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 […]
What Would Make The Perfect Mobile Blogging App?
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 […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.14.2013
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?
Easy Digital Downloads Adds Recurring Payments
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.
Upload Images to Comments!
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:
An Interview With Jason Schuller, Creator of Press75
Today our WPOI (Word Person of Interest) is Jason Schuller. Jason is self-taught WordPress designer and developer, who started both WPelements.com and Press75. His perspective on the future of WordPress is much different than most of our interviewees, so you’ll definitely want to see what he has to say.
Official WordPress.com Theme Guide Released
ThemeShaper has officially announced the release of the first installment of WordPress.com’s Theme Guide! This is pretty much a must-read resource for those engaging with WordPress Theming, especially if you plan on working on some that might be commercial. Michael Fields’ describes how this makes a lot of sense considering how valuable organic conversation over the years is difficult to parse through for those seeking best practices or practical advice of theming. And, of course, it’s nearly impossible to weed through it so as to make sure that you’re not asking a question that’s already been answered! Our peer reviews […]
Looking for 2 Volunteers for GSoC!
Jen Mylo shared on the Make Community boards that they are looking for two serious volunteers to help administrate GSoC: Will need two volunteers to be the admins for GSoC, overseeing our application, mentor wrangling, and if we get selected, student wrangling. Good project management skills required, familiarity with core contributors a plus. The admin volunteers would be coordinated via the community group and would work with devs across core, themes, and plugins as needed. This would be some serious work but if you’ve got some time it could be an incredible help. Note that you would really need to know the core […]
Perfect for March Madness: BracketPress
Well, there really is something for everything under the sun in terms of WordPress, right? Well, the geniuses over at BracketPress have perfectly timed this release of a new plugin that’ll capitalize on the absolute insanity that is March Madness and the NCAA Basketball Tournament: BracketPress is a free WordPress plugin which enables site owners to run their own Division One NCAA tournament pool. Designed with businesses in mind, this tool enables you to engage and market to your website visitors in a fun and meaningful way. All the while, keeping traffic on YOUR site, with YOUR branding. Yikes! It really […]
gdgt's Acquisition Forces Us to Up Our Game
This is a rallying cry for us, WordPress! Yesterday’s news that AOL is acquiring tech recommendation site gdgt.com didn’t make much of a blip on my radar, until I read these quotes from gdgt co-founder Ryan Block: We’ve always considered ourselves a design and engineering company first. So part of what I’m going to be doing is…expanding the scope of what we’re working on … We’re going to apply the same sensibilities around creating a great holistic product experience to other sites around the [AOL tech] portfolio. The bar has been raised in general around design, engineering, site experience, features — all […]
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