There are some that may feel like WordPress (eventually) may be headed toward the deadpool: Trying to describe how code works on a platform that has the kind of fundamental logic that WordPress does is like trying to teach a language that doesn’t have an alphabet. I would discourage anyone from learning it until they’re more au fait with a platform that operates on better principles. Basically, WordPress isn’t a platform suited to anyone except those unlucky enough to have somehow become WordPress developers. There’s already a heavy discussion on Hacker News that’s riddled with some great arguments, some well-crafted […]

The plugin repository can be a wild west at times, especially if you’re looking for a very specific plugin or feature that you can’t quite build (or don’t want to build) on your own time. Google doesn’t help much as it drums up stuff that looks incredibly sketchy and you don’t have much time to spend on this in the first place. Perhaps you need to check out this site that has organized plugins based on a few criteria that you might find helpful as well as filtering system that may actually work for you:

I’m still having conversations, online and offline, about the WordCamp here in Atlanta that we had just last weekend. In fact, I’m getting dinner with a bunch of those folks this coming week so we can continue the conversations and the collaboration! There’s no end to WordPress community, seriously. As we finish up though we’ve been trying to track down great pictures of the event and make sure that we can publicize them and get them the air time they deserve – because it was such an awesome event! But walking through the hashtag #WCATL (WordCamp Atlanta’s hash) isn’t very […]

We’ve been getting a lot of questions recently about Squarespace and whether or not it’s a worthwhile investment of time and exploration – and a contender to WordPress blogging. Well, although I’ve known about Squarespace for quite some time and even though I’ve recommended to some customers that they take a look at it in earnest, I’ve never dived deeply into it myself since I’ve been so focused on WordPress. Well, when Squarespace announced their entry into eCommerce adding Stripe integration, a big love of ours here at 8BIT, I knew I had to check it out. Apparently Squarespace has some […]

I’ll let you take at this Google Hangout session that I had last night with these great WordPressers:

Those Envato guys keep rolling out newer and greater things! They have grown incredibly fast over the last few years and it doesn’t appear that they’ll be stopping for a break anytime soon. But this new development is really getting me excited because it really hits the heart behind why we do things here at WP Daily – which is education and helping others achieve great success with WordPress. This new “hub” will be a central location for all of the Tuts+ Network. It’s a new platform that will make it easier for readers to find tutorials, articles, and more. […]

Honestly, we seriously need more WordPress-centric love on Kickstarter – there are only 3 active projects related to WordPress right now! After I launched my own Pressgram project on Kickstarter I started searching around for others like me and I found two here that also need our attention and love. In fact, they are very close to being funded and they need our help to get it done:

You have already seen this image perhaps, 1,000 times over, and so if you’ve already commented and shared it you can move along, but I have come back to this image more than a few times over the past few days – I can’t seem to “land” on what I really think about this comparison. The 8 years of difference, technologically, is obvious – the crowd in 2005 is waiting patiently with only a handful of mobile devices lit up (that we can see). The recent wait for the new Pope announcement (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) shows a very different crowd […]

WordCamp Miami is just around the corner and it’s looking to shape up into an incredible experience for those that are making their way down south. And looking at the schedule and the calibre of speakers I’d say that it’s going to be well-worth anyone’s time! One talk that caught my attention this morning was via Siobhan McKeown’s blog and her talk about the GPL that got me very excited: What I will be looking at is the history of the GPL, what it is, what it means for WordPress, and how it became part of the project. There are some […]