These are the best links shared by people working with WordPress
StoryCorps.me enables anyone to create and share powerful stories. Just launched as an iOS and Android app, the website that provides the app infrastructure is built on WordPress, utilizing the WordPress REST API. Here’s how StoryCorps.me came to be.
Arkansas is poised to be the first state in the Union to establish a statutory right to take photographs in public. Given the increasing prevalence and use of smart phones (with videorecording capability) in American life, this issue’s importance continues to grow. Earlier today, the state House passed the final version of HB 1669 (which …
Summary:The $35 Linux Raspberry Pi computer has sparked a coding revolution. Here’s the inside story of the Pi, from its inspiration and development to plans for its future. Eben Upton’s overwhelming emotion at having co-created a $35 Linux computer that sold in the hundreds of thousands last year is surprise.
Have you ever heard of the term Payment Card Industry (PCI)? Specifically, PCI compliance? If you have an e-commerce website, you probably have already heard about it. But do you really understand what it means for you and your online business?
WordPress.org launched a new design for the Theme Directory just over a month ago and the meta team has continued to fix bugs and add enhancements. Preliminary stats and feedback indicate that the directory improvements have had a positive impact on users’ ability to hunt for themes.
If you’ve attended a WordCamp, you might be familiar with the term Happiness Bar. It’s an area within a WordCamp venue devoted to providing technical support for WordPress. Morten Rand-Hendriksen thinks it’s time to change the name to something more obvious.
Over the past few months HHVM has taken the PHP community by storm. Since WordPress 3.9 was released, HHVM is now 100% compatible with WordPress. Unfortunately, HHVM is not quite ready for use in production in self-hosted environments. In my experience, HHVM crashes about once per day, which makes it not viable for a site where high availability is important.
Our co-founder Joshua Strebel was recently interviewed by Kirk Bowman on his successful Art of Value podcast to discuss value pricing. Listen here. A simple question with many complex answers: How do you create happy customers and earn more money? Joshua was also recently invited to host the 185th episode of the WPTavern Weekly podcast.
To start, this post is meant for new website owners and WordPress users. Those of us who have spent years learning WordPress know how hard it can be at the beginning, and it all starts with the basics; if you have any advice that you wish you had known when you were learning, share it in the comments!
Using the beta tester plugin, I follow trunk through every phase of development via five devices (iPhone 5, iPhone 6+, Nexus 5, iPad Air, Macbook). With the plugin installed, select “Bleeding edge nightlies”. Every day, your site will auto update to the latest nightly build.
With less than three months to go, it’s time to tell the world you’re coming to Seville to be a part of WordCamp Europe 2015. Use the #wceu badges, created by our talented 2015 creative lead Sonja Leix, to spread the word that you’re attending, volunteering, sponsoring or speaking!
The following is a guest post by Jason Witt. I’ve known for quite a while that I should port a lot of the stuff from my `functions.php` in my WordPress the
Dash Replenishment Service (DRS) enables connected devices to order physical goods from Amazon when supplies are running low-like a coffee maker that orders more coffee beans. By using DRS, device makers are able to leverage Amazon’s authentication and payment systems, customer service, and fulfillment network-giving their customers access to Amazon’s low prices, great selection, and reliable delivery.
One of our most requested features from the Sync Public Roadmap is the ability to “Update All” or globally update all available updates. Today the Sync dashboard just got an update that adds the ability to view a summary of all available updates and then update them all with one click.
For the past two years, the DerpPress Twitter account has been cranking out tweets to amuse followers with clever puns and subtle commentary on WordPress news and development. Of all the anonymous accounts devoted to tweeting WordPress-related humor, DerpPress is the most consistent and dependable source of timely wise cracks.
With Amazon Dash Button, you just press, and never run out. Choose from favorite household products.
Automatticians work from their own home or office anywhere in the world. Some of those places are pretty awesome.
If you’re not a programmer, you’ve probably never heard of Github, a website programmers use to track and share software source code. But if you care about free speech, you should be paying attention to an attack on the site that’s going on right now.
On the whiskey recommendations site DrinkDistiller.com, users can choose up to 5 bottles of whiskey to feature and reorder on their Top Shelf. While drag-and-drop is notoriously difficult for accessibility, hooking up the arrow keys to sort a list can be a great alternative as long as focus management is used.
Automattic has a beautiful lounge at Hawthorne, but with its 300+ employees working remotely from home, how do you show what people are doing? You Skype someone in, and last night I was lucky to be that someone and talk about WordPress.com’s international reach as well as what Team Global’s projects.
Jolt Team is raising funds for Brik Case on Kickstarter! Brik Case is the World’s most customizable laptop case. Build, collaborate and express yourself!
Working on the @WordCampCbus evernote.com/shard/s502/sh/… #wccbus
July 17-19 at the Ohio 4H Center at OSU. Get it in your calendar right now.
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Norcross (@norcross) March 31, 2015Instead of scrambling around for the right fix, you answer a few quick questions, and then ten days later, you get a beautiful, no-filler, actionable report on what’s working with your site, what isn’t, and how you can fix (and test) both going forward. Simple. Clear.
The new California law in place giving Yelp permission to manipulate business ratings for money has a lot of people pissed. Some restaurants are fighting back, like San Francisco Italian restaurant Botto Bistro, who are now aiming for the lowest Yelp rating in the Bay Area.
“Got a pic as he was driving away. What in the serious hell? Have you not seen the Rugrats Passover special?”
