• 3 Things To Remember If You Start a Site About WordPress

    3 Things To Remember If You Start a Site About WordPress

    Oli Dale has an article on WPLift that describes what subject matter he’d focus on if he started a site devoted to WordPress today. Throughout the article, he mentions niches that are already well covered such as WordPress news and tutorials. He concludes the article suggesting that new sites about WordPress be narrowly focused on…

  • GavickPro Abandons Theme Framework in Favor of WordPress Customizer

    GavickPro Abandons Theme Framework in Favor of WordPress Customizer

    GavickPro is a unique theme shop that creates both Joomla and WordPress themes. Each theme they produce is developed for both platforms. The shop was first established in the Joomla community and then branched out into WordPress. Up until recently, every WordPress theme GavickPro created was based on the GavernWP Framework, which was designed to…

  • WPCore Plugin Manager Adds Favoriting and Custom Plugins to Collections

    WPCore Plugin Manager Adds Favoriting and Custom Plugins to Collections

    Last week we featured WPCore, an app created by Stuart Starr that allows you to create WordPress plugin collections and install them in one click. He renamed the app’s corresponding plugin in the official directory to WPCore Plugin Manager to avoid causing any confusion. The service has been so well received that Starr was motivated…

  • What WPLift Learned From Not Moderating Comments

    What WPLift Learned From Not Moderating Comments

    Oli Dale of WPLift, decided to leave comments open while having Akismet be the only anti-spam measure used. The result is 8,000 comments, most of which are spammy in nature. He sifted through 8,000 comments and published the results where he outlines the various techniques spammers are using to try to get past the filters.…

  • WordPress Zero Spam Plugin Packages David Walsh’s Anti-Spam Method

    WordPress Zero Spam Plugin Packages David Walsh’s Anti-Spam Method

    WordPress Zero Spam is the latest to join the ranks of anti-spam plugins fighting on the front lines of WordPress sites. The new plugin is based on a simple method created by Mozilla developer David Walsh, whose popular tech blog gets regularly hammered by 8,000+ spam comments per day. In a recent tutorial titled How…

  • Tom McFarlin On The Differences Between A WordPress Developer and Implementor

    Tom McFarlin On The Differences Between A WordPress Developer and Implementor

    In a post recently published by Tom McFarlin, I learned about a new segment of WordPress developers called implementors. Implementors are generally described as those who look for and use existing solutions to solve problems. Developers on the other hand, approach problems from a different mindset. In a comment left on the post, Julien Maury…

  • WordPress.tv Seeks Bilingual Moderators to Help Expand International Coverage

    WordPress.tv Seeks Bilingual Moderators to Help Expand International Coverage

    The WordPress.tv Moderator Squad has been busy updating the site and setting new goals for improving international coverage. In the past 30 days, the team published 89 new videos in eight languages, representing 14 WordCamps from around the globe. Jerry Bates, one of the moderators on the team, reported that they are currently focusing on…

  • Heavy Analytics for WordPress Now Open Source and Available on GitHub

    Heavy Analytics for WordPress Now Open Source and Available on GitHub

    In January 2011, an alpha version of the Heavy Analytics plugin was released, offering WordPress administrators the ability to track and measure interaction on their sites. The project, created by Toby Cryns and Eric Johnson, aimed to make Heavy Analytics the finest WordPress reporting, BuddyPress reporting, and WordPress multisite reporting tool on the market. This…

  • New Plugin Lets You Search Media By Title, Caption, and Alt Text

    New Plugin Lets You Search Media By Title, Caption, and Alt Text

    When you search for an item in the WordPress media library, the only fields used to determine a match are the Title and Description fields. If you have hundreds of images and media files with vague file names or blank fields, it’s nearly impossible to find an image. Media Search Enhanced is a new plugin…

  • VaultPress Begins Offering 5 Day Free Trials Through Jetpack

    VaultPress Begins Offering 5 Day Free Trials Through Jetpack

    VaultPress, the WordPress security monitoring and backup service has created a way for new users to try the service for free. Beginning with VaultPress 1.6.2, you can try VaultPress Lite for five days through a seamless connection with Jetpack. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to get started using the service.…

  • WordPress Cape Town to Host Charity Hackathon in August

    WordPress Cape Town to Host Charity Hackathon in August

    WordPress Cape Town is the largest and most active meetup group in South Africa with members gathering for regular meetups, workshops and an annual WordCamp. The group is dedicated to giving back to the community and announced that they will be hosting their first charity hackathon on Saturday, August 23. The event is called do_action(…

  • Themosis Object-Oriented Development Framework for WordPress Now in Beta

    Themosis Object-Oriented Development Framework for WordPress Now in Beta

    Themosis is a new object-oriented development framework for WordPress that is currently in beta and set to be released soon. It’s aimed at developers of all skill levels but those with stronger PHP knowledge will have an easier time working with the framework. Themosis was created by Julien Lambé, a Belgium-based application developer. His framework…

  • Add Avatar Upload to BuddyPress Registration

    Add Avatar Upload to BuddyPress Registration

    Getting users to upload avatars can be a challenge for BuddyPress communities. Avatars aren’t like profile fields where you can require users to complete them. The problem is that a community without many real-user avatars can be somewhat uninviting. Member directories and widgets end up looking grey and white and uninspiring. Too many default “mystery…

  • Exploring The Idea Of An Internet Archive Specifically For WordPress Content

    Exploring The Idea Of An Internet Archive Specifically For WordPress Content

    It seems like each time a WordPress podcast disappears, there is one or more to take its place. A few weeks ago, the WP Bacon podcast announced the end of their show to concentrate on other projects. However, a recent search in iTunes for WordPress Podcasts show there is almost an endless amount of content…