Sure, the rate has slowed a bit since the first 24 hours but I’m pretty darn sure that in the next 24 hours we’ll be passing the 1,000,000 download mark – a fantastic run so soon! As a product guy it just floors me to think that any application can have such a presence as to get millions of downloads for every. single. version. If WordPress was commercial it would be a dream for a financially motivated company. Stoked to see it grow even bigger than the previous numbers from 3.4, which Ryan Imel captured as north of 28MM downloads and then […]
Pippin Williamson Launches Crappy Code Blog for Fun, Best Practices
Now there’s an idea…! Pippin (his gravatar look so mischievous!) , from Pippin’s Plugins, has launched a new somewhat satirical blog cleverly (or not so cleverly) named “Crappy Code” where he’ll showcase some of the terrible coding practices that he stumbles upon in his quest to discover and review WordPress plugins. The stated goals are simple: Educate others about bad code Give real examples of bad code and learn from it Have fun
Hello Dolly Showcased as New and Noteworthy
Pretty stoked to see our new Hello Dolly podcast on the New and Noteworthy section of iTunes this morning! Thanks all for driving traffic and listening to Episode 0…! It’s obviously gotten the attention of more than a few people and we can’t wait to continue our climb into awesomeness. Thanks for your help! The response has been overwhelmingly positive, which makes Tom shed tears of joy.
#WPHumpDay #0
It’s Wednesday and every wednesday is the so-called “hump day” – where you realize that the first half of the week is already gone (and that you may not have accomplished everything you had hoped) and you look toward the back-end of the week and realize that you *gasp* have another full 3 days to go. Oh, the horror! That’s where WP Daily’s #WPHumpDay comes in where we join together, encourage and challenge each other to make it through (or at least survive).
The Scope of Themes: Is Bigger Really Better?
Themes are the public face of any site built on WordPress. But as developers, are we thinking too narrowly about how themes can help make our WordPress-powered sites better, more customized, and more complete? Two months ago, I published my first WordPress theme, Groundwork. Inspired by Growth Spark’s GS Starter Theme and Mark Jaquith’s WP Skeleton, at the time I called my attempt an “opinionated starter theme”. What I mean is that in addition to the basics, I also included other elements beyond the reach of traditional themes; elements of the site-building process which takes a sterile theme and makes […]
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