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April 27, 2013

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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 […]

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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April 20, 2013

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What a week. What a week. With a number of tragedies being reported all over the world it’s hard not to get pessimistic about the continuation of the human race. Actually, it’s hard to find motivation at times if you think about it too long. But great work is being done and there is more good out there than what’s being reported. So let’s keep it up folks! Stay positive – this too shall pass!

Can I Haz More TimThumb?

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April 5, 2013

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Remember the TimThumb scandal? Or rather, the big hullabaloo about vulnerability around TimThumb a year or so ago? Well, many themes still are using it as an integral part of their product, which doesn’t mean that they necessarily vulnerable but it’s worth noting that if you have an older version of a theme that you should probably update. Pagely has listed out a handful of them that are still using TimThumb within their architecture – so make sure you take note if you’re using a theme that does use it.

And… April Fools 2013 Begins…

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April 1, 2013

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In the words of our technical editor, https://twitter.com/tommcfarlin/status/318674262581968896 It’s true – April Fools’ day was once a pretty cool thing with clever pranks and bogus PR releases that tricked thousands. Now it’s turned into just another marketing tactic to get a few more eyeballs on a company, product, or service. It’s overplayed, overdone, and the “genius” of it all is all but completely gone. I’m sure I will, at some point, walk through a recap or roundup of the “Best April Fool’s Jokes of 2013!!!!!!!!!!11111111111” somewhere on Mashable or another similar social media site but at this point I think […]

Pagely Partners with WP101 Videos

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March 12, 2013

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How much time have you spent on educating your WordPress clients on how to use WordPress (or even your parents and friends)? Lots of time perhaps – too much time if you’re running a full-blown WordPress-centric business. Well, that’s where WP101 steps in and helps ease the pain of education by providing robust videos and tutorials covering nearly every aspect of WordPress and even technologies (like RSS) that aren’t a part of WordPress. Obviously this covers the bases and saves a lot of people an incredible amount of time – which is why Pagely has begun using their service for […]

How to Bribe WP Daily and Get a Killer Blog Post Out of It

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March 8, 2013

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And Pagely will show you how. We recently got an interesting care package from them and we weren’t quite sure what to expect. If it was something dangerous I at least wanted to capture it on film so as to provide proof of the source. Fortunately it was anything but dangerous – except for that mustache that I tried to get Chris to wear. Darn it – he almost did. Pagely (which is sporting a sweet new homepage look) has successfully bribed us to take images and a video of their company and products thus spawning a blog post. Those guys know how to win.

Fighting to Be Your WordPress Managed Host

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February 26, 2013

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The bar is continuing to be raised this year as more and more players are jumping into the managed WordPress hosting space – heck, we even shared this morning about one that launched for NPOs and Churches! But the hosting business is a tricky one and it’s an industry that we at WP Daily are paying close attention to because it’s been scooped that even we are getting into the business (I share some candid thoughts in two recent interviews as well here, around minute 23 and here near the very end). I don’t believe that we’ll be competing as directly […]

Hosting: We Need More Transparency, Education

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February 19, 2013

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It’s come to the forefront again as more than a few services that power WordPress sites specifically have experienced some downtime in the last week. As Jason Cohen from WP Engine rightly states, 100% uptime is “perfection unattainable”: Nobody wants downtime, and customers who are paying for a hosting solution have a right to ask and be informed about a company’s history of downtime. In particular, people want to know who has the least uptime, or if there is a company that has achieved 100% uptime. The reality is that 100% uptime, while the goal that every company sets its […]

The WordPress Weekend Roundup

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February 16, 2013

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Another crazy week this week, right? I feel like there’s a never-ending flood of great content that’s being created about WordPress and related topics of conversation. It makes our jobs incredible easy and incredibly difficult at times because we have to identify the topics that we want to cover more fully and the ones that we can only point to and say “Go check this out!” In anycase, here’s your weekly roundup of conversations that you may have missed:

The Pagely Yeti and Luke Skywalker

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