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WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

WordPress.com theme directory gets facelift, changes visible data

ByBrian Krogsgard

The WordPress.com theme directory received a facelift yesterday, as well as some functionality changes. New design The new design isn’t a big stretch from the previous one, but it is cleaner and more modern. One item to note is that premium themes are now less obvious, as the “new” and “premium” banners of the old…

Site Sensor website monitoring from Copyblogger

ByBrian Krogsgard

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 a relatively low price floor of $6 / month.

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Gravity Forms the latest provider to move to ticket-based support

ByBrian Krogsgard

Gravity Forms announced today they are moving to a ticket-based support system, versus their previous forum-based setup. They cite that this will make it easier for them to manage and continue to scale. I’ve seen a few companies do this that are battling scaling issues — WooThemes comes to mind off the top of my…

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A core plugin team is forming to tackle a better meta data UI

ByBrian Krogsgard

Eric Andrew Lewis started a new topic this morning on the Make WordPress Core blog to introduce a new core plugin team. The Post Meta team’s goal will be to improve the “developer’s experience from the back-end – creating input elements for meta fields in a programatic method.” As he notes in the post, there…