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 […]
So, What the Heck is CoSchedule?
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 […]
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.13.2013
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:
3 Free Responsive Designs via Theme Hybrid
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:
Responsive Frameworks, Themes
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.
Tag Cloud of WordPress Plugin Names
WordPress cloud of WordPress plugin names for WordPress in WordPress i.imgur.com/kkJhRVL.png — Andrey Savchenko (@Rarst) February 12, 2013 Fascinating, right? Full image here:
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.12.2013
There are tons of new and updated plugins to share on today’s roundup. There’s even 3 new themes you should take a look at too. I don’t think it broke our previous record, but it sure was close. Here they are:
10 Reasons Why Automattic is a Model Startup
It’s no secret that we’re super-fans of Automattic, Inc. and WordPress. We kind of bleed this stuff, you know? And we’re not alone in that as many of you are fanatics as well! But we try our very best to be critical of what we report on and unbiased in our approach – it’s a line we toe every single day but the tension, as they say, is a good one. One of the things that I do besides edit this blog and write like it’s going out of style is help my team grow as a startup and organization […]
Pinterest for Commercial Theme Customer Showcase?
As commercial theme providers continue to innovate and experiment with their business models and find solutions that meet their demanding customer needs I like to canvas and call-out implementations that are both creative and clever. For instance, many commercial theme providers have a customer showcase where they share some of their “best” customers who have developed or designed off the base theme into a stunning beauty and wonder. Or, they will share some marquee clients and customers who are either big name individuals or companies that are using their product. All of this is with the intent of not only […]
Making a Blog Profitable and Sustainable: Niche and Scale
As we continue to think about how we are going to grow WP Daily in a way that makes sense for both us, as a business, and our users and community, we’re taking a critical look at existing monetization models as well as beginning to strategize about creating new ones. The fact is that blog monetization isn’t anything new and most advertising and revenue generation has been well documented as well as tested and vetted so I’m not going to hash out the extensive different models and whether or not they will work for us but I did want to […]
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