Another crazy week this week, right? I feel like there’s a never-ending flood of great content that’s being created about WordPress and related topics of conversation. It makes our jobs incredible easy and incredibly difficult at times because we have to identify the topics that we want to cover more fully and the ones that we can only point to and say “Go check this out!” In anycase, here’s your weekly roundup of conversations that you may have missed:
Plugins, Plugins, Plugins! (in my best Steve Ballmer impression) I have tons of both new and updated plugins to share with ya’ll today in our roundup. I hope you all got your WordPress related gifts from your valentines yesterday. If not, I hope yesterday and today’s plugins will cheer you up. Here they are:
It’s Friday again! This week I bring you Reddle, a great free theme that was added to the WordPress.org theme directory by non other than Automattic. Reddle is a responsive minimalistic content first theme much like the Twenty Eleven and Twenty twelve theme Reddle has a top banner that you can choose to use or not use. Everything about Reddle’s minimal design elegantly adapts to how you want to use your blog and what you want to use it for. Want to use your blog for a simple one-column link blog? A two-column business site with a custom header and […]
A new bar has been set in terms of price over at the Premium Theme marketplace at WordPress.com as Further Theme has been released with a starting price point of $150.00 US. This makes it the most expensive WordPress.com theme currently available with Newsy coming in at second ($130) and Elemin at $115. All three are obviously marketed toward the more content rich and “news-ish” types of bloggers and website owners, but the price clearly puts it at the very top. The question is – is it worth the sticker price and sticker shock? The theme itself looks incredibly robust and has all […]
When most people start off blogging they don’t know a thing about coding. After all content is king, right (or design if you ask some people but that’s a debate for someone else)? Whatever the most important element is, for most people it isn’t coding. After all, a good blogging platform should have low entry requirements and highly usable interface where any noob can just turn up and start using it. WordPress, of course, fills this description with it’s visual text editor, themes, plugins and widgets that can help people get a good standard site with no knowledge of coding…but […]
It happened quick and I was overwhelmed with all the details that come with acquiring a sizable blog property. I had acquired ChurchMag from 8BIT and there was a lot to sort out. I had migrated the site from 8BIT’s server to my own, and right when I thought everything was sailing along with no problem, I was contacted by my new web host telling me I needed to upgrade. The upgrade required an internal migration and would be done overnight. No problem, right? Wrong. There was a hiccup and my site was down. My new web host took care of everything quickly […]
There have been a few articles here on WP Daily reviewing some of the current mobile blogging apps available for iOS, namely Poster and WordPress. While each author presented what they liked about the apps, they also presented some of the shortcomings found therein. I myself enjoy blogging from my iPad and iPhone due in part to their portability and convenience but also in part because my notebook is an absolute clunker. So after reading these articles and gaining some experience with these two particular apps, plus iA Writer, I began to wonder: What would make the perfect mobile blogging app? You see […]
Happy Valentines day everyone! I have some a new theme and some new plugins to share with you on today’s roundup. I’m a bit fan of writing my posts in full screen mode without distractions, so the new plugin Distraction Free Writing mode Themes looks pretty interesting to me. How about you guys? Any of these catch your eye or attention?
Pippin has announced the release of the newest module and extension available for his very successful Easy Digital Downloads plugin – recurring payments! With this module you’ll be able to have people sign-up for subscriptions for recurring revenue on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly payment cycle. You’ll get payment tracking, reporting, limitation for downloads for users, and even find integration with the Restrict Content system that he has. Although it’s only available for PayPal Standard at this time he’s looking into bringing PayPal Pro and Stripe integration soon.
Occasionally Tom, our Technical Editor here at WP Daily,does something good enough to make it here on the blog (just kidding!) and he’s recently made an updated to one of his plugins, Comment Images, that I thought we’d try here on the blog. What is it? Simple enough: Enables your readers to easily add images to their comments. There’s not much more to it to be honest. I uploaded it this morning and I gave it a quick test – it works, as intended:
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