Clef, the two-step authentication service that replaces usernames and passwords has announced a strategic partnership with Softaculous. Softaculous is similar to Fantastico in that it contains several scripts that can be auto installed on a webhosting account. The partnership enables automated WordPress installs from Softaculous to have Clef support out of the box. In one…
WP Engine is currently on the hunt to hire two developers to work on the open source WordPress project full-time. This is a relatively new trend that has caught on among companies that sell WordPress products and/or services. Last November, 10up announced that it would be sponsoring Helen Hou-Sandi to work full-time on WordPress core.…
WP Remote, the free WordPress site monitoring service, has announced they now support Zapier. Zapier is a collection of over 250 web apps that allow you to connect applications to automate tasks. Between WP Remote’s API and Zapier, the company hopes to give users the power to enhance their work day with more automation. The…
Version 2.9 of the WordPress for Android app was released today, debuting its Blog Discovery feature as a new part of the Reader. Blog Discovery can be found by clicking the tag icon in the top right corner of the Reader. This feature helps users find new blogs to read, based on recommendations, and allows…
The “Press This” browser bookmarklet in WordPress is on its way to a complete redesign via the features-as-plugins development path. If you’ve never used it before, the feature allows you to make quick posts to your WordPress site from anywhere on the web. It’s actually a pretty smart tool for posting and can automatically detect…
Today Automattic joins Google, Mozilla, Twitter, Reddit, and other companies across the web in announcing its support for Reset the Net campaign against mass surveillance, which takes place on the internet today. Because the NSA continues to exploit weak links in internet security in order to spy on the world, the only way for companies…
This month marks a big milestone for WordPress in Vietnamese. It is now 100% translated, thanks in large part to the folks at foobla who volunteered a great deal of time and effort on the final push to finish translating the software into Vietnamese. New WordPress translations don’t magically happen – they actually take quite…
WordPress.com VIP announced Documattic today, a new GitHub repository to house presentations and resources shared with the community. The VIP team is regularly engaged in the task of educating new clients on the strengths and features of the WordPress platform. Sara Rosso explained in the announcement why they decided to share the relevant documents: We…
Press75, established by Jason Schuller in 2008, is one of the longest running successful WordPress theme shops. Schuller carved out his own niche creating video-centric WordPress themes and created a strong, well-respected brand. He gradually became more involved with creating Dropplets, an alternative publishing platform, and experimenting with Leeflets, and his Cinematico project. In April,…
Editorially closed its doors for good today, and with it goes all of the writing collaboration tools its users came to love. Unfortunately, some legal issues are currently preventing them from open sourcing the code for the application, but it’s under consideration. In the meantime, a newcomer has stepped in to provide some of the…
The second ever WP Think Tank hosted by Troy Dean is now available to watch. WP Think Tank is a by-product of the WP Elevation podcast. The two hour-long show is filled with great information from some of the brightest minds working with large WordPress clients every day. Matt Medeiros – Founder of the MattReport…
WordPress core contributors came to a consensus today during the development meeting regarding the immediate future of the JSON REST API project. Ryan McCue and his team released version 1.0 over the weekend and have been pushing hard for it to be ready for the upcoming 4.0 release. When I spoke with McCue yesterday about…
Today marks 11 years since the very first official public release of WordPress. Reading through that changelog will make you smile and realize how far the software has come since the early days when its main competitors were Textpattern and Movable Type. Fast forward 11 years and WordPress now powers 22% of the web with…
Apple has a new advertisement for iPad, featuring Chérie King, whose WordPress-powered Flight of the Travel Bee blog is dedicated to helping deaf people discover the joy of traveling. Her story can be found at apple.com/cherie and is included as part of the “What will your verse be?” campaign. The first video beautifully captures Chérie’s…
Version 1.0 of the JSON REST API plugin was released over the weekend, adding new user, revision and post meta endpoints. This release also introduces the project’s new long-term backwards compatibility policy for its internal PHP API and REST API, which will not be broken from this point forward as new endpoints and data are…