Happy Monday everyone! I hope you had a great start to the new work week. I’ve got quite a few new and updated plugins to share in today’s roundup. I think the Lorem Ipsum plugin deserves a good look. Especially if you are a theme designer and want to generate loads of content quickly. Here’s the whole list for today:
The new Twenty Thirteen theme is now in WordPress Core, as Mark Jaquith has just announced over on Make WordPress Core. It’s a pretty big departure from what we usually expect out of a default bundled theme in terms of colour, but my first impression is very positive. There’s a demo site available for those who want to take a quick tour. You can also install it yourself if you’re into installing WordPress trunk from SVN.
Fascinating how blog platforms come and go, right? As many of you have been made aware, Posterous has gone the way of the deadpool and will be permanently closed in less than 2 months time: On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit. Right now and over the next couple months until April 30th, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, […]
Have you ever wanted to install WordPress on Heroku? Well, now you can with a simple buildpack developed by MChung. Wait a second you say – isn’t Heroku for Ruby applications? Ah, you must have missed out on the Celadon Cedar stack which makes this much easier to do. You can, as a developer, install and run any language or choice if you’d like. Tada! It’ll use the following stack:
Extending the functionality of your WordPress website is as simple as installing a good plugin. But what if you need a custom functionality not available by plugin? With a little understanding of PHP and WordPress actions and filters (wait don’t leave me yet!) you too can add helpful features to your own WordPress site. In fact, one of the first plugins I wrote was to solve a problem for my employer for which there was not extant plugin. Let’s take a look at a simple WordPress function present in every installation of WordPress since version 3.0. A function is a […]
It wasn’t ever so long ago websites could be built and left untouched for an entire year and hardly anyone noticed. Web 2.0 came on the scene and everything began to change. Literally. Static websites died and the web became fluid. It changes everyday. Updates are commonplace for desktop apps and WordPress alike. Everyone is blogging, everyone is sharing, everything is on the move. However, there are plenty of businesses and those in the market for a website that still think the web works like it did ten years ago. Can’t you just pay for a website and be done […]
Alright, you’ve installed WordPress, got your theme looking great, created a few pages, and now you’re ready to start blogging. Before you hit “Publish,” here’s one step you don’t want to overlook: setting up your categories and tags. Here we are going to take a closer look at how to use categories to help you and your readers get the most out of your blog. And we’re going to be sure to avoid a common mistake that most newbies make!
We have a couple of familiar faces on today’s roundup. The two new themes from yesterday’s roundup have already been updated. Make sure to get their updates if you installed them on your site yesterday. There’s also some new plugins as well today. One of them looks like something I have seen people ask for before, Remove More Jump. It removes the anchor tag for the more link so when someone clicks on the link, they don’t get moved down the page, but rather left at the top of the page. Take a look at the others too!
The weekend is here and so are some new plugins and themes to share on today’s roundup. I was taking a look at the new theme Chunk. I really like the clean design and the use of bright highlight colors and the gradient on top. Nicely done! Let us know if you guys try out any of these new plugins or themes.
Ok, I’m extrapolating here based off Pingdom’s “Internet Users and Timezone” but I would have to imagine it’s pretty darn close, right? Check out this interesting infographic:
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