Jeff Chandler

  • Kinsta Publishes Guide On The History Of WordPress, Its Ecosystem, and Community

    Kinsta Publishes Guide On The History Of WordPress, Its Ecosystem, and Community

    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…

  • In The Next Few Years, 90% Of WordPress Development Could Be JavaScript Based

    In The Next Few Years, 90% Of WordPress Development Could Be JavaScript Based

    In March of 2013, Matt Mullenweg stopped by the Memeburn office to talk about how WordPress went from being just another blogging platform to becoming the CMS of choice for the majority of the web. The author of the article infers that Mullenweg thinks 90% of WordPress development will be JavaScript based in the next…

  • WPBeginner Turns 5, Celebrates With Campaign To Build Two New Schools In Guatemala

    WPBeginner Turns 5, Celebrates With Campaign To Build Two New Schools In Guatemala

    WordPress resource site WPBeginner, is celebrating its fifth birthday. As part of the celebration, it’s giving away $26K worth of prizes. Prizes range from licenses to popular WordPress plugins such as Backup Buddy and Soliloquy to webhosting packages with Pantheon and SiteGround. However, it’s not just about giving away prizes, Syed Balhki wants to help…

  • WordPress Visual Page and Website Builders Make It Easy To Create Ugly Sites

    WordPress Visual Page and Website Builders Make It Easy To Create Ugly Sites

    A few years ago, I talked about how great it would be if there were ways to visually build websites in WordPress. Today, tools like VelocityPage and Headway Themes allow users to visually build pages and even entire websites. As I’ve become accustomed to WordPress, I no longer desire these visual page or site builders.…

  • Estimated Time To Read This Post – Eternity

    Estimated Time To Read This Post – Eternity

    While browsing the web, I’ve noticed some sites providing an estimated reading time for articles. Some are as low as one minute while others are over ten. I think the idea of providing an estimated reading time is ridiculous. However, as I researched the technique, some people have reported an increase in the amount of…

  • Medium Style Commenting Plugins For WordPress Highlight Difficulty In Theme Compatibility

    Medium Style Commenting Plugins For WordPress Highlight Difficulty In Theme Compatibility

    The other day, I came across a brand new WordPress plugin in beta by Richard Tape called WP Side Comments. Based on Eric Anderson’s SideComments.js to enable inline commenting, WP Side Comments adds Medium.com style inline commenting to WordPress. With this plugin installed, each paragraph can be commented on instead of all the comments being at…

  • VersionPress Misses Crowdfunding Goal By $14.5K

    VersionPress Misses Crowdfunding Goal By $14.5K

    The crowdfunding campaign for VersionPress has concluded and unfortunately, they’ve come up short. The team raised just 45% of the $30,000 funding goal. Despite not hitting the goal, Borek Bernard has announced they will self-fund the rest of the development while leaving open the possibility to work with a third-party sponsor. The first version is…

  • Two WordPress Plugins That Enable Anonymous Previews Of Draft Posts

    Two WordPress Plugins That Enable Anonymous Previews Of Draft Posts

    Have you ever run into a situation where you need someone to preview a post but don’t want to give them access to your site? Despite the WordPress plugin directory containing over 31K plugins, there are few that offer this type of functionality. WordPress doesn’t have this ability out of the box but there are…

  • WPWeekly Episode 153 – The Joomla Beat With Peter Bui

    WPWeekly Episode 153 – The Joomla Beat With Peter Bui

    Marcus Couch and I were joined by Peter Bui of PB WebDev. Bui who lives in Sydney Australia produces the JoomlaBeat podcast. JoomlaBeat is a weekly podcast produced as a resource for the Joomla community. This episode is a civilized and informational conversation that discusses the similarities and distinct differences between the WordPress and Joomla…

  • Friday Fun: Top 25 WordPress Movie Titles

    Friday Fun: Top 25 WordPress Movie Titles

    What started off as a simple request to bring back the #WPvideogames meme on Twitter has turned into the craziest bunch of #WPmovie titles I’ve ever seen. The meme was started by DerpPress. DerpPress turns ordinary WordPress news and events into comedy gold. However, no one knows who the mysterious person is controlling the account.…

  • WordCamp Toronto 2014 Seeking Speakers With A Focus On Accessibility

    WordCamp Toronto 2014 Seeking Speakers With A Focus On Accessibility

    The organizers of WordCamp Toronto 2014 are looking for speakers. The event will take place on November 15-16th and will use the Twitter hashtag #WCTO. Although the event will feature the usual WordCamp sessions, there is a focus on accessibility (a11y) this year. The organizing group wants to help raise awareness, compliance and the level…

  • The GPL License Doesn’t Provide The Freedom To Infringe Registered Trademarks

    The GPL License Doesn’t Provide The Freedom To Infringe Registered Trademarks

    While the GPLv2 is an open source license that offers many freedoms to do with the code as you please, those freedoms are not carried over to trademarks. Take WordPress for example. WordPress is a registered trademark overseen by the WordPress Foundation. If someone wants to redistribute WordPress as is, they can under the terms…

  • Pods Framework For WordPress Releases Update To Patch Security Vulnerability

    Pods Framework For WordPress Releases Update To Patch Security Vulnerability

    The developers of Pods, a popular WordPress plugin used to create and extend custom post types, content types, taxonomies, users, media, or comments, has released an update that addresses a critical security vulnerability. Version 2.4.3 and all previous versions of the plugin have been patched in case you can’t upgrade to the latest version immediately.…

  • Are The Days Of Paying Less Than $100 For A WordPress Theme Over?

    Are The Days Of Paying Less Than $100 For A WordPress Theme Over?

    If you are selling WordPress themes or thinking about entering the markets, there’s been a plethora of great information published the past few weeks. Topics ranging from whether themes are a commodity to what it is you’re really purchasing when a theme is GPL Licensed. Here is a round up of articles in case you…

  • Dates Announced For PressNomics 3 – Jan 22nd-24th, 2015

    Dates Announced For PressNomics 3 – Jan 22nd-24th, 2015

    Dates have been announced for the third annual PressNomics conference. Organized by Joshua and Sally Strebel of Pagely, PressNomics is a conference similar to a WordCamp but focuses exclusively on the business of WordPress and the economy surrounding it. The conference will take place January 22nd – 24th, 2015 in Tempe, AZ. The venue is the…