Flames! All good I suppose. Twitter refreshed their blog the other day and I was hoping, against all hopes perhaps, that they would have chosen WordPress as their technology of choice. But no – they decided to use Drupal of all things. It’s not that I don’t like Drupal as I’ve used it before, but I’m finding it less and less attractive for the reasons that it was once attractive to begin with. This is especially true in the maturation of WordPress as an application framework of sorts.

It’s been “discussed” whether or not post formats were going to be included (should) in the upcoming release of 3.6 and with the Beta 2 released yesterday it appears that the question has been answered as they are included in the beta, although it did cause a little disruption on the release: The longer-than-usual delay between beta 1 and beta 2 was due to poor user testing results with the Post Formats UI. Beta 2 contains a modified approach for format choosing and switching, which has done well in user testing. We’ve also made the Post Formats UI hide-able via […]

Wow, that was quick. In less than 12 hours the Ghost Kickstarter Project found itself fully funded. As of this very moment they are set to clear over 1,000 backers by the end the business day today and perhaps scale beyond £40,000, well beyond their £25,000 goal. Overwhelmed by the volume of interest & support for @TryGhost. Fully funded in under 12 hours. Thanks so much to everyone who has backed us! — Hannah Wolfe (@ErisDS) April 30, 2013 For those interested, £25,000 is roughly equivalent to $37,500 or so in US paper. With 28 days left to go this could easily become […]

WooThemes is continuing to expand not just their product line but also their services division as well announcing a new commercial support system for WooCommerce customers. In an email sent out this morning to early adopters, you can now get a support package that allows you access to dedicated support technicians surrounding the WooCommerce product: Are you interested in a WooCommerce support package entitling you to access to our dedicated support technicians spanning the globe, our community forums & extensive knowledge base? Request early beta access for this offering Don’t worry, users who have already purchased WooThemes products still get […]

You’ve probably heard of Ghost, a concept that was created by John O’Nolan who re-thought everything when it came to blogging, publishing, and the user experience. For a time many thought it would just stay as a “nice idea, thanks” but apparently it’s got some real legs to it with some original concepts and prototypes out and now a bid to win the hearts, minds, and financial backing of the community via Kickstarter. Check the Kickstarter project video here:

I got access this morning to the Private Beta of Dunked, a project that we’ve covered historically by a few guys who have some serious experience with WordPress. I was so excited that I moved a few things around to actually walk through the entire application (as best as I could) and make it my own, and I’d love to visually show you what the new portfolio service is all about and get you excited about how you might use it in the very near future. Thanks again to Orman Clark , Gilbert Pellegrom and Mark Southard, the three-man team behind the venture – so […]

I see a lot of apps pass through my digital desk every single day. In fact, if I’m honest, I see too many of them cross my desk and unfortunately most of them are neither very clever or very good – rarely do I see one that disrupts in any sense of the word. And Checkthis isn’t necessarily clever, good, or disruptive either. What caught me was the fact that it has both a mobile component and a web / desktop layer that works fairly well. You see, with this app you can do it all on your phone, creating a […]

We love supporting our fellow WordPressers, especially those that are organizing the WordCamp events. Heck, we would know as we just got through hosting and organizing the Atlanta WordCamp. Whew, I still feel like we’re recovering! But we couldn’t have done it without the incredible community, the sponsors, and most importantly, the speakers! The speakers help make the experience memorable and they do an incredible job of exporting their knowledge, experience, and know-how to others. How awesome! That’s why when Aaron Holbrook pinged us to help get some love and support for the Chicago event we said YES! Hear him share his […]

Unless you’ve been seriously living under a rock on an epic vacation then you’re already aware a number of security related issues that have cropped up recently that you should definitely be aware of. Most recently, just to backfill anyone who did in fact miss out, the brute force attacks and even cacheing plugins issue is something to take note of and remedy, not just for your personal blogs but all the customers and clients that you may manage as well. But there’s always more to do and more to learn and at times it can be overwhelming to think […]

For those of you that don’t know, Hunie, is an online community ‘where creatives collaborate through constructive peer-to-peer critiques‘. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of it, I hadn’t until the other day. Hunie has no ties to WordPress directly but it was submitted to us as a potential design resource. So we thought, could WordPress benefit from something like Hunie?