I was so friggin’ excited to see that I had gotten my much-anticipated BETA access to feathe.rs, a new distraction-free writing app for the web. I’m incredibly passionate about publishing and experimenting with alternative blogging and publishing platforms is both my job and hobby and, well, everything else in between. I can’t remember when I had first signed up for the feathe.rs invite but it has been a wait – I put everything on hold the moment I saw it in my inbox and sat down thinking that I would be there for quite some time. 5 minutes later I […]

Wow. Another crazy week in the land of WordPress and we’ve been at the very center of some big conversations. It’s been a fantastic experience to see the community pull out all the stops to support each other around licensing and the GPL. With Collis Ta’eed’s response in regards to Envato’s stance as well as a much more clear look at the differences between Automattic and the WordPress Foundation things are starting to settle and we’re starting to get back to business as usual. Actually, let’s be honest – it’s always been business as usual and most of us haven’t lost […]

Sliders, whether you love them or hate them are a part of our web economy and the way we deliver valuable information to readers. Personally I’m not sure they are done incredibly well but they do serve a purpose and there are enough positive examples to at least not abandon them wholesale. But one of the neat things that Soliloquy brings to the table is a responsive slider system that actually works very well – and it keeps getting better. Take for instance the recent update where Thomas Griffin, the founder and creator of Soliloquy, added a neat crop feature for the […]

EditFlow, recently seeing 0.7.5 come to light, is one of the must-haves for blogs that do any editorial work and any sites that manage multiple users for publishing content and apparently everyone is going to experience it first-hand with the upcoming release of v3.6 of WordPress as it’s being integrated into core! We’ve known that this is coming and I seriously can’t wait for it to come out and with the way that online publishing is headed I believe this might be the single-most important feature to be released as more and more publishers are requiring even better tools for their needs […]

Man, my Photoshop skills are so legit~! Brad Williams and Dre Armeda are coming together in a collaboration of epic proportions calling it “Dradcast” a’la BrAngelina, most likely another podcast-esque endeavor that’ll bring back the two who once joined forces on WP Late Night with WPCandy. I can only imagine what they’ll be covering but if you don’t mind having these two fill your ears with sweet-nothings then you can sign-up to be notified on their temporary homepage here:

If you’ve been a part of the Make community then you know that most teams have regular established “office hours” where things can be discussed surrounding each WordPress.org area of focus: Our P2 remains the primary point of communication to us, but I’m also happy to announce that we will keep regular office hours for anyone who wants to chat in real time. You’re guaranteed to find a moderator (probably me!) if you want to chat, talk business, share concerns, learn how to contribute, etc. As Jerry Bates shares (often known as JerrySarcastic), up until this week there hasn’t been any “official” office […]

A few tweets in and you can let your mind wander as much as you’d like, but it could be really exciting if we see WPCandy freshen up and make a serious comeback: @agriimony Hey Aaron! We love your designs at Society6! Interested in some illustration work? DM me for further details. — WPCandy (@wpcandy) January 28, 2013 Aaron Thong of Society6 has a sweet portfolio of previous work that has a very creative and different edge:

The WordPress world seems to need more teachers and learning resources. There are plenty of themes already. — Galin Simeonov (@galins) January 31, 2013 This is what I immediately thought when I saw @Galins‘ tweet this morning, which is neat because I wrote on my personal blog something similar along the lines of education recently: Closely aligned with local idea is education and this idea of IRL or elements of being fully present and physical with technology. Education is the hidden gem of the tech world as a trillion dollar industry that few have been able to really tap into. Education may be […]

In a recent post by Ian Stewart helps clarify some of the issues that were brought up about theme companies like Obox who were providing their themes in both WordPress.com and Envato-based properties. The result was that Obox has been removed from WordPress.com until further updates are made from the Envato camp:  Since it looks like this won’t be corrected right away, as of yesterday we’ve removed Obox themes from our WordPress.com Premium Theme Marketplace. So, as I’ve said this is disappointing. One day — hopefully soon if Envato can correct their licensing problem right away — we’ll have Obox back. […]

I remember when my friend Nathan Smith first launched the 960 Grid System – remember that? It changed my life and simplified a few years of work as I leveraged it for client work, projects, and even began using it in the WordPress development world. Well, that was a long time ago and the successor to 960gs is Unsemantic, which at the core uses percentages instead of set # of columns. Built with SEO in mind as well as with extensibility, it finds the use of both Sass and Compass although there are more than a few of us who will ultimately create own […]