First off, congrats to the WooCommerce team that has been working incredibly hard to release such a significant update as a 2.0! The release contains an incredibly amount of improvements and features that make it a serious contender in the growing list of eCommerce and commerce-centric payment gateway solutions. It’s hard for me to pinpoint exactly what I like the best out of the newly minted 2.0, especially because I’ve been using it with smaller projects and even client work, not to mention even using it for 8BIT as a solution, but I’m loving the idea of increased security auditing by Sucuri.
Bootstrap? Make Sure Your Licensing is Right!
A small reminder that if you’re using the popular Boostrap framework for your WordPress Themes that you include the right licensing details in your license details. This was brought up by Chip Bennett related to Apache and GPL compatibility, although it’s worth noting that Bootstrap is moving to MIT license. We use Bootstrap here on WP Daily as a child theme off Standard Theme so this applies to us as well.
Team Treehouse Brings WordPress Rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1XhC2cJ2LE There are very few words from me here. Cringeworthy? I think so.
Would You Recommend Tweaky for Work?
Tweaky, an interesting concept on helping people and businesses get some software development, design, or anything in between, is sporting the opportunity for WordPress design and development now. These “tweaks” will cost you anything from $20 to $489: Custom Domain – $20 Photo Galleries – $78 Custom Social Media Icons – $89 WordPress Contact Form: $89 Migration to WordPress.org: $489 If it doesn’t fall in those overall categories than your tweak will cost $39 out the gate.
Getting a Little Love from WooThemes
More than 2 years ago WooThemes created their own graphical depiction of the WordPress universe as they saw it, showcasing some of the major personalities and theme shops that were in the ecosystem at the time. Since then, a lot has changed and the graphical depiction if done today would look very different – perhaps at some point they will re-do their work but a lot of it is still very relevant today. We thought it had to be a part of our new home office for WP Daily but we couldn’t find anywhere to purchase such a fine artifact of […]
Creative Space: Scott Wyden Kivowitz
Today’s Creative Space come from Scott Wyden Kivowitz of Photocrati.com. You can see his space and the process behind it after the jump. Have you submitted your space yet? We’d love to see it! You can find the other Creative Spaces here.
Crowd Funding Your WordPress Project?
The idea of having a WordPress-centric IndiGoGo or Kickstarter is just enough of an idea for me to fully support it 100%. The announcement of WP Fund It was shared via Pippin and highlights the intentions and goals for the community-backed project: The entire idea is to better improve the entire WordPress ecosystem, whether that be WordPress core, plugins/themes on WordPress.org, the WordPress codex, tutorials hosted on individual’s sites, WordPress events, etc. This will include both free and commercial projects, but a large emphasis will be placed on projects that contribute to the betterment of the WordPress community. Pippin shares pretty explicitly […]
An Interesting Look into Blog Reading Demographics
Pingdom has a comprehensive look at readership demographics based on age for some of the top blogs on the web. They walk through age distribution, average age of readership, and even gender distribution. You’ll find the full stats below:
Carleton University: WordPress Does Blogging Too?
This is one question that Danny Brown is getting because of the over-abundance and use of WordPress at Carleton University – over 260 sites using WordPress: We’re so embedded with WordPress here that I’ve had people ask me if it also does blogging. A much different question to be asked for those that know about WordPress, right? Just imagine if you were in the context of an ecosystem where WordPress was so ubiquitous and used as a CMS that the blogging aspect was an overlooked or under-used feature! Imagine that.
Are You Ready for BuddyCamp Miami, 2013?
Well, there’s one coming up in Miami this year that you’re not going to want to miss, especially if you’re in the south-east region. Tickets are already available and the space is limited so get your tickets now! The deets are as follows: BuddyCamp Miami 2013 April 5th @ University of Miami, Life Science & Technology Park Exciting. Remember, it’s a mini-camp, sotospeak, before the much larger WordCamp Miami event!

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