Marketplaces for WordPress themes and plugins aren’t going anywhere – in fact, we’ll probably see 100 more crop up this year at least with a few of them really coming into prominence. I’m not opposed to that as competition is a good thing that forces everyone to innovate and press even harder to create more value. I especially like it when I see individuals who create their own marketplaces based out of their own need. For example, Austin Passy is smart – he went about creating a marketplace for his growing line of plugins and taking that extra step of branding […]
Hello Dolly: Episode 4: I Don't Think You're Ready For This Jelly
It’s been a little while since our last episode – though we’re aiming for a couple of episodes per month (well, at least one per month), we’ve been heads down working on Standard and getting ready for WordCamp Atlanta. To that point, we spend a bit of time talking about WordCamp Atlanta and some of the meetups happening around the area during the weekend where we’d all love to hang with you guys. Of course, we talk about a lot more in the episode, as well.
Locu Loves Some Automattic, Restaurants
It seems that restaurants are getting a ton of love this year with a bunch of restaurant-related WordPress businesses have cropped up as well as seeing WordPress.com open up it’s own vertical. It’s getting even better now with a native integration between Locu, a menu system for users and site owners, and WordPress.com powered sites. Embedding a Locu shortcode is as easy as a few clicks and their Locu-powered Menu will automatically appear on their site. I can imagine that this will be a boon for restaurant owners and site managers who are trying to maximize the limited amount of time […]
Codecademy Open Up PHP Course
It’s no secret that I am a fan of Codeacademy.com As someone who is still learning to code and at a very basic level their “gamification” of the process of learn to code is great approach that uses proven psychology to motivate even the busiest people to learn. Although Codeacademy has had courses for HTML, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, Python and Ruby for a while, it has just opened up courses in PHP, the heart of WordPress.
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.7.2013
Happy Thursday! I’ve got a new theme and some new and updated plugins to share on today’s roundup. I took a little spin on the Attitude theme preview site. It looks a lot like the Twenty Twelve theme, just a bit more simple. Nicely done! Here’s the full list:
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