Matt Mullenweg seems to see a version of WordPress that’s always 2-3 years away, and rightly so. And, as he—or someone else of note in the WordPress community—introduces ideas, the blogging community of developers usually engages in long-form argumentation (blog ‘posts’) about the merits of these ideas. Many times, this argumentation is in-depth and informative; sometimes we get off track and shortchange the idea. This past year brought us plenty of discussion on WordPress as an application framework, and the conversation is continuing on into the new year (thanks in no small part to Matt’s interview at LeWeb 2012). Smart, established developers are talking about the utility of this […]
User as Curator: Keeping Everything Together
Arguably, the evolution of WordPress as a CMS has been about increased integrations with other services. Instead of generating user logins across multiple services we are now able to provide access to analytics, newsletters, content editing, workflow management, user management and other key web presence management tools within one dashboard and behind one login screen. Clients (especially big businesses) marvel at being able to avoid multiple logins and are thrilled at the benefits of keeping data all together just waiting to be transformed into business intelligence. Given the cumbersome login and authentication systems still in use with many archaic systems can you […]
Behind the Scenes: Startup and Long Days
It’s been a long and very difficult day but I love my team and what we get to do! Sleep tight my WordPress friends! See you tomorrow for another full and very exciting day. Rock it out.
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 1.9.2013
Here’s a look at the updated and new Plugins and Themes of January 9th, 2013:
Top 30 Most Popular WordPress Plugins
Plugins, plugins, plugins! It’s one of the best (and at times worst) things about WordPress as there are some killer plugins that will make your WordPress-powered blog sing while there are times, especially as a developer and WordPress consultant, when you jump in the back-end of a client’s blog and *gasp* you find 1,000 of them installed with over half of them needing updates. Yes, you know that you’ve seen those sites and the floor drops out from under you and you realize that there is no amount of money that you could be paid to “fix” this incredibly plugin-logged site. […]
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