Any of you notice we removed /extend/ from http://t.co/WWjyx49GLS URLs? Figured there’d be more rejoicing. http://t.co/VdRnR1srWt — Andrew Nacin (@nacin) May 22, 2013 I noticed this the other day as I was linking up some posts that were referencing some great plugins and the “/extend/” part of the URL was gone! As one reply mentioned:

There is no question that mobile is here to stay – we are living in a mobile world where content is being consumed more and more on mobile devices instead of from people behind a desk. This is a good thing for all of us but also means that we need to be able to design and develop great online products that meet these needs – and perhaps it’s so important that we need to consider mobile first and then everything else from there? That’s just one perspective of many and it’s good to have other opinions, such as James Banks’ via […]

We’ve got such a great community surrounding what we do here at WP Daily that it really keeps the motivation more than high enough to get up each day and report on one of the best technologies out there, WordPress! As you’re already used to, we love giveaways (we’ve got 15 hours left on our lifetime accounts one!) and we try to do a few every month that make sense for our growing community – not everyone who pitches us gets through our gates as there are many products and services that downright suck. Yes, suck. Sorry, but they do. But […]

Any serious online publisher and blogger knows that a publishing workflow is essential for survival – it’s what enables us to push out content consistently and with speed enabling the blog to stay competitive and fresh in a very wide and growing competitive landscape. Even if you aren’t an editor of a news blog or having to manage multiple authors and posts a day, you also have a personal workflow that suits your needs – I bet it could be improved though! Jake Goldman of 10up shared this presentation at the recent CMS Expo 2013 and it’s worth a look, […]

There’s a lot of talk around the recent acquisition of Tumblr via Yahoo! and the varying perspectives are as varied as you might imagine, from those that have foretold the death of the tumblogging service to those that say this is the best thing that could happen to David Karp and his team. Regardless of where you sit I just want to salute David (and the investors) and applaud the work done – lots of time, resources ($125M in funding), and blood/sweat/tears went into building Tumblr and they’ve received a reward that was worth every penny (and then some). And to […]

Well, the great Oz has revealed himself, a prediction that many historically professed to be true but one that I couldn’t as easily see myself. So I asked the question publicly: Who really is the man behind the curtain over at WP Tavern? It’s been revealed: Matt Mullenweg is the one who bought, and now owns, WP Tavern. It was also revealed that he’s also who’s financed the future of WeblogToolsCollection as well as Mark Ghosh took his leave. So what’s the plan? Archive WBTC and make Tavern a “third place” for community:

Today’s quick and easy tool post is for those that are constantly uploading PNG files, like us here at WP Daily. If you’ve ever taken a screen grab or screen capture of a file or an application then you’re familiar with the relative size that can be created. Well, to save you some bandwidth on your site as well as precious load time for your users there’s a simple solution for you:

Publishing systems are a dime-a-dozen these days as new ones seem to crop up every single day. Honestly, it can be completely exhausting as I’m generally fatigued to see what I consider a remix of a remix of a remix. In other words, it seems that everything is a remix and very little comes out to be fundamentally new. Sure, there’s a crowd and market for all of these remixes but I wonder what good they ultimately do to the overall publishing landscape as we see it plainly. Certainly a few of these remixes of remixes push the ball forward in […]

Is it that time of the year to start learning something new? Are you stuck in your career and need a way out of that blackhole of a vocation? Perhaps it’s seriously time to reboot yourself and perhaps learning a new software language is where it’s at. Why not Objective-C? It’s the primary language that powers much of the iOS and Mac apps out there: Objective-C is a general-purpose, high-level, object-orientedprogramming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language. It is the main programming language used by Apple for the OS X and iOSoperating systems and their respective APIs, Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. I’ve used it previously for my own Mac and iPhone-related apps, including one that I’m […]

Bronson Quick shared his development workflow with the group over at WordCamp Melbourne and it was worth a look if you’re both a newbie developer as one that’s got his act together. This talk outlines the process the proces that he takes after he’s received design sign off from the client and it generally looks like this: Setting up a Basecamp project Setting up a private GitHub repository Setting up my IDE (Phpstorm) Setting up Sass & Compass for CSS preprocessing Custom Theme Development Custom Plugin Development Testing (Both cross browser and device ) Migration with BackupBuddy Ongoing maintenance Watch […]