Tweeple plugin offers tweet feeds compatible to Twitter V1.1 API
If you’re like most of the internet, you probably didn’t update your Twitter feeds embedded on your site to comply with Twitter’s V1.1 API. Well, their V1.0 API fully deprecated about a week ago, and a ton of Twitter WordPressplugins broke with it. Jason Bobich has your back though. He just created Tweeple, a WordPress…
How much are the big WordPress companies making?
It’s a question many of us have pondered. Just how much money do these “big” WordPress product companies make? WooThemes, Copyblogger (makers of StudioPress), Gravity Forms, WP Engine, Sucuri, and many more companies are clearly making significant revenues compared to one and two person businesses. But it’s rare you hear a business say specifically just…
On WordPress news sites
There has been a bit of talk about WordPress news sites recently. WPMU has done a pretty good summary of the recent DradCast podcast episode hosted by WP Tavern‘s Jeff Chandler. It tells the story of Jeff’s journey running the Tavern and then selling it. I’m glad how it was sold is finally out in…
DevPress aims to create a new hosted website platform
Tung Do, the owner of DevPress, has written a post that he knows may be more ambitious than he can handle. He notes a longstanding desire to “revolutionize the WordPress-experience” and he wants to do so by transforming DevPress into a hosted web platform. While Tung says he is not aiming for the WordPress.com audience,…
WPSessions: Learn from experts
Brian Richards has launched a new project called WPSessions. WPSessions is a series of monthly presentations from some of the foremost experts in the community. The first Session will be Saturday, June 22nd on Building WordPress Plugins. Brian says that the sessions will range from introductory level to expert level content. There are three presenters in the…
Reality66 (behind Cart66 and Mijireh) launches Cart66 Cloud
Wow. I wonder if this may be what was going to be WP Stores? I wrote about Cart66 at WPCandy over two years ago, that caught a bunch of attention / upset customers. Their owner was really nice and I did a followup shortly thereafter. But honestly, I haven’t heard much since then. I was…
iThemes is entering the WordPress eCommerce landscape with Exchange
iThemes announced this morning that they are entering the eCommerce landscape with a new product called Exchange. Based on their announcement post, it seems the product will be a classical physical goods eCommerce product, in the same realm as WooCommerce, WP E-Commerce, and Shopp. edit: as clarified in the comments, it actually appears their first…
WordCamps and business
You’ve likely heard a lot about the WordPress economy over the past couple of years. Tens of thousands of people make their living with WordPress. It’s likely that many thousands more work at news sites, agencies, or other companies where WordPress is a key platform. Naturally, interest in business tracks at WordCamps has been strong….
If you’re serious
Matt, If you’re serious about forking b2 I would be interested in contributing. I’m sure there are one or two others in the community who would be too. Mike Little’s fateful comment on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. A short history of Mike Little Late last week, Simon Wheatley sent me a video of his Code For…
Core plugin dependency is necessary for a better WordPress ecosystem
The debate over plugin dependency has been around WordPress for years. I strongly believe that WordPress core needs a simple plugin dependency API for a healthier WordPress ecosystem. Building plugin dependency into core does more than make something already possible easier. It encourages a mindset for developers to rely on existing, reliable code for use…
WordPress.org theme demos leave a lot to be desired
WordPress.org has made incredible strides the last few years on improving the quality of the themes in the repository. Every theme goes through a stringent approval process, thanks to the WordPress Theme Review Team. But discovery can still be challenging on WordPress.org.
ThemeForest theme nets over $100,000 per month, sadly
The Envato blog highlighted a record breaking theme on their blog today, for achieving $100,000 in revenue per month, two months in a row. All in all, this theme, Avada, has achieved nearly a million dollars in revenue since its release last August. And it represents everything I hate about the theme landscape today. Few…
Who’s hiring in WordPress? (Spring edition)
This is the second “Who’s hiring” post, and the last one was very successful. I know of a few people that got full time jobs and contract work based on conversations started from that post. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers and designers, for both full time positions and contract work. Periodically, I…
Who’s hiring in WordPress?
It’s always great when people can get hooked up to work together. I consistently find people looking for WordPress developers, for both full time positions and contract work. Periodically, I also see folks looking for new opportunities. I’d like to start a periodic thread for these groups to get connected. To participate, simply comment on…
What do y’all think about a periodic job thread?
There’s a lot of moving and shaking in the WordPress community. Would a jobs thread here be beneficial? As a place where job seekers could post that they’re looking for work and / or available employers could post that they have positions available? I think a good method for this might be a “who’s hiring”…
Backbone.js, Underscore.js and why they matter for WordPress
WordPress is transforming and you may not even know it. The project’s largely been a PHP driven framework. According to Github, the code itself is around 85% PHP and 15% JS in WordPress 3.5. In the future, JavaScript is likely to make up a majority of the project’s code. And Backbone.js and Underscore.js have a big part of that shift. We should get ready for the change, and learn how to use these new tools.
