After we reported on WordPress managed host NodeKi going out of business, both former customers and the WordPress community were left wondering what happened behind the scenes. The Tavern was then contacted by the company who purchased NodeKi’s paying customers. Jonathan VanSchaack, director of the web division of Remly Communications, offered to fill us in…
So far, 2014 is the year for making over WordPress Trac. Over the past couple weeks and during the holidays, Andrew Nacin has implemented a host of new features that make it easier for contributors to collaborate with one another, get better ticket notifications and work more efficiently with new reports and keywords for sorting…
Last week Nick Haskins introduced his open source storytelling plugin for WordPress. The proof of concept allows publishers to create big, visual posts with multimedia storytelling tools built right into the WordPress post editor. The New York Times showcased this trend in its feature 2013: The Year in Interactive Storytelling. The trouble is, before Aesop…
Andrew Nacin announced official git mirrors for WordPress this afternoon on the WordPress make/core development blog. These are read-only mirrors that correspond to the WordPress core development SVN repository. Git mirrors are also now available for BuddyPress, bbPress, GlotPress and the old core.svn “build” repository: git clone git://develop.git.wordpress.org/ git clone git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/ git clone git://bbpress.git.wordpress.org/ git…
As of February 1st, 2014, NodeKi Managed WordPress hosting company will be shutting down, citing their lifetime plans as a contributing factor. The NodeKi management team sent out an email to all of their customers today to inform them of the situation: Dear Sir/Madam, As of February 1st, 2014, NodeKi will permanently be going out…
The US Government’s Data.gov website is a beautiful implementation of WordPress. The site provides a library of the government’s open data for anyone to use: Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more. Data.gov lets you search more than 85,000 datasets with…
After celebrating his 30th birthday this weekend, Matt Mullenweg announced that he has accepted a new role as CEO of Automattic. Toni Schneider joined Automattic as CEO eight years ago in January 2006 and has helped to expand Automattic’s reach to what he says is close to a billion people each month. But Schneider isn’t…
Over the weekend, WordCamp Miami announced a date change for the 5th anniversary event. It’s now pushed up to to May 9-11, 2014. BuddyPress designers, developers and enthusiasts will be pleased to know that the organizers of the event have also given the green light to host another BuddyCamp Miami. This is the second BuddyCamp…
ManageWP announced today that it has made its way into cPanel on sites hosted with SiteGround via their new hosting partnership program. SiteGround customers will now find a ManageWP button within cPanel, which includes one click ManageWP account activation and also allows users to automatically add existing websites to the management dashboard. I had the…
WP-CLI was one of the most exciting WordPress tools to be released a couple of years ago in 2011 and has quickly become an indispensable part of many developers’ workflow. The project was originally created by Andreas Creten and is now maintained by Cristi Burcă (Scribu) and other contributors. WP-CLI provides a command line interface…
Andrew Nacin is on a roll with adding improvements to the WordPress core trac. During the holiday break he worked on a design refresh for tickets, enhancements, bug fixes and more ways to sort tickets. Today he announced per-ticket notifications, an exciting new feature that will help you stay updated on tickets. This is big…
WordPress is available in more than 80 different languages, due in large part to the many community volunteers who have submitted translations. Translating WordPress into a new language makes it possible for people around the world to take advantage of this open source publishing platform to make their voices heard. In addition to translations, some…
Hunting for a new WordPress theme can be an overwhelming task, given the sheer number of theme providers out there. With tens of thousands of WordPress themes in the wild, it’s not always easy to narrow it down or to know which themes are high quality. Theme Friendly aims to solve this problem by providing…
If you love WordPress, keep an eye on your calendar for Valentines day 2014 as that’s when WP School is scheduled to launch. WP School is an initiative started by Pooria Asteraky with the goal of bringing WordPress education to the masses. Classified as a (MOOC) or massive open online course, the site will be…
The WebDevStudios development team was one of the first agencies to pioneer WordPress-powered apps. They originally launched into the space by privately creating apps for high profile clients like the YMCA and Dallas Museum of Art. Last year these apps were showcased by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who predicts that WordPress as an application platform…