Yesterday was a day of updates for a number of great plugins and solutions and if you’ve already an owner then you may have already updated natively through your system. But if you haven’t (or you’re not a customer yet) here are some of the updates that you missed and perhaps another reason to review these great products that are built by some of our community members here and all-around great people!

Mobile? Check. Desktop? Check. Tablet? Check. Do you have the specific screen sizes for every kind specific device out there? Um… Well… what are the more popular ones? Should you build for those first? That’s not a question that anyone can answer for you but there is a tool that can help you make that decision:

I have a graduate degree in education and so it’s needless to say that I’m very passionate about the field and the importance of providing quality pedagogy to those that are coming up after us, who will eventually be our leaders and innovators. WordPress is a vital part of creating that fundamental foundation with it’s use in education and teaching – which is why I love this  presentation by John Caserta in a 2012 presentation:

WordPress niche hosting is getting hot with more and more companies finding their “fit” within the much larger hosting world. We’ve covered Flywheel before, especially with their announcement that they had in fact had raised venture capital, which means they are poised for some big growth in the coming months. Well, we just got notice that the beta codes that they had been teasing are now in the wild! If you’ve signed up then you may already have it in your hot little hands. They are releasing about 200 beta codes each day until every gets in, which is understandable […]

It hasn’t even been a full week since we launched our new job board for this community and we’ve already seen thousands of pageviews and a handful of jobs every single day get published. Honestly, it’s a bit tough to add yet another system in place for us but without question it’s creating value for others and so it’s worth it to us to keep doing it. As we had shared in our launch post the current iteration is strictly our MVP attempt to get it off the ground – we’re not using much more out of the box than a slightly […]

Every month there are tons of people gathered together at local WordCamps and it’s tough to keep track of all the great content that’s being shared and especially all the presentations and learnings that are being had. So it’s nice to see decent roundups that help provide a one-stop shop for all the presentations at an event, or at least a compiled list of the ones that really knocked it out of the park. Thanks to Brad Parbs, he’s got one for Milwaukee 2013:

It’s tough being indie, you know? It’s tough growing up in a world where companies get bought out here and there and where the large corporations keep getting bigger slices of the pie. It’s a snowball that really can’t be stopped. In some industries it’s just accepted as fact and no one really thinks about them in terms of a monopoly (which we know isn’t “fair” or “good” except if it’s the board game) – and yet we’re quite fine with an oligopoly which is where there is a state of limited competition and in which a market is shared by a […]

Anyone who’s subscribe to any of core trac or wp-svn knows that there is a lot that’s getting sent around to inboxes everywhere. Most likely you have your own inbox/email rules setup so you don’t drown in some of the information and data-flow that can be quite large at times. Although there is already a decent of signal-to-noise ratio, to a certain extent this is just part of being subscribed to those hoses and there’s very little you can do about it. This is why it’s pretty important that those that manage and oversee those distros and lists keep them clean and […]

Framework all the things. Right? It seems that everyone and their mother is creating a new framework for this and for that. It makes me wonder if most people even understand what a “true” software development framework technically is… But that’s a conversation for another day. John Dennis Pedrie has release a small collection of libraries to help you (and him) write WordPress plugins. As he shares, it’s really not a complete product (yet) – so he’d be interested in your help. His motive? Simple:

Punctuation really does matter. It could have read, “Grunt for WordPress” and I’m sure many of you are giving your best guttural grunt at your desk as you freak your coworkers out, or it could have been read (as I did) “Grunt, for WordPress” which means that there is something called “Grunt.” Or if you’re like me then perhaps you’re thinking of the World of Warcraft “grunt” that is often a character available in that game and mythology. Perhaps I’m the only one (that wouldn’t be a surprise). Well, it’s not my grunt – it’s a scripting tool: Grunt is […]