WordPress News

Building and managing WordPress websites? You should check out Admin Restriction.

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

Admin Restriction is a plugin that disables installing, updating and removing plugins and themes, and disables updating the WordPress Core for all users except for the Administrator user with ID 1.

Swiftype Search for improved WordPress search

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

Austin Gunter has done a nice feature on the WP Engine blog on a new plugin called Swiftype. It seems the folks behind Swiftype have been "blessed" by the WordPress.com VIP team as a more relevance-based search solution. I'm certainly…

WordSesh initial schedule is up

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

http://wordsesh.org/#schedule

WP Fund It – Kickstarter for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

http://pippinsplugins.com/wordpress-community-crowd-funding/

Embed plugin information from WordPress.org

Brian Krogsgard

March 1, 2013

WordPress News

Jonathan Dingman, of WP Force, found this nifty little plugin by Lee Willis to auto-embed plugin information from the .org repository by just pasting the URL.

Build an app with WordPress

paul de wouters

March 1, 2013

Development

A very detailed step by step tutorial on building a to do list app with WordPress using javascript and Ajax.

Envato to offer 100% GPL option for ThemeForest and CodeCanyon

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2013

WordPress News

You're probably familiar the GPL controversy of late between WordCamps and Envato. Well, this solves that. After looking at author survey results, Envato is going to offer an option for authors to choose a 100% GPL license. The survey results…

No, you can’t get a custom built website in two days for $300

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2013

Business

Chris Lema shares a story that is all too common. However, web development work is like voodoo for our clients. They just don't know how much custom development should cost, or how long it should take. So we have to…

Random Taxonomy Images – Part 2

Curtis McHale

February 28, 2013

WordPress News

In the second post in this series, we set a default image for our taxonomies if we haven't provided one with our taxonomy meta.

WPDK: how a WordPress development framework was built

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2013

WordPress News

How WPDK, a WordPress developement framework, was built. Here's a summary on which techniques, patterns, classes were used to build this powerful framework.

How to Include the jQuery Datepicker in WordPress

Curtis McHale

February 28, 2013

Development

If you've wanted to know how to add the jQuery datepicker to your site, here it is.

Site Sensor website monitoring from Copyblogger

Brian Krogsgard

February 28, 2013

Business

Copyblogger media, the partner/parent company of well-known WordPress brand StudioPress, has released a new service called Site Monitor. It monitors your website for downtime, offers update monitoring for WordPress sites, plenty of built in notification methods. Looks pretty nice, with…

Flat menu icons reverted from 3.6, ported to a plugin

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2013

WordPress News

WordPress trunk experimented with new, flatter menu icons for a few weeks. After great debate, these have been reverted for the 3.6 release. However, the feature was ported to a plugin and added to the repository, which is going to…

Open menu items in new window or tab

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2013

WordPress News

Quick tip on how to make menu items in WordPress open in a new window or tab.

ProductPier wants to be the host for WordPress eCommerce stores

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2013

Hosting

I recently found this teaser page for a service called ProductPier, that's aiming to be a go-to hosting solution for WordPress eCommerce stores. They list WooCommerce, Jigoshop, Shopp, WP E-Commerce and Cart66 as supported platforms on the landing page. I'm…

“Curated news”

Brian Krogsgard

February 27, 2013

WordPress News

Joe Foley posted on WPMU about news curation and their Autoblog plugin, and it's relevant to this space. He discusses the value of curated news sites (which I agree with) and says how their plugin can help make one great…