An announcement on the WordCamp Europe blog today reveals the dates and location for what is set to be the biggest WordCamp Europe will see in 2013.
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 3.4.2013
Too many themes and plugins to share with you to put into words on today’s roundup. So here’s the list:
$15 Million for a Themeforest Customization?
That is what was apparently spent on $40 theme in what appears to be a massive misuse of government funds. The website, Free State Online (having some issues being pulled up – must be getting hit hard with load times), was the provincial government that spent nearly $15MM (R140MM) on it’s newly designed website. The contract, a 3-year deal signed 2 years ago. It is argued that it wasn’t $140MM but rather $40M, but that’s still over $4 million dollars for a website. Whatever it may be the margin for the contractor is still a little “high”:
Ars Technica: Ups The Live Blogging Game
We’ve experimented with a few live blogging events here on WP Daily and our experiments are still being played out as we work with more and more WordCamp event organizers and fiddle with the live blog plugin that we’ve got running during the events, and we thought we had a sweet deal going! But the guys over at Ars Technica have really upped the ante with their in-house developed solution which allows some significant functionality beyond what I’ve seen or used myself. For example, The liveblog tool is a WordPress plugin that Marlin and Aylward wrote from scratch and it […]
WooCommerce 2.0: It's Here!
First off, congrats to the WooCommerce team that has been working incredibly hard to release such a significant update as a 2.0! The release contains an incredibly amount of improvements and features that make it a serious contender in the growing list of eCommerce and commerce-centric payment gateway solutions. It’s hard for me to pinpoint exactly what I like the best out of the newly minted 2.0, especially because I’ve been using it with smaller projects and even client work, not to mention even using it for 8BIT as a solution, but I’m loving the idea of increased security auditing by Sucuri.
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