Developers interested in contributing to the creation of a BuddyPress REST API met for the first time yesterday to discuss a path forward. Bronson Quick is leading the project with the help of Ryan Fugate. Quick works for Human Made and is a WordPress core contributor. He is also the lead contributor on Chassis, a…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I are joined by Micah Mitchell, who is a partner in Memberium, a membership development and management plugin for WordPress that connects with Infusionsoft. During the show, we discuss what Memberium has to offer for those who want to create membership sites using WordPress. Due to…
WordPress for Android version 4.9 hit devices today with new support for the fingerprint scanner feature available in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The WordPress app on mobile offers publishing access to all the sites you have hooked up, which is a pretty powerful door to the world that you may not want to leave unlocked for…
In 2010 Google patented its methods for using resource load times in ranking search results. The published patent describes how Google factors in page speed when presenting results: A search result for a resource having a short load time relative to resources having longer load times can be promoted in a presentation order, and search…
BuddyPress contributors met last week to discuss the scope of the 2.5 release, which is slated for the beginning of March. Lead developer Paul Gibbs opened the meeting with a call for tickets that contributors are working on for 2.5. Core developer Mathieu Viet will be working on comment syncing between activity and post comments…
Matt Mullenweg is in Cape Town and will be joining the local WordPress community meetup for a fireside chat at noon EST (7pm Cape Town). The event begins in under an hour and will be live streamed on their YouTube channel. The video will also be available after the meetup has concluded.
When WordPress 4.4 was released in late 2015, some users questioned how to add colors and icons to categories as illustrated at the 1:17 mark in the release video. The colors and icons are not something users can define by default. Instead, they’re exposed by plugins using the Taxonomy Term Meta feature in 4.4. To…
The WordPress admin menu is fairly easy to navigate out-of-the-box but can become unruly over time. It can get out of control depending on the number of custom post types registered and plugins that add a top-level menu. If you want to hide rarely used menus from the admin menu, check out the Clean WP…
The whole collection of plugins from John James Jacoby’s Stuttter project is now available on WordPress.org. Jacoby created Stuttter as “a conduit for rethinking WordPress from the outside in,” and started pushing the plugins to the official plugin directory a couple months ago. During the first half of 2015, he worked full-time on WordPress’ sister…
If you waited to buy your ticket to WordCamp Europe 2016 in Vienna, you may be out of luck. The event sold out on December 31, 2015. All 1550 tickets, including 50 micro-sponsorship tickets are now gone. “We’re currently at full capacity of our venue, but working towards expanding by hiring more halls in the…
The application process to be the host city for WordCamp US 2017 and 2018 is now open. A lot of work goes into making WordCamp US successful and planning needs to start as soon as possible. The goal is to have future host city organizers be involved in the second year’s planning to learn the…
This post was contributed by guest author Jenny Beaumont. Jenny Beaumont is co-organizer of WordCamp Paris & WordCamp Europe, a frequent speaker at WordCamps in France and abroad, and a contributor to a number of blogs. After 17 years building things in and around the web, she is taking a year-long sabbatical to get a…
Late in 2015, Arūnas Liuiza, a WordPress plugin developer, announced a new project called Measure Jetpack. Measure Jetpack is an independent, comprehensive series of benchmarks that will show how much impact Jetpack has on a site’s performance. Over the last few months, little information has been shared on the project’s status. I reached out to Liuiza…
Custom Contact Forms has just passed one million downloads after nearly six years in the WordPress Plugin Directory. Last year Taylor Lovett, Director of Web Engineering at 10up, released version 6.0, a completely rewritten version that made it one of the first plugins to incorporate the new WP REST API. It is now one of…
In this episode of WordPress Weekly, Marcus Couch and I discuss the latest news in the WordPress ecosystem. On the first episode of 2016, I rant about the conspiracy theorists who believe Automattic owns and controls the WordPress project. I try to set the record straight and explain why it’s not the case. Later in…
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