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Devs Dominate A Day Of REST Attendee List
A Day of REST, a conference focused entirely around the REST API, was held yesterday at Conway Hall in London. According to event organizer Petya Raykovska, 221 people from all over the world attended the conference. “We had representatives from many WordPress companies — Automattic, 10up, XWP, required, Alley Interactive, Pragmatic, and Inpsyde,” Raykovska told Torque. “We also had representatives from big-name clients like the New York Times, Time Inc. UK, Condé Nast, and more.” A follow-up survey went out late last night to gain feedback on the conference. “The feedback we’ve been getting has been great so far — people loved the […]
NonprofitWP: How To Build A Nonprofit Site From Start To Finish
A couple weeks ago, Mark Root-Wiley released his guide to WordPress geared toward nonprofit organizations, and now he is trying to get the resource in the hands of burgeoning or established nonprofits. NonprofitWP is an easy-to-follow tutorial for setting up a professional-looking site while keeping the costs low. “A good WordPress website is easy to manage and maintain, but a bad one is time consuming and expensive to maintain,” Root-Wiley said on his blog. “Making smart decisions when you get started with a new WordPress site is key to avoiding headaches later.” The site walks you through domain and hosting, themes and […]
How The REST API Unites The Internet: An Interview With Jack Lenox
People from all over are gathered together in London today to attend A Day of REST, a conference dedicated to all things REST API. Speakers included contributors, people putting it into practice, and Automatticians. Jack Lenox, a Design Engineer at WordPress.com, was one of the speakers at the conference. He talked about “how you can use the REST API in your WordPress development flow right now.” In this interview, Lenox talks about how the REST API unites the Internet and what this means for the future of WordPess. Though the REST API is still in early stages, it is beginning to change WordPress. “At […]
WordPress Revamps Testimonials Page Using #Ilovewp
Perhaps you cut your teeth on web development with your first WordPress blog. Maybe you paid your way through college developing WordPress sites for small businesses. Or maybe you attended your first WordCamp and instantly found yourself at home with a welcoming community of like-minded people. Whatever your reason for loving WordPress, Matt Mullenweg wants to know. Share your WordPress story for a chance to have it featured on the new testimonials page. Using the #ilovewp hashtag, share a blog post with your WordPress journey on Twitter or Facebook. Since its launch in 2002, the open-source software has been freely […]
WordPress.org Announces First Ever Worldwide Contributor Day
Need plans for next weekend? Gather some developer friends, a computer, and a pizza, and participate in WordPress.org’s first ever worldwide contributor weekend. Every month, WordPress.org will announce a theme and anyone, regardless of skill level is encouraged to try their hand at contributing. This month, the challenge is centered around the Support Team. You can either gather with a group of people or participate alone, but the objective is to answer 20 questions throughout the weekend. If you don’t get through all 20, that’s okay, just getting your feet wet is enough. The idea is to try to answer the […]
Stash Live Available In BackupBuddy 7.0
BackupBuddy was the first plugin to make it easy to backup, restore data, and move WordPress sites, and yesterday iThemes announced its biggest update yet — Stash Live. Stash Live, slated for release in the near future, makes real-time backups of your website. According to the announcement, “The new Stash Live feature makes a real-time backup of your site, streaming your database and files over to our new Live online service where you can make a Snapshot (a BackupBuddy zip file) of your full site, your database, your plugins, and your themes.” From there, you can download the Snapshots and keep them […]
The Future Of The REST API: An Interview With Daniel Bachhuber
A Day of REST, the developer conference on the WP REST API, is next week. It features speakers that contributed to the API directly and some who put it into practice. It is the ultimate place to hone your skills as a developer and learn a lot about the REST API and how to use it. Daniel Bachhuber contributed 128 hours to the project and knows a thing or two about how it began and what the future holds. The Beginning Of The REST API Bachhuber joined the project in Aug. 2014 at Contributor’s Day at WordCamp NYC, where he, Joe […]
What’s New In WordPress: 1/18/2016
Have a news tip or an upcoming event you’d like to see in our weekly ‘What’s New In WordPress’ roundup? Write us at [email protected]. 5 Niche Conferences You Can’t Miss In 2016: WordCamps are a great way to meet people, but there are even smaller conferences out there that are just as fun and perfect for networking. See if any of these are right for you. How To Prevent Image Hotlinking in WordPress: Hotlinking is an annoying issue but many times the people who are doing it don’t know it’s wrong. How To Move Your Site Correctly From WordPress.com To A […]
Lessons From The Rise of WordPress
Today, WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System, and is used by millions of websites. Supporting the likes of MTV, UPS and Blackberry, WordPress indeed is a global phenomenon, and its popularity on the internet is unparalleled and unmatched. However, even though today WordPress is the best in its league in terms of popularity, it had humble beginnings and it was once just a modest blogging tool. In fact, the success story of WordPress is like no other. So, what lessons can one learn from the monumental rise of WordPress in a short span of a little over a decade? […]

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