Recently, a friend asked me what I recommended for a super simple Google Maps plugin. I didn’t have a good answer. Plugins I’d seen were either just widgets, or had too much going on. Somehow I had overlooked Pippin Williamson’s Google Maps Shortcode plugin. It’s simple, caches the maps with the transients API, and works with any Google Map.
Chris Lema wrote a post sharing his experiences with enterprise hosting options for WordPress, specifically options beyond WordPress.com VIP, which is often folks’ go-to recommendation. He covers three specifically: Microsoft Azure: They have a long history of enterprise products and services, and compelling new WordPress products that they are using themselves and I’ve heard some…
Liquid Web has announced the acquisition of iThemes in an all cash deal that includes the entire iThemes team moving over to Liquid Web as an independent unit, and iThemes products will be included in various Liquid Web offerings.
Matthias Pfefferle is head of WordPress development at a hosting company in Europe and the creator of Activity Pub, a WordPress plugin. He joins Cory Miller to discuss the rising need for decentralization in social networking, the current movement, and the future potential available within WordPress.
WooCommerce was release four years ago. It’s amazing. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was paying close attention to JigoShop at the time, and following the saga of WooThemes trying to come up with an eCommerce solution. The announcement back then dropped like a bomb. Beka at Sell With WP goes through the…
The Diffen comparison plugin lets WordPress bloggers easily search and embed comparison charts on their blog, from right within their regular editor. Diffen is the world’s largest collection of unbiased comparisons in sports, sci./tech, legal, finance, grammar, health and general reference. All these can now be easily embedded in WordPress blogs.
The things that unite us aren’t always what we expect. And sometimes they’re the same things that divide us — or at least a fraction of us.
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Lightweight plugins tend to be overlooked. Simple is good and this one is a gem. Transient caching of maps is not only thoughtful, but responsible, which makes it beautiful on the inside too.