Way back in 2013, the WordPress 3.4 Green release introduced the Customizer to the masses. If you’re up for a trip down memory lane, here’s the announcement post over on Make WordPress. Not without its fair share of naysayers, the Customizer looked to, and still does, bring accessibility and instant feedback to visual changes you make on your WordPress site. Its humbler beginnings focused on smaller things like changing your site background color or changing your site title, but to anyone who really understood what it represented, it meant WordPress users would have: The ability to preview changes before making […]
Why WordPress Is like Digital Glue
We’ve all made software decisions that have gone on to cost us time, frustration and money. As a business owner, I feel an overwhelming pressure to make sure that our own company uses software that helps us to be effective, profitable, and well-poised for the future. Where we’re using a supplier to deliver a software solution for clients, their performance is equally vital. Making the wrong decisions can feel like a death sentence, and for a business, sometimes it can be. So how can we choose the right software? Well, I think a first step is to understand the macro […]
WordPress Apps In The WordPress Platform Era
About three years ago, I wrote a post for Torque titled “Yes, You Really Can Use WordPress To Build Apps.” In 2014, this was an emerging idea, but now it’s done quite often. The WordPress REST API, as well as a shift in how we think about WordPress, has contributed to this change. At LoopConf this year, Ryan McCue, the co-lead developer of the WordPress REST API gave a talk called “Next Generation WordPress.” He said that we’ve gone from the WordPress as a blog, to the WordPress as a CMS, to the WordPress as a platform era. It’s a […]
4 Fun Ideas for Using Blog in a Box to Push the Boundaries of WordPress
Thanks to the REST API, WordPress is rapidly evolving into a full-fledged development framework. However, few have actually begun using it to carry out every day tasks – even though this is now entirely possible. Blog in a Box is a relatively new project that enables you to quickly install WordPress onto a Raspberry Pi machine. We’ll cover exactly what these are in a moment, but it means you can integrate WordPress with almost any program on a Linux-based machine. Since WordPress comes with its own API framework, you can quickly turn any data you collect with your program into an app. […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 4.7.5 security update and 4.8 news
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. WordPress 4.8 is set to launch on June 8th. While you are waiting, be sure to download WordPress 4.7.5 for the newest security fixes. Love WordPress news but hate reading? This is Doc Pop’s News Drop! First and foremost, WordPress version 4.7.5 is out now and it’s a security release. It’s strongly recommended you upgrade immediately. This update addresses 6 known security issues, some of which allowed hackers to take control […]

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