A couple more notes on the WooThemes acquisition
Thank you to all members for your patience on the newsletter, as I spent … Read more
An Automattic affiliate program?
In the comments of Matt Mullenweg’s announcement for the WooThemes acquisition, someone asked if … Read more
The growing pains of company blogging
Gregory Ciotti has some really good advice for getting through the growing pains on … Read more
Customizing WordPress media players
Brady Vercher has a really helpful post describing in detail how to customize WordPress’ … Read more
New committers for WordPress 4.3
With the WordPress 4.3 release cycle, three new people are getting guest commit access, … Read more
Automattic has acquired WooThemes, makers of WooCommerce
Matt Mullenweg announced today that Automattic has acquired WooThemes, whose flagship product is the popular eCommerce plugin, WooCommerce. All 55 team members at WooThemes will join Automattic, swelling ranks at Automattic by around 18%.
WordPress essentials, free for the next month from Lynda
Lynda’s WordPress Essentials course has been viewed 100,000 times. They are making it free … Read more
The slowness of the WordPress admin is a liability
The WordPress admin is not fast. In fact, due to a variety of reasons, … Read more
An argument to change WordPress plugin distribution
Josh Pollock has a lot of thoughts on WordPress plugin distribution on WordPress.org. WordPress.org … Read more
Evolution of the WordPress codebase
Jordi Cabot has some pretty fun charts to look at on the evolution of the … Read more
Live sandboxes versus admin screenshots
Leland Fiegel posed the question on WP Chat, “why don’t we seem to see … Read more
Easily test low vision support
A website was shared at the CodePen Boston meetup that makes it easy to … Read more
How to deduct travel expenses
This is geared toward lawyers and lawyerish travel, but I found it quite thorough … Read more
WP Rollback makes changing to specific versions of plugins easy
WP Rollback is a new free plugin by WordImpress that makes switching to a … Read more
Custom links in the Customizer
Speaking of the Customizer, Devin Price has a short and sweet tutorial on inserting … Read more
Customizer resources
There is still some negative feedback floating around about converting theme settings to the … Read more
