WordPress 3.4 is ready for beta testers! Flexible header sizes, new XML-RPC API, a bunch of performance improvements, and my personal favorite — The Theme Customizer. Give it a shot, and don’t forget to report any bugs you encounter.
102 People Power 16% of the Web
Not entirely true, and not entirely up to date, but still worth linking to: 102 People Power 16% of the Web by Andre Bourque for Social Media Today.
WordPress Weekly Recap, March 23
It’s Friday and it’s time for a WordPress Weekly recap! WordPress.com rolled out four new themes this week, one of which is San Kloud, which is exciting news for Theme.fm, who by the way, launched their new theme store earlier this week as well. Emil Uzelac launched a free theme called Responsive. You don’t see much CMS-type themes in the repository, so this is exciting, and...
Introducing Milestones on WordPress.com
Good news! WordPress.com rolls out a few terrific badges for achievements, which will keep you motivated, and not only to post more often, but to post quality content, because the new badges are for likes and for followers. Here’s a screenshot of how it looks: With all those new features introduced on WordPress.com — likes, reblogs, achievements and badges, I’m really loving the...
Did the Toolbar (Admin Bar) Render edit_post_link Useless?
I asked this on Twitter yesterday which raised quite some interesting replies from theme developers, the .org themes review crew and other folks. For those of you who don’t know, the edit_post_link function is widely used in WordPress themes, to create an “Edit this post” link as a shortcut to the post edit screen. This was convenient I agree, except that the link was always in...
Wilhelm Joys Andersen: Responsive Web Design
From WordCamp Norway 2012, earlier this year, an awesome presentation by Wilhelm, who takes us through the world of responsive wed design. It isn’t something new, I agree, and as he mentions media queries have been around for over 10 years. However, it’s very nice to catch up on things, since a lot of WordPress theme developers are still overlooking all of this. One important aspect...
How to: Disable Jetpack Subscriptions Notifications
It’s more difficult to keep this in mind, than it is to actually execute it. Sometimes we (content creators) want to publish content to see how it feeds to our Twitter or Facebook accounts, or to see how it turns up in the RSS feed, so what we usually do is publish a “test” post and delete it afterwards (together with the tweet and Facebook post.) However, sent e-mails cannot be...
Changing the Default Theme in WordPress Multisite
It’s important for a network (WordPress Multisite) to have a valid default theme for newly created sites. The current version sets this to twentyeleven in default-constants.php. If your default theme isn’t installed or disabled network-wide, you might face some errors when creating new sites in the network. You can define WP_DEFAULT_THEME in your wp-config.php file.
WordPress Weekly Recap, March 16
Time for WordPress Weekly Recap! The first WordPress Meetup in Moscow was held ond Monday morning, next one is planned for April. Posterous was acquired by Twitter, users flee to WordPress.com and self-hosted blogs, yey! My brother Gennady crafted a pingback attack which he was able to use to bring my blog down, ouch! Jane’s Jitterbug Bakery was funded with over 200 backers and $17,000...
Posterous Joins Twitter. Customers Join WordPress
Even though there’s no reblog feature on self-hosted WordPress blogs, I absolutely have to reblog this: Reblogged from WordPress.com News It’s been just over two years since we first launched our Posterous importer and I never could have predicted how the blogging space would evolve so quickly in that time. As you may have seen in the news today, the Posterous team is joining Twitter, which...