ByDan Knauss
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Terence Eden tells a story that shows how simple HTML can be quite effective. If you want to connect people to vital information even if the technology they’re using is terrible, less is definitely more. 🤔
Chris Coyier shares his thoughts on how to improve WordPress comments. Chris has WordPress sites with a cumulative total of a few hundred thousand (generally high quality) comments, so he speaks with some authority on this subject. Many of Chris’s suggestions are ones I like — HTML email formatting and some design love for the admin…
Corey Maass and Cory Miller go live to discuss the creation and launch of a WordPress product they have partnered to build. Crop.Express originated as a solution to a common problem Maass experienced. Miller loved the idea and wondered how to build this into a plugin to solve problems within the WordPress workflow. This is a candid conversation about the evolution of partnering to develop a WordPress product.
WordPress 4.6, “Pepper”, has been released with shiny plugin management, system fonts, link syntax checking, resource hints, and more. This release post includes a special episode of the podcast.
Successfully crowdfunding open source development is difficult, but not impossible. Here are some of the lessons I took away from my Kickstarter project, “A more RESTful WP-CLI.”
Google launched AMP in a pretty big way. The video steals a line from Donald Trump by saying, “We want to make the web great again. It’s really as simple as that.” It’s actually a nice video despite that line, and Automattic’s Paul Maiorana plays a starring role: https://youtu.be/WrpkFROqR0Q Much has been shared about what…
Jeff Waugh is a prominent advocate worldwide of the open source ecosystem. In his latest article, he talks about the continued evolution of WordPress in a “new era”, which is mostly stuff my audience should know about. But it’s good to see it from a relative outsider’s perspective. It won’t happen overnight, but WP-API will…
