As Gutenberg gets closer, more and more people are trying to wrap their head around it. Zac Gordon's Gutenberg development course is perfect if you're really getting into it. But if you're just looking into how to get started, this… [Keep reading]

The WordPress Marketing team has put together a pretty cool resource: a guide to a lot of the weird lingo you'll hear casually cast-off in WordPress conversations without context. While I hope that this can move to a more canonical… [Keep reading]

If you're in and around Colorado, or you just want an excuse to visit, you should come out to WordCamp Denver this year. Rather than just being a supporter, I'm on the organizing team this year. We've just opened our… [Keep reading]

Ever since I made a nice little spreadsheet of WordPress security plugin features for WordPress Security with Confidence, I've wanted to pull that out to a standalone site. While we didn't create WPHierarchy.com, we're its proud maintainers. The idea here… [Keep reading]

It's rare that you find good write-ups with evidence-based details on the field of security. (This I learned while working on WordPress Security with Confidence.) This is true for a whole host of reasons, but it's one of the many… [Keep reading]

A few months ago, Skillshare got in touch and asked me to make a course for them. They're trying to bulk up on great technical and WordPress content. On a lark, I decided to take them up on it. Flash… [Keep reading]

Last night, I gave a talk at my local WordPress Meetup here in Fort Collins about security for site owners. Because I think it's basically required that you rehearse a talk at least once before giving it, I went ahead… [Keep reading]

There's been some hubbub around PHP version support in WordPress world lately. Most prominently, Iain Poulson of Delicious Brain (makers of WP Migrate DB Pro) published a post telling plugin developers to stop supporting old versions of PHP. Then yesterday,… [Keep reading]

I've written a couple posts here on WPShout about functional programming, the best of which is "Gentle Introduction to Functional PHP for WordPress Developers: Using Filter and Map on Arrays of Posts". That post inspired me to give a conference… [Keep reading]

Last night my friend Stephanie gave a presentation at a meetup about our local Women Who Code chapter, which she's a leader of. She pointed us to this website, The Leaky Tech Pipeline, which I'd never seen. Why there aren't… [Keep reading]

I went to LoopConf a few weeks back and had a great time. The one talk there that I think absolutely everyone who's even a little worried or curious about Gutenberg should see is Mel Choyce's on the future of… [Keep reading]

Wallace Inline is a new premium extension for Beaver Builder that caught my eye while I was browsing around today. It makes text and image editing very quick and intuitive on a website front-end: rather than coming up inside Beaver Builder's text… [Keep reading]

So you've just installed an SSL certificate on your site, and you're getting mixed content warnings? Noticing Google fonts not embedding, JavaScript files not loading, images missing, and so on? Welcome to another entry in an ongoing topic: why putting a… [Keep reading]

If you don't recognize the name "John Blackbourn" or @johnbillion you may recognize some of the things he's done: The User Switching plugin I just made a Quick Guide for Release lead for WordPress 4.1 The Query Monitor plugin Submitted… [Keep reading]

Color inspiration is a big, practical part of web design, and ColorHexa is the best tool for it I've seen in a bit. For any HTML hex you specify, ColorHexa will give you complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, and other color… [Keep reading]

"How do I get clients?" This is the eat-or-don't-eat question for any web developer---especially a freelancer, and especially a freelancer early in his or her career. If there were a magic answer, you'd have heard about it by now. But… [Keep reading]

This is a great little post about the process of making a theme compatible with the much-discussed Gutenberg editor slated to come out in WordPress 5.0. ThemeShaper -- the (maybe) official WordPress.com theming blog -- goes into a lot of… [Keep reading]

While I've not been a regular listener recently, I do love the Shop Talk Show with Dave Rupert and Chris Coyier. Both Dave and Chris are smart and talented guys, and their attitude is consistently friendly and positive. In Episode… [Keep reading]

I should spend more time talking to designers. An excellent designer I'm working with on a few projects noticed me Googling for a sample image to put into a new site design, and told me about Unsplash. It's a major… [Keep reading]

A pretty unfortunate and important issue happened when WordPress 4.9.3 was released a few days ago: it has an error that makes it impossible for WordPress to update itself again. After the error was understood, they stopped rolling out automatic… [Keep reading]

Kevin Ohashi of Review Signal is a singular voice in hosting reviews. His annual Hosting Benchmarks is an immense resource of real data on how hosts actually perform, opinions and brand names aside. His just-published 2018 results are a treasure trove,… [Keep reading]

In this edition of their podcast, Brian Krogsgard and Brian Richards have a lot to say about how the WordPress market segments out. Starting around 12 minutes in, they download pure knowledge about the state of the market and the… [Keep reading]

Your first million dollars. The game-winning catch. A guest post in Smashing Magazine. These are life's moments of pure success, and David had one of them this week. We'll keep you posted on the other two. The article is on… [Keep reading]

I made a whole course about WordPress security last year. So I've got some opinions on how and what it means to keep a WordPress site secure. I think I won't fully endorse Mika's whole argument---I think there are clear… [Keep reading]

If you've ever migrated a WordPress site to new hosting, you know that one of the many ways the process can turn confusing is DNS caching by your internet service provider (ISP). It looks as follows: You change a site's… [Keep reading]