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Going Mobile & Local With WordPress

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February 7, 2013

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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?

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February 7, 2013

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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

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February 7, 2013

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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

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February 7, 2013

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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

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February 7, 2013

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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 […]

Perspective Change: Bad Days are Great Opportunities

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February 7, 2013

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All of us have had bad weeks and last week I had one of those myself. You ever find that everything you do seems to backfire on you? I just couldn’t get out of the cycle! Whether it had to do with work, family, friends, school or a personal project, we’ve all been there. That is life. The craziest part about it is that its where we learn the most, but its usually never a conscious realization. We are extremely uncomfortable when we are stressed out, receive bad news, or can’t quite figure out why, when, or how. It’s almost […]

Daily Theme & Plugin Roundup – 2.6.2013

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February 6, 2013

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This is definitely the best roundup ever! There are tons, let me repeat, tons of new and updated themes and plugins to share today. There’s a total of 40 plugins and 10 themes. That’s got to be a roundup record. Woot! No reason to delay, so go ahead and take a look at all these. Here they are!

DevPress Releases New Dashboard Plugin

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February 6, 2013

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Hot of DevPress is the new DP Dashboard plugin which has finally seen the light of day! There’s been a lot of talk about a better user experience in the backend of WordPress (as well as the post layer) and it’s neat to see some people put some of those ideas into action. Some of the features that you’ll readily see in the DP Dashboard ($40 per year subscription) are as follows: More user friendly menus Makes you feel good completing tasks Simplifies sub-tasks & actions Boring tasks made easy and beautiful No more squinting, bigger title font sizes Easy […]

WordPress Membership Plugin Decision Tree

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February 6, 2013

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Having trouble deciding which membership plugin you need for your next (or existing) WordPress-powered site? Sick of simply “googling” for some results and getting a bunch of crappy hop-links to plugins that might totally kill your site (or open it to nasty hackers)? Perhaps you need to refer to Chris Lema’s recent decision-tree infographic for membership plugins! Take a look after the jump:

7 Recent WP.TV Presentations You Need to See

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February 6, 2013

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WordPress.tv is continuing to crank out great presentations from all over the web and even more specifically from a number of the great WordCamps that have been completed in the last few weeks. There have been a handful of new presentations that you might want to check out – we’ve provided them here for quick viewing as well as their slides. Enjoy!

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