Password Free Login With Clef Hits All The High Notes
Marcus Couch reviews CLEF, the amazing new WordPress plugin that allows you to login to your WP site via your app enabled smartphone and say goodbye to passwords forever.
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7 Surprising Results From The 2013 BuddyPress Codex Survey
The results of the BuddyPress codex survey are in! 178 BuddyPress developers participated in the survey and the information they provided will help the team to prioritize short-term and long-term tasks for improving the BP Codex. Community developers @hnla and @mercime are spearheading the effort to improve the BuddyPress codex for the BP 1.9 release.…
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Coming Soon: Inline Documentation For All WordPress Hooks
Something exciting is happening in the world of WordPress documentation. Very soon all of the hooks used throughout the core are going to be documented. An initiative is now underway to bring inline docs for hooks into the upcoming WordPress 3.7 release. I can see some of you jumping up and down and celebrating wildly…
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Pressgram Launches WordPress-Powered Photo-Sharing App
Everyone has been waiting on the edge of their seats for the Pressgram app to be accepted in the app store and today it finally happened. Billed as “An Image Sharing App Built for an Independent Web”, Pressgram has received some major national attention, given its direct confrontation of the very unpopular policies of Facebook…
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This Week On WPWeekly – Swiftype
On this weeks edition of WordPress Weekly, Swiftype will be our special guest. I reviewed their plugin/service back in May. We plan on talking about why the search in WordPress is not as good as it should be, what makes search hard, the performance impacts of search and of course, the benefits of using search…
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Why WordCamp Detroit 2013 Was Cancelled
It looks like the plug has been pulled on WordCamp Detroit 2013. In a blog post published on September 3rd, 2013 TJList one of the organizers has announced that they have canceled this year’s WordCamp. The primary reason given was that they were not ready to put on a high-quality event. Those who have already…
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WPWeekly Episode 119 – The Triple A Of WordPress Support, WPSitecare
In this episode of WordPress Weekly we covered the headlines of the week and then spent the second half the show talking with Rami Abraham and Ryan Sullivan of WPSitecare.com. As a company that specializes in supporting WordPress users in all sorts of situations, I thought it would be great to talk to them about…
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EXCLUSIVE: Sarah Gooding Moves To The WordPress Tavern
Hello WordPress Tavern readers! Some of you may know me as a word wrangling WordPress writer from WPMU.org, where I spent the last four years writing about everything from WordPress and BuddyPress news to theme and product reviews, tutorials, and everything in between. Today, however, I’m excited to announce that I have officially moved to…
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Edit Flow, Jetpack, And MP6
The following plugins have either been recently updated or have an update pending. I use all three and know a bunch of other people who use them as well. Jetpack 2.4 in combination with Photon is causing problems on certain websites where images are showing at their full size instead of their specified dimensions. Meanwhile,…
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Jetpack 2.4 Adds Widget Visibility Module
If you use the Jetpack plugin by Automattic, you’ll notice there is an update to version 2.4 available. The changelog for Jetpack is usually a mile long but in this case, I was happy to see that the Widget Visibility module was added to Jetpack. Widget Visibility was made available to WordPress.com earlier this year.
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Automatic Updates Possible In WordPress 3.7
As was stated by Matt Mullenweg in his State Of The Word 2013 at WordCamp San Francisco, one of the goals for WordPress was to perform automatic updates similar to the Chrome browser. That is, perform automatic updates without breaking anything to the point where you don’t even know the software has updated. On the…
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WordPress Weekly iTunes Subscription Information
Since the creation of WordPress Weekly back in 2008, I’ve used Talkshoe.com to record the show in front of a live audience. Over the years, a number of people have subscribed to the iTunes feed provided by Talkshoe. Starting this week, I will no longer be using the Talkshoe iTunes feed but rather, my own.…
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Plugin Review – Leaky Paywall
Plugin Author, License, And Pricing: Created by the same folks who created the IssueM plugin. The plugin is licensed under the GPL and has three different pricing tiers. Single site for $55.00, 2-5 sites for $75.00 and 6-25 sites for $95.00. Description And Review: Leaky Paywall takes a different approach to enticing users to pay…
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WP Site Care On WordPress Weekly This Week
Ryan Sullivan and Rami Abraham of WPSitecare will be my special guests this week on WordPress Weekly. WP Site Care is a WordPress Support & Maintenance Company. The first time I discovered a company like WP Site Care was in 2009 which was around the time WP HelpCenter was created. On the show, I plan…
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Ben Sibley On The State Of WordPress Themes 2013
Supportdash, a company specializing in providing customer support for WordPress developers has published an infographic that highlights the state of WordPress themes. Their survey pretty much has nothing to do with the design of the themes themselves but of trends, where are they being sold, the marketplace, and their support structures. A few things I…