Intriguing interview conducted by Gihyo.jp which is a Japanese focused developer resource site. As your experience straddles both, where do you think open source excels? And where is it weak? The open source model is probably best in the world at bringing together hundreds of people, from casual passersby to those who are deeply involved,…
With the Santa hat on, Matt Mullenweg has decided to try out an experiment specifically for plugin authors and their respective plugin pages. He’s decided to give plugin authors a little more control with regards to how their plugin pages look by offering them a chance to upload a 772 x 250 pixel image that…
WooThemes has released the results of their 2012 WordPress Wishlist survey. Instead of dishing out numbers and statistics, they have compiled and released the information in the form of an info graphic. Of particular interest are the results from both questions related to WordPress as a CMS. 90% think that WordPress is a full-fledged CMS.…
Andrew Nacin one of the WordPress core developers highlighted a philosophy that WordPress follows by providing decisions, not options. One of the documents linked to in the article points to the WordPress Release Philosophy and more notably, the section of text by GNOME contributor Havoc Pennington. It turns out that preferences have a cost. Of…
It was announced yesterday that Matt Mullenweg will be the one to oversee the development of Twenty Twelve, the new default theme for WordPress 3.4. Here is a list of things that the WordPress core team would like to see make it into Twenty Twelve: single post/permalink view with post formats is needed variable height…
The annual WordPress core team meetup has concluded and thanks to Jane Wells, we are able to read into some of the things that were discussed during the meetup. I highly encourage you to read the first recap post and then read recap number 2. It’s these types of meetings where I wish I could…
While browsing for specific plugins today on WordPress.org, I noticed a link at the top of the site that took me to a short survey where the answers will be used to improve the WordPress.org website. Please consider taking part in this survey as the WordPress.org website is one of the weakest links of the…
One of my favorite WordPress plugins of all time WP Ajax Edit Comments, will soon be free again for all to use. According to a recent email sent out by iThemes, as of January 1st, 2012 they will no longer be supporting Ajax Edit Comments as a premium plugin. Instead, the full version will be…
WordPress community member Ipstenu has started a master list within the WordPress.org support forum highlighting some of the most frequently asked questions as well as listing numerous issues that folks have reported along with solutions. If you are having trouble with WordPress 3.3, please read through the posts within this forum thread before creating a…
Shortly after the release of WordPress 3.3, BuddyPress 1.5.2 was released and is simply a compatibility release intended to fix some cosmetic issues with the new WP 3.3 toolbar. If you experience any issues with WordPress 3.3 and BuddyPress 1.5.2, you should participate in the following support thread on the official BuddyPress forum.
Huge congratulations goes out to Lorelle VanFossen for being selected to teach at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. Lorelle will be teaching an Introduction To WordPress course that will reward students with four college credits. While WordPress in the classroom has become more common across the world, very few are actually awarding students college credits.…
DevPress, a team of highly skilled WordPress developers has announced that Tung Do has become to the sole owner of the business. The quote being published all over the place by Tung Do sums up the situation the best: After months of inconsistent collaboration, DevPress is left with one remaining co-founder, me — Tung Do.…
The time has finally arrived. WordPress 3.3. was released early this morning to the masses. Codenamed ‘Sonny’ which at a glance looks like sorry, 3.3 has a couple of great user oriented features with a ton of polish. While my WordPress upgrade experience went smoothly, I was immediately impressed with the welcome screen which in…
If you administer a WordPress powered website, you might want to check the directory structure, especially the WP-Content/Upgrade and WP-Content/Uploads to see if you notice a folder called Tall. According to the folks at WPMU.org, one of their co-workers websites became a victim to an attack that involved an entirely new WordPress installation being installed…
David Decker has published his list of seven cardinal sins that he’s run into when diving into the localization/internationalization of plugins and themes. For beginners who want to start making it easy for others to localize their code, you should read this article on the Codex entitled, Translating WordPress. While David didn’t chastise developers for…