Do your standup whenever suits you, on video. This SaaS has everything required for being overhyped, including a .io domain name, launch post on Hacker News, and cool but probably unnecessary feature set. It is, however, cool enough that it… [Keep reading]

Inclusivity is a great goal for any event that's open to anyone who doesn't know each other well. I feel like one of the many small steps one can take to decrease the feeling of loneliness people experience as remote… [Keep reading]

Over the weekend, an extremely skilled and SEO-savvy content writer we've been working with recommended me this resource. It's a nicely formatted PDF full of deeply sane advice on SEO-aware content creation. It's free, but it is behind a mailing… [Keep reading]

I've often idly considered what it was like to become an author of WooCommerce extensions (plugins) to be sold on WooCommerce.com. Because I have so many other priorities, I've never sought out that information for myself. But care of the… [Keep reading]

I have a client who needs to be able to create PDFs of his WordPress posts, including for custom post types that he specifies. I tried a few solutions, and WordPress PDF Templates is definitely the best I've found. There's… [Keep reading]

Open source illustrations for your projects This is the most useful link you’ll see all week: a fantastic collection of open source illustrations you can use in all sorts of projects, and all sorts of settings. They’re in PNG or… [Keep reading]

I really enjoyed this little talk I found while idly browsing YouTube recently. Wentin Zhang, who works at Adobe, draws something I didn't have any idea CSS could so easily: a mustache. I know, I've seen the artisanly drawn CSS,… [Keep reading]

Jason Fried on a better solution to all-day, all-the-time group chat. I came across this post from Jason Fried (of Basecamp and 37signals) last week. It was published in 2016, but feels more relevant than ever. Jason, whose authority on… [Keep reading]

I'm very interested in other programming languages. Sometimes my interest lacks follow-through. (I've intended to learn a list of languages and tools longer than my arm, I've really tried hard to learn about 5.) Despite (or because) of that, I… [Keep reading]

A really good "how to start a blog" post from a site and team that knows its stuff. Over the last couple of years I've been consistently impressed with how the CodeinWP team has built out a top-quality content marketing… [Keep reading]

While writing WordPress Security with Confidence last year, I spent a lot of time waiting for the latest revision of the OWASP Top Ten, the 2017 version. They ended up taking too much too long to publish, and I made… [Keep reading]

A Quora feed hits my email everyday, and it's mostly "Why was Thanos afraid of ___ when he defeated ___?" content. I'm not sure why that's what's in my feed, but there you have it and feel free to ask… [Keep reading]

Set expectations about when you work. This is a solid post from Dean at WP Buffs, who makes the case for freelancers to set out a “how I work” document which sets client expectations. Proactively setting these expectations lets you… [Keep reading]

I realize this is local news, but we're trying to make sure we sell out WordCamp Denver this year, which requires some exceptional effort. So if you're near Denver, Colorado, and don't have plans for Saturday July 28, you should… [Keep reading]

Or: Is your landing page good enough to get customers? Whenever I do new marketing work for WordPress products, I nearly always recommend spending time on the landing and product pages. If these are no good, then you’re making all your other… [Keep reading]

I was recently for the WP Builds podcast. Nathan Wrigley was a warm and welcoming host, and we spent a lot of time talking about WordPress security. What I love about being on podcasts, aside from it being faster than… [Keep reading]

What's better than an online conference with some of the best speakers in WordPress? I'll get there in a second. Here are the schedule elements that caught my eye: Tammie Lister (the Gutenberg design lead) talking about user experience Our… [Keep reading]

Sometimes all you need is a good article title to let you know what your problem is. I'm putting in a number of 301 redirects for a client this morning, and one of them keeps breaking. Other redirects work fine,… [Keep reading]

I learned a few things today: first, that WordPress has a built-in colorpicker called Iris, and second, that you can use it on the front end of your website if you need custom colorpicker functionality. Iris is evidently actually designed… [Keep reading]

Over on Thoughtful Code, I wrote about why even in 2018 I'd choose PHP to make a new software application in. The heart of my reasoning is the conclusion: If you’ve got a team of Python programmers, write your application… [Keep reading]

There's a good chance you know about Discord already. Especially if you're one of the many n00bs I had to pwn in my long climb to Gold elo in League of Legends. (Hints: one-trick Xin Zhao, learn to farm the… [Keep reading]

The team over at Wordfence have put together a study of a particular piece of WordPress malware. What makes the infection they're calling BabaYaga interesting? This malware fights other infections for control of the site. This has been a little… [Keep reading]

This website, which we stubbornly insist on reading as "Make Frontends Hit Again," is about something we can really get behind: returning to making completely useless stuff on the web because it's cool and fun. As it says toward the… [Keep reading]

If you or your client is working with web images and wondering about web image DPI guidelines, this article's for you. It explains why DPI doesn't matter for web images, and why pixel count does. When we say "DPI doesn't… [Keep reading]

There are few brands more synonymous with quality in the web development niche than CSS-Tricks. (A List Apart comes to mind. Smashing Magazine, maybe. We work for you to think of us that way...) So when I saw that CSS-Tricks had… [Keep reading]