WP Tavern

Licensing matters

Brian Krogsgard

January 28, 2015

There's a popular WordPress vulnerability scanner called WPScan. To validate its popularity: it has over 1,800 commits, 750 stars, and 165 forks on Github. The scanner is used by a lot of security folks, as well as other service and…

HeroPress

Brian Krogsgard

January 27, 2015

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…

The future of Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

September 17, 2014

DesignPost Status Team Blog

I'm tired. Really, really tired. I've been tired for weeks. Those of you who follow this blog closely know that it's been slow around here. I've only published ten blog posts since the beginning of August. For me, that's three…

Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 21, 2014

PlanetSecurity

Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on…

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

Brian Krogsgard

June 29, 2014

The Week in ReviewWordPress News

I thought it'd be fun to try something new here. As you've probably noticed, I've been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I'll dive more into that later. I'll…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

Brian Krogsgard

May 8, 2014

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…

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…

BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications

Brian Krogsgard

December 17, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress 1.9, "Sammy" was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.

WordPress websites and businesses acquisitions

Brian Krogsgard

October 23, 2013

Business

Oli Dale has done a pretty thorough roundup of the history of WordPress websites and businesses that have been purchased. I'm a little disappointed that so many people do not reveal the price of their transactions. I know there is…

Creating a JSON REST API for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

September 13, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding talked with Ryan McCue on WP Tavern about his Google Summer of Code project to build a JSON REST API for WordPress. This is a great project, and Ryan is the perfect person to lead it, in my…

Sarah Gooding joins Audrey to write for WP Tavern

Brian Krogsgard

September 3, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has written for WPMU for years. I was able to track her archive page back to October 2009. She announced this morning she's joined Audrey, Matt Mullenweg's research and investment arm, and is going to write about WordPress…

Flagged by Google in style(.css)

Brian Krogsgard

August 20, 2013

SecurityWordPress News

My apologies for the headline. I couldn't resist. Yesterday, Jeff at WP Tavern covered yet another new A/B testing service. With dreadful timing, the site was also flagged by Google as malware for some users. As a commenter points out…

WP Engine acquires WP Daily archives, launches Torque

Brian Krogsgard

July 27, 2013

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WP Engine has been working on Torque for a number of months. Their tagline for it, as it turns out, is "The WordPress News Core." Beyond that, they don't particularly say on the site how they plan to frame the…

Page.ly launches PRESSCDN, a host-independent WordPress CDN

Brian Krogsgard

July 12, 2013

WordPress News

Page.ly has launched a new product they are branding as a "WordPress CDN" service named PRESSCDN™ (not sure why the emphasis on the trademark), specifically for "those that love WordPress." The service has it's own website as well, and starts…