Today our WPOI is Dre Armeda. Yeah, that guy. He’s been around WordPress forever and is also one-half of the Dradcast team. You’ll certainly want to get his perspective on what he thinks WordPress needs in the future.
Write More, Help Others, Take the Plunge
Last month, Cole Henley wrote a brief thought on The Pastry Box Project. I know we’ve only just met but in 2013 I want you to promise me something. Write more, help others more, be confident that you know more than you think because I guarantee there will be people who can learn from your experiences and knowledge. I bet you know more than you think. That simple thought really resonated with me. In particular, I found the same phrase bouncing around in my head. Write more, help others more. As members of the WordPress community, this is our mantra. […]
Ok. The Oscars. Your Take?
A little off-topic but I thought I’d throw it in there for the heck of it. How about the winners? Surprised? How about those speeches or Seth MacFarlane’s hosting performance? I was pleasantly surprised by Ben Affleck’s emotional speech as I remember his first win nearly 16 years ago – it’s been an “interesting” past decade and a half for that guy, right? I’d share more of my thoughts on this topic but I think that would give me away as being more into movies and entertainment than I’d like to admit, at least for today.
Episode 3: Lisa Sabin-Wilson
Show Notes Lisa Sabin-Wilson started as a Movable Type user, and she got into WordPress because of the archived importing functionality. She is the author of WordPress for Dummies and WordPress Web Design for Dummies. Lisa enjoys writing in her free time, it helps her to increase her skills as a developer and a designer. She has just merged her company with WebDevStudios. You can find Lisa on Twitter at @lisasabinwilson. Sippin’ On Brad– Diet Duff Dre– Makers Mark Lisa– Jack Daniels Pressing Topics Conference Quotas – Parody site Interesting discussion on working remote vs. office. There are both pros and […]
Help Clarify Theme Names in Repo
Chip Bennett has done a great job of corralling all the feedback so far but needs more community input on the theme names that are allowed in the WordPress repo. Many of you already know the existing guidelines: Themes are not to use WordPress in their name. For example My WordPress Theme, WordPress AwesomeSauce, and AwesomeSauce for WordPress would not be accepted. After all, this is the WordPress Theme repository. Themes are not to use the term Theme in their name, such as: AwesomeSauce Theme. Same reason as above … it’s aTheme repository. Themes may use the WP acronym in the Theme name, such as WP AwesomeSauce. Themes are not to use version-specific, markup-related terms (e.g. HTML5, CSS3, etc.) in their name. Themes are not to use […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.26.2013
How’s everyone’s Tuesday going? It seems to be going well for some plugin developers today. There’s quite a few new and updated plugins to share on today’s roundup. I took a look at the Polaroid Slider Lite plugin and it has some pretty cool slide effects and I like the layered photo design of it. Check it out! Here’s the rest of the plugins for ya:
WP.com Premium Theme for Sale on Creative Market
Wow, now this is a first. It seems that the newest magazine theme that we covered recently is now available on Creative Market as one of their offerings: Our friends at Creative Market announced last week that all themes sold on their marketplace are now 100% GPL. We couldn’t be more thrilled about this and send hearty kudos to the gang at CM for doing the right thing. To show our support, we’ve jumped into the fray by offering for the first time ever a WordPress.com premium theme for self-hosted WordPress blogs. This is an interesting move for WordPress.com and Automattic as they are […]
Genericons: GPL Icons via Automattic
Not much to report here other than the fact that Automattic has released their vector icon fonts for blogs for use in your very own projects. You can add CSS effects if you’d like as well and they are calling it Genericons. It’s part of the upcoming 2013 theme that has gotten a lot of attention and there are already people that have vocally shared that they’re going to include it in their own themes as well.
Fighting to Be Your WordPress Managed Host
The bar is continuing to be raised this year as more and more players are jumping into the managed WordPress hosting space – heck, we even shared this morning about one that launched for NPOs and Churches! But the hosting business is a tricky one and it’s an industry that we at WP Daily are paying close attention to because it’s been scooped that even we are getting into the business (I share some candid thoughts in two recent interviews as well here, around minute 23 and here near the very end). I don’t believe that we’ll be competing as directly […]
Tips on Building a Great Team Around a Blog
Over the last few months I have had the pleasure of being a writer for WP Daily and it started to make me realize how important team work really is. Not only that, but the affect it is having on the blogging community. I have found great respect for John Saddington and his entire team as he leads all of us here to be an influence to all bloggers. I am a photographer and videographer and I follow many photo and video blogs pretty religiously because I am always wanting to learn about what is new and want to have […]
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