Markdown is a simplified formatting language commonly used for easy text-to-HTML conversion. Quite simply, it’s a human readable and writable form of HTML. It’s simple, clean, fast, and flexible. And its extended portability and precision, coupled with its simplistic implementation, make it a favorable tool. Markdown has come a long way since it was first created in 2004 by John Gruber. Today, it’s widely adopted across the web. It empowers writers and bloggers with the ability to write their HTML, without the use of overcomplicated and visually exhausting code. Similarly, Markdown is increasingly popular among a more technical crowd as well. In fact, it’s the central language to both GitHub and Stack Overflow—two […]
6 WordPress Plugins to Make Your Website Mobile Friendly
OBox Mobile If you want to make your website appear flawless on mobile devices, you should embrace OBox Mobile. This simple plugin will help you make your WordPress site compatible with almost all mobile devices, regardless of their operating systems. The best thing about this plugin is that it doesn’t take much effort to set up its configuration. It also comes fully loaded with a set of crazy color schemes, pre-included social media buttons, adverts, sliders, and more. MobilePress If you’re looking for a simple plugin that doesn’t come with all the “bells and whistles,” then your search should end […]
Updates to the Jetpack Plugin
Late last week, the Automattic team released the newest version of Jetpack, which included a few notable updates worth taking a look at which should make some people’s lives easier. Full disclosure: I use Jetpack, but not all the time. For content-driven sites I find it useful, but with larger sites I’ll usually leave it off. That’s just where I stand. Markdown Support I remember when John O’Nolan first pitched Ghost to the WordPress community, one of his major sticking points was a cluttered post editor with lack of Markdown support. With the newest version of Jetpack, Markdown is now […]
Jetpack v2.3.1: Lunch-Break Update Time!
It’s that time again and if you have a few moments during your lunch-break today then why don’t you go ahead and update your site (and perhaps all those other sites that you have) with Jetpack’s v2.3.1 update? This one’s important folks as it’s a security and maintenance update (highlight on the first part of “security”!) and so sooner the better in these types of things. Here’s the run-down of what’s going to be updated for you:
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
I hope you are having a very chill and relaxed weekend as we walk into the 4th of July week! Many of you are probably traveling this week and I hope you travel well and safely. Perhaps most importantly is that you can get offline and just enjoy family, life, and other such things that are vastly more important than *gasp* WordPress! Hahaha!
10 Plugins That I Install After I Install WordPress
People start looking for right plugins & themes right after setting up their blogs with WordPress as most people want a little more functionality than what is right out of the box. High quality plugins widen scope for success of a WP blog and site (but you already knew that). Thus, the research for credible plugins is required. Here is a list of 10 plugins that I constantly install post my WordPress installation that I’ve found that helps me enhance the effectiveness for my clients and bloggers that I support. Of course, you’re responsible to review these for yourself for […]
Feel the Power of OMNISEARCH via Jetpack
Jetpack is continuing to release products updates and millions of people got the notification yesterday that they should probably update to version 2.3. But did most of them update without taking a second look at what they were adding to their experience? Perhaps, perhaps not, which would be too bad because this release see the introduction of Omnisearch, a powerful global search feature that has a lot of potential:
Bachhuber Retires from 7 Plugins Including Edit Flow
Daniel Bachhuber, the very talented developer that left Automattic just a little while ago and then joined Human Made, has shared the news that he’s retiring his role with 7 plugins and having Automattic claim ownership of them: Edit Flow Co-Authors Plus Ad Code Manager P2 Resolved Posts Document Feedback Rewrite Rules Inspector Custom JavaScript Editor The first one, Edit Flow, is one of the best plugins that I’ve ever used and is a current install on this blog WP Daily. Daniel makes mention that specifically the VIP team will take control over continued development, maintenance, support, and more, adding that he […]
Jetpack 2.2.5 Updated, Small Bug Fixes
Jetpack announced another small update to now version 2.2.5. This past week has been an interesting one with a bunch of updates to Jetpack. via the changelog: Enhancement: Stats: Counting of registered users’ views can now be enabled for specific roles Bug Fix: Security tightening for metadata support in the REST API Bug Fix: Update the method for checking Twitter Timeline widget_id and update coding standards Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Allow the content width setting to be larger than the theme’s content width Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Fix possible missing argument warning. I’m liking the enhancement that was also thrown […]
The WordPress Weekend Roundup
It’s been a pretty crazy week here at 8BIT and WP Daily but that doesn’t mean that it hasn’t bee fun – we’re having tons of fun getting tons of stuff done, I just wish we had an extra few hours in each day to get it all sorted! This probably isn’t too far from what you guys are experiencing so I’ll just leave it at that, but I hope your resting his weekend and finding time to hang out with those that matter, like your friends, your family, and your bed. I know that I’ve already had my share […]
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