Ok, I’m extrapolating here based off Pingdom’s “Internet Users and Timezone” but I would have to imagine it’s pretty darn close, right? Check out this interesting infographic:

Another crazy week this week, right? I feel like there’s a never-ending flood of great content that’s being created about WordPress and related topics of conversation. It makes our jobs incredible easy and incredibly difficult at times because we have to identify the topics that we want to cover more fully and the ones that we can only point to and say “Go check this out!” In anycase, here’s your weekly roundup of conversations that you may have missed:

For the longest time you couldn’t actually make any direct income from your WordPress.com blog – until they released WordAds back in late 2011. Since then it’s gained a lot of steam and added more and more users among their ranks. WordAds, for those that don’t know, allows you to directly reap the benefit of the traffic that you get through the placement of advertisements in your content. They use their partner organizations, like Google Adsense, to provide these targeted ads to your readers. You then get some money via Paypal for those placements based on performance. You can start and […]

Anxious to get your hands of the newest version of BuddyPress 1.7? Well, it’s here – and if you’ve been following the development at all then you know this one’s a doozy: BuddyPress 1.7 is likely to be our most revolutionary release to date. With it will come full theme compatibility with almost all existing WordPress themes, making it easier than ever to get your community up and running quickly. It’s in Beta, so be careful when you install it on an active site, but for sure if you’re starting a fresh new BuddyPress site then you’ll want to actually […]

It seems there are more and more players in the WordPress management space than I had originally thought – for example, have you seen WPRemote? It’s another web service that will help you manage multiple WordPress-powered sites and/or blogs for you, keeping you posted on the updates needed for all of them in a single dashboard. It’s very much like ManageWP that also does similar things. I quickly took WPRemote for a spin, got signed up quickly, and was instantly liking the backend UI and general look and feel – it was clean and approachable. But that’s where I started to […]

Pippin has announced the release of the newest module and extension available for his very successful Easy Digital Downloads plugin – recurring payments! With this module you’ll be able to have people sign-up for subscriptions for recurring revenue on a daily, weekly, monthly, or even yearly payment cycle. You’ll get payment tracking, reporting, limitation for downloads for users, and even find integration with the Restrict Content system that he has. Although it’s only available for PayPal Standard at this time he’s looking into bringing PayPal Pro and Stripe integration soon.

If not then you need to speak up, now, especially if you’ve been a past WordCamp organizer. It’s been nearly 2 years since the WordCamp guidelines were originally published and haven’t been touched since then. A lot has happened and a lot has changed, as well as newer and better practices and perspectives, so it’s time for a serious refresh! Late last year it was announced that a group was organized to review them and a survey was passed out for those to share their experiences and provide a feedback loop. The deadline is fast approaching – 2 weeks from today on February […]

Things are moving fast now as we try to get things ready for our big VIP after party for WordCamp Atlanta in only a few weeks time (is it almost here already?!) and we finished up most of the kitchen late last week. It’s all coming together finally. One of the things that we did was create a unique and simple experience with our very long coffee bar table so that people could hang out, drink coffee, using either the quick and easy commercial-grade Keurig or slow (but better) Chemex, and do some publishing, software development, whatever. Just bring your notebook […]