WordPress admin styles checklist

ByBrian Krogsgard Posted onFebruary 20, 2013January 31, 2015 Updated onJanuary 31, 2015

Tung Do, owner of DevPress, shared a checklist of things to pay attention to when creating an admin theme, as he did. It looks… intimidating.

The cost of running a WordPress website

ByBrian Krogsgard May 3, 2014August 11, 2022

A WordPress website is very affordable to get up and running. You can do it for free, plus the cost of your average shared hosting account. However, running a more serious site can get considerably more expensive. Here’s the list of stuff that I use here on Post Status, along with associated costs. I’m also…

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127 Full Site Editing Block Themes

ByDan Knauss September 5, 2022September 5, 2022

It’s not meteoric growth by any means, but it’s good to see over 127 block themes listed in the WordPress.org theme directory. Highlighting block themes in the navigation was a good idea and an odd one to oppose, but I guess change is always hard. Even the most popular themes and builders like GeneratePress are…

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Who is Post Status?

ByDan Knauss January 28, 2022January 31, 2022

Here’s what we’ve learned about Post Status members and our broader audience.

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WP Engine and Pagely taking different routes but both are growing

ByBrian Krogsgard March 25, 2015

WP Engine and Pagely both had announcements on growth today. WP Engine announced that they raised $23 million dollars to enable them to hire faster and expand their product base. When I covered them as in late 2013, they were 80 employees. Today, they are 250 on a beeline to 300. They cite on their…

Development

Software development tips you probably still need to learn

ByBrian Krogsgard June 6, 2014January 14, 2015

New Relic has some advice for programming concepts to learn for newly graduated software engineers. While they target degreed engineers, I think these topics are quite practical for anyone that considers themselves a programmer or developer. Some of my favorites: How to write (More than just code!) Regex (The justification here was fantastic, and has…