After nearly two years at WebDevStudios acting as a development lead, Brian Richards is stepping down to spend more time on his side project, WPSessions. Richards is the lead developer of the Startbox theme framework and is one of the organizers of WordCamp Grand Rapids set to take place August 15-17, 2014. WPSessions was launched…
Cloudways has a great article profiling the Advanced WordPress Facebook group. Written by Matt Cromwell, who is one of the group administrators, it explains how the group was formed and what its purpose is. Being a web developer or a designer (or both) can be stand-alone job for some individuals. Even if you work in…
Earlier this year, Automattic’s Toni Schneider asked Gravatar users what platform should be first to receive the Gravatar mobile app. No details on the purpose of the Gravatar app were revealed at the time but it turns out that the team has been busy developing a photo app. While working on the Gravatar app, they…
Hashcash.io recently released a WordPress plugin with a unique method of deterring spammers that forces the user’s browser to solve math before unlocking login, registration and comment forms. The project site hints at a coming soon cash feature wherein users can “Make Bots Work For You.” This week Hashcash.io creator Pavel Karoukin elaborated on plans…
Oli Dale has an article on WPLift that describes what subject matter he’d focus on if he started a site devoted to WordPress today. Throughout the article, he mentions niches that are already well covered such as WordPress news and tutorials. He concludes the article suggesting that new sites about WordPress be narrowly focused on…
GavickPro is a unique theme shop that creates both Joomla and WordPress themes. Each theme they produce is developed for both platforms. The shop was first established in the Joomla community and then branched out into WordPress. Up until recently, every WordPress theme GavickPro created was based on the GavernWP Framework, which was designed to…
Last week we featured WPCore, an app created by Stuart Starr that allows you to create WordPress plugin collections and install them in one click. He renamed the app’s corresponding plugin in the official directory to WPCore Plugin Manager to avoid causing any confusion. The service has been so well received that Starr was motivated…
Oli Dale of WPLift, decided to leave comments open while having Akismet be the only anti-spam measure used. The result is 8,000 comments, most of which are spammy in nature. He sifted through 8,000 comments and published the results where he outlines the various techniques spammers are using to try to get past the filters.…
WordPress Zero Spam is the latest to join the ranks of anti-spam plugins fighting on the front lines of WordPress sites. The new plugin is based on a simple method created by Mozilla developer David Walsh, whose popular tech blog gets regularly hammered by 8,000+ spam comments per day. In a recent tutorial titled How…
In a post recently published by Tom McFarlin, I learned about a new segment of WordPress developers called implementors. Implementors are generally described as those who look for and use existing solutions to solve problems. Developers on the other hand, approach problems from a different mindset. In a comment left on the post, Julien Maury…
The WordPress.tv Moderator Squad has been busy updating the site and setting new goals for improving international coverage. In the past 30 days, the team published 89 new videos in eight languages, representing 14 WordCamps from around the globe. Jerry Bates, one of the moderators on the team, reported that they are currently focusing on…
In January 2011, an alpha version of the Heavy Analytics plugin was released, offering WordPress administrators the ability to track and measure interaction on their sites. The project, created by Toby Cryns and Eric Johnson, aimed to make Heavy Analytics the finest WordPress reporting, BuddyPress reporting, and WordPress multisite reporting tool on the market. This…
When you search for an item in the WordPress media library, the only fields used to determine a match are the Title and Description fields. If you have hundreds of images and media files with vague file names or blank fields, it’s nearly impossible to find an image. Media Search Enhanced is a new plugin…
WordPress sites that take advantage of Cloudflare‘s global CDN and DNS services generally do so via the official Cloudflare plugin. It provides the basics for connecting your domain and API key with the service. However, it does not include a way to clear the cache or make adjustments to how it works. Sunny is a…
VaultPress, the WordPress security monitoring and backup service has created a way for new users to try the service for free. Beginning with VaultPress 1.6.2, you can try VaultPress Lite for five days through a seamless connection with Jetpack. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to get started using the service.…
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