Last but not least, congratulations are in order for Yoast who recently became a WordPress VIP technical partner.
The age of Gutenberg
Brian Krogsgard
Gutenberg was the talk of town at WordCamp US, as you may expect. Most people have their own thoughts on the product itself, the necessity of its existence, the process in creating it, or a variety of other things. I…
A review of Bylines for multi-author and guest-author posts
Dan Knauss
WordPress News
There are a few use cases where WordPress's equation of users with authors can create a lot of problems. A common example is any site where multiple authors need to be credited for a single post. Usually, authors who actually…
Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn’s…
Brian Krogsgard
Dave Coustan at WordPress VIP discusses John Blackbourn's presentation at a recent London meetup: how Human Made moved one of the largest UK newspapers, the Sun, from a print-oriented CMS to WordPress and WordPress.com VIP. As you can imagine the undertaking was huge and…
New Year’s resolutions for WordPress developers
Jack Lenox
DevelopmentPlanet
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Jack Lenox. Jack is a developer at Automattic and hails from the United Kingdom. For just over a year now, I have been working on the WordPress.com VIP team at Automattic. I…
This is cool news: WordPress VIP…
Brian Krogsgard
This is cool news: WordPress VIP has announced that India’s rtCamp is the newest member of the WordPress.com VIP Featured Partner Program. (It's also worth noting there's been a good bit of shakeup to that program in the last year,…
HeroPress
Brian Krogsgard
HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety…
5 years into business, Pagely is growing faster than ever
Brian Krogsgard
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…
Two step authentication for WordPress.com, Jetpack, and WordPress mobile apps
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
A few months ago, I enabled two-factor authentication for WordPress.com. There are a number of reasons I did so. For one, at Range, we sometimes work on WordPress VIP projects, where two step authentication is recommended for about anything that…
WordPress and the Techmeme 100
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Matt Mullenweg did a little research study for himself, based on his own "guilty pleasure" for reading Techmeme. Techmeme's leaderboard, for those that aren't aware, is basically the benchmark all tech sites measure their influence by. Matt analyzed which of…
Create a WordPress VIP simulated dev environment, quickly
Brian Krogsgard
DevelopmentHosting
If you want to create a development environment to mimic the WordPress VIP hosting platform, the VIP team has you covered. VIP Quickstart is a new tool, available on Github, that helps you set up everything easily. According to the…
WP Engine rebrands and restructures
Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
Few brands in tech have skyrocketed in exposure like WP Engine in the past couple of years. WP Engine has experienced massive growth, and they are showing signs of acting very much like a grown up company. Rebranding WP Engine…
Faceted search for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
Matt Gibbs, the original creator of the popular Pods Framework, has launched his latest project: FacetWP. FacetWP is a commercial plugin to offer faceted search capability for WordPress. Faceted search, if you're unfamiliar, is an advanced search technique: A technique…
WordPress VIP Training Days
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
WordPress.com has introduced a new teaching service called VIP Training Days to offer workshops for superusers and developers. The classes are one day workshops and the first round is October 14th (superusers) for $600 and 15th (developers) for $850. The…
Design inspiration: WordPress VIP site redesigns
Brian Krogsgard
Design
It appears the WordPress VIP website has a new look and feel. I have to say, I greatly prefer it to the harsh black of the old design. This is one of my favorite blogs for seeing what the biggest…
Code Poet interview with Human Made cofounder Tom Willmot
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress News
This is a great interview with Tom Willmot, a cofounder of Human Made Limited. Human Made is a web shop and WordPress VIP partner out of the UK, and Tom and his brother Joe Hoyle started WP Remote and partnered…
