FooGallery is a new free WordPress plugin aimed squarely at developers and designers. Developed by FooPlugins, FooGallery utilizes much of the same image and gallery handling found within WordPress, providing an intuitive content creation and management experience. While the plugin is simple, it offers developers a ton of filters and hooks to extend its functionality.…
Four months ago, WordPress user Fredelig created a new ticket on WordPress trac suggesting the plugin update notification bubble load the page listing all of the plugins with pending upgrades. In WordPress 3.9, clicking the notification loads Plugins.php which lists all of the activated plugins, including the ones with upgrades. This requires a second mouse…
On this episode of WordPress Weekly, we give you the low down on all the new features in WordPress 4.0 beta 1. Later in the show, Matt Wiebe who works for Automattic as a design engineer, joins us to discuss his thoughts on the WordPress customizer. Most of what we talked about stems from his…
The Gust plugin aims to provide a Ghost-style publishing experience within the WordPress admin. It was released at the end of last year by developer Arūnas Liuiza. He was disappointed that Ghost didn’t end up being a fork of WordPress, so he decided to package its best publishing features into a plugin. Gust adds a…
If you’re looking for a clean, customizable business theme for WordPress, THBusiness just landed in the official Themes Directory. While most free themes are dedicated to blogging, THBusiness is focused on providing all of the basic elements you need to display featured content, services, testimonials, and more. It was designed by the folks at THEMEZHUT…
France is getting its second official WordCamp. The event is called WordCamp Nantes WP Tech and will be held in Nantes on Saturday, November 29, 2014. Unlike your traditional WordCamp, WP Tech will be devoted entirely to developers. “The idea is to share knowledge, ideas and best practices about WordPress development,” organizer Daniel Roch told…
Roots is a WordPress starter theme that makes use of HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, and Grunt. Over the years Roots has garnered somewhat of a cult following and is still going strong with the release of version 7.0.0 last week. This release moves some of the theme’s trademark features into a plugin called Soil and adds…
East Meets Press is a business focused WordPress event organized by Ben Fox that will be held on September 17-21 (Wednesday to Sunday – 4 nights). Not to be outdone by BeachPress which was recently held on the West Coast of the US, East Meets Press will take place on the East Coast in Kure…
WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. This means that core developers are now onto the stage of bug fixes and inline documentation in preparation for the official release in August. Helen Hou-Sandí, the release lead, announced the beta with an outline of user-facing features that need testing. The list offers…
WP Engine has revamped their user portal and is the first large partner to integrate Sidekick into its service. Sidekick provides WP Engine customers access to guided tours for understanding how different components of the User Portal work together. Sidekick is a product created by FlowPress to create interactive, narrated, guided walkthroughs. The new user…
Admin pointers were first added in WordPress 3.3 for the purpose of helping users discover and navigate new features in major releases. For example, when widgets were added to the customizer, an admin pointer displayed to highlight live widget previews on the themes page. The friendly pointers, when used sparingly, can draw attention to important…
In the past two weeks, a lot of work has been done to improve the various plugin installer modals in the backend of WordPress. A modal is a fancy way of saying a dialog or popup box. One of the modals revamped is the plugin details view. When users click on the details link when…
Mark Gavalda, CEO of Kinsta WordPress Hosting, has published an in-depth guide covering the history of WordPress, its vast ecosystem, and the community surrounding it. Gavalda does a great job explaining the impact WordPress has had on so many individuals and businesses with quotes from notable members of the community. The largest take away for…
WordPress.tv added its first German language video today. Konstantin Obenland’s “Underscores: Ein Startertheme Für Alle” presentation from WordCamp Hamburg is, surprisingly, the only German video to make it to WordPress.tv so far. Obenland is a code wrangler at Automattic and has also worked extensively with the default WordPress themes. His presentation covers the history and…
When widgets were added to the customizer in 3.9, WordPress users were generally surprised and delighted. Live previews are so beneficial to the editing experience that contributors are starting to pursue an expansion of the role of the customizer into all aspects of WordPress. Nick Halsey has been working extensively with the customizer as part…
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