Growth in the French community
Jenny Beaumont
Jenny Beaumont, a freelance web developer based in France, describes the recent growth boom in France's WordPress community and some of those who've helped it thrive.
One of the suckers
Brian Krogsgard
Boone Gorges has a really insightful post on becoming, "one of the suckers," as Nacin so lovingly put it when it was announced he had full commit access to WordPress. Boone compares his years of efforts working on the smaller…
BuddyPress 2.3, “Livio”
Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress 2.3 has been released, and it's called "Livio", after the famous Tuscan restaurant. BuddyPress 2.3's biggest feature is an attachments API that powers the new avatar interface. In the release post, Mathieu Viet calls the attachments API, "the long-awaited foundation…
Coordinated plugin updates to address security vulnerability in many popular WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
A coordinated plugin update occurred this morning between many popular WordPress plugins to address a common security vulnerability that allows for XSS cross-site scripting attacks.
Micro and niche conferences abound
Brian Krogsgard
There have been many announcements of late for micro and niche conferences. This is a steady occurrence these days, which I'm happy to see, but it's not easy to keep up with it all. I'm even considering a calendar of…
The most popular WordPress plugins
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress plugin popularity has always been pretty tough to figure out. We only had download counts or independent, third party website scrapers to tell us anything. Now, WordPress.org itself has more data that's being tested and launched to give us real insight into the popularity of WordPress plugins.
BuddyPress 4.2, “Spumoni”, released
Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress 2.2 has been released, with contributions from 45 different people.  this looks like a great release for BuddyPress, with a member types component that seems particularly nice. From the post: Here’s our favorite changes 2.2 features, in no particular order.…
Automating i18n in WordPress themes
Brady Vercher
According to the Polygots Make blog, WordPress is used all over the world and in many different languages. To put that in perspective, more than a third of existing WordPress installations are non-English and in his keynote at WordCamp Seattle,…
WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser
Brian Krogsgard
WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he's regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking…
Let’s use WordPress to help make a difference
Brian Krogsgard
Today you have an opportunity to help people that are using WordPress to help others. I hope you'll read this fully and consider helping. Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a fatal genetic disease that has devastating effects on the lungs especially.…
BuddyPress 1.9 released with notifications
Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress 1.9, "Sammy" was released last night, and for the first time in two years added a new component: notifications. Sarah Gooding has done a nice job on WP Tavern highlighting the various details of the release.
The BuddyPress default theme is being phased out
Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress has worked well with most WordPress themes for the last two major releases. Therefore, the BuddyPress team has decided it's time to retire the default theme from shipping with BuddyPress core. Boone Gorges gives the details on the BuddyPress…
John James Jacoby brings Alliteration to 10up
Japh Thomson
The witty and charismatic lead of the BuddyPress and bbPress projects, John James Jacoby, recently announced leaving Automattic. Now reveals he's joined Team 10up.
MeetWP is a new online WordPress meetup
Brian Krogsgard
MeetWP is launching in a few short days. MeetWP is an online WordPress Meetup with WordCamp/Meetup style presentations presented like a podcast. The site will include a chat and other features for social interactions. The first guest will be BuddyPress…
BuddyPress 1.8 ships with fancy template hierarchy and better theme integration
Brian Krogsgard
BuddyPress 1.8 has officially shipped with the codename, "Di Fara". BuddyPress has a much smaller user base than the main WordPress project, but they are passionate users and developers. The newest release continues the trend of reducing barriers between WordPress…
Tammie Lister to write BuddyPress theme development book
Brian Krogsgard
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…
