Aaron Jorbin, who has had the pleasure of contributing code to the last three versions of the year-based default WordPress Themes, has shared a few great thoughts on what he’d like to see in this year’s release. One of the more notable ideas is his focus on accessibility: I want Twenty Thirteen to tackle another problem that the education and example of a default theme can do. I want Twenty Thirteen to be designed and built Accessibility First. Aaron goes on to share what he means by this explicitly:

Curtis McHale has announced the release of his newest book, Become a WordPress Development Professional and it’s chock full of goodies for you or a developer that you know. After running his own successful and growing WordPress consultancy Curtis has a few words of wisdom that could elevate your game and ability to increase your business this year: Becoming a Professional WordPress Developer walks you through 10 chapters of WordPress best practices and advice. This advice is proven through running a successful WordPress development business for 5 years. We will walk through the “WordPress Way” to do things like include JavaScript and […]