Oh boy. I love sneak peeks! I had the chance to test drive the new and improved back admin dashboard for WP Engine service and it definitely is a significant design change. This won’t be a long post, but check it out after the jump:

This is a brilliant idea by the WordPress team and I think it’s a smart way to solicit and receive support – it’s kind of like those “Adopt a Highway” signs that you see posted up on the road but much better, right? (And to be honest I have, like you perhaps, thought about adopting a highway at least once in my life.) The Codex is a completely free place to get information about the stuff that you need to make your WordPress life even better – they are managed through volunteers and receive contribution from even more volunteers who […]

It’s been a little bit of time since we last heard from IntenseDebate – and to be quite honest, I wonder what’s really going on over there at times. A few years ago there was a huge growth of 3rd party commenting platforms, all boasting crazy features that would blow your mind if you just took the time to install them. I know, I tried every single one of them at one point, even the ones that required you to pay for the service. But it seems that the amount of innovation or at least attention to comment systems have […]

Now this is an interesting play and business expansion – Creative Market, which received a lot of attention recently around supposed favoritism as well as releasing the first WP.com Premium Theme is continuing to change things up on us as they now have a Photoshop extension. What this extension essentially does is bring Creative Market straight to you, right in your Photoshop application, with direct access to all the premium content that you may want to use for your own creative projects. You can browse and search the marketplace, purchase and install assets directly without ever leaving your app, and even access […]

At this point in time you’ve probably already read the news that was brought to many of our attention via Sucuri who found a huge gaping hole in a very popular WordPress plugin (over 900,000 downloads) and that was being leveraged for ill-gotten gain, spamware into sites that ran it: If you are using the Social Media Widget plugin (social-media-widget), make sure to remove it immediately from your website. We discovered it is being used to inject spam into websites and it has also been removed from the WordPress Plugin repository. But the rub was that it wasn’t an “invasion” of […]

Sheesh. The sheer simplicity of this js script is killing me! And I love it! After encountering this simple jQuery overlay I’ve thought of a million ways to use it in previous projects as well as new ones in the pipe. The inspiration came to Pablo Fernandez via the new composer tour of Gmail (you know, that helpful overlay that shows up when you first boot up). Check it out and see for yourself:

There are tons of great form plugins out there, some of which we use here on WP Daily (such as Gravity Forms) but I’m always on the lookout for opportunities to try something new, even if it’s not in the form of an off-the-shelf plugin. I came across MOSTO this morning and spent a little too much time walking through his simple overview and looking at Dan Winer’s form code. It’s definitely simple and I totally get his CSS/HTML framework that he’s created (and the reason why he’s rejected  Bootstrap and Foundation). There’s simply a lot of markup that you don’t have to […]

I love pure exploratory concept work as it expands the mind and challenges me to see and think differently, especially things that I have become so obtuse and callous towards because of everyday use. Take, for example, the browser. Sure, you may be an ardent Chrome fan, or a long-time Firefox user, or even a Safari or IE die-hard, but have you ever thought about a much more simple layout and design? Look at Sebastiaan de With’s concept of a much more simple browser, what he’s calling Helm:

Many of us are looking to provide continuing education for our WordPress clients, customers, and even friends and family at times. But let’s be honest, if you’re a designer and/or developer then you might not feel like educating your clients and customers is the best use of your time or that you’re very good with doing that at all! So you’ll either hire someone to provide that continuing education or bite the bullet and spend a few hours teaching them stuff that might actually make you pull your hair out. Or wait, there might actually be another solution out there for […]

Some interesting news today as Felix Krusch over at RichWP has sunset his RichWP framework completely as well as completely giving away the 12 child themes that he’s worked so hard on developing. Or has he? He’s retiring the framework in favor of a much more “lean, fast, and responsive” standalone theme(s) that are going to be coming out soon: Therefore, I have decided to make the 2012 RichWP FrameWork, as well as its 12 Child-Themes, available for FREE. That is right: get all of the RichWP FrameWork/Child-Theme packages for FREE. No strings attached. This promo will be available for a […]