These are the best links shared by people working with WordPress
Like much of the world last weekend, I had the sincere pleasure of seeing a brand new Star Wars movie. For an entire weekend (and two viewings) my younger brother and I regressed back to our pre-adolescent (and adolescent) selves, relishing the escape from our now very adult lives and responsibilities.
Earlier this month, Kansas-based hairstylist Ursula Goff uploaded this side-by-side image juxtaposing two jarringly contrasting selfies. The photos were taken several days apart. Goff uploaded the visual to spotlight the worthlessness in comparing oneself against others on social media because these “picture-perfect” images are all refined.
guys someone talk to me about poe dameron – best pilot in the resistance, top dog, guns-blazing male protagonist – and how he was so kind. how he took an ex storm trooper at face value and with unconditional, immediate trust and even a fierce kind of joy- yeah, you go buddy!
Dubai hotel fire eyewitness days roads are “jam-packed” as people are evacuated & re-routed http://trib.al/zo7G4Ur
A massive fire has engulfed a 63-storey luxury hotel near Dubai’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display. The blaze has run up at least 20 storeys of The Address Hotel near the Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest skyscraper. It was first reported at 9.30pm local time but the cause is not yet known.
As a straight male, how would u feel about your child having a homosexual school teacher Who their around for 8hrs of the day
@anseltaft We looked into this, seems like your photo was found in a Google image search. We apologize, & it will be taken down immediately.
We’re just a day or two away from 2016, so I thought I would round up my predictions and some of the folks that I’m keeping a close eye on in 2016. Here’s what I can tell you. Nothing is standing still.
At our Flight conference in October, our CEO Jack Dorsey spoke about Twitter’s responsibilities to developers and users in the areas of government transparency: “We have a responsibility to communicate our roadmap in a clear and transparent way to everyone in this community.
As mentioned in our end of year post, one of our goals for 2015 was to up our content game-and up it we did. Earlier in the year, I talked about how we have been using a collaborative approach to create content that covers a wide variety of topics related to design, development, project management, and general business dev.
Today in “amazing ideas the internet had” we bring you an experiment that is without a doubt the best way to celebrate the end of 2015 tonight, and an even better way to usher in 2016. One sparkler is fun, but 10,000 igniting at the same time?
Do you want to create a time machine for your website? Having an automatic cloud backup of your WordPress site is the first step in securing your website because it gives you the option to revert changes should anything go wrong.
George Costanza once said if he owned a company he would be so loved by his employees they would “have huge pictures of me up the walls and in their home, like Lenin.” Well, George never got around to owning that company but a bar has opened in Melbourne that pays tribute to him in a way that even the…
RT @WhiteHouse: Go behind the scenes of @JerrySeinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with special guest, @POTUS!
https://t.co/RIJqFqB0…
—
Judi Knight (@judiknight) December 31, 2015Changeset [36126]: Emoji: Update emoji support to Unicode 8.0, including the Diversity set. ... bit.ly/1QZSodD
—
(@wpdevel) December 31, 2015
I spend a good amount of time engaging with website owners across a broad spectrum of businesses. Interestingly enough, unless I’m talking large enterprise, there is a common question that often comes up: Why would anyone ever hack my website? Depending on who you are, the answer to this can vary.
Those tiny plastic microbeads you have been rubbing on your face are now outlawed in the United States. President Obama signed a bipartisan bill that prohibits selling and distributing products containing microbeads. The bill is intended to protect the nation’s waterways.
Twitter’s oft-neglected app for Mac got a much-needed update today, adding support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets, and other features that mobile users have had for years. But while many users were glad to see the app getting attention, others criticized it for performance issues: laggy scrolling, the new-notification dot failing to disappear after clicking, and login issues.
After a pizza-carrying rat in New York City’s subway system found fame earlier this year, a Toronto critter is having its own moment in the spotlight after stealthily descending from a coffee-shop ceiling in an artful doughnut heist.
A few weeks ago, I put out an initial call for volunteers for 4.5. In the spirit of the much-commented @wonderboymusic 4.4 Wishlist post, I’d like to extend the call a bit more. What are you most interested in seeing in WordPress 4.5 – big, or small?
I woke up at 2:30 this morning, thinking about the next year, next steps. I do this often when I have something on my mind, like a big idea or project or meeting. Or in this case, the year is ending and I’m getting amped up for the coming year.
Of the 35 WP core committers, 22 do not work for Automattic. Just in case you were still thinking that WordPress is an Automattic project.
Hossein Derakhshan was a key blogger in Iran who was jailed for his writing, and recently released. He has entered a new world: I miss when people took time to be exposed to opinions other than their own, and bothered to read more than a paragraph or 140 characters.
buddypress-mute – Allow members to mute their friends and shed unwanted items from their BuddyPress activity stream
5 years ago I was sitting across a table from a kid 3 years younger than me begging him to hire me to sell coffee from a drive-through window. Yesterday I upgraded a client’s WordPress site to 4.4, and installed an SSL certificate from LetsEncrypt.org on his server, which I host for him.
