A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
Alex King On The Maturity Of WordPress
One of the original contributors to the platform, Alex King, has been with WordPress since it was a tiny fork off of B2, and is the founder of Crowd Favorite, one of the oldest WordPress development agencies that specializes in large WordPress development and design projects for sites like AllThingsD, AMCTV, and others.
Why Portfolio Functionality is Best Handled by a Plugin
When it comes to adding a portfolio section to your WordPress website, there’s more than one way to do it. Before taking a look at three most common ones, allow ThematoSoup to explain why allowing a theme to handle content generation usually isn’t a great idea.
The dire state of WordPress
WordPress powers a massive tranche of the world’s websites – 17.4% of them. Over the years its huge community and ease-of-use as a CMS has won it favor with web developers looking for out-of-the-box solutions to homogeneous client briefs.
My Problems with The WordPress Plugin Repository
"I’ll be the first to admit that I think the WordPress Plugin Repository does some great things for WordPress and for its user base. But as time has passed, I've come to believe that the repository is more user-centric than developer-centric. Don’t read me wrong: I’m not claiming that this is an either/or situation. Ideally, both should be elevated to the same level."
Practical Tips From Top WordPress Pros
In this article you'll find some tips from WordPress pros from across the community. Many of the tips cover development, but there’s also advice on business, running your website and, of course, getting involved with the community.
What is WordPress & Why you should use it?
More than 50% of the top 100 websites in the world are powered by WordPress, which is pretty amazing considering that it was just 27 percent three years ago. In this article you'll see what exactly WordPress is and why you should use it.
Fantasktic: Simple Support For Anything WordPress
The ‘simple way’ Fantasktic is going for is one price, $99 for almost anything. Fantasktic has chosen an interesting niche: one-time support for WordPress sites. They’ve already got a number of happy customers including: Bumblebee Tuna, oboardly.com and barackobama.com. Not too shabby for a recent startup.
