Mark Jaquith just announced a new plugin called VelocityPage.
VelocityPage is a WordPress plugin that brings simple and intuitive page layout abilities to WordPress, on any theme.
There’s a short video that demonstrates the capabilities in the linked post; it’s definitely worth watching.
This is just for fun. My coworker introduced it to me yesterday. A great practice for anyone that toys with the frontend, and a good opportunity to showoff for experienced typography nerds. Move the letters left and right to properly kern each round. And of course share your score 🙂
Yoast updated their popular Google Analytics plugin in December to include new stats dashboards that pull in Google Analytics data to your site. The stats are pretty fancy and give a nice quick glance at your stats without leaving your WordPress dashboard. They’ve learned some lessons about building a plugin feature at scale along the way too.
Stream is one of those plugins that I’ve always seen the potential in but it’s never quite nailed it. I was a pretty big fan of Stream 1, and I wrote about my experience, but in the end it ended up logging too much and made the stuff I wanted harder to keep. When Stream…
Robert Rowley has been monitoring insecure WordPress plugins which exposed PHP objects to potential injection on Pagely servers — and shares how they addressed the issue. There are several interesting takeaways, but I especially liked his note about communicating with plugin authors: Plugin security reporting works, when all parties treat each other respectfully and talk…
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Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales in 9 Months In a Pandemic It can be done — it has been done — by Ana Nunez, founder of TheVidaBars.com. Come listen in as Cory talks to his business partner Ana about how she juggled a full-time gig, two kiddos as a single parent, and got her…
