Matt Mullenweg, WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic, was recently featured on the Hired Podcast, a show that focuses on exciting things in the world of work life and company culture. Cameron Moll, founder of Authentic Jobs, hosts this short 27 minute interview, which many of you may enjoy. As Mullenweg tells the story of…
WPKindness is a site devoted to sharing acts of kindness that have taken place throughout the WordPress community. The site is powered by Headway, Gravity Forms, Toolset and WordPress. To report an act of kindness, visit their submission page and fill out the necessary details. Near the end of the submission form is a radio…
Markdown has finally made its way to Jetpack after it was added to WordPress.com a couple months ago. The new Markdown module in Jetpack 2.8 gives you the option to write and edit rich text without having to write code or reach for your mouse. If you’re not familiar with Markdown, here’s what it looks…
WordPress 3.6 introduced native support for audio and video files which meant that you no longer need to add a plugin in order to play multimedia files hosted in your media library. A new group, led by Scott Taylor under the project code name “Disco Fries,” has set out to continue iterating on this feature.…
The exciting news today in WordPress core development is a shiny new core/components page that presents an organized overview of open Trac tickets for each component. Nacin announced the new feature today during the #wordpress-dev IRC meeting, which delighted many core contributors in attendance. The page breaks down 34 top-level components with two dozen subcomponents.…
Treehouse offers technology education courses in a virtual environment to help users pick up new skills. Membership to the site offers access to various tracks of study that include topics such as iOS and Android development, web design, PHP, Rails development and more. Treehouse has been gradually adding to its collection of WordPress courses and…
The Widget Customizer plugin is currently being considered for inclusion in WordPress 3.9. Weston Ruter, the project’s lead developer, submitted a proposal for its merge into core. He and a large team of contributors have been working ardently to bring this feature into WordPress so that users no longer have to edit widgets blind. With…
Aesop plugin developer Nick Haskins announced tonight that the project has now been fully funded through its Crowdhoster campaign. He’s raised $6,397 of $6,000, thanks to backing from many major WordPress companies and individuals who are hoping to make the Aesop storytelling engine a reality. Haskin’s open source storytelling plugin allows publishers to create rich…
The WordPress community in Norway is growing fast. Just three years ago, WordPress did not have much representation in the country at all. The success of the first Oslo WordPress meetup in May 6th, 2011, sparked more gatherings, including the first WordCamp Norway. There are now three official WordPress meetups happening regularly in different parts…
Thanks to the folks behind WinningWP.com, WordPress co-founder Mike Little has his very own Wikipedia page. While Matt Mullenweg has been the public figurehead of the WordPress project, little is known about Mike. Within the past two years however, we’ve begun to get a better understanding of who Mike is and what lead him to…
As Matt Mullenweg predicted in the State of the Word address in 2013, this new year brings with it a growing excitement around building applications based on WordPress. The launch of AppPresser, the first mobile application framework for WordPress, produced a healthy buzz around the idea and now the community is primed for more. Ryan…
Oli Dale of WPLift.com has published a great article that goes behind the scenes of SiteGround. SiteGround CEO, Tenko Nikolov, answered questions that provide insight into how the company operates on a day to day basis. I was surprised to learn that the company is just a few months younger than WordPress and will be…
This week the WordPress Front-end Editor team posted its progress on the Make WordPress UI development blog. Front-end editing capabilities are being developed as a feature plugin and will hopefully be considered for inclusion in the core sometime this year. It currently looks a little something like this: The plugin has improved by leaps and…
The third official WordCamp Paris was held this past weekend, featuring 15 talks and seven workshops during Jan 17-18. From all accounts it seems to have been a stellar event. The first day focused on business and enterprise and the second day included a mix of talks and workshops focused on tech, design and community…
As Marcus Couch hinted at back on November 27th, 2013, GoDaddy has entered the Managed WordPress hosting space. Plans start at $6.29 per month and include DDoS protection, firewalls, automatic updates and an easy one-click migration tool. GoDaddy states that their service will have blistering speed and guaranteed 99.9% uptime. More Of The Same GoDaddy…