Arranging the pages in a menu in order is a no big deal in WordPress. Simply edit the ‘order’ value in the ‘page attributes’ metabox of the pages. Ordering the posts on a blog page? Well, those appear in order already. Posts appear by the date of publishing. Now, I may want more control with the ordering of the posts. I wished there was an ‘order’ field for each of the posts, where I could simply alter the value for each post to tailor their order of appearance. After doing some investigation, I found that such an option is already […]
Coming Soon: WP Daily Editorial Office
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 […]
WP Engine Says Goodbye to Paypal
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 […]
Mark Jaquith Leading 3.6 and Looking for a Backup Lead
WordPress 3.5 only dropped this month, but things are moving on quickly. We’re expecting to see 3.5.1 around January 2 to resolve the few issues that came up, and already we’re starting to talk about the development cycle for WordPress 3.6. Andrew Nacin was the lead for the 3.5 cycle, and now the reins pass back to Mark Jaquith for 3.6. Mark is also looking for applicants to step up as a backup lead for this cycle, should he be unavailable for any reason. Mark has said he’s planning for this release to focus on content editing, specifically relating to autosave, […]
MaxCDN Redesign Built on WordPress, WP Engine
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
Remember MySpace? Yeah, that website. It was the hot shiz for musicians and artists back in the day. One of the best decisions I ever made was turning down an offer from Fox Interactive Media to oversee product at MySpace. The choice was actually easy as they wanted me to move to LA and my wife has never been a fan – so we stayed in Austin, TX which was a much better choice. The point of that is to say that MySpace was the place for music artists and I hope that WordPress can take that charge and be so much […]
Mobile Dev Blogs, Forums to Be Migrated
Isaac Keyet shared this morning that there are plans to migrate the existing forums and dev blogs for mobile-related development. This is based on the discussion and proposed changes via the #wordpress-mobile chat yesterday. Proposed changes are as follows:
#WPHumpDay #1
Yup. It’s Wednesday. And we’re half-way through the week and for some of us this is a “great” day and for others this is a “not-so-great” day as we look behind us at the work done so far and look forward to all the work left to do in the week. But, this may be a slightly different week for some of us, especially if you’re taking the week off for Christmas and the holidays. So, what is your #humpday looking like? Share your stories, images, and anything else in the comments below.
Lorelle VanFossen Expands WordPress College Course
Lorelle VanFossen has announced that she’s expanding her WordPress College Course to Portland Community College at Rock Creek – she has previously given the course at Clark College and the Clark College Corporate and CE. The goal? To get you ramped up with WordPress as quickly and effectively as possible! you’ll explore the application as a CMS, site structure, organization, and even development with a business mindset. Here’s the general curriculum outline that you can expect:
Milwaukee School of Engineering Uses BuddyPress, Ups Admissions
BuddyPress implementations are growing year-over-year but it’s always neat to find a somewhat non-conventional use that really shines. For example, the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) recently was voted to be one of the top 10 most innovative schools because of their implementation of BuddyPress for admissions, beating out the likes of Harvard for a higher slot in the ranking: The college admissions process is a painful experience for many hopeful students, filled with strict guidelines and often unhelpful officials. But the Milwaukee School of Engineering may have developed the solution. Their Bridge program is an original approach to the process of […]
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