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:
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Noel Tock, founder of Happy Tables, had a recent talk about Going Beyond WordPress that I thought was worth a view. Noel has been the center of attention for his views on such things as the WordPress.com homepage and also the rethinking the WordPress Admin and has a unique and fresh perspective on things. In an interview on NetMagazine early last year Noel shares his thoughts on a better Restaurant website: The biggest problem is also my pet peeve; a restaurant owner thinking that the ambience and décor of their restaurant should be reflected on the website, usually with no regard for standards, accessibility […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0fbAObdEI&feature=youtu.be Chris Wilson, one of our more prolific contributors and community members here at WP Daily, sat down with me and asked me an assortment of questions related to blogging, how I got started (uploading .html files via FTP), my morning routines, good and bad habits, and even getting me to tease out some of what’s coming down the pipe for WP Daily and 8BIT. I’ve gotten to know Chris more over the last few months and I love taking the time to hang with our community members – it was a pleasure. Here’s what we covered in a nutshell:
Happy Monday! It’s definitely quite a full roundup for today. There are new and updated themes and plugins. Not sure if it’s a record, but it sure is close. Check them all out!
More and more details are coming out about Google project glass (now know as just glass) and I’m excited (though less excited about the price) about the potential for Glass. But what impact might this technology have on the blogging community. Let’s look at some features and then I’ll open the floor to you.
I’ll take anything that helps me move faster in my development cycle and things like this mobile boilerplate are awesome, instantly worth the time investigating whether or not it’s up to snuff and quickly getting a bookmark if it puts out well. Similar to the full HTML5 boilerplate, this mobile one comes with analytics (Google Analytics), icons of touch devices, normalize.css (an alternative to CSS resets), a minimal jQuery-like library, and even Modernizr detection. You’ll even get some apache settings to create quality site performance, which you can get here, a node build script, and even an ant build script.
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