Although we’re passionate about all-things WordPress we keep an eye out on the competition and especially up-and-comers that seek to challenge the dominance of our beloved application. But it’s not that I’m against competition; in fact, I’m all for it because it moves the needle of innovation and it forces us to rethink and reconsider our options for the best publishing platform available to us. Things like Feathers which isn’t quite available yet to the general public but which suggests that publishing to the web could be made even more simple:
Participad: Realtime Collaboration for Your Site's Content
Now here’s a neat solution that you may not have known that you needed (especially if you’re an editor for a multiuser blog or site): Realtime collaboration on those blog posts! Participad does it through being powered by Etherpad Lite. For those already aware, Etherpad is an open source online editor created via Node.js that allows such neat things like realtime editing in a collaborative setting. Honestly, I’m drooling over this thing since we’re trying to figure out our perfect editorial workflow for WP Daily here. Would realtime editing and collaboration be of use for our authors? Jury is out but I’m […]
6 WordPress Plugins That Made Development Easier in 2012
As a WordPress developer, 2012 was a year of concentrated improvement for me. My goals for this year included being able to code themes and plugins completely from scratch using coding standards and best practices. I mostly reached these goals, and found along the way that the time I spent plugin hunting when I needed an added feature could usually be coded by hand faster and better. So, plugins that still make the ‘cut’ for me have had to prove their worth this year. The following have helped me in development throughout this year—some I’ve discovered recently, and some are […]
Jeff Starr Launches WP-Mix, Code Snippets and Tutorials
Jeff Starr of DigWP has announced the release of a new simple site that will showcase code snippets, tutorials, and other helpful WordPress-related development and design techniques. It’s called WP-Mix. It might be the next best resource for your continued development of a site or a chance to experiment even more with WordPress. This isn’t the only snippet site dedicated to WordPress related code but this one is laid out cleanly and has a nice card/tab layout that may appeal to certain people over just searching through archives.
2012, The Year I Joined WooThemes
On the 1st of April 2012, I was one of six new hires joining the WooThemes team, raising the total number of WooThemes team members to 23. It has been an amazing ride so far and the approaching end of this year made me realize yet again what a great decision it was to jump on the WooThemes train. The end of a year is always a great way to reflect on what happened. When I joined WooThemes, I planned on writing multiple blog posts on what I was working on, what I liked most and other post related to […]
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