A few days ago, I asked the WordPress community to help Terri Caissie fund her medical equipment and treatment as she battles Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy (Autoimmune) with Progressive Cerebella Ataxia or HE/SREAT. The community responded in a big way by completely funding the $2,500 campaign. Fifty-six people contributed to the campaign, including large donations from Samuel Wood…
Last week the WordPress community took to Twitter and the Treehouse forums to express disappointment at the company’s decision to fire educator Zac Gordon. According to Gordon, the company will be giving his salary to a .NET developer and will no longer create new WordPress courses, nor do they plan to update the existing courses.…
Four months ago, Richard Best, a lawyer who maintains a blog focused on legal matters related to WordPress and open source, published a poll asking for people’s views on the reselling of commercial themes and plugins. Best is working on a 10-chapter ebook called “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL.” He created the…
Earlier this week Dries Buytaert, creator and project lead for Drupal, opened up a discussion on his blog about the future of Drupal architecture in a post titled Should we decouple Drupal with a client-side framework? Buytaert contends that users have come to expect application-like experiences from websites, given their experiences interacting with the Facebook…
It’s that time of year where generosity goes a long way, especially to those who need it most. Edward Caissie, also known as @JellyBeen, is in need of the WordPress community’s generosity. His wife, Terri Caissie, was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Encephalopathy (Autoimmune) with Progressive Cerebella Ataxia on January 22, 2015. Her immune system is attacking…
WP Engine customers received an urgent notification in their inboxes Wednesday evening regarding a security breach. At WP Engine we are committed to providing robust security. We are writing today to let you know that we learned of an exposure involving some of our customers’ credentials. Out of an abundance of caution, we are proactively…
All of the sessions from WordCamp US 2015 are slowly making their way to WordPress.tv. If you weren’t able to attend the event, the good news is that you don’t have to miss out on any of the WordPress education. The sessions are packed full of knowledge and inspiration from some of the brightest minds…
Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has released a Windows version of its desktop application. The app is free and works well on my Windows 7 64Bit machine. It looks and performs exactly the same as its Mac counterpart. This is to be expected as the interface is driven by JavaScript that communicates with the WordPress.com REST API.…
WordCamp Europe 2016 organizers made 500 more tickets available this week after the first 1,000 sold out within three weeks of opening ticket sales. According to organizer Petya Raykovska, they are expecting 1700 attendees this year in Vienna, Austria. “We opened ticket sales more than seven months before the event and it’s going a lot…
Treehouse will be discontinuing its WordPress education courses. According to Zac Gordon, one of the site’s former educators, no new WordPress, BuddyPress, or WooCommerce courses will be created and existing content will not be updated in the future. “The online learning company where I have been teaching WordPress for the last 3+ years told me…
It’s that time of year again where WPShout is asking WordPress users far and wide to fill out its web hosting survey. The survey is not tied to any affiliate programs and serves as one of the few impartial resources where you can expect honest reviews from customers. The survey collects the following information: Average…
MABU, a marketing, management, and multimedia company has acquired WordPress development agency Todaymade for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition includes operational and intellectual assets including, the trade name, corporate website, a proprietary content management system called TodayCMS, and more than 50 hosted websites. Many in the WordPress community will recognize Todaymade as the sister company…
Last week Jetpack announced that its Photon image service added support for the WebP image format, which provides up to 34% size reduction for served images when compared JPEG images of the same visual quality. For Photon users this translates into faster-loading pages. WebP is not yet natively supported by all browsers, so Photon will…
The inaugural WordCamp US was held this weekend at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in the heart of Philadelphia, one of America’s oldest cities. Roughly 1,800 WordPress enthusiasts came from all corners of the world to attend the event. Ambling down Philly’s historic streets, lined with Benjamin Franklin monuments, one cannot help but consider how far…
Daniel Bachhuber, the current maintainer of WP-CLI, announced today that his Kickstarter campaign to develop a more RESTful WP-CLI is now complete. The original goal of $17,500 was fully funded within 12 hours of launching the campaign, pushing it onto the stretch goal where every additional $100 raised equals one hour of his time towards…