When I was thinking about starting a blog, I had no knowledge of the various platforms available to me. And I only knew of a few folks that were blogging at that time. One was my wife, and the other, a friend. My wife was on Tumblr and my friend was using WordPress.com. With the wide variety of platforms available, how does one know which platform to choose? I can’t even quantify how I made the choice, but I decided to go against my wife and went with WordPress. I’d like to say it was a wise decision, but I […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 1.15.2013
Today was the day for plugins. We have a number of new plugins to share with you. It seems like a very diverse group today with a slider, tag clouds, related posts, tweets, and more. I know that these roundups are a little short on content, but I try to add some character to each one. These are everyday and can somewhat become monotonous. I don’t want that to happen. I was hoping that if we mention your plugin or theme on these posts, it would be great if you could drop us a comment and possibly share something interesting abou […]
Poster App Sees Version 2 Released into the Wild
We’ve reviewed Poster App before and we were pretty stoked to see this curious and good looking implementation and now they’ve announced the release of their version 2 which provides a number of improvements and bug fixes that a number of users had issue with. There are a number of great apps out there but this one brings an elegance that has been fairly unique. Here are some of the new features that have been released in this version 2.0: Support for custom post types. Enable them for any WordPress.org blog within the settings. Poster is now localized for English, […]
Plugin Walkthrough: WP Butler
WP Butler is a plugin that was recently released by Japh Thompson and jordesign that is designed to provide a quick and very efficient way to navigate around the WordPress Dashboard. It streamlines how you access various parts of the Dashboard by providing a modal command dialog that is opened by a keyboard short code. You simply enter the command for what you want to do and WP Butler does the rest.
On Name Changes: Jane Wells Now Jen Mylo
Talk about a major change! Jane Wells, one of the more prominent and well-known Automatticians out there has shared that she’s changing her online alias to be more “accurate.” This isn’t just a “Jane 2.0” move, as she shares on her blog, it’s a somewhat emotional decision that has a lot of story to it – which was supposed to be temporary in the first place: My name is not really Jane. I started going by Jane instead of Jen in 2001 when I moved to Seattle and took a job at Microsoft. How did I wind up as Jane? Needed […]
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