Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. This week we talk about A Day Of REST Boston’s new diversity scholarship, the corporate sponsored workshops at WordCamp Europe, and our new WordPress word search puzzle.
One of the benefits of WordPress is that you can use it to build pretty much any site you want. Portfolio websites, blogs, business websites, you name it. No wonder so many famous companies, celebrities, and brands rely on WordPress. Another area where WordPress excels is eCommerce. As we showed you in our WooCommerce beginner tutorial, building an online shop with WordPress is quick and painless. In fact, WooCommerce powers an estimated 42 percent of all eCommerce sites on the web. If that’s not impressive, I don’t know what is. Yet, if you have never built an online shop with […]
Twenty-sixteen was a great year for WordCamps and WordPress meetups. According to Matt Mullenweg in his 2016 State of the Word, there were 115 total WordCamps and 3,193 meetups. That’s a lot of people coming together to celebrate WordPress. Apart from the traditional WordCamps, the year also saw a rise in niche conferences aimed at specific aspects of WordPress. Educators who use WordPress, eCommerce enthusiasts, marketers, and developers found their place at a variety of conferences. This year has even more niche conferences for users of all kinds to love. Here are six niche conferences you can’t miss this year. WP Campus When: […]
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]. WordPress Get Page: Take a look at the new “Get WordPress” page, which is much easier to navigate. Star Wars Day: May the Fourth is international Star Wars Day, and the WordPress community celebrated big time. How did you celebrate? WooComerce Connect Available For Testing: The new feature makes connecting to WooCommerce more user-friendly, and is ready for alpha testing. WordPress vs. Drupal: Download this free whitepaper written by Torque Contributor Nick Schäferhoff about the differences between […]
You have probably seen the hashtag #IloveWP that is currently sweeping the WordPress nation. It’s a call to contribute to the new WordPress.org testimonial page, which has been woefully out of date for a while. (In fact, some of the testimonials in the version that is being replaced dated back to 2003.) To populate the new page, Matt Mullenweg has posted a call to the community to share your WordPress story with the #IloveWP tag attached and submit them as testimonial material. So, if you’d like your story to be featured on WordPress.org, here’s your chance. Besides a shot at […]
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