Just a few weeks ago, PliablePress put up a blog post announcing their shutdown. Today, PliablePress is announcing that they are being acquired by Max Foundry. While PliablePress only had 6 themes available for download, the assets are still valuable and so is the concept of supported themes. This is a huge step, I think, [...]
MOJO Themes, a marketplace for WordPress themes and other templates, announced this morning that they are enabling PressTrends for all of their WordPress theme authors. What does this mean for themes you purchase at MOJO Themes? “With PressTrends, you get powerful trends and insights into how people use and interact with the WordPress themes and [...]
Themify, creator of some beautiful WordPress themes, is hiring a support / developer for their team. Here’s an excerpt from their blog post, We are growing and looking for a support/developer to join our team. The support staff will be responsible for the support forum and theme updates. You must have good written communication skills, [...]
February’s round-up of WordPress security threats. If you have one of these plugins, make sure you’ve updated to a new version that has the vulnerability fixed, or disable the plugin immediately. It was a pretty quiet month for security issues with WordPress, thankfully.
Joost, who runs Yoast.com (the term Yoast is help the English-speaking folks actually pronounce his name right ;), is running a WordPress hosting survey to figure out from the community which webhost people recommend. He’s particularly looking for people in Europe to fill it out, which isn’t a surprise since Joost lives in the Netherlands. [...]
StudioPress just announced the release of Streamline 2.0, which is also sporting some awesome responsive design media queries. Streamline 2.0 is a child theme and requires the Genesis Framework. Besides a complete re-design of the theme, it also sports some great features: 3 color styles, 3 layout options, custom background, custom header, custom menus, featured [...]
Earlier today, Drew founder of The Theme Foundry, announced a major overhaul of their site. Let’s go over the highlights. Powered by WordPress, bbPress, and Memberful. We were previously using a medley of static pages, WordPress, bbPress 1.0 Alpha, and aMember. The layout is responsive, built with HTML5 using a mobile-first approach. We’re using web [...]
Brian, over at the StudioPress blog, just announced the release of Simple Social Icons. After quickly installing it to test it out, this plugin is a breeze to add social media icons to your sidebar. Nathan Rice, who is part of the StudioPress team, built this plugin. It uses beautiful CSS and rounded corners to [...]
Danilo Ercoli, a Mobile Wrangler for Automattic, announced that WordPress is now available for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Here’s a snippet of what Danilo had to say about the release. The 7″ screen on the PlayBook makes an excellent home for the all-new Dashboard UI, giving you quick access to everything in your WordPress install. [...]
The WordPress core team cares both about user experience and about performance. Here is further proof. Our allowed attributes rules in kses.php create a large number of empty arrays. These can all be replaced with true instead. This reduces memory usage by 62 kilobytes – not huge, but it all adds up. duck_ is completely [...]
Let me preface this review with the fact that I’ve been using WordPress since 2003, so I have a lot of experience with WordPress (self-hosted) and I’m a huge fan of WordPress. But let me dive into the hosted platforms, because they’re different than the self-hosted applications. Let’s look at WordPress.com (Hosted WordPress), Blogger.com, and [...]
WooThemes has over 100 themes available to download. That’s a lot of themes to continue to maintain and add functionality to over time. As part of the WooThemes 2012 strategy, they are simplifying and refocusing their efforts. I applaud for them for wanting to do that, as they should. 125 themes (what is currently available), [...]
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After a month of waiting, Nick from Elegant Themes, announced the release of DailyJournal. (demo) Nick has produced yet another beautiful theme, which is great for a journal-type site you want to run. There aren’t a lof of truly journal-like themes out there; many of them look more like blogs than actual journals. So this [...]
Infinite scrolling is not something new. The major search engines have been doing it for a while with their image search results. It allows for a user to easily browse through an infinite number of search results, without having to clear “more.” It makes sense, and I agree with it. WordPress 3.4 will bring infinite [...]
WooCommerce is an easy-to-use, open source, e-commerce platform from WooThemes. Here are four great WooCommerce themes from ThemeForest that you can purchase to use for your shopping site. Shopping Theme Details – Shopping Demo Abundance Theme Details – Demo Handmade Theme Details – Handmade Demo Aventura Theme Details – Aventura Demo BONUS THEME! Sommerce Theme [...]
Sites sometimes need to go into maintenance mode, for one reason or another. For example, this site, WP Force, will go into maintenance mode in the next couple of weeks, as I roll out the new design I’ve been working on. Instead of leaving your site half-baked for everyone to see, go into maintenance mode [...]
WooCommerce is an open-source e-commerce platform by WooThemes. It’s free and easy to use, however, there still may be other extensions you need, such as the ability to take credit cards. Here are some great plugins to help you take advantage of WooCommerce. WooCommerce Payment Gateway Extensions WooCommerce Shipping Extensions There are a number of [...]
So far, the new Twenty Twelve theme is not much to look at. It has it’s basic form, but nothing fancy has been added. This is not yet a fully working theme—we’ll be adding in more features and lots of missing styles over the next 3–4 weeks. Including post formats, comments, archives and page templates, [...]
The code snippets below will provide you a function that you can echo anywhere on your site, to get the count for each social service. The snippets below will let you get your Twitter follower count, your Facebook like count, and your Google+ circle count. Let’s take a look at the code. Twitter Follower Count [...]
Jonathan Dingman is a passionate blogger who loves writing about WordPress news, reporting on events, theme releases, awesome plugins, and more. He started using WordPress in 2004 and ran the first WordCamp NYC in 2008.