WordPress

2014

• Community and Micro-celebrity

  Nov 6

  Celebrity is a great thing because it gives us a target to reach for or drive towards. It can also be a paralyzing force when that target becomes unreachable due to the nature of its celebrity.

  5 min · social media · WordPress

• The Future of WordPress and Mobile

  Nov 3

  There are two growing trends with WordPress: An emphasis on mobile use, and the assumption that users are always connected. I think both are dangerous.

  3 min · APIs · WordPress

• Behind the Scenes: Modular Code

  Oct 30

  We no longer have to worry about name collisions between differing versions of the same utility library within WordPress.

  4 min · code quality · software design

• WordPress and Auto-Linking

  Oct 28

  I want to change the way the link screen in WordPress works. Do you think it’s a good idea?

  2 min · WordPress

• WordCamp San Francisco and the State of the Word

  Oct 26

  WordPress and Apple are both leaders in their respective communities. One of the two gives their official annual keynote away live for free on their website. Can you guess which one?

  2 min · speaking · WordPress

• WordPress, Security, and Member Management

  Oct 15

  If you’re logging in to WordPress as an administrator just to write a post, you’re doing it wrong.

  2 min · authentication · WordPress

• Deduplication and Self-Plagiarism

  Oct 7

  There is no faster way to drive content away from your site than self-plagiarism.

  3 min · WordPress

• WordPress Plugins – Return on Investment

  Oct 4

  Investing in WordPress plugins isn’t likely to return too much – unless those are premium plugins.

  3 min · customers · WordPress

• Modular Code

  Sept 27

  Composer is a potential solution for theme/plugin dependencies in WordPress. But it will take some time before we flesh out the solution fully.

  3 min · developer tools · PHP

• WordPress Database Encryption

  Sept 26

  How reasonable is the suggestion that WordPress encrypt its database? Really?

  5 min · cryptography · infrastructure

• If you’re not part of the solution …

  Sept 20

  I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?

  2 min · code quality · WordPress

• WordPress and Default Themes

  Sept 14

  First we had Twenty Ten. Then came Twenty Eleven. Then came the potential of a new default theme every year. We’re doing it wrong.

  3 min · WordPress