This is a rallying cry for us, WordPress! Yesterday’s news that AOL is acquiring tech recommendation site gdgt.com didn’t make much of a blip on my radar, until I read these quotes from gdgt co-founder Ryan Block: We’ve always considered ourselves a design and engineering company first. So part of what I’m going to be doing is…expanding the scope of what we’re working on … We’re going to apply the same sensibilities around creating a great holistic product experience to other sites around the [AOL tech] portfolio. The bar has been raised in general around design, engineering, site experience, features — all […]
Theme Development: All About Features?
Over the last few years, there has been a growing debate about what should and shouldn’t be included in a WordPress theme. Generally-speaking, the conversations have always circled around features: There are those that believe every feature you could ever imagine should be included like text color, font selector, and more. On the flip-side, there are those that feel WordPress themes should be finite and extra features should only be added when it’s niche specific. I don’t want to necessarily re-hash those major arguments but I do want to look at it from another slightly-different angle (namely the marketplace and public) for a […]
So, What the Heck is CoSchedule?
Received a tip the other day about a very a neat application (or plugin?) that’s going to be released that appears to be marketed as a management system for online marketing, called CoSchedule. For example, you’ll be able to have a team-oriented approach to your marketing calendar so as to not duplicate effort and to timely release news and marketing collateral to your segment, users, and community. This would include blog posts, email campaigns, social media messages, and more from one interface. To be sure, there are a lot of applications and web services that exist that help do this […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.13.2013
Happy #humpday everyone! Today’s roundup has 20 new WordPress plugins. There’s a couple of WooCommerce plugins, so make sure to check them out if you are running it on your site. Here they are:
WordSesh: Looking for Speakers!
We covered the announcement of WordSesh late last month and things are moving along steadily and picking up steam. In a notice that I got it seems that they are now looking for speakers for the first event on April 13, 2013! Here’s the official notice from Scott Basgaard, one of the Co-organizers of WordSesh:
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