On the weekend I got some time to tune into the WPCandy podcast with host Ryan Imel and guest Jake Caputo. They discussed the recent blackball post and jokingly refer to Jake, who is an Envato Elite author, as surely having access to a magic red button that he can press to “make things happen”. I wish we did have this feature! Elite authors like Jake, after all, are the lifeblood of ThemeForest. It’s been an interesting week with those posts, all the many comments, as well as lively discussion threads on ThemeForest itself. And it’s been a timely one […]
Wine and WordPress? Yes Please.
The WordPress Events team via Aaron Jorbin is refining their best practices around global meetups and how organizers are getting the best participation and interaction with their venues and even the refreshments that are offered at the event. The questions posed this week per the latter conversation are: Does your meetup have any sort of refreshments available If you do offer them, How does your meetup procure them? What challenges do you face with refreshments, and how do you try to overcome them? I’m personally all for refreshments as there’s nothing quite sad as a parched crowd, especially since it’s not as much […]
WooThemes Looks Into Their Crystal Ball 2013
WooThemes took a look into the future for 2013 and shared what they believe will be up for them this year as well as what you can begin to expect. Adii starts by admitting some of the challenges they had last year as well as some of the things they did poorly: As I said late last year, we screwed up and we’re sorry about that. 2012 has however created a bigger, better & stronger WooTeam & WooThemes and we’re hoping to carry that momentum into this year. … From our side, we commit to be brutally honest and totally […]
bbPress Needs Your Feedback for 2.3 Release
Are you in love with bbPress? Do you use it for your own sites or even your clients? If bbPress is an important part of what you do with WordPress and online publishing then it’s time for you to give a little back and provide some feedback so that version 2.3 can be released in good time for a proposed February drop date. If you think you found a bug, please report it on the bbPress Core Trac. If you find a security vulnerability, please be discrete and let us know privately using one of the methods posted on the WordPress contact […]
Stop Stat Counting And Get Back To your Blog
Let me know if this sounds familiar: You wake up in the morning, put on a cup of coffee, get dressed, wander around in a haze but fairly soon go over to your computer. First things first. Let’s check how many views you got last night. Hum not as many as you hoped. Well, maybe you didn’t plug that post on your social media sites enough. Time to give it a bit more juice and send out a reminder across all your social medai services. After a while at work you realize that your latest post is about to go live! Better […]
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