January 2012
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 3.3.1 Released →
WordPress 3.3.1 has been released. This is the first minor update since the release of WordPress 3.3 and contains 15 fixes, as well as an important security vulnerability fix.
This update…
WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release →
WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua…
Matt: Introducing Jazz-Quotes.com →
I attended an interesting high school called the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, or HSPVA for short. More than computers my main passion when I joined was the saxophone,…
December 2011
WPTavern: WordPress Developers That Are Hiring →
Yesterday, I received an email from a freelancer who wanted to know if I had any places I could point him to to get more WordPress gigs. The economy is still bad, people are still collecting…
Weblog Tools Collection: WooThemes Survey Results →
The results are in from the WooThemes survey. Presented in a handy infographic, this year’s survey brought to life some interesting facts from the 2,000+ WordPress users who took it.
Among…
Andrew Nacin: In Open Source, Learn to Decide →
Dave Winer tweeted a photo of a weird, verbose, and confusing Android options screen. I love Android, but like most open source projects, it falls victim to the proliferation of options, rather…
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases... →
New plugins
LoginRadius (Social Login) for WordPress enables social login on WordPress websites.
WPToFacebook lets you choose contents (manually or automatically) to be shown in one or more…
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress 3.3 Released →
WordPress 3.3 is finally here and ready to be downloaded or upgraded to from the Updates section of your blog’s Dashboard.
Of all the changes, the most noticeable are the simplified toolbar…
Dev Blog: WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 3 →
The third (and hopefully final!) release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available. Since RC2, we’ve done a handful of last-minute tweaks and bugfixes that we felt were necessary.
Our goal is…
Weblog Tools Collection: WordPress Plugin Releases... →
New plugins
Benchmark Email Lite creates a newsletter signup form widget.
Custom Category Templates allows you to define custom templates for category views.
Updated plugins
FoxyPress…
WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2 →
The second release candidate for WordPress 3.3 is now available!
As the first release candidate was well-received, we think we’re really close to a final release. Primarily, we’ve ensured that new…
WordPress.tv: Kevin Potts: Web Performance... →
WordPress.tv: Tom Jenkins: Understanding the... →
WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1 →
Release Candidate stage means we think we’re done and are about ready to launch this version, but are doing one last check before we officially call it. So take a look, and as always, please check…
WordPress.tv: Gloria Antonelli – Improving Support... →
November 2011
WPTavern: Upgrading And Backwards Compatibility... →
Some interesting numbers have been published by Dev4Press.com which show just over 50% of sites reporting data back to the WordPress.org mother ship are registering as using version 3.0. 10.8% for…
WPTavern: WPCandy Set To Publish First WP Centric... →
Ryan Imel of WPCandy.com has announced the launch of a quarterly magazine focused entirely on WordPress called the WordPress Quarterly. The magazine will be physical in nature meaning…
WordPress 3.3 Beta 4 Available Now →
The march toward 3.3 continues!
With all our major tickets closed, we are very close to a release candidate. In Beta 4 we’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, cleaned up the UI, added real text in some of the…
WordPress.tv: Garth Koyle – The $40,000 WordPress... →
Wherefore Art Thou, Widgets? →
We need your opinion! One of the features we’re adding to WordPress 3.3 (currently in beta 3) is intended to reduce widget pain. Say you’re using Theme A and you have a handful of widgets set up….
WordPress.tv: Damian Taggart: WordPress Security –... →
LearnWordPress - Upload & install WordPress... →
www.facebook.com Learn WordPress - How to upload and install WordPress plugins manually via FTP. To learn about how to blog or configure WordPress …
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WPTavern: Viewing Data With The beCounted Plugin →
Lorelle shared an interesting plugin that can be used to show data called beCounted. Check out their example of the 2010 Open Source CMS Market Share report which they’ve turned into a page where…
WPTavern: VaultPress Now Supports WordPress... →
VaultPress has announced that the latest edition of the plugin now supports WordPress Multisite. This has been a killer feature that owners of large multisite installs have been waiting…
Weblog Tools Collection: Akismet Launches Partner... →
Akismet, the most popular WordPress anti-spam plugin, has launched a parter program geared toward developers who urge the use of Akismet among their larger clients.
