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ReviewSignal’s annual WordPress hosting results takeaways

ByBrian Krogsgard

Kevin Ohashi does the best WordPress hosting technical analysis out there. He’s just come out with his 2016 benchmarks, which are the culmination of months of testing twenty six companies, across six price tiers, with five different methodologies. In addition to his main post, which then links out to various tier-based tests, he also has…

Code Poet interview about Post Status

ByBrian Krogsgard

Sorry for the shameless plug, but I thought I’d share my interview with Code Poet. I talked about my path into web development and WordPress, but also went into some depth about Post Status.

Ten bootstrapping tips from Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato

Ten bootstrapping tips from Collis Ta’eed, CEO of Envato

ByBrian Krogsgard

Collis Ta’eed recently did a Twitter “series”, if you will, highlighting ten bootstrapping tips of his to celebrate the seven year anniversary for Envato. They haven’t blogged the list anywhere that I can tell, and I don’t want it to get lost, so here are his tips: Pick a product that you can charge for….

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks,…

ByDan Knauss

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks, a long-time WordPress developer, shares his thoughts on how to stay relevant in a “quickly shifting WordPress landscape.” Ben says (1) avoid selling themes because it’s a “really hard business to get into, and the quick bucks that used to exist are long gone;” (2) learn JavaScript; and (3)…

Microcaching with Nginx

ByTravis Northcutt

Zach Brown has a nice post up on how to set up microcaching with Nginx combined with Batcache to handle big spikes of traffic (or just to maximize efficiency and enable running a site on low resources). Zach explains that while Batcache is a great solution and performs very well, it still requires loading PHP…

In defense of WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard

Mattias Geniar gives WordPress a pat on the back for how the project has handled recent security vulnerabilities. At PHP conferences, WordPress often serves as a punching bag. Nearly every talk that discusses code quality brings in WordPress and compares it to other frameworks. WordPress always ends up at the bottom. Yet here it is,…