John Saddington

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December 21, 2012

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A new feature of the WordPress.com Developer Resources blog is the fact that they are now highlighting particular people in an interview segment that I hope will continue fairly regularly. Beau Lebens is the first up and he shares how he first got started with WordPress by launching a startup based on WordPress MU and bbPress for scrapbooking fans (clever!). He then moved to Mashable (yes, that blog) and then over to Automattic. I think some of the best part is his advice to aspiring young people who are interested in learning about WordPress and software development: Dive right in. […]

Windows Phone 1.8.1 Now Available

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December 21, 2012

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Danilo Ercoli has just announced the release of 1.8.1 so you should able to download it via the store. This release fixes 10 bugs that have been related to crashes in the previous version, namely when translation files had an empty string, layout issues in HTC 8X, and double image issues when saving a post. A complete list is avaiable on trac. So, what’s next and up on deck for 1.9? Featured images, editor improvements, and a few more that’ll make you smile. Keep it up guys and thanks for your hard work!

Cristi Burca: Moving to Jekyll

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December 21, 2012

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Cristi Burca, a senior WordPress developer at AppThemes and WordPress core contributor recently shared that he’s been not only experimenting with Jekyll, another blogging alternative that favors those that have a bit more development background: WordPress is about democratizing publishing; that is to say it’s meant to be easy to use by anyone, whether they have technical knowledge or not. Jekyll, in contrast, is designed to appeal to developers. It allows you to treat your content as source code, employing familiar tools such as text editors and version control systems. Does this mean that all that hard work with over […]

Pagely Updates Interface, Launches Referral System

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December 21, 2012

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Page.ly, one of the more well-known hosted solutions for WordPress, has recently announced a significant update to their Atomic interface, which is their central interface for their customers, sporting large icons and a more intuitive user experience. In addition, they’ve announced a new referral system along with a new billing credit system that I imagine their customers will start using since it’ll save them money if they use it on their subscription. But it’s the referral system that’s going to get a lot of airtime as customers start referring their friends and people within their network to use the service.

Notice: Changing Email Subscription Services

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December 20, 2012

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We’ve been using Jetpack’s built-in email delivery system but it’s way to limited and delivers every single blog post in an individual email the moment we hit “Publish.” This has annoyed a few of our readers already and trust me when I say that it annoys me as well. As a result, we’re going to move to Feedburner at least for now because it provides a free daily digest option for our subscribers so you don’t get completely hammered by blog posts throughout the day. So, if you’ve subscribed via our Jetpack system and want a more manageable inbox, feel […]

Coming Soon: WP Daily Editorial Office

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December 20, 2012

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We couldn’t be more pumped as my team is getting prepped and ready to move into our new historic downtown office location right in the heart of Atlanta. We’ve been sharing a bit of the work on our business blog (here, here, here, and here) and how this new 3,000 sqft office environment is going to house not only our product development but also be the future home of a growing editorial staff around WP Daily. And that’s probably why I’m most pumped up about it – we have the opportunity to create that perfect publishing environment not only for ourselves but […]

WooThemes Releases WooCommerce 2.0 Beta 1

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December 20, 2012

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WooThemes has announced their release of Beta 1 for WooCommerce, their free plugin that is being widely adopted for many individuals and businesses. We’ve been using it and it does a great job of creating that simple eCommerce experience and checkout – we hope to use it more this coming year, especially with some of the new updates and features they plan on releasing for the next big update. Coen Jacobs, who helps lead that team, shares a few thoughts on some of the new things that customers and bloggers can expect:

WP Engine Says Goodbye to Paypal

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December 20, 2012

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WP Engine has just shared that it’s not longer accepting Paypal as a payment for billing and moving forward with another implementation. Unfortunately, PayPal has become an obstacle to our commitment to a hassle-free customer experience for you, and to keep up with this commitment, we’ve unfortunately had to stop accepting payment via PayPal. As with these situations, it’s never one single thing, but a stream of problems that affected various customers over an extended period of time. The problems ranged from failed transactions, which is bad, to duplicate transactions that billed customers twice, which is REALLY BAD. The time it took […]

MaxCDN Redesign Built on WordPress, WP Engine

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December 19, 2012

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MaxCDN, a content delivery network solution has recently redesigned their homepage and site and has shared their learnings on how they leveraged WordPress (and other technologies) to achieve a sub-half-second (.5s) load time: There are literally a ton of factors how we changed to get such a fast page load. To break it down, we’ll discuss what we did with the code itself, CSS styling, JavaScript, server/hosting, and the images to achieve this incredible page speed. They go on and share their techniques and implementation strategy that you could leverage for your own use. We’re writing about it because they […]

More Musicians, Artists Coming to WP.com

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