Akismet is free for most…
Taking WordPress to War →
Today is the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the (20)eleventh year, and in several parts of the world, it is a holiday related to war. In the U.S., where I live, it is Veterans Day, which…
Weblog Tools Collection: Fast as a CannonBall, in... →
Notice anything different about Weblog Tools Collection? The name of the post probably gave it away. This blog is rocking in speed and deliverability! How you ask? Thanks to the fine work of the…
WPTavern: Contact Form 7 Appears In WebBoy Comic →
In episode 4 of the WebBoy comic series, Quinten finds himself overworked after working on customizing his contact form for days only to experience one problem after another. View the comic to see…
WordPress.tv: Chris King: Understanding Your... →
WordPress.tv: Pete Davies: Results of the 2011... →
WordPress.tv: Marty Thornley: The Third WordPress →
You often hear about the two versions of WordPress – .com and .org. With the .com version users get a free, easy to use version that is limited in functionality and not very customizable. With the…
WordPress.tv: Peter Chester: 170 Radio Stations:... →
We launched over 170 sites in 4 months starting from scratch. In this session, I will give an overview of what’s involved in producing and launching a high traffic (many million uniques per month)…
October 2011
Matt: Art of Right Now →
The Art of Right Now by Hiten Shah.
WordPress.tv: Catherine Roy &Anne Pelletier: Pour... →
WordPress.tv: Nacin & Otto: Advanced Topics in... →
WordPress.tv: Brian Rotsztein: SEO & Social Media... →
WordPress.tv: Rick Bjarnason & Gene Bernier:... →
WordPress.tv: David Cook: Setting up Local Test... →
Dev Blog: WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 →
Changes since Beta 1:
Updated the Blue theme
Fixed IE7 and RTL support
Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
Finished the Pointers implementation
Landed the dashboard Welcome…
WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 →
Changes since Beta 1:
Updated the Blue theme
Fixed IE7 and RTL support
Improved flyout menu styling and fixed several glitches
Finished the Pointers implementation
Landed the dashboard Welcome…
WPTavern: How To Insert Links Inside Of Image... →
Occasionally, I ‘ll take a look through the WordPress Ideas site to see what kind of activity is going on. The other night, I discovered an idea that immediately lit the light bulb over my head,…
WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 115 – WordPress 3.3.... →
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, I give you the news making headlines of the week. I also give you a rundown of what to look for in WordPress 3.3. Beta 1 and give you my experience thus…
Dev Blog: WordPress 3.3 Beta 1 →
WordPress 3.3 is ready for beta testers.
As always, this is software still in development and we don’t recommend that you run it on a production site — set up a test site just to play with the new…
WordPress.tv: Academic WordPress – 3.0 Credits by... →
WordPress.tv: Pascal Deschenes: WordPress Need for... →
WordPress.tv: Alan Bergstein: Converting an old... →
Matt: Typekit and Adobe →
Typekit has announced that they’ve been acquired by Adobe, I’m excited for Bryan, Jeff, and the whole team and can’t wait to see what they launch next. Had the pleasure of working with Typekit as
WPTavern: WPWeekly Episode 113 – Interview Trio →
This episode was pre-recorded due to some scheduling conflicts at work. They should be fixed by next Friday so I can do the live show again. This episode features a trio of interviews. The…
Jane Wells: Testing 1, 2, 3: Usability and... →
I did some lo-fi testing of WordPress 3.3 pre-beta on Sunday/Monday with local users, but since in the next set I want to get more multisite users, finding good participants will be tougher….
September 2011
Teach Me WordPress on Vimeo →
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