We’ve had an awesome 2015 at Human Made, growing our team, delivering great sites for amazing clients in our agency work, and launching some amazing products (have you signed up for Nomadbase yet?): I would totally only use emoji to write this whole sentence just to celebrate. 👋📅↗️🎊🎉 (we like emoji).
On November 28th, 2012, Randall Munroe published an xkcd comic that was a calendar in which the size of each date was proportional to how often each date is referenced by its ordinal name (e.g. “October 14th”) in the Google Ngrams database since 2000.
I’m good at math. If you looked at my standardized test results from when I was back in school, you’d see I scored very high in math and very low in verbal. And yet, today I’m a professional writer and editor. It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Sort of.
Pascal Birchler Silvan Hagen Karin Christen We started the year by attending WordCamp London in March. Silvan had the chance to give a talk about building “a multisite project on a tight budget”. Watch the Video ” Pascal Birchler Silvan Hagen Stefan Velthuys This was the first time for Vienna to host a WordCamp.
Budding Windows App Studio developers who want an easy way to create a Windows application of their WordPress sites are in luck. In the December update, the Windows App Team announced a couple of new features including, a WordPress data source and template.
Creative Design Lead – Digital Games for Girls Location: United Kingdom, London Job Category: Production and Technical Posted: 11/18/2015 Job ID: GB1389 Do you have a flare for multiplatform game design? Are you a creative individual and in need of a new challenge? Look no further, this could be the role for you!
tree-view-git-modified – Atom.io package to display pane with git modified files
We make a lot of charts here at Quartz. We also spend a lot of time thinking and talking about charts. We have a 6,000-word guide to dealing with bad data and a treatise on properly using the y-axis. So when we see charts in the wild that use fuzzy or bad data, improperly skew axes, or are…
In all candidness, I shouldn’t have been in Solomeo. I don’t write for a big fashion magazine. I have no credibility in Brunello Cucinelli’s world. But after a friend heard me wax eloquent about well-made cashmere sweaters for nearly an hour, he suggested that I should perhaps meet this guy in Italy.
Earlier this year, WordPress 4.2 added the ability to install and update plugins in-place. This feature is known as “Shiny Updates”. I’m a big fan of this feature because it’s substantially quicker than updating plugins via the updates page. Here’s what it looks like in action.
It’s the future! But the Catholic church doesn’t seem ready to embrace it. A priest in the Philippines recently rode a hoverboard during a Christmas Eve Mass. But the Diocese of San Pablo has now suspended the poor hoverboarding Father. Video of the priest hit social media and instantly went viral.
RT @TheJeffMatson: Need a reason to come back to VA Beach? Was WordCamp Hampton Roads not enough for you? Get up on this dev conf! https:…
—
Michael Mousekewitz (@tw2113) December 29, 2015
On December 17, telecommunications companies cut off access to WhatsApp in Brazil after the company did not comply with police wiretapping requests. Many of the app’s estimated 100 million users went in search of an alternative, landing on Telegram, WhatsApp’s rival messaging app.
FAA, Alaska Airlines investigating after plane lands on taxiway instead of runway at Sea-Tac: http://kng5.tv/1OXuxoq
A special Christmas episode featuring a panel of podcast hosts including Jeff Chandler, Carrie Dils, Matt Medeiros, Jason Tucker, and Brian Krogsgard. We discuss the big stories of 2015, early 2015 predictions, predictions for the new year, and a fun new segment HO HO NO!
As the end of 2015 approaches, we have joined the masses in taking stock of the passing year and started setting our sights on the next. The last few years have been a big jump for us and we’ve grown a lot.
Former ” Glee” star Mark Salling has been arrested on suspicion of possession of child pornography, according to a report from the syndicated TV series “Crime Watch Daily.” Salling, known for playing Noah “Puck” Puckerman on “Glee,” was arrested early Tuesday after his Sunland, Calif., home was searched per a warrant from the Los Angeles Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, according to “Crime Watch Daily.”
Because real life is never as cool as the movies, we get hoverboards that don’t actually hover. But because real life can also be pretty damn fun, we get this totally bad ass “lightsaber” that uses a thin burning flame as its blade.
Everyone’s creating all this online content, but does it matter? More importantly, are you accomplishing your goals with the content you deliver, or are you simply spinning your wheels? Well, if you’re doing it right, your content is highly effective and tightly tied to your ultimate business objectives.
laughterkey: “hyperchronic: ” buckycurtis: ” elfoftheforest: ” you thought i was joking ” han: what the fuck is that noise Leia: kylo is ‘searching for himself’ in the backyard again han: leia, where…
Every year, for the past six years, I face the same conundrum in the run-up to New Year’s Eve: Spend this festive holiday without my husband or spend it with him at a five-hour Phish concert. In the interest of kissing him at midnight, I usually choose option B.
