Startbox is a theme framework built by Brian Richards that was adopted / acquired by WebDevStudios when Brian went to work there full time. In this post on WP Force, Brad Williams answers what the future of Startbox looks like.
AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. It’s an open source spec created by Google and collaborated on by a number of other mega companies, in response to Facebook’s “Instant Articles” feature. The tl;dr on AMP is that it’s a not HTML but like HTML implementation of web pages that supports limited web features, and importantly…
Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is happening now for the first time between April 15-17. 🌎 WordCamp Greece is happening online today, April 16. 🇬🇷 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by GoDaddy Pro from April 27-28. WordCamp Venezuela is happening for the first time on May…
Pagely has made some drastic changes to their hosting platform over the last few months. They’ve moved from Firehost to being fully powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), led by their new CTO, Joshua Eichorn. Measuring tiers of hosting by pageviews is a popular method for WordPress hosting companies, but Pagely doesn’t do that. They…
Coen Jacobs posted about a couple of examples where theme authors were bundling commercial plugins into their commercial themes. This is incredibly dumb, which Coen gives good reasons as to why. The comments are also worth reading. And for an extra note, it makes no difference whether the plugin is free or paid to me,…
I’ve written an introduction to markdown as a language for writing for the web, and a look through the various tools available for crafting markdown’d content, split up by device.
My first experiences with “nulled” (or back in the day “cracked”) software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot of money or even at times access to legitimate software distributors. Naturally, the way we…
