Review Signal Publishes 2016 WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks

photo credit: Marconi – work in progress – (license) Kevin Ohashi has published his annual Managed WordPress hosting performance benchmarks on Review Signal, an independent consumer review site. In past years (2014, 2015), Ohashi had every company and plan competing against each other, but the WordPress hosting market has rapidly evolved to serve more enterprise level clients. “When I started …

Multisite, Hummingbird and Cloudflare: Make Your WordPress Network Blisteringly Fast

You may have caught the recent announcement that our Hummingbird performance plugin has been integrated with CloudFlare. But given that CloudFlare works on a domain level, what does this mean if you’re running a Multisite network? The good news is that with one CloudFlare account you can cover multiple domains. Unlike many services, you don’t need a separate account for each …

Zerif Lite Suspended from WordPress Theme Directory, 300K Users Left Without Updates

Zerif Lite, one of the most popular themes on WordPress.org, has been suspended by the Theme Review Team for several violations of the Presentation vs. Functionality guideline. As a result, more than 300,000 users (including those on child themes of Zerif Lite) can no longer receive maintenance and security updates to the theme. Justin Tadlock, an admin on the Theme …

Advanced WordPress Development: Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

Want to take your WordPress game to a whole new level of coding mastery? Are you ready to really push your PHP skills and add even greater complexity and advanced functionality to your plugins and themes? Welcome to our latest series, WordPress Development for Advanced Users. This series follows on from our popular WordPress Development for Intermediate Users, which introduced you …

GitHub Adds Code Review and Project Management Tools

GitHub’s second annual Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco today with 1500 attendees. Co-founder and CEO Chris Wanstrath announced a collection of new and and upcoming features for the platform, including code reviews, project management tools, profile updates, additional security features, and a community forum. October marks nine years since the first commit on GitHub. Over the past few …

The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a WordPress Theme Framework (Plus In-Depth Reviews)

Since I last reviewed WordPress frameworks two years ago, the nature of frameworks has evolved. My definition of a framework back then was a parent theme with an API and/or extensive customization options for non-coders. But things have changed. Not all frameworks are even themes now, let alone parent themes. Some of the frameworks reviewed here take the form of plugins, …