For those looking to take polls or collect survey data out in the field should check out this primer published on the PollDaddy blog on how to use their iOS app on the iPad to substitute the typical clipboard and paper routine. Probably one of the best features regarding the app is the ability to…
WordPress.com has unveiled a brand new feature that photo bloggers are going to love. It’s called the Full-Size carousel and was designed to display photographs as large as your display can contain them. Created by a group of people within Automattic as a mini project during their stay in Budapest, the carousel has support for…
In a recent discussion amongst those on the WordPress Documentation mailing list, Scribu brought up the question on whether or not links to commercial solutions were allowed within the Codex. Lorelle VanFossen summed things up pretty nicely in the following quote: A fantastic article that helps spell out the details of the Codex article on…
Ever wanted to see a group of plugins with similar functionality go at it in a head to head battle? BattleOfThePlugins.com does exactly that except the visitors decide with their votes as to which one is the best. The plugin with the most votes is considered the champion of their respective category. You can probably…
Based on everything I’ve read on Twitter over the weekend, the WordUp Whitehall event in London, England was a success. Think of WordUp as a mini WordCamp. Not quite the large WordCamp event but not exactly a small meetup either. HelpfulTechnology.com has an interesting post available detailing what they took away from the event and…
The following is a presentation by Chip Bennett at WordCamp Kansas City 2011. In this video, Chip Bennett explains the entire process of what it takes to get a theme hosted on the WordPress.org Theme Repository. Pretty awesome to see Chip go from being a vocal member on WPTavern within the past year or so…
WPRoots has published the first in a series of articles that will explain how to create an account center in WordPress. The series starts off by explaining how to create the page template for the account center. Follow up posts will contain information on how to create a custom login page and how to display…
In episode 4 of the WebBoy comic series, Quinten finds himself overworked after working on customizing his contact form for days only to experience one problem after another. View the comic to see how Quinten gets help on getting email messages delivered. P.S. that ugly thing called spam makes an appearance in the comic.
Akismet has started an experimental partner program. Based on the information presented, it looks like this is aimed more at consultants who deal with clients and instead of possibly using their own Akismet API key, they’ll now be able to refer them to Akismet via a special link which indicates the three plans that users…
While reading a discussion that was being had by the folks who populate the WordPress Hackers Mailing list regarding the difference between the aside and status post formats, Mike Schinkel commented on a practice that I think needs to be stopped. I’ve been noticing that some themers have decided to implement “link” post formats such…
Snowshoe Magazine has recently switched over their website from a Coldfusion installation into WordPress with the help of Serafini Studios. During the switch, Gabriel created custom code that exported 1,131 articles in 48 different categories as well as 1,184 events from ColdFusion into WordPress. According to the sites source-code, a custom theme is being used…
Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Oli from WPLift.com has gone through the work of collecting all of the infographics related to WordPress that have been released so far this year into one long post. What’s neat about seeing all of these images on one page is the diversity in displaying relatively the same information.…
Well this is interesting. The team behind DevPress are planning to launch a plugin/theme review service. During the first phase of the launch, efforts will focus on theme reviews only. Justin Tadlock mentions that one of the driving factors behind the decision to launch the service is to fill the voids that exist with the…
Kevin Muldoon of WPMods.com has announced that he has relaunched the forum section of the site. The forums disappeared earlier this year due to spam and the stand alone version of bbPress not having a modern feature set. I thought Kevin would have given the newly released bbPress plugin a try when he relaunched but…
When do you think that WordPress is going to completely rewrite their code base so it’s an actual CMS instead of a hacked together glorified blogging system? I find I get that question quite a lot and it annoys me. WordPress is being rewritten all the time. Check out the development that happens on Trac.…