If you’re looking for a clean, customizable business theme for WordPress, THBusiness just landed in the official Themes Directory. While most free themes are dedicated to blogging, THBusiness is focused on providing all of the basic elements you need to display featured content, services, testimonials, and more. It was designed by the folks at THEMEZHUT…
France is getting its second official WordCamp. The event is called WordCamp Nantes WP Tech and will be held in Nantes on Saturday, November 29, 2014. Unlike your traditional WordCamp, WP Tech will be devoted entirely to developers. “The idea is to share knowledge, ideas and best practices about WordPress development,” organizer Daniel Roch told…
Roots is a WordPress starter theme that makes use of HTML5 Boilerplate, Bootstrap, and Grunt. Over the years Roots has garnered somewhat of a cult following and is still going strong with the release of version 7.0.0 last week. This release moves some of the theme’s trademark features into a plugin called Soil and adds…
East Meets Press is a business focused WordPress event organized by Ben Fox that will be held on September 17-21 (Wednesday to Sunday – 4 nights). Not to be outdone by BeachPress which was recently held on the West Coast of the US, East Meets Press will take place on the East Coast in Kure…
WordPress 4.0 Beta 1 is now available for download and testing. This means that core developers are now onto the stage of bug fixes and inline documentation in preparation for the official release in August. Helen Hou-Sandí, the release lead, announced the beta with an outline of user-facing features that need testing. The list offers…
WP Engine has revamped their user portal and is the first large partner to integrate Sidekick into its service. Sidekick provides WP Engine customers access to guided tours for understanding how different components of the User Portal work together. Sidekick is a product created by FlowPress to create interactive, narrated, guided walkthroughs. The new user…
Admin pointers were first added in WordPress 3.3 for the purpose of helping users discover and navigate new features in major releases. For example, when widgets were added to the customizer, an admin pointer displayed to highlight live widget previews on the themes page. The friendly pointers, when used sparingly, can draw attention to important…
In the past two weeks, a lot of work has been done to improve the various plugin installer modals in the backend of WordPress. A modal is a fancy way of saying a dialog or popup box. One of the modals revamped is the plugin details view. When users click on the details link when…
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…
WordPress.tv added its first German language video today. Konstantin Obenland’s “Underscores: Ein Startertheme Für Alle” presentation from WordCamp Hamburg is, surprisingly, the only German video to make it to WordPress.tv so far. Obenland is a code wrangler at Automattic and has also worked extensively with the default WordPress themes. His presentation covers the history and…
When widgets were added to the customizer in 3.9, WordPress users were generally surprised and delighted. Live previews are so beneficial to the editing experience that contributors are starting to pursue an expansion of the role of the customizer into all aspects of WordPress. Nick Halsey has been working extensively with the customizer as part…
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…
Some of the best collaborations and discussions happen at WordCamps. While attending the WordCamp Seattle contributor day last month, Siobhan McKeown, Mike Schroder, Morten Rand-Hendriksen, and Sonja Leix began some preliminary discussions on how they could improve the image editing experience in WordPress. The current state of WordPress image editing is functional with basic rotation…
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…
Dribbble was founded as a community for designers in 2009 and has since grown to become a profitable company and a popular source for inspiration on the web. The site provides a social outlet for designers, allowing members to share samples of their work and get feedback from other professionals and enthusiasts. While you may…