• Weglot Multilingual WordPress Plugin Passes €10,000 in Monthly Revenue

    Weglot Multilingual WordPress Plugin Passes €10,000 in Monthly Revenue

    Augustin Prot and Rémy Berda, co-founders the Weglot multilingual plugin for WordPress, started their operation in a small apartment in September 2015. Weglot was originally a simple JavaScript project that offered a language switcher so that users could view websites in different languages. After testers started asking for a solution that could be used with…

  • WordPress and Web Development Communities Get Together to Help Non-Profits at Website Weekend LA

    WordPress and Web Development Communities Get Together to Help Non-Profits at Website Weekend LA

    This past weekend, people from the web development and WordPress communities gathered in Los Angeles to attend Website Weekend LA. Organized by Alex Vasquez and Natalie MacLees, in association with the Los Angeles chapter of Girl Develop It, attendees helped non-profit organizations with their sites. .@alexjvasquez and @nataliemac wrapping up a great weekend of talented…

  • WordPress 4.7 to Introduce User-Specific Language Setting for the Admin

    WordPress 4.7 to Introduce User-Specific Language Setting for the Admin

    WordPress 4.7 will allow users to select a language to use in the admin. Prior to this change, using a different language for the admin required installing the necessary translations and editing the wp-config.php file or using a plugin. A user-specific language setting makes it possible to run a WordPress site in one language on…

  • LinkedIn Learning Is Offering Free Access This Week to Its Library of More Than 5,000 Courses

    LinkedIn Learning Is Offering Free Access This Week to Its Library of More Than 5,000 Courses

    Lynda.com, a site that offers thousands of online training courses is giving everyone an opportunity to access any course they want for free. Dubbed the “Week of Learning“, starting today and ending on October 30th, visitors can take any course they want without any strings attached. The only thing that’s required is a LinkedIn account…

  • Automattic Releases Free WordPress Stickers App for iOS 10

    Automattic Releases Free WordPress Stickers App for iOS 10

    iOS 10 was released last month with support for stickers in the the iMessage apps for iPhone and iPad. If you want to add a little WordPress flavor to your mobile communications, check out the new free WordPress World iMessage sticker app from Automattic. The app includes some of the company’s mascots and logos, such…

  • Peter Meth Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Produce 7″ Wapuu Plush Toys

    Peter Meth Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Produce 7″ Wapuu Plush Toys

    Wapuu is the unofficial mascot of the WordPress project and is quite the traveler appearing at WordCamps all over the world. While there is a variety of swag featuring Wapuu, outside of handmade items, there isn’t a way to obtain a plush toy. Peter Meth, a Senior PHP Consultant based in Toronto, Canada, is looking…

  • WordCamp Orlando Rescheduled for November 12-13

    WordCamp Orlando Rescheduled for November 12-13

    WordCamp Orlando which was originally scheduled for October 9-10 will now take place the weekend of November 12-13. The event was cancelled after the venue was ordered closed due to Hurricane Matthew. The event is being held at the UCF Rosen Campus and features a different schedule than the October event. Saturday will have a…

  • LoopConf Rescheduled for February 6-8, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah

    LoopConf Rescheduled for February 6-8, 2017, in Salt Lake City, Utah

    LoopConf, a conference geared towards WordPress developers has been rescheduled for February 6-8, 2017, and will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah. The event was originally scheduled to take place in Florida but was cancelled due to Hurricane Matthew. Ryan Sullivan, lead organizer of the event who lives in Salt Lake City, says one…

  • BuddyPress 2.7 Released, Features Groups Query Overhaul and Improvements for Site Administrators

    BuddyPress 2.7 Released, Features Groups Query Overhaul and Improvements for Site Administrators

    BuddyPress 2.7 “Migliaccio” was released yesterday, named after the family who runs Sam’s Restaurant in Brooklyn. The sign in front of the establishment features steaks and chops, but the restaurant’s pizza is “one of the great under-appreciated pies in all of NYC,” according to BuddyPress core developers. This release is heavy on features for developers,…

  • New WordPress Default Theme Twenty Seventeen Merged into 4.7

    New WordPress Default Theme Twenty Seventeen Merged into 4.7

    WordPress 4.7 will ship with a new default theme in December. David Kennedy merged Twenty Seventeen into core yesterday as his first commit to WordPress. Any remaining development issues for the project will now be managed via Trac. In the merge proposal, Kennedy described Twenty Seventeen as “an ambitious theme that focuses on a creative…

  • WordCamp WarmUp Is a Success

    WordCamp WarmUp Is a Success

    Rebecca Gill, founder of Web-Savvy-Marketing, has published a postmortem of WordCamp WarmUp, an event that took place two days before WordCamp Ann Arbor aimed at breaking the ice for new WordCamp attendees. The event surpassed its goal of 50 attendees forcing Gill to close registration early. “Not only did most WarmUp guests arrive right on time, we…

  • WP REST API Content Endpoints Officially Approved for Merge into WordPress 4.7

    WP REST API Content Endpoints Officially Approved for Merge into WordPress 4.7

    After a lengthy and impassioned meeting in the WordPress #core Slack channel on Monday evening, the WP REST API content endpoints were conditionally approved for merge into 4.7. Since that time Brian Krogsgard published a document with input from the team on how they plan to measure the success of the API. The conditions included…

  • WordPress 4.7 to Ship with Infrastructure from the Customize Snapshots Feature Plugin

    WordPress 4.7 to Ship with Infrastructure from the Customize Snapshots Feature Plugin

    Customize Changesets, the technical term for the infrastructure in the Customize Snapshots feature plugin, was merged into WordPress 4.7 yesterday. The project, formerly known as Customizer Transactions, brings the underlying architecture required for the ability to save a session as a draft. It enables WordPress to save a set of changes made in the Customizer…

  • Why PixelGrade is Experimenting with a $225 WordPress Theme on Themeforest

    Why PixelGrade is Experimenting with a $225 WordPress Theme on Themeforest

    This post was contributed by guest author Sami Keijonen. Sami is a math teacher who enjoys learning about the web, accessibility, and WordPress. He juggles between freelancing, building themes at Foxland, and teaching.   Several theme authors have been experimenting with new pricing on ThemeForest. But PixelGrade took it to the next level by raising…