Yikes. It’s been a busy Saturday and I’m finally getting around to compiling our weekly review of content that we didn’t get to cover explicitly over the last 7 days. In a good way I’m glad as I spent most of my time today with family. Soccer games, a date with one of my daughters, and then the park with my other one has left me spent. I hope your weekend has been as eventful as mine already as well!
PressBooks, that incredible WordPress plugin that helps authors create ebooks, PDFs, and web-based books with a few clicks has announced that they are going completely open source with a full GPL 2.0 license. It’s been in the works for quite some time and many have wondered when it was going to drop (if ever) but Hugh McGuire has silenced those critics a few weeks ago with his announcement. The reason? Simple: For book publishing to evolve to fully embrace digital, we need open tools that allow for experimentation with new technologies, and new models, business and otherwise. We are building […]
Every startup needs traffic because traffic creates users, customers, and perhaps more importantly, fans. And a customer testimonial or big-name blog helps with that traffic wave, right? It kind of makes your startup more “legit” in some sense, right? Well, not always, but it can provide some confidence for those new customers who are just viewing your site for the first time. And hey, wouldn’t you know, but there’s an “app” (or web service) for those testimonials.
We’ve shared before the incredible news that 17% of the top 1,000,000 sites are now powered by WordPress – and that number is growing every single day. It’s an unbelievable time to be using WordPress and we are all riding a decidely-large wave of adoption that’s been growing over the last several years. Wherever you host, regardless of size, if you’re using WordPress then you are a part of a fantastic and passionate community that is just as successful as the next – and this community is definitely international. What’s fascinating is that although WordPress is a world-wide community the […]
The folks over at WordPress VIP are not stopping their fast pace growth and released some statistics that showcase some of that growth publicly. Those that have been aware of the VIP services have known that it’s a hosted solution for typically much larger sites and blogs. As a commercial arm of the much larger WordPress.com service, I can imagine that it’s a very profitable one at that. They are continuing to innovate and bring best-practice thinking to their customers. In June of 2012 they revealed auto-deploys for static CSS and images – in this way they can have their clients […]
Not familiar with SPDY (pronounced speedy, btw) protocol, the networking protocol via Google? It’s an open protocol that is working toward standardization as an advanced latency system for such things as load time, security, and more. In layman’s terms, Google’s SPDY is a system which makes the web faster. It does not replace HTTP but modifies the way HTTP requests and responses are sent and received, and ZippyKid has added it for their existing customers with version 2.0 support. With SPDY, you don’t need to do things like add multiple hostnames for assets in your HTML, to get around the concurrent […]
We’re passionate about manifestos here at WP Daily – it’s because it helps everyone get on the same page as to where the organization is headed. Internally it helps provide direction for the conversations that we have about a product or service or even blog and for our readers and growing community it gives them a foundation of understanding and something they can begin to promote. ManageWP has just shared their’s in a neat infographic-style:
Since we’re starting to collect swag of all types (accepting bribes obviously), we’ve dedicated a unique place for all of that on one of our lockers that we have in the office. It’s right next door to our WooVille poster and it’s within reach of our fantastical unicorn as well as our power-up joystick light switch so your sticker will have a nice and permanent home with us! So, feel free to send us anything that might “stick” on our “Friends of WP Daily Locker” and we’ll make sure it gets up! Word to your sticker.
And I must stress new theme – you see, this wasn’t created for people to create child themes on (it’s no parent good sir!) but rather for creating entirely new themes. If you’re not a developer than you can probably move on. But if you’re interested in looking at how Justin sees WordPress development, how he’s implemented it with the Hybrid Core Framework, then you might want to dive in: You won’t find 100s of hooks or complicated PHP code in Hybrid Base. It’s simple HTML with a light mix of the appropriate WordPress template tags and Hybrid Core functions. There’s a base style.css file […]
We’ve reported previously that there has been a WordCamp Guideline survey that has been making the rounds and I spent some time even to answer it myself as I am a current WordCamp co-organizer (WordCamp Atlanta 2013). A recent update via Dee Teal (thewebprincess to you!) mentioned that they’ve got some good feedback so far and thus its in everyone’s interest to open it up to all, especially those that are interested in organizing one in the future: The Review Guidelines committee have been monitoring responses to the initial WordCamp organisers survey* and finding the results really useful. We have since felt that the next […]
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