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A series on the WordPress HTTP API

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

I always get excited when Tom McFarlin starts a new series on wpTuts+. His latest is going to take a look at the WordPress HTTP API, and his first post is up with an introduction to wp_remote_get(). Tom is one…

BuddyPress 1.8 ships with fancy template hierarchy and better theme integration

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

BuddyPress 1.8 has officially shipped with the codename, "Di Fara". BuddyPress has a much smaller user base than the main WordPress project, but they are passionate users and developers. The newest release continues the trend of reducing barriers between WordPress…

Official WordPress job board is back open, seeks moderators

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Careers

The official WordPress job board is back open. It was down for a while as the primary moderator stepped down. According to a post on the Make WordPress Meta blog by Siobhan McKeown, they are now seeking a few moderators with…

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Summer edition)

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Careers

This is the third “Who’s hiring” post, and the last two were very successful. I know of a few people that got full time jobs and contract work based on conversations started from those posts. I consistently find people looking…

Learn three filters a day for 365 days

Curtis McHale

July 17, 2013

Development

Drew Jaynes hast started a new website called Filters of the Day with the goal of documenting 3 filters a day for the next 365 days. I'm sure this will be a great opportunity for us to learn more about…

CrowdFavorite releases Ruby gem for WordPress deployment with Capistrano

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

Development

CrowdFavorite has officially released a Ruby gem that they've been using for some time that allows for deploying WordPress sites with Capistrano. They talk about how it's different from Mark Jaquith's WP-Stack, which you may have heard of, in the…

Envato updates recent changes to ThemeForest theme submission requirements

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

Envato has updated some of the implementation schedule and details from the recent changes they made to their ThemeForest theme submission guidelines last week. The update slows down the process of implementing the new guides and breaks them into two…

Floating Social Bar plugin does sticky social buttons with lazy loading

Brian Krogsgard

July 17, 2013

WordPress News

Syed Balkhi of WP Beginner and Thomas Griffin, maker of Soliloquy, just teamed up to create Floating Social Bar. It's a plugin that utilizes the Socialite.js script in combination with a sticky bar for displaying social sharing buttons. Socialite.js is…

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

HostingWordPress News

I was tagged in a tweet by Brad Williams that referenced The WP Conf, which is currently only a half-finished website, but is an independent WordPress conference slated for late this year, and calls itself, "a WordPress conference forked from…

I was profiled on WooThemes to talk about WooCommerce, WordPress, and maintenance

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

I'm extremely honored to have been profiled on WooThemes to talk about working in client services with WordPress, using WooCommerce, and maintaining WordPress. There is a Q & A along with a video interview I did with WooNinja Matty Cohen.…

Plugin aims to make managing nonprofits easier

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

A company called Wired Impact has released an intriguing new plugin called Nonprofit Board Management. The plugin is a combination of a people / board member content type, event RSVP management, committee management, and document / resource management. It's a…

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

Members of the Make WordPress Accessibility group have created an initial set of accessibility objectives for WordPress. Ultimately, in order to support Matt Mullenweg’s view on the democratization of the web by web-related software, the group wants as many WordPress…

Why every new employee should do customer support

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

Business

Mel Choyce recently joined Automattic as a Design Engineer. In this post, she talks about her experience doing customer support her first few weeks on the job. This has become a well known stage of employment for those that join…

Gravity Forms releases Zapier addon, enabling massive third party integration opportunities

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

WordPress News

Gravity Forms has released an addon to integrate with Zapier, which is an automation service. Zapier essentially helps various APIs from popular services communicate with one another. If you've heard of IFTTT, it's fairly similar. There are loads of integrations…

WordPress podcasts to keep an eye on

Brian Krogsgard

July 16, 2013

BusinessWordPress News

The WordPress podcast landscape seems to be exploding. I've been keeping my queue filled for a while now with the shows available. Let's talk about a few. The DradCast The DradCast is a carryover from WP Late Night, hosted by Sucuri CEO…

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

Brian Krogsgard

July 15, 2013

WordPress News

Matt Medeiros, Adam Warner, Curtis McHale, Jeff Chandler, and Pippin Williamson all got together for a great panel discussion on the most recent episode of the Week in WordPress podcast. They talked about a lot of the shifts in the…

A series on the WordPress HTTP API

BuddyPress 1.8 ships with fancy template hierarchy and better theme integration

Official WordPress job board is back open, seeks moderators

Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Summer edition)

Learn three filters a day for 365 days

CrowdFavorite releases Ruby gem for WordPress deployment with Capistrano

Envato updates recent changes to ThemeForest theme submission requirements

Floating Social Bar plugin does sticky social buttons with lazy loading

The WP Conf to “fork” WordCamp Los Angeles

I was profiled on WooThemes to talk about WooCommerce, WordPress, and maintenance

Plugin aims to make managing nonprofits easier

Accessibility objectives for WordPress – initial thoughts

Why every new employee should do customer support

Gravity Forms releases Zapier addon, enabling massive third party integration opportunities

WordPress podcasts to keep an eye on

Week in WordPress: talking WordPress news and more

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