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WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on…

March 31, 2016

WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on communication, especially when it comes to developers informing their users about the status of their projects. Developers give little thought to how they would handle emergencies -- such a security breach -- until it…

WPTavern highlights the new Customize Snapshots plugin…

March 26, 2016

WPTavern highlights the new Customize Snapshots plugin that lets you draft and preview customizer states and then be able to share those states via a private URL. I like the concept of making customizer customizations more collaborative and can't wait to…

The responsibility of a plugin provider

Brian Krogsgard

March 26, 2016

The economics of WordPress are tricky. There have been many free plugins that have gained popularity, with demanding users requesting free support, and the plugin author eventually just lets it all go. It's completely understandable. We shouldn't expect something for…

If you’re interested in connecting your…

March 21, 2016

If you're interested in connecting your WordPress site to Apple News Publisher, WPTavern has a good overview of how to do this with the Publish To Apple News plugin.

Also coming in 4.5, the new…

Brian Krogsgard

March 11, 2016

Also coming in 4.5, the new link modal is great. WP Tavern has the best showcase of this with a gif demo. It's going to be nice to have auto-complete more inline.

Welcome back from maternity leave to…

November 30, 2015

Welcome back from maternity leave to my WP Tavern frenemy, Sarah Gooding.

I keep forgetting to include this…

November 30, 2015

I keep forgetting to include this in the newsletter, but as WP Tavern reported a couple of weeks ago, Nick Haskins did end up selling Aesop Story Engine and related properties, to a buyer named Hyun Supul. Nick says he…

Thesis, Automattic, and WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

July 23, 2015

BusinessDesign

Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.

New Security Czar for WordPress.org

Japh Thomson

June 27, 2015

Matt Mullenweg also announced that the Nikolay Bachiyski will be the new Security Czar for WordPress.org. If you don't know him, Nikolay is a contributor to WordPress core, an Automattician, contributor to GlotPress, and generally a hugely talented individual. WP…

Maker of Antispam Bee to move on from WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

June 1, 2015

From WP Tavern, [Sergej] Müller is discontinuing his WordPress contributions due to health reasons, but he plans to find a suitable successor who will be able to deliver the level of quality and support that his users have come to…

Updates to the theme review and directory debate

Brian Krogsgard

May 29, 2015

Matt Mullenweg dropped in on the conversation surrounding the theme review debate last night, and dropped hammer. To try and summarize, he basically opened the door for all sorts of potential changes for both the theme review process and the…

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.…

Happy 12th birthday, WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

May 27, 2015

WordPress turned 12 today. Version 0.7 of WordPress was released May 27th, 2003, after Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked the stagnated b2. Matt Mullenweg had cake: He also talked to Jeff Chandler on WP Tavern to mark the occasion.…

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

Brian Krogsgard

March 10, 2015

Design

The new WordPress.org commercial theme page -- which was launched just a couple of weeks ago -- seems to have greatly reduced the number of referrals to commercial theme shops. Many commercial theme providers featured on WordPress.org are noting 80%+…

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…

Putting commercial plugin code on Github is not a change in “business model”

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2015

There has been a lot of talk lately around putting commercial plugin code on public Github repos. #thankspippin. Seriously, thanks. This is a good conversation to have. GravityView is the latest plugin to make this change. I'm pleased to see…