordPress with simplicity and ease of use in mind. Pippin is well known in the WordPress community for his work as a plugin…

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

Development

PhpStorm is a full-featured IDE that has somewhat of a cult following amongst the WordPress developers I follow. Made by JetBrains, it's notable for being lighter weight than most IDEs, web development specific (though not just PHP as the name…

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

Brian Krogsgard

March 20, 2014

BusinessDesign

AutoDesk is an enormous company. Publicly traded on the Nasdaq, they have a market cap just under $12 Billion. You may have heard of AutoCAD, the thirty year old drafting software that's an absolute titan in a broad range of…

Where to learn WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2014

WordPress News

I had the pleasure of being a guest on WPwatercooler today, where we talked about where to go to learn WordPress. I thought I'd share more in a post here. How I learned My perspective as a learner is centered…

WordPress.org now delivered over SSL

Brian Krogsgard

March 6, 2014

WordPress News

WordPress.org is now delivered over SSL. I saw an exchange between John Turner and Pippin Williamson that noted the change, visible as the default result in Google's search engine results. https://twitter.com/pippinsplugins/status/441594775997648896 If you visit WordPress.org over Http, it won't redirect…

Postmatic wants to revitalize your WordPress email, starting with comments

Contribution as culture

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

The WordPress community summit is back

WP eCommerce: What’s old is new again.

IgnitionDeck has acquired the Fundify Crowdfunding WordPress plugin and theme

Make and Make Plus, a drag and drop framework from The Theme Foundry

The power of WordPress.org on freemium products

Schedule photos in bulk with Postbot, but why stop there?

WordPress 3.9, “Smith”

Severe Jetpack vulnerability disclosed, some sites being updated automatically

AffiliateWP launches with aim to make affiliate marketing with WordPress easy

PhpStorm IDE gets official WordPress support in version 8

Creative Market acquired by AutoDesk

Where to learn WordPress development

WordPress.org now delivered over SSL

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