It’s already a conversation that’s brewing (and has been brewing) for a bit of time but most WordPress users may not even know that there’s a change coming down the pipe with a new look to post formats in 3.6 (Beta 1 dropped yesterday) that may catch them by surprise. Brad Williams’ shared his thoughts yesterday without reservation about the new post formats: I’m a firm believer that the new Post Format UI buttons are going to cause a lot of confusion to beginner WP users http://t.co/kPy29gNaeR — Brad Williams (@williamsba) April 4, 2013 He specifically calls out newer WP […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 4.4.2013
Happy Thursday everyone! I hope your week has been going swimmingly. I have a new theme and some new and update plugins to share with you today. Today’s theme Avatar is a child theme of Destro, a responsive magazine theme. It has quite a few color schemes ready for you to use. Check it out! Here’s the full list after the jump!
Select Thoughts on Crowdfunding and WordPress
I know crowdfunding is a bit of the technological soup du jour right now and for good reason – it’s disrupting many different industries and challenging the fundamentals of investment capital and securities regulation. I believe all these things are good for the future of technology and innovation and I’m happy to have experienced it (or I’m in the middle of experiencing it) first-hand. But because I live in a WordPress world I instantly think about crowdfunding the applications and implications for our ecosystem. For example, with standalone themes like Fundify and their accompanying crowdfunding plugin it makes me wonder if giving […]
3.6 – Beta 1 – Get Your Testing On!
And… it’s here! Beta 1 of 3.6 just released less than an hour ago and it’s time for testing. Did your schedule just get messed up because you’ll now spend the rest of the day testing Beta 1 instead of your real job? *Raises hand!*
MotoPress – Yet Another Drag and Drop System?
It’s hard to stay enthusiastic about new WordPress products, especially ones that do not necessarily seem to push the boundaries of WordPress design and development, let alone software development as a whole. Drag and drop interfaces is not something new and it’s been done in more than a few WordPress-centric product before. And to be honest, drag-and-drop interfaces as a whole aren’t something that is very attractive to me. I’ll admit, somewhat emotionally and illogically I just feel that d-n-d features make the product worse, not better. I feel like for a neat feature they sacrifice the integrity of the overall […]

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