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  • WordPress for iOS 4.8 Released, Adds Visual Editor

    WordPress for iOS 4.8 Released, Adds Visual Editor

    WordPress for iOS 4.8 is available on the app store and includes a few notable features. The app now sports a visual editor providing a what you see is what you get experience. Prior to 4.8, the editor was stuck in HTML mode making it hard to read and write content. The editor contains the…

  • WordCamp Miami Gears Up for 6th Year with New Tracks and Workshops Planned

    WordCamp Miami Gears Up for 6th Year with New Tracks and Workshops Planned

    WordCamp Miami is one of the largest and longest-running annual WordPress events, thanks to its dedicated organizers and volunteers. Last year, the event attracted 770 WordPress enthusiasts from around the world. Co-organizer David Bisset expects that attendees will be in the range of 800 this year for its 6th edition. The event has sold out…

  • WPGlobus Plugin Adds a Language Switcher to WordPress

    WPGlobus Plugin Adds a Language Switcher to WordPress

    Last week WPGlobus 1.0 beta was released on WordPress.org. The plugin offers an interesting new attempt at providing multi-language support for WordPress sites. WPGlobus allows you to configure a set of available languages and adds a dropdown language switcher to the frontend via a custom menu. The development team behind WPGlobus is led by WordPress…

  • New Plugin Detects Shared Terms in WordPress Ahead of Taxonomy Term Splitting in 4.2

    New Plugin Detects Shared Terms in WordPress Ahead of Taxonomy Term Splitting in 4.2

    Taxonomy term splitting in WordPress 4.2 addresses a seven-year-old bug that occasionally posed a nuisance to developers. In the past, WordPress allowed terms to be shared between multiple taxonomies. This caused a problem where updating a shared term would change the others unintentionally. Boone Gorges’ progress on this ticket marks a major milestone on the…

  • GravityView is Now Public on GitHub

    GravityView is Now Public on GitHub

    Six months ago, Zack Katz and Luis Godinho launched GravityView, an app based on the popular Gravity Forms plugin. It uses the Gravity Forms API to display unique views of form data and entries on the frontend of WordPress. The main GravityView plugin is now public on GitHub for anyone to access for free. The…

  • Customizer Theme Switcher Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.2

    Customizer Theme Switcher Approved for Merge Into WordPress 4.2

    The Customizer Theme Switcher feature plugin was approved for merge today during the regularly scheduled WordPress core development meeting. Lead developers and contributors in attendance agreed that there are no major blocking issues. The Customizer Theme Switcher in WordPress 4.2 will make it possible for users to browse through themes that have already been installed…

  • CMS Commander’s WordPress Site Creation Tool is Available for Free

    CMS Commander’s WordPress Site Creation Tool is Available for Free

    CMS Commander has announced that their new WordPress site creation tool will be free of charge. CMS Commander specializes in helping users manage WordPress sites. The tool gives users the ability to deploy new WordPress sites to any host via FTP with pre-configured settings and pre-installed plugins. WordPress is famous for its five-minute install, but…

  • Join the Discussion on Defining Network Types for WordPress Multisite

    Join the Discussion on Defining Network Types for WordPress Multisite

    Towards the end of 2013, WordPress lead developer Andrew Nacin outlined a potential roadmap for multisite that would address a number of long-standing questions regarding network setup and organization. When multisite, formerly known as WPMU, was first introduced, building large blogging networks was the primary use case. Over the years, the uses for multisite have…

  • WordCamp Prague 2015 Aims to Bring Central European Tech Community Together

    WordCamp Prague 2015 Aims to Bring Central European Tech Community Together

    WordCamp Prague is gearing up for its second edition on February 28, 2015. The event will be held at the University of Economics. Organizers are planning two tracks of presentations: one for end users and bloggers and the other for WordPress developers and programmers. Co-organizer Vladislav Musílek said that the team is expecting 300-350 attendees.…

  • WordPress 4.2 on Track to Expand Core Support for Emoji

    WordPress 4.2 on Track to Expand Core Support for Emoji

    Emoji characters were born in Japan in the late 90’s but took nearly a decade to break into global usage. They entered popular culture full force when select emoji character sets were incorporated into Unicode in 2010. Since that time, emoji popularity has grown, and there’s no denying that they are mainstream and here to…

  • Keep a CHANGELOG Project Aims to Standardize Best Practices for Writing Change Logs

    Keep a CHANGELOG Project Aims to Standardize Best Practices for Writing Change Logs

    A change log is the quickest, most convenient way for users and contributors to identify significant changes in a project as it moves from one version to the next. The log exists to keep users informed. Unfortunately, many open source project leaders have little motivation to provide a meaningful CHANGELOG file and are purely focused…

  • Mayer WordPress Theme is Now Open Source on GitHub

    Mayer WordPress Theme is Now Open Source on GitHub

    Tom McFarlin released his Mayer WordPress theme on GitHub today. The theme was designed with writers, bloggers, and authors in mind and was previously only available to WordPress.com users for $79. Mayer is unique in that it was created to get users writing immediately, without having a bunch settings pages or additional widgets to configure.…

  • HeroPress Fails to Attract Backers, Cancels Kickstarter Campaign Ahead of Deadline

    HeroPress Fails to Attract Backers, Cancels Kickstarter Campaign Ahead of Deadline

    Topher DeRosia, creator of HeroPress, announced today that he is canceling the project’s Kickstarter campaign. During the past few weeks, the project attracted 33 backers who pledged $21,855 of the $60,000 AUD goal. When it became clear that the fundraiser was hopelessly behind on reaching its goal, DeRosia canceled the funding three days ahead of…

  • Customizer Theme Switcher Officially Proposed for WordPress 4.2

    Customizer Theme Switcher Officially Proposed for WordPress 4.2

    This week, Nick Halsey officially proposed the Customizer Theme Switcher feature plugin for merge into WordPress 4.2. Halsey summarizes the goal of bringing theme switching into the customizer: “By integrating themes directly into the Customizer, live-previewing workflows are greatly simplified, and the relationship between themes and theme/site options is clarified for the user,” he said.…

  • SiteGround Sponsors a Full-Time Contributor to WordPress Core

    SiteGround Sponsors a Full-Time Contributor to WordPress Core

    Iseulde Van Dorpe is joining SiteGround to work full-time as a contributor to WordPress core. She expects to work on a variety of different tasks, particularly those that relate to media and the editing experience. Van Dorpe’s recent core contributions helped to improve the editor for users in the 4.0 release. https://twitter.com/markjaquith/status/507580649536880640 SiteGround identified and…