Another Friday another free theme! Simple Photo is a responsive theme that is… well, simple and highlights photography or your awesome design work. Built by dessign and inspired by Thomas Hawk’s photography. It has a place for your social links and easy navigation.
Offerchat: Live Chat Tool for Theme Shops?
It’s no secret that the WP Daily team here is also the company behind a premium theme and to be honest, thank goodness, as it’s the only way we’re financing this blog for the time being, which is “costing” me plenty of hours of work every single day. I love it though and the community that we’re developing as well as all the amazing contributing authors has been phenomenal has been more than enough to sustain our collective interests! But I still do spend ample amount of time working on our product, the business, and everything else that a startup requires […]
Jetpack: Why No Google+?
The big news recently, if you haven’t heard, is that Google+ is a really big deal. I know that I even made fun of it when it first came out but you can’t make fun of it when it becomes the #2 most active social networking platform, just behind the obvious #1 Facebook. Yeah, that’s right. Unbelievable statistics and the proof is in the pudding: Google+, who despite being branded a failure or ghost town by large portions of the media, grew in terms of active usage by 27% to 343m users to become the number 2 social platform. Interestingly […]
An Interview With Thomas Griffin, Creator of Soliloquy
Thomas Griffin is all over the place. And I mean that in the best way possible. He’s an expert WordPress developer of both themes and plugins. He’s a talented golfer. He’s a WordCamp speaker. Oh yeah, did we mention he’s the guy behind Soliloquy? Check out the interview below to catch a glimpse into his skill and personality as today’s WPOI (Word Person of Interest):
Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.7.2013
Hey guys! It’s the best day of the week (in my opinion)! I have some new and updated plugins to share on today’s roundup. It took a look at the php snippet for theme designers plugin and it looks like a nice little utility. Here’s the rest of the list. Anyone else using any of the update plugins?
Going Mobile & Local With WordPress
The rise of the smartphone has been good for WordPress developers. Millions of clients have used WordPress to transition to mobile and grow their businesses. But going mobile is a double-edge sword. As clients go mobile they get more sophisticated and want to take full advantage of smartphone features – but WordPress doesn’t support many of these out-of-the-box. So what do you do when a client says: I want a customer to see nearby stores on their phone! Or something similar? How can you make sure that you win the job rather than an app developer? In this article I’m […]
What Would the Curriculum of WordPress School Be?
What if there were WordPress School? Would you take courses in there or would you like to teach in there? Or both? I know I would. John Saddington wrote an article about it and asked us to dream a little. Well, let’s go off road! One of the first thing we need to do is curriculum of WordPress school. There are many sources where you can read (Codex, WPTuts+, Pippins Plugins, Theme Hybrid) and learn about WordPress. You can attend WordCamps, local meetups and (future) training workshops but that’s not we’re after. Our goal is to study WordPress basics and […]
Frank: Theme Tested for Performance
P.J. Onori had to expect that his free WordPress Theme on Smashing Magazine was going to force a lot of pageviews, right? Of course! SmashingMag is a huge site with tons of followers and readers and has been known to tank much smaller sites when referenced. P.J. was ready. In fact, he had created his theme called Frank specifically for speed and performance under fire and he wisely chose the “demo” site as his own personal blog as a living example of the theme. Of course, he can’t really ever change his theme now that it’s locked up as the […]
Using WordPress For Application Development
One of the things that we’ve been discussing more and more here on WP Daily – and in the rest of the WordPress community, for that matter – is viewing WordPress and a framework or platform for developing web applications. Heck, we’ve even begun to share a few web applications that are built specifically using WordPress. The thing is, we’ve not actually spent time talking about why WordPress is a viable application platform, how it compares to other frameworks that are already available, and how to actually being using WordPress for Application Development.
New Tech, Blog Monetization, WordPress and You
The unfortunate truth is that most blogs make money from ad revenue which are inflexible, ineffective, and intrusive. Some people have come up with interesting solutions, such as the concept of sponsorship or subscriptions, but we are far from a solution. There have also been other, less beneficient, solutions out there. Championed by individuals like Darren Rowse, new tips and tricks on how to “monetize your blog” exploded on the Internet. The premise was fairly basic. You should provide a “value” to your audience other then your writing. Rowse used his own blog, Problogger as an example. The value that […]
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