Classes are almost out (if your a high schooler or college student) and it’s about time for summer! Or, perhaps you’re already a professional that’s looking for a possible career change, maybe even into the areas of online publication and journalism, blogging, and all that social media goodness. There are, of course, tons of great services and websites that’ll help you with that career change if you’re looking for web design, development, and even WordPress, but why not work directly (i.e. hands-on experience) with a cool (and growing) startup team in a sweet office (with a killer mural) with unlimited coffee and […]

It looks like the power of Twitter has created direct value in the upcoming release of WordPress 3.6! Yesterday we shared how Andrew Nacin politely challenged Spotify to create an oEmbed option for their media for the upcoming release of 3.6. Well, it seems that Nicklas Söderlind of Spotify added it right quick: @nacin @Spotify @WordPress Here you go, https://t.co/AYz6s8NpsP — Nicklas Söderlind (@nicklas2k) May 2, 2013 Sweet! It’s accessible right here if you want to see the code.

And other such creative nonsense. We had the pleasure of hanging out with Sara while she was here in the ATL speaking at the 2013 WordCamp Atlanta and her presentation about unicorns was not to be missed:

I got wind of this recently via Dougal Campbell and I wanted to repost and share it here since after taking a look I found it a valuable resource that’s worth a second of your time. It’s a browser-based system (or you can use Node.js) and test to your heart’s content. Check out Intern when you have a chance.

Andrew Nacin shared publicly last night the fact that Rdio support will be in 3.6 via oEmbed: Yes, @Rdio oEmbed support will come in WordPress 3.6. See http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/24242 . The issue is @Spotify does not offer an oEmbed endpoint. He also directly pinged Spotify with a request: Yo @spotify, if you add an http://oembed.com  endpoint (mad easy) for the Play Button, it’ll be included in the next @WordPress release. I’m not a user of either Rdio or Spotify (am I missing out on something or what?) but from the responses it would seem that many of you are.

If you’re an internet geek (which, let’s face it, you are because you read a site about WordPress) then you have probably been accosted by the fact that today is the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Well technically Tim Berners-Lee invented the WWW a couple of years before at CERN and just a few day ago CERN released the WWW in Royalty Free public domain. Twenty years ago, a team of researchers shared the Web with the world. Now they want to show a generation that grew up online what it was like in its earliest days. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as […]

By now you’ve heard that Ghost was fully funded in less than one day via Kickstarter, which is an incredible accomplishment!  If you haven’t heard of Ghost yet you should familiarize yourself with it, as it appears to be a potentially strong competitor to WordPress. I say ‘appears’ because it isn’t actually ready yet and WordPress does have a ten year head start. Ghost, however, is gaining some ridiculous momentum and has many devout WordPressers excited. So what is the team behind Ghost looking to do with the next 25 days of their Kickstarter campaign? They want to raise 250,000 […]

This is a nice first-of-the-month announcement via Google: The goal of Google Fonts has always been to bring beautiful, open-source fonts to the web, fast and free of cost. Starting today, you can download these fonts for offline access on your desktop. We’ve made all of the fonts from the Google Fonts directory available in SkyFonts, a tool from Monotype that allows you to install and sync fonts from the web onto your Windows or Mac OS X devices. Google has announced that you can now have those amazing Google fonts right on your desktop notebook and computer. The obvious benefits are that you’ll […]

It’s been 90 days, officially. That means my days as an intern at WP Daily are over. What a ride! It’s hard to sum up what’s happened during that time (although I shared a few here) but here are a few quick thoughts in conclusion:

This past weekend’s sold-out WordCamp Minneapolis was a blast. We had beautiful spring weather (finally), brilliant speakers, enthusiastic attendees, and amazing volunteers. And to make the very best of it we decided, as a small company, to go all out on it.