Wow. Has this week been an interesting week or what? With people swirling around the GPL debate yet again there hasn’t been much else that people have been talking about – in fact, it’s generally been a fairly quiet week. Of course, we aren’t aware of everything happening in the WordPress universe (at least not yet), but here are a few things that you’ll want to check out that we weren’t able to tackle head-on in the past 168 hours. Enjoy your weekend folks!
We saw a lot of activity last year as a number of free and premium themes were released – over 65 as reported and we can expect this pace to continue this year, and then some. Two new free WordPress.com themes have been released, the first named My Life by Justin Tadlock and the second named Silesia by NattyWP. Take a look at some of the screens as they are quite pretty:
Want to hear some of the perspective of Jake Caputo who has had an incredibly-busy week this week around Envato, WPF, GPL, and WordCamps? Ryan Imel over at WP Candy in their 35th episode has it with his guest, talking over the experience and touching upon more than a few things. One point that Jake reminds the audience is that ThemeForest is his biggest source of income and it’s just not a possibility at this point for his lifestyle and financial needs. In other words, he can’t just up and “quit” ThemeForest tomorrow and be completely ok with it! Again, […]
And next is Amsterdam! Page.ly is expanding their POPs which is strategic because they already have a number of clients hailing from international locations. This will provide better local access and faster connections for all customers and visitors to these sites and that’s just going to be dandy for everyone. For now they are allowing a CNAME to be mapped with the chance that the underlying IP address to be swapped so don’t go map to an A record quite yet.
As per Alex King‘s comment when reviewing the Mac App Store policies for selling and Envato’s marketplace: The more I think about it, the more insane I think it is to choose to do business with Envato given their current terms. In order to put your products in their marketplace with a semi-reasonable revenue share you are choosing to completely subjugate your business to their whims. You can’t experiment with your product pricing, you can’t try other marketplaces, you can’t sell direct to your customers… you can’t even choose your own software license! He compares the two in light of […]
We’ve gone through another round of maintenance and security updates including WordPress 3.5.1 and BuddyPress and bbPress being updated to their 1.6.4 and 2.2.4 respectively. For BuddyPress we’re seeing security updates inside the the bp-default theme’s ajax and in bbPress an update on the Forum Importer/Converter tool Maty Siman has been a big help on these last two releases and we have much thanks for you good sir! Get both the updates directly here for BuddyPress and here for bbPress.
Cheri Lucas over on the Android blog shared with us late last night the release of the new 2.2.6 release for Android. With a new “Holo” theme available in 2.2.6 you get improved support for connecting over HTTPS, crash fixes (#394 and #395), and a lot of internal code cleanup and optimization. The result? Overall app size has been reduced. Not bad. Get it on Google Play. Rock it out.
You probably already see the notice in your dashboard that you have something *ahem* to do this weekend for yourself and perhaps all your clients, customers, and personal projects: v3.5.1 has been released! 37 bugs have been destroyed on this latest maintenance and security release and as mentioned via the WordPress blog it includes such things as: Editor: Prevent certain HTML elements from being unexpectedly removed or modified in rare cases. Media: Fix a collection of minor workflow and compatibility issues in the new media manager. Networks: Suggest proper rewrite rules when creating a new network. Prevent scheduled posts from […]
Occasionally we like to showcase a few examples of creative WordPress implementations and this one was submitted by Grayson Pope who found the site while browsing: I was looking at this fairly new site from the people behind the Atlantic called Quartz. Here’s the link: http://qz.com/ It’s a really slick, mobile first strategy that scales up and down really nicely. It’s built on wordpress apparently, which I didn’t know. Just logged onto it and saw the black WP bar at the top. Pretty cool site. I’d love to hear more about how they built it if you know anything. We […]
Yummy! If you haven’t heard about the Liveblog Plugin then you may have already seen it in action here and here where we had two community members liveblog the WordCamp events. Was it a success? Did the plugin work? Abso-freakin-lootely. We are still polishing up our protocols and methods of execution with the liveblog system here at WP Daily but the fact is that tons of people poured into the site on those days to hear in real-time what was happening in a local gathering. Now that’s pretty darn cool. Our intention of adding liveblogging to our editorial efforts here is […]
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