Year: 2014

  • Qik Is Shutting Down, How To Save Your Videos

    Qik Is Shutting Down, How To Save Your Videos

    Founded in 2006, Qik enabled mobile phone users to share live video with their friends, family and followers. In January of 2011, the company was acquired by Skype. Three years after announcing the acquisition, the company has announced they will shutdown the service on April 30, 2014. The shut down means all mobile apps will…

  • Casper: A Free Ghost-Style WordPress Theme Based on Underscores

    Casper: A Free Ghost-Style WordPress Theme Based on Underscores

    Casper is a new theme for WordPress that is essentially a port of the default blogging theme for Ghost. Lacy Morrow built the theme using Underscores as a base. Morrow said that the goal for his theme was to approximate Ghost’s default theme while incorporating WordPress-specific features: The goal of this project is to emulate…

  • Help Contribute To The Official WordPress Developer Resource By Testing Code References

    Help Contribute To The Official WordPress Developer Resource By Testing Code References

    Announced at WordCamp San Francisco during Matt Mullenweg’s State of The Word 2013 presentation, developer.wordpress.org will host educational tools for developers in the form of handbooks and code referencing material. It will be the go-to place to discover WordPress best practices. Since educational materials surrounding WordPress are spread across the web, it’s hard for developers…

  • WordPress.com Gets New Standard and Secret Emoticons

    WordPress.com Gets New Standard and Secret Emoticons

    Emoticons are believed to have been invented in 1982 by Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, who suggested that they be used on “computer bulletin boards.” Though not widely used at that time, emoticon usage exploded with the popularity of AOL’s Instant Messenger in the 1990’s. Now, more than 30 years later, emoticons…

  • PhpStorm 8 To Add Official Support for WordPress

    PhpStorm 8 To Add Official Support for WordPress

    PhpStorm is a popular IDE that many developers depend on to code more efficiently, debug applications, and run unit tests with integrated version control and command-line tools. The upcoming version 8 will add official support for WordPress. According to a recent survey conducted by SitePoint, PhpStorm is by far the most favored IDE among PHP…

  • WordPress For iOS 4.0 Available, New and Improved Stats

    WordPress For iOS 4.0 Available, New and Improved Stats

    WordPress for iOS 4.0 has been released. Stats are now a native component, improving their look and feel on devices running iOS. While I didn’t have a problem with the traditional web view, the native view is a considerable improvement. Being a native component has also given the stats a noticeable speed improvement when loading.…

  • WPWeekly Episode 142 – Interview With The Founder Of OSTraining, Steve Burge

    WPWeekly Episode 142 – Interview With The Founder Of OSTraining, Steve Burge

    Marcus Couch and I were joined by Steve Burge, founder of OSTraining.com. OSTraining was launched in 2008 and is one of the few websites dedicated to educating users of three major open-source platforms: Joomla, Drupal, and WordPress. Through OSTraining, Steve has a unique perspective on the pain points users are encountering with each platform. We…

  • What Would You Like a WordCamp Mobile App to Do?

    What Would You Like a WordCamp Mobile App to Do?

    A WordCamp mobile app may soon be a reality. WordPress was accepted as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2014. As part of that process, the community prepared a list of ideas for GSoC projects that students can work on. The creation of a WordCamp mobile app was among those ideas. The application…

  • ThemeCheck.org: A Free WordPress Theme Validation Service

    ThemeCheck.org: A Free WordPress Theme Validation Service

    ThemeCheck.org is a new site that provides a free validation service for WordPress and Joomla themes. Visitors can upload themes and templates and the service will analyze the files and run tests to verify security and code quality. The site gives each theme a quality score along with a list of alerts and warnings. For…

  • BuddyPress 2.0 To Add Signups Administration Screen

    BuddyPress 2.0 To Add Signups Administration Screen

    BuddyPress 2.0 will include a new “Manage Signups” screen in the WordPress admin for tracking the status of pending accounts. This enhancement helps community administrators moderate registrations and help facilitate the signup process for new users who are experiencing difficulty. BuddyPress requires new users to confirm their accounts by email before activation, but sometimes these…

  • CreativeMarket Acquired By The Makers Of AutoCAD

    CreativeMarket Acquired By The Makers Of AutoCAD

    CreativeMarket, one of the first WordPress theme marketplaces to fully support the GPL license has been acquired by Autodesk, for an undisclosed amount. The marketplace sells everything from themes to templates to fonts. The site became one of the first marketplaces to be advertised on WordPress.org after they announced they would only sell WordPress themes…

  • WordPress Plugin Repository Now Hosts Over 30,000 Plugins

    WordPress Plugin Repository Now Hosts Over 30,000 Plugins

    Early this morning, the WordPress.org plugin repository set a mile stone by hosting the 30,000th plugin. I didn’t think it would happen until a few weeks from now but it shows you how many plugins are approved and added to the repository every day.  Jan Reimers on Twitter celebrated with a whoop! I second that…

  • WordPress.com Formally Opens Its Marketplace to Theme Developers

    WordPress.com Formally Opens Its Marketplace to Theme Developers

    In 2011, WordPress.com began offering commercial themes to its users. The service now has 105 commercial themes to choose from. In order to sell themes on WordPress.com, you either had to be invited or reach out to Automattic. Those days are over now that they have launched a new landing page for theme sellers interested…

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