Technology is changing everything and WordPress is becoming an increasingly-important part of those changes. Just think for a moment how, in 10 years, we’ll look back and see how important WordPress was in the expansion of blogging and content management in the early part of this century. You are a part of history if you’re a WordPress user and professional – and industries are being disrupted every single day by bloggers and content creators. Cheers! Here’s a neat look in regards to technology in general of the past and present:
Yahoo! Buys Tumblr, Thousands Head to WP
Historically, Tumblr has been somewhat of a competitor of WordPress.com. For those that use it, understand there is definitly a difference between the two, but as WordPress has done more to tighten up their ecosystem with liking posts and keeping sign-in simple when leaving comments, the two platforms have grown closer to together. This past Sunday, the news about Yahoo! acquiring Tumblr for the tune of $1.1 billion (who knew they had that much!) was blazing around the web, Tumblr users were found jumping ship. You can probably guess what ship they were found jumping, to.
Minneapolis in the WP Daily House!
We shared a little while back how neat it was that a WordCamp created a little flow chart poster for their event and they organizing team sent us a copy for our wall here at the WP Daily office! We’re stoked and now I have to get it framed somehow. Thanks guys!
WP Write: Chrome Extension for WordPress
There has been a lot of discussion about streamlining WordPress and making the publishing experience “better” – heck, even talks about forking WordPress itself, which I will never personally remotely attempt. Things like Ghost push the ticket forward a bit but are not WordPress at its core – perhaps it’s small steps that can provide some avenue of attack and perspective? What if we just took away all the “excess” and just got down to publishing itself?
Blogging with Your Phone… with Casetop?
If you joined me a few months back you might recall my adventure blogging with just my Smartphone and a Bluetooth Keyboard. I managed to get by but it was always a case of getting by and not unnoticeable or thriving. However a new Kickstarter project might just be a way to change things from surviving to thriving.
How To: Build Your Own Functionality Plugin
Have you ever heard of a functionality plugin? I stumbled onto this WordPress magic a few years ago and has served me well on many different web projects. To put it simply, a functionality plugin is a way to separate what you would normally have in a Theme functions.php and place it in your Plugins. All those cool snippets that begin with “function” can be placed here. Here is my general rule in deciding if a function should be placed in a functionality plugin or in the theme’s functions.php:
CigarCamp: WP-Powered Cigars!
Now that sounds like a sweet ending to a WordCamp if you ask me! Apparently there was a killer after-party of smoking, drinking, and even WordPress after the WordCamp Austin gathering this past weekend. Nothing like an opportunity to relax with fellow WordPressers and sip and partake of a few glorious pastimes, right?
Got 2 Minutes? Codex and Doc Survey!
Have you got a few minutes? Please help Siobhan and the team by filling out this simple survey to help make WordPress better! Thank you so much! Do it before the end of today why don’t you?
BTS: What are You Doing Today, This Weekend?
It’s been a while since we did our last “Behind the Scenes” post – we’ve simply been too busy getting work done! Hope you guys have had an incredibly-full yet awesome week of work and productivity (also, rest). As mentioned in the video, we’re looking to do more seminars and training in our office here which may include WordPress-related training, coaching, and workshops. Stay tuned for more information on our 8BIT blog for more on that.
CommaFeed: Bloat-Free Self-Hosted RSS Reader?
Time is ticking my friends – Google Reader just has 6 weeks or so to go before it’s *poof* gone. As I’ve shared previously, Feedly has become my go-to choice for a replacement but it’s not perfect, not even close unfortunately. They’ve iterated on their product a bunch of times in the last few months as their popularity has soared but it’s still lacking on some core features that I’m going to miss from Google Reader. As a result, I’m constantly looking for alternatives for RSS Readers and I’ve found a few open source options like Stringer which is neat. Here’s […]

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