We love giving free loot away, especially loot that’s of high quality! Well, we’ve got another killer giveaway with Brad William’s new book, Professional WordPress: Design and Development. Brad has generously offered 5 copies of the book in either physical form or electronic per your preference! Rad! It’s super easy to enter:
Wow! What a day! There’s some great conversation happening over here on our site today. I wish we got as many comments about new and updated themes and plugins as we do issues of GPL. Good stuff! We do have some new and updated plugins to share today though. Let us know if you are the author or have used any of these. Here they are:
Some may argue that 2013 is the year of the responsive WordPress design and I can see it from both sides but I can’t imagine that anyone would disagree that this is definitely the year of managed hosting for WordPress. The trend is nothing but up-and-to-the-right as more and more theme shops, individuals, and entrepreneurs are considering adding a hosted layer to their core offering and services. We’re keeping track of all of it here at WP Daily! We’re also trying to reach out to some of the key players and get their perspective on how they’ve seen the market […]
I was really disappointed to hear recently that one of our ThemeForest authors, Jake Caputo aka Designcrumbs, had been barred from supporting, speaking at, and volunteering at WordCamps. It’s been a couple of years since Envato itself was restricted from supporting these events. As a company I feel there are plenty of other ways we can still support the WordPress ecosystem beyond the official Camps – e.g. meetups, teaching, and so on. But in the intervening time, I was happy that our authors continued attending and speaking at WordCamps – which was great. Many, like Jake, are amongst the most […]
Ever bought a stationary bike the entire family was ecstatic about using, only to see it turn into an expensive clothes rack? Then a few years later you finally decide to get serious about it and start spinning? In WordPress Universe, post formats are like that bike. The main problem with post formats is that they make theme developers do a lot of guess work. If you search Post formats Codex page, you’ll find words could and may thirteen times (combined), should is there only once, not a perfect implementation of Decisions not Options principle. The whole idea behind post formats was to create a […]
According to Wikipedia.org, Cascading Style Sheets (aka CSS) has been around since December of 1996, so a whole lot of people know the basics of web design using CSS. WordPress was introduced in May of 2003, so almost as many people have heard of it, but a lot of people I talk to think it’s only a blog platform, so they dismiss it without learning about its power. So, what if you’ve decided to give WordPress a second look, but you don’t know all the details of building a theme from scratch, but do know a little something about CSS? […]
How’s everyone’s Tuesday? If it’s your first day back after the long weekend, I hope you had a productive one and got back into the groove. I unfortunately have not been able to, due to a sinus infection. Ugh. What’s the cure? Some newly pressed WordPress plugins. That’s what. I’ve got a fever. And the only prescription is more plugins. Seeing this list of new plugins brings a smile and makes me feel a bit better. How about you? Take a look at the list and let me know:
I am a super-fan of MailChimp and their Mandrill app already so to hear that they’ve released a free plugin that will help site owners use their mailing architecture for the average consumer I was stoked! In fact, we’ve been using Mandrill here at WP Daily since Day #1 and we’ve been very happy with the service:
Sheesh. The last time I used Joomla was… … … oh snap, I can’t even remember. But I do remember using it when it first came out as I was looking for an alternative to Mambo CMS (oh wow, when was the last time you heard Mambo?). But there’s a place for Joomla as many large enterprises and businesses are using it in some clever and useful ways. Here’s a top-level overview infographic to compare to two side-by-side:
One of the things that we’re obviously tracking as we grow our community here is our ability to do well in all areas of search, from organic to direct links, to mentions on social media properties, and more. We’re tracking it all (as you should too) so that we can begin to optimize our blog this year. It will take a lot of effort and take time but the payoff is always worth the time spent. No one on staff here would ever call anyone a SEO Expert or Professional but we’ve been around the block to be dangerous enough. […]
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