Year: 2017

  • 10up Acquires Lift UX

    10up Acquires Lift UX

    10up, a leading WordPress design and development agency, has acquired Lift UX, a smaller user experience design-driven agency that will bolster the company’s existing Experience design team. Lift founders Chris Wallace and Brad Miller will join 10up’s 120+ person distributed team, along with Lift’s director of technology, Christian Chung, and front-end developer Anthony Garand. 10up…

  • WPCampus 2017 Will Be Streamed Live for Free

    WPCampus 2017 Will Be Streamed Live for Free

    WPCampus, a conference focused on using WordPress in higher education, takes place this Friday and Saturday in Buffalo, NY. If you’re unable to attend the event, WPCampus will be live streaming the sessions for free. Visit the streaming page on July 14th and 15th where viewers can choose between three tracks of sessions to watch.…

  • Episodes 271-280 of WordPress Weekly are Now Available

    Episodes 271-280 of WordPress Weekly are Now Available

    In the past two weeks, listeners have reported that recent episodes of WordPress Weekly are not available for download through Apple’s Podcasting app, Stitcher, and other applications. I use Vid2MP3 to convert YouTube videos into MP3 files. Starting with episode 271, there was an error in the conversion process. It was difficult to diagnose since…

  • Automattic Joins Amazon, GitHub, Mozilla, reddit, and Twitter in July 12 Protest Against FCC’s Attack on Net Neutrality

    Automattic Joins Amazon, GitHub, Mozilla, reddit, and Twitter in July 12 Protest Against FCC’s Attack on Net Neutrality

    Major internet websites, companies, and organizations are banding together on Wednesday, July 12, to protest the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. These include Amazon, GitHub, Kickstarter, Vimeo, reddit, Mozilla, Twitter, Etsy, Spotify, Netflix, and many others. Automattic is joining these tech companies in the protest, as it has several times in the past, including the…

  • WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats

    WangGuard Plugin Author Shuts Down Splog Hunting Service Due to Trauma and Death Threats

    After seven years of developing and supporting the WangGuard/SplogHunter service, José Conti has shut down the server permanently due to the stress and trauma associated with maintaining it. Conti is a WordPress plugin developer and consultant, and a member of the WordPress España translation team. His WangGuard plugin identifies and blocks sploggers, unwanted users, and…

  • WordSesh Asia Now in Planning for 2018, WordCamp Asia Targeted for 2019

    WordSesh Asia Now in Planning for 2018, WordCamp Asia Targeted for 2019

    Yesterday Sakin Shrestha announced that WordCamp Asia is now in the preliminary planning stages. Shrestha is a key reviewer on the Theme Review Team, translates WordPress to Nepali, and organizes meetups and WordCamps in Nepal. He and other members of the WordPress community in Asia, including representatives from India, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Singapore,…

  • Jesse Petersen, Founder of Genesis The.me Passes Away

    Jesse Petersen, Founder of Genesis The.me Passes Away

    Jesse Petersen, founder of Genesis The.me and Petersen Media Group, has passed away at the age of 38. Petersen had been battling Cystic Fibrosis for the past several years and suffered a massive lung bleed earlier today. He passed out before paramedics could reach him and could not be revived at the emergency room. Petersen…

  • WPWeekly Episode 280 – Behind the Scenes of Tuniversity

    WPWeekly Episode 280 – Behind the Scenes of Tuniversity

    In this episode, John James Jacoby and I are joined by Kiko Doran and Travis Totz, Senior Web Strategist at Modern Tribe. Doran helped create Tuniversity, a revolutionary new way of learning music through a highly interactive iBook. The project was so large, Doran outsourced some of the work to Modern Tribe, a web design and…

  • WordCamp Europe 2017 Posts 24% No-Show Rate, Cites Early Ticket Sales and Expensive Location

    WordCamp Europe 2017 Posts 24% No-Show Rate, Cites Early Ticket Sales and Expensive Location

    WordCamp Europe 2017 organizers have posted attendance and budget data compiled after the conclusion of the event. Despite being promoted as “the largest WordPress event to this day” with more than 3,000 expected attendees, WCEU 2017 fell short with 1,900 people on the ground. Attendees were 5% fewer than last year’s 2,000 in Vienna. Expectations…

  • Popular WordPress Plugins Slow to Add Meta Box Support for Calypso

    Popular WordPress Plugins Slow to Add Meta Box Support for Calypso

    During the State of the Word at WordCamp US 2016, Matt Mullenweg announced that Calypso was plugin aware. Calypso is a REST API and React powered application for the desktop created by Automattic in 2015. Developers with plugins active on 1M sites or more received an email invitation from Andy Peatling to begin building support…

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