News from the WordPress.com blog – premium themes are becoming available to WordPress.com subscribers. I am proud to introduce the very first two premium themes on WordPress.com: Headlines and Shelf. Headlines is a sophisticated magazine theme from WooThemes with a Featured Post slideshow, multiple menus, and 15 beautiful color schemes. It’s available now for a one-time price of $45. Shelf, from The Theme Foundry,…
OK – so I’ve tallied up the results from Tuesday and came up with some really interesting results. So, I’m going to do something a little fun. Here are your favorite plugins as determined by the comments, my favorite plugins, and the top 5 plugins from the WordPress repository; let’s see how they match up (plugins aren’t in any order – just the top…
It’s definitely possible to make a living doing custom WordPress plugin and web development, but I don’t think it’s possible to make a living just building plugins and asking for donations. Do you feel that users are ungrateful for your work?Not really ungrateful, no, but I definitely think that some are blissfully ignorant. I imagine most folks don’t have an appropriate idea of the…
Seeing all the fun plugins you guys posted to the site today has reminded me of a topic that I’ve both seen published on other sites as of late and been pondering myself lately – the authors. I’ve co-created a plugin, and it’s currently residing well in the plugin repository, but it hasn’t been all fun and games. I’ve been very lucky on this…
My old site was all about me writing stuff. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing, but I know that I’m not the only guy out there doing this – I love learning from other people about things that I’d never known about otherwise. Unfortunately, StumbleUpon is devoid of good WordPress articles (lots of theme pimping, though), and sometimes you just want to learn,…
Short answer: Yes. The longer one: WordPress has been around for over 7 years now. From its humble beginnings as the blogging software that took down MovableType, it’s morphed and changed and evolved itself into the number one content management system (or CMS) on the web today. WordPress powers over 10% of all websites on the Internet – that’s saying something for a software…
It’s been long overdue for a design refresh, and this weekend I pulled up my bootstraps and got to work. There are quite a few things going on (both inside and out) that have brought my template into the new year (and will keep it on top for a few years to come!) 1) HTML 5/CSS3 The site is (as best as I can…
WordPress released their press release about WordPress 3.0.4. As soon as it did, I saw the WordPress hashtag on twitter light up – people complaining about having yet another security update. I hate to get on a soapbox about this, but seriously – you’re going to complain about people working to make your site as secure as it could be? There are people working…
You can see it in action on the Social Media Clubhouse website – the various events have various images, logos, and link categories showing up depending on where you are on the site. You can download the plugin from the official WordPress repository, or install it through your local blog! EDIT: Screencast below :)
Last night I had the extreme privilege to speak at a “prep session” for anyone who was interested in speaking at BarCampNashville this year. It was a great time, with great people (and the best drinks in Nashville!). We covered lots of topics, and instead of trying to do it an injustice and recap, here’s the full video below for your viewing pleasure. As…