WordPress News

Revamped WooThemes docs

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2013

WooThemes has revamped their documentation. I like that in general, that a company is investing in their documentation, but I also like how they've done it. Siobhan McKeown worked with them to organize a complete overhaul. I love the new…

Why the Genesis and Thesis Comparison isn’t a comparison at all

Chris Lema

February 25, 2013

WordPress News

With the release of Thesis 2.0, there's been a resurgence of the comparison between these two WordPress frameworks.

Automate WooCommerce order status changes

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2013

Development

Chris Lema has posted a nice tip for automatically changing WooCommerce order status when some orders a product. It's especially useful in his context, as he sells digital downloads, and there's no waiting period between processing and completing the order.

Dependency injection for WordPress plugins

paul de wouters

February 25, 2013

Development

Mike Toppa gives us a guide for using dependency injection to organize code in our plugins.

Blog Exercises

paul de wouters

February 25, 2013

WordPress News

Formerly “Blog Challenges,” this is an ongoing collection of exercises to flex your blogging muscles. You can tackle these from the beginning or in any order. The rules are simple.

Cristi Burca: Command Line Learnings For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of WordPress

paul de wouters

February 25, 2013

WordPress News

WordCamp Talk about WP cli, a command line interface for WordPress

Hello, Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2013

WordPress News

I finally wrote a blog post on my personal blog about Post Status. I share in depth about starting the site, what I've learned, where it's going, how it's doing, etc. I hope you enjoy it.

Gravity Perks exits beta

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2013

WordPress News

Gravity Perks is a add-on functionality plugin for Gravity Forms by David Smith. David is a core developer of Gravity Forms itself, and he also runs the Gravity Wiz tutorial site for Gravity Forms. Gravity Forms is awesome. Gravity Wiz…

Write code every day

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

Development

Pippin has written a nice post about why we should be writing code every single day. I love this, in theory :)

WordPress.tv to allow users to submit their own videos

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

Pretty soon, you'll be able to submit your own videos to WordPress.tv. This will be a great change, as currently there is a consistent queue for getting new videos reviewed and published. The remaining items are to figure out how…

WP Bytes – evergreen tutorials for WordPress

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

WP Bytes is an attractive new WordPress tutorial website that, in my opinion, is taking an interesting approach to articles. Kevin Dees started the site, and his main method of categorization is by series. So you can learn all you…

WooCommerce 2.0 is coming March 4th. Final chance for testing!

Brian Krogsgard

February 22, 2013

WordPress News

Today we have tagged the second Release Candidate in our version control (you can now download it from GitHub) and this marks the last week of testing. If is it as good as we think it is (and no critical…

Adding Custom Meta to WordPress Taxonomies

Curtis McHale

February 21, 2013

Development

Part 1 of 3 where we show you how to add custom meta fields to a WordPress taxonomy.

Redesigning Automattic’s websites

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2013

Design

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…

11 WordPress extensions you can use with Sublime Text 2

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

If you use Sublime Text 2 you probably know of its extensibility. Most modern IDEs have such a feature. Or, if you're like me, you tend to use certain text editors for certain projects. Here are some cool extensions for…

Are WordPress.com’s verticals falling short?

Brian Krogsgard

February 20, 2013

WordPress News

Earlier today, I tweeted (big news, right?) that the WordPress.com verticals that have been launching left and right seem like little more than SEO plays on the landing pages. Well, James Farmer, founder of Edublogs - a huge WordPress Multisite…