WordPress has post sticky option only for posts post type. So if you are going to create a new custom post type, there is no native way for adding support for sticky posts. With this trick, you can show your posts sticking in the top in custom post type archives.
Tammie Lister has made a deal with Packt Publishing to write a book about BuddyPress theme development. She plans for the book to be a relatively short, 100 pages, with lots of resources for developers that wanted to get started theming BuddyPress. Seems like a great opportunity and a win for the community.
There’s a mega Trac ticket to, “strategize the updating of minimum PHP version.” Joe and I talked about this on the latest podcast too (in the last segment), if you’re curious. The Trac ticket goes every which way, as you’d expect. But this feedback from Joomla developer @mbabker is great to be able to get, considering…
Rob Howard took a look at the prevalence of fictitious “discount” pricing on WordPress plugins in light of US federal and some state laws that may regard this as a deceptive trade practice. Rob will have more to say about this in the future after further monitoring “to compare the different pricing and sale behaviors…
Matt Mullenweg did an AMA on Product Hunt. There’s not a ton you haven’t seen, but apparently there’s a new WordPress mobile app that’s still in “internal” beta. I wonder if it’s using the new REST API? I hope it’s not WP.com’s…. Also the “internal” label brought emotions that spilled into ill-formed words and I deleted…
In this episode of Get Hired, Michelle Frechette speaks with Terry Trout from Nexcess about what she looks for when hiring in marketing.
The keys to being valuable: Be open. Be honest. Be willing. Be passionate. Result: Be valuable. Be employed. WordPress continues its dominance as a CMS. This is an obvious statement if you look at statistics for sites that use WordPress, but have you thought of what that means to you if you know how to work…
