WordPress News

The importance of business talks over WordCamps

Mario Peshev

June 12, 2013

WordPress is the perfect product for business. It is a great framework for both small and large websites, and thousands of experts are doing full-time WordPress work whether it's in development, design, SEO, marketing -anything related to the ecosystem. That's…

DevPress aims to create a new hosted website platform

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2013

WordPress News

Tung Do, the owner of DevPress, has written a post that he knows may be more ambitious than he can handle. He notes a longstanding desire to "revolutionize the WordPress-experience" and he wants to do so by transforming DevPress into…

Styling comments based on custom user role

Curtis McHale

June 12, 2013

Development

WordPress provides classes for stock roles on comments, this tutorial shows you how to add them for custom roles and how to style the comments.

WPSessions: Learn from experts

Brian Krogsgard

June 12, 2013

WordPress News

Brian Richards has launched a new project called WPSessions. WPSessions is a series of monthly presentations from some of the foremost experts in the community. The first Session will be Saturday, June 22nd on Building WordPress Plugins. Brian says that…

Reality66 (behind Cart66 and Mijireh) launches Cart66 Cloud

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Wow. I wonder if this may be what was going to be WP Stores? I wrote about Cart66 at WPCandy over two years ago, that caught a bunch of attention / upset customers. Their owner was really nice and I…

You probably don’t need do_shortcode()

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

Development

Konstantin Kovshenin brought up a good point on his blog, that we should be avoiding do_shortcode() if we can easily use the callback directly. Using the callback function directly prevents WordPress from invoking the shortcode regex that parses shortcode strings.…

How NASA is promoting open source technology

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Sarah Gooding has a nice post on WPMU describing how NASA is promoting open source, and WordPress specifically. It's great to see huge organizations like this realize the power of open source development.

WooThemes integrates with Creative Market

Brian Krogsgard

June 10, 2013

WordPress News

Creative Market hit the scene pretty quickly earlier this year as a 100% GPL theme marketplace. Now, WooCommerce has announced that they have made some of their themes available on Creative Market.

Core caching concepts in WordPress

Curtis McHale

June 10, 2013

Development

Another great post from Zack Tollman about caching and WordPress.

Sub Posts helps you link WordPress posts to one another

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

WordPress News

Linking posts to each other is quite a hassle in WordPress, especially if they are of different post types. Sub Posts enables you to setup these links, link the posts and display them on your website in minutes.

Automated WordPress development

Brian Krogsgard

June 8, 2013

Development

Want to stop wasting time manually linting, concatenation, and minifying style and script files in your WordPress theme or plugin? Then you should start using Grunt - a cool tool that does it all for you. 10up has even released…

Please do not use curly brackets {} in template files

Pippin Williamson

June 8, 2013

WordPress News

My thoughts on why you should NOT use curly brackets in theme and plugin template files.

Bundling plugins into themes is really dumb

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Coen Jacobs posted about a couple of examples where theme authors were bundling commercial plugins into their commercial themes. This is incredibly dumb, which Coen gives good reasons as to why. The comments are also worth reading. And for an…

Mike Jolley releases beta of a new job manager plugin

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Mike Jolley, the lead developer and original creator of WooCommerce, has released a beta version of a new plugin called WP Job Manager. It's free and available on Github. Knowing how WooCommerce works, I'm really excited to try this out.…

How to adopt a WordPress plugin, or to put it up for adoption

Brian Krogsgard

June 7, 2013

WordPress News

Jeff Chandler has put together a good post on how to adopt abandoned WordPress plugins, or to put your own plugin up for adoption. One of the toughest things about using other people's plugins is that it's hard to know…