No, seriously VaultPress, what’s the point? I must be missing something significant because I’ve been kind of scratching my head for the last day or so just thinking about your announcement where you shared that your plugin is now available on the WordPress.org repository. Now, before you go and flame the living daylights out of me let me be clear on two things, to add a bit of flavor and context to this post: We have been swimming in DMs via Twitter and notifications through our Submit News button about this which means very clearly that many of you are […]
Churchuna: Free Hosting, Solutions for Churches
One of the best ways to “break in” to the WordPress industry as a whole (which is still very young, mind you) is to go niche, which is targeting a certain and specific market and userbase/customer base that you can capitalize on especially well given your background and/or experience. An area that’s been fast growing with WordPress adoption is the religious and non-profit space as they are always trying to find solutions that are “less expensive” (sometimes “cheap”) that can do the job since money is tight in many non-profits. I stumbled upon this in my searching for a friend […]
Don't Let Your Blog Get You Sued
I almost laughed out loud the first time I saw the title of Lizelle Brandt’s presentation but then I put it on in the background and listened to it as I did some work. You know what, her presentation is highly practical and very useful – stuff that you might already know but haven’t implemented yet type of stuff. (Oh yeah, she’s a intellectual property attorney and internet law – she’s legit!) So, if you’ve got a few moments, put this on the background and give Lizelle some time so that you can stay above board with your blog:
John Hawkins: WordPress Site Use Cases
WordPress is being used by not just bloggers or as a regular CMS, it’s being used to do some very “different” things for a variety of different solutions. In many ways people are seeing it as an operating system or at the very least a software and application framework. John Hawkins, in a recent presentation, provides some examples of these and how one can deal with the challenges that you might be presented with:
WPSeek – Search Engine for WP Devs, Theme Authors
Have you seen WPSeek? It’s most simply a search engine for WordPress developers and theme authors. Here’s what you can find via their service: Results page Neat Auto-suggest that maps its content from anywhere within the function name Related Codex Documentation Code Snippets Top Google Search Results User discussions User Notes AJAXified results page; no need to reload page on any operation
WordCamp Europe 2013: Tickets Now Available
It’s exciting to hear the announcement that WordCamp Europe, 2013 is now open for registration – this plans to be one of the larger events and should it’s exciting because it really is the “first” large-scale WordCamp to be held in Europe as a whole. That’s what they are shooting for straight-up: WordCamp Europe is the first large-scale WordCamp to be held in Europe. By large-scale, we mean big. And by big, we mean awesome. This is a chance for the European WordPress community to gather together in the idyllic town of Leiden to geek-out, share experiences, do business, and […]
DXThemes: A Pretty Good (Financial) Deal
I’m not a fan of any “daily deals” website outside of Woot! which was really one of the originals (and actually has great stuff, every single day). All those other ones and especially the likes of Groupon and various spin-offs kill me: No, for the 1,000th time NO, I do not want 90% off a tree canopy ride through the Georgia mountains nor do I want 60% off of a hair waxing service. But when it comes to WordPress-related deals? Sure, yes, I will definitely take a look to at least see if it’s a decent deal to begin with. […]
Free Magazine Theme by Mr. Kovshenin
I realized as I was doing this post that we could litter this blog with a thousand-and-one blog posts about free themes every single day if we wanted to – and in some ways, I’d like to highlight well-done free themes, but there are so many so the #1 reason we don’t is that we simply don’t trust the source or developer (or we don’t know them personally). (But don’t stop sharing them with us – we’ll always take a look!) This one is by Konstantin Kovshenin who’s a very trustworthy source and someone that we really like – and he announced […]
Official: Page.ly Acquires BlogDroid
Oh wow. The world of WordPress hosting is getting smaller because Page.ly just announced that they are acquiring BlogDroid. We’ve covered both extensively and this seems like a very interesting and strategic marriage. We got news a few days ago via Sally Strebel and told to keep it “hush hush” for a bit. We complied, although it’s tough to keep neat news like this to ourselves (but hey, we did it, ok!?!). Check out the official press release below – congrats to the team and I hope the transition goes as smoothly as it is planned!
Gravity Forms v1.7.6 with New Add-on Framework
Things keep getting better and better with Gravity Forms, who have now released their 1.7.6 version. A ‘major’ release for them, they are introducing their “add-on framework” which will allow developers to create add-ons for the popular plugin in a much easier fashion. This could be a boon for the growing product as more people create more value for the network of users as a whole: One major non-user facing change that we are extremely excited about in this release is the first iteration of the Gravity Forms Add-On Framework. This is a framework built into Gravity Forms to allow […]
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