That’s why people go to websites. My colleague, David Hickox, hits the nail on the head. Sliders are the latest craze, but, “they’re just the latest in a long line of misguided client fixations aimed at producing excitement and engagement on the web.” Quite a worthwhile read.
Automattic has added a new page on WordPress.com inviting theme makers to submit their theme shops to the platform. Historically, Automattic has invited particular theme makers to be a part of the WordPress.com commercial theme program. I have heard from some sellers on WordPress.com that they’ve really opened it up to a lot of people now,…
WordPress.com has launched the MP6 dashboard redesign to everyone this morning. The comments on Matt Thomas’ announcement post are pretty enlightening as to how regular folks feel, and also a bit entertaining. In short, most are happy and some are very unhappy. Not many people are in the middle. I do think a couple of…
Stéphane Thomas has written a post proposing a more unified design aesthetic for various Automattic properties. It’s very thorough, including complete home page wireframes with content. Stéphane doesn’t work for Automattic, and the post appears to be fairly random, so it makes this even more interesting and fun to me. I really like the concepts in…
Mel Choyce has started the conversation on Make Core to change WordPress’s Dashicons icon font to SVG: In the next couple months, we’re going to focus on converting the Dashicons icon font in core to SVG. The process of adding and updating the Dashicons font is an incredibly labor intensive, tedious process that is currently limited…
In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg — co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic — about what’s happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.
WordPress 3.8, “Parker”, has just been released. WordPress 3.8 is the result of four months of hard work by 188 core contributors. Named after Charlie Parker, jazz saxophonist and bepob innovator. WordPress 3.8’s development was led by WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg. WordPress 3.8 is the first release cycle ever where all major feature development began…
