Remkus de Vries

About Remkus de Vries

Avid and heavy WordPress user since 2005, so effectively a WordPress oldtimer. Started as developer and agency owner, now works as Head of Partner & Customer relationships at Servebolt.

Co-founded WordCamp Europe in 2012, and WordCamp Netherlands back in 2009.

Principal owner of WP Realm.

Ghost: WordPress forked for blogging

5 November 2012 by Remkus de Vries 9 Comments

John O’Nolan, who worked as a Deputy Head of the WordPress UI Group a few years back, has jotted down his concept for a fork of WordPress. One that, in his words, will focus very specifically on blogging again instead of being a full blown CMS like WordPress itself.

I actually like some of the ideas he’s suggested in his post. I think it would be a huge undertaking to do such a fork, but it’s certainly a refreshing approach focussing on just blogging again. So what do you think, is John on the right track?

The future of contributing content is here – Post Forking in WordPress with Git.

1 October 2012 by Remkus de Vries 4 Comments

A week ago I watched a great TED talk about how Git(hub) is changing the world as we know it. Yes, I said world. I remember watching it and wondering how some of Clay Shirkey’s point could find its way to WordPress. We’re one week later and what do you know, Ben Balter was already busy creating just that and released a plugin today; a mix of Git and WordPress Posts. I’m really excited about this because of the possibilities it opens. From the site:

WordPress Post Forking allows users to “fork” or create an alternate version of content and in doing so, sets out to foster a more collaborative approach to WordPress content curation. This can be used, for example, to allow external users (such as visitors to your site) or internal users (such as other authors) with the ability to submit proposed revisions.

A comprehensive understanding of web security and how it pertains to WordPress

30 August 2012 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

Tony Perez from Sucuri talks extensively about WordPress Security, or in his own words: “My goal was to provide end-users a comprehensive understanding of web security and how it pertains to WordPress.”. Go check it out. ∞

Dear Jetpack: I Really Want to Love You, But You Make it so Hard

16 July 2012 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

Brian Krogsgard does a good job explaining some quirky things about Jetpack – ∞

How WP Realm Began

18 June 2012 by Remkus de Vries 18 Comments

For the last two years, I have been thinking about setting up a (more) international WordPress blog, but the thought of doing it alone prevented me from getting started. As an internationally orientated European guy, I was missing something on the various blogs covering news about WordPress.

It wasn’t until the very first WP on Tour in January of this year that the idea was rekindled, but nothing was set in stone. Yet. A couple of months later a bunch of us who had attended WP on Tour crashed WordCamp NL and the idea got picked up again – made even more concrete. After a little debate via our Skype group chat we came up with the name WP Realm and I thus I registered the domain. [Read more…] about How WP Realm Began

WP on Tour was a huge success

2 February 2012 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

The 15^th of January through the 22^nd finally saw its first WP on Tour go live. WPCandy mentioned WP on Tour here before, but it’s basically a bunch of WordPress developers (of all shapes and sizes) sharing a working space for a week. This first edition saw 10 of us — yes, I was fortunate to be among them — in a beautiful house in Sitges, Spain having fun and co-working for 7 days.

You can find the full list of WP on Tour attendees on this Twitter list, You might have noticed some of your WordPress buddies on Twitter mentioning the #wpontour hashtag and you might have concluded that we had a lot of fun…

Hello world!

12 January 2012 by Remkus de Vries 11 Comments

WP Realm is a ~~soon-to-be-launched~~ blog concerning all things WordPress. This is a non-commercial community blog, focusing on the WordPress community worldwide, and redressing a current imbalance in WordPress blogs that are too often US-centric. That means reporting on WordPress news and events across the world, from France to Serbia to China to India to South Africa to the USA and everywhere in between!

Our focus will be on WordPress businesses, blogs, events, people and services. As a community project, we’d love for you to get involved, whether it’s helping with the design and development, to reporting the news, to writing an editorial, or just giving us your feedback.

WP Realm will be published in English, but we invite contributions from anyone, no matter what your first language is. Articles don’t need to be in perfect English as everything will be edited before being published. Follow the project or get in touch to get involved.