WordPress is a fine platform for building websites for schools. And, you have lots of options. This can be a website that works like a brochure that gives information about the school, a website where students can see their student information, or a full online school where students can log in and take…
On February 26, 2015, Google announced a major change to it’s algorithm that will roll out starting April 21, 2015 where “mobile-friendliness” will be expanded as a ranking signal in searches. The great news is, if you are using Headway version 3.05 or above, you should simply have to turn on the built-in responsive grid to pass Google’s test.
WPML is a plugin for creating multilingual websites with WordPress. The plugin gives you lots of options for how the different versions of your content is stored and displayed, and it can even help you find translators to create your multilingual content.
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WP 4.2 will include a number of improvements in the way query classes handle ‘orderby’, particularly when used in connection with the ‘meta_query’ parameter. WP_Query has long supported the sorting of results by postmeta, using the following syntaxes: $q1 = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘foo’, ‘orderby’ => ‘meta_value’, ) ); $q2 = new WP_Query( array( ‘meta_key’ => ‘foo’, ‘orderby’ => ‘foo’, ) ); These arguments have always operated more or less independently from ‘meta_query’.
Probably the single best thing to happen to me in my career was having had Kellan placed in charge of me. I stuck around long enough to see Kellan’s technical decisionmaking start to bear fruit. I learned a great deal from this, but I also learned a great deal as a result of this.
visit Dan McKinley :: Math, Programming, and Minority Reports
tldr: The “Happiness Bar” needs a new name. I’ll start the brain storming here: I’ve been a volunteer at the Happiness Bar of close to 10 WordCamps in the last 5 years. The experience of interacting with and helping others working with WordPress has been educational, entertaining, and often enlightening.
WordPress is a great solution for creating directory websites. Contrary to popular belief, directory sites can be delivered in more flavors than just a Yelp knock-off. A lot of the agency work we produce is focused around displaying content across a website or intranet for content publishers.
Do you realize we spend more time talking about the web then understanding how the main tool we use to access the web works? I think we take the web browser for granted. Without it, you wouldn’t be able to watch all those YouTube videos. You wouldn’t be able to let the world know what…
After lying low for a while, the pro Assad regime hacker group Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) today hacked the Endurance International Group Inc held hosting companies Bluehost, Hostgator, Justhost, HostMonstor which are some of the worlds biggest hosting companies. Announcing the hack on Twitter, SEA posted the screenshots of the control panels of these web hosting companies.
Welcome to week 9 of Lorelle’s WordPress School free online course. Last week, we covered: WordPress School: Pageviews WordPress School: Polls and Surveys WordPress School: How to View a Web Page Source Code WordPress School: Image Lessons WordPress School: Image Lessons – Introduction WordPress School: Header Art Images WordPress School: Text on Images WordPress School:…
Sometimes you have one of those conversations that’s so full of new ideas, it pinballs around your head for days. ‘Bout a week back I was interviewing a smart dude at a Beijing-based mobile game localization company.
On Saturday 21st March, I spoke at WordCamp London about building themes with the upcoming, core WordPress REST API (WP-API). I was overwhelmed by the popularity of the talk. I think there were over 200 people crammed into the room, and many more ended up getting turned away.
My wife and I bought an ottoman seven years ago; it was upholstered in some sort of faux leather that was immediately torn by the vacuum cleaner. Over the years, the top began to crack, and more tears appeared on the sides.
Here at WebDevStudios, we try to use CMB2 for pretty much anything form or field related. We do this for several reasons: It saves us time. It’s a framework that handles a lot of the nitty-gritty for us (creating markup, handling sanitizing, escaping and saving data, etc). It provides a lot of power.
Dear Christians In Indiana (and those elsewhere, who might read this), I’ve seen what’s been going on there lately. Actually, I’ve been watching you all along and I really need to let you know something, just in case you misunderstand: This isn’t what I had planned.
I know what you’re hoping this is about. But we’re actually talking about sleep this week. And seriously, sleeping is the best. Odds are you’re not doing enough of it, and that’s hurting you beyond the fact that it’s just a fantastic thing to do.
BIRD-IN-HAND, Pa.-William O’Brien, chief loan officer at the Bank of Bird-in-Hand, closed so many loans in the bank’s first year of business that locals call him “Gelt Chappie,” or “money man” in Pennsylvania German. Based in a rural village in the heart of Amish country, Bank of Bird-in-Hand is the only new bank to open in the U.S.
Work with us! We are pushing the boundaries of what is possible with WordPress and mobile apps, and we are looking for people to join us. The future is bright for AppPresser, and we are looking to build an incredible team to share in our success.
Completely different set in Melbourne Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZQ7NL-o6E8 Trevor Noah on David Letterman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkaaEqbor5U Trevor Noah on Artie Lange Show – Baby Gorilla – Howard Stern’s Penis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KjggMunGzQ http://www.trevornoah.com/ Sorry about the jerky video, best I could do at the time.
19:25 UTC We’ve adjusted our mitigation tactics and are observing improved TCP performance for the majority of non-attack traffic. 17:21 UTC 87 hours in, our mitigation is deflecting most attack traffic. We’re aware of intermittent issues and continue to adapt our response. 14:52 UTC The ongoing DDoS attack is affecting connectivity to Gist.
The Early Bird Price for Authority Rainmaker ends tomorrow, so I had a message planned for today making one final case for why you should join us in Denver, Colorado this May. But then I read what Raubi wrote on Friday about how much last year’s event accelerated her career.
Related: Amazon warns Congress: US risks being left behind in delivery drone business Amazon is testing its drone delivery service at a secret site in Canada, following repeated warnings by the e-commerce giant that it would go outside the US to bypass what it sees as the federal government’s lethargic approach to the new technology.
