With the recent announcement of Ghost becoming much less ghost-like we’ve been inundated with more and more CMS apps to check out. The honest truth is that Ghost is going to be one of 10’s of thousands of CMS / publishing systems out there, each unique in their own way and each having a different community behind them. One size does not fit all, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t try to pin that clause via some marketing, like what this new player is attempting to do:

Classes are almost out (if your a high schooler or college student) and it’s about time for summer! Or, perhaps you’re already a professional that’s looking for a possible career change, maybe even into the areas of online publication and journalism, blogging, and all that social media goodness. There are, of course, tons of great services and websites that’ll help you with that career change if you’re looking for web design, development, and even WordPress, but why not work directly (i.e. hands-on experience) with a cool (and growing) startup team in a sweet office (with a killer mural) with unlimited coffee and […]

It looks like the power of Twitter has created direct value in the upcoming release of WordPress 3.6! Yesterday we shared how Andrew Nacin politely challenged Spotify to create an oEmbed option for their media for the upcoming release of 3.6. Well, it seems that Nicklas Söderlind of Spotify added it right quick: @nacin @Spotify @WordPress Here you go, https://t.co/AYz6s8NpsP — Nicklas Söderlind (@nicklas2k) May 2, 2013 Sweet! It’s accessible right here if you want to see the code.

And other such creative nonsense. We had the pleasure of hanging out with Sara while she was here in the ATL speaking at the 2013 WordCamp Atlanta and her presentation about unicorns was not to be missed:

I got wind of this recently via Dougal Campbell and I wanted to repost and share it here since after taking a look I found it a valuable resource that’s worth a second of your time. It’s a browser-based system (or you can use Node.js) and test to your heart’s content. Check out Intern when you have a chance.

Jetpack announced another small update to now version 2.2.5. This past week has been an interesting one with a bunch of updates to Jetpack. via the changelog: Enhancement: Stats: Counting of registered users’ views can now be enabled for specific roles Bug Fix: Security tightening for metadata support in the REST API Bug Fix: Update the method for checking Twitter Timeline widget_id and update coding standards Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Allow the content width setting to be larger than the theme’s content width Bug Fix: Custom CSS: Fix possible missing argument warning. I’m liking the enhancement that was also thrown […]

Apparently there have been a few “snags” to get Font Awesome into the plugin repo that I wasn’t aware of but it makes sense since   it’s license under SIL Open Font License. For those that don’t know, Font Awesome is a pictographic font set of 220 icons that are both infinitely scalable and screen reader compatible. Very quickly, before you get all crazy with the idea that the plugin repository is accepting “non-GPL” plugins, the SIL is compatible with the GPL. Ipstenu breaks down the specifics for you: The Font Awesome font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License […]

The guys at DradCast (hosted by the awesome Dre of Sucuri and Brad of WebDevStudios) are continuing their awesome interviews and perhaps the best intro ever was created last night via Adii Pienaar, one of the founders of WooThemes: So I’m been waiting for my invite and this opportunity for bloody ages, and I had to wait up until episode 11 to finally get it. I know, I was appalled as well. I guess that’s however, it’s indicative of how an ex-rockstar is treated these days, like a fucking ghost. That said, the greater WordPress ecosystem has taken notice of a […]

Andrew Nacin shared publicly last night the fact that Rdio support will be in 3.6 via oEmbed: Yes, @Rdio oEmbed support will come in WordPress 3.6. See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24242 . The issue is @Spotify does not offer an oEmbed endpoint. He also directly pinged Spotify with a request: Yo @spotify, if you add an http://oembed.com  endpoint (mad easy) for the Play Button, it’ll be included in the next @WordPress release. I’m not a user of either Rdio or Spotify (am I missing out on something or what?) but from the responses it would seem that many of you are.

This is a nice first-of-the-month announcement via Google: The goal of Google Fonts has always been to bring beautiful, open-source fonts to the web, fast and free of cost. Starting today, you can download these fonts for offline access on your desktop. We’ve made all of the fonts from the Google Fonts directory available in SkyFonts, a tool from Monotype that allows you to install and sync fonts from the web onto your Windows or Mac OS X devices. Google has announced that you can now have those amazing Google fonts right on your desktop notebook and computer. The obvious benefits are that you’ll […]