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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the last few years, there has been a growing debate about what should and shouldn’t be included in a WordPress theme. Generally-speaking, the conversations have always circled around features: There are those that believe every feature you could ever imagine should be included like text color, font selector, and more. On the flip-side, there are those that feel WordPress themes should be finite and extra features should only be added when it’s niche specific. I don’t want to necessarily re-hash those major arguments but I do want to look at it from another slightly-different angle (namely the marketplace and public) for a […]
Received a tip the other day about a very a neat application (or plugin?) that’s going to be released that appears to be marketed as a management system for online marketing, called CoSchedule. For example, you’ll be able to have a team-oriented approach to your marketing calendar so as to not duplicate effort and to timely release news and marketing collateral to your segment, users, and community. This would include blog posts, email campaigns, social media messages, and more from one interface. To be sure, there are a lot of applications and web services that exist that help do this […]
Happy #humpday everyone! Today’s roundup has 20 new WordPress plugins. There’s a couple of WooCommerce plugins, so make sure to check them out if you are running it on your site. Here they are:
Justin Tadlock shared some of the community around Theme Hybrid have released three (yes, 3!) free responsive themes that are pretty attractive looking, I must say. They are Shell, Spine, and Satu. Take a look:
It seems almost every other theme that I have seen lately has a responsive design and this is probably going to be the year where it really becomes a staple in our industry. I really would like to talk about the different options and hear from theme developers out there what you are doing: Are you using a responsive framework, or are you rolling your own with media queries? There are quite a few frameworks and responsive grids out there, but I just want to briefly talk about the few of the top players.
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