The folks over at WordPress VIP are not stopping their fast pace growth and released some statistics that showcase some of that growth publicly. Those that have been aware of the VIP services have known that it’s a hosted solution for typically much larger sites and blogs. As a commercial arm of the much larger WordPress.com service, I can imagine that it’s a very profitable one at that. They are continuing to innovate and bring best-practice thinking to their customers. In June of 2012 they revealed auto-deploys for static CSS and images – in this way they can have their clients […]

Not familiar with SPDY (pronounced speedy, btw) protocol, the networking protocol via Google? It’s an open protocol that is working toward standardization as an advanced latency system for such things as load time, security, and more. In layman’s terms, Google’s SPDY is a system which makes the web faster. It does not replace HTTP but modifies the way HTTP requests and responses are sent and received, and ZippyKid has added it for their existing customers with version 2.0 support. With SPDY, you don’t need to do things like add multiple hostnames for assets in your HTML, to get around the concurrent […]

We’re passionate about manifestos here at WP Daily – it’s because it helps everyone get on the same page as to where the organization is headed. Internally it helps provide direction for the conversations that we have about a product or service or even blog and for our readers and growing community it gives them a foundation of understanding and something they can begin to promote. ManageWP has just shared their’s in a neat infographic-style:

Since we’re starting to collect swag of all types (accepting bribes obviously), we’ve dedicated a unique place for all of that on one of our lockers that we have in the office. It’s right next door to our WooVille poster and it’s within reach of our fantastical unicorn as well as our power-up joystick light switch so your sticker will have a nice and permanent home with us! So, feel free to send us anything that might “stick” on our “Friends of WP Daily Locker” and we’ll make sure it gets up! Word to your sticker.

And I must stress new theme – you see, this wasn’t created for people to create child themes on (it’s no parent good sir!) but rather for creating entirely new themes. If you’re not a developer than you can probably move on. But if you’re interested in looking at how Justin sees WordPress development, how he’s implemented it with the Hybrid Core Framework, then you might want to dive in: You won’t find 100s of hooks or complicated PHP code in Hybrid Base. It’s simple HTML with a light mix of the appropriate WordPress template tags and Hybrid Core functions. There’s a base style.css file […]

We’ve reported previously that there has been a WordCamp Guideline survey that has been making the rounds and I spent some time even to answer it myself as I am a current WordCamp co-organizer (WordCamp Atlanta 2013). A recent update via Dee Teal (thewebprincess to you!) mentioned that they’ve got some good feedback so far and thus its in everyone’s interest to open it up to all, especially those that are interested in organizing one in the future: The Review Guidelines committee have been monitoring responses to the initial WordCamp organisers survey* and finding the results really useful. We have since felt that the next […]

If you didn’t catch the first “threeme” day then you’ll be pleasantly introduced to yet another day where three new themes have been released on WordPress.com! They are called Photographer, Superhero, and Sidekick. It’s almost as if it’s like Spiderman (Photographer), Batman (Superhero), and Robin (Sidekick) day or something. Check them out:

Siobhan, who recently announced that she’s moving to full-time work with Audrey Capital, has shared some new screens and wireframes of a proposed new look for a better reference for WordPress code. They’ve made some great headway so far but are looking for more community feedback – this is especially important because for many of us the references available to us like the Codex are invaluable to our continued development and work. She’s already created a number of questions about navigation elements, other development resources, content options, and more. Here are some of the existing wires as they stand today […]

And Pagely will show you how. We recently got an interesting care package from them and we weren’t quite sure what to expect. If it was something dangerous I at least wanted to capture it on film so as to provide proof of the source. Fortunately it was anything but dangerous – except for that mustache that I tried to get Chris to wear. Darn it – he almost did. Pagely (which is sporting a sweet new homepage look) has successfully bribed us to take images and a video of their company and products thus spawning a blog post. Those guys know how